is it that simple? is it god and heaven and hell and angels and demons that were standing between humans and a fair existence? is the world we see in the epilogue that different from the one we erased? i just can't seem to grasp what it was all for. wasn't the point of the other two season that it can't be perfect? that burning it down and redoing it isn't the answer? that humans are complicated and messy and good and valuable even without heaven and hell's interference? that what we had was already perfect just because it existed?
I got two ideas I'm trying a handle on after watching the finale
1. We might live a fairer life by choosing to actively be responsible for our own joy and happiness (Asa hesitating only minimally before going after Anthony) and not staying back in our self-shackled belief of reality (having angles and demons influencing human behavior).
Not waiting to be saved, everyone doing their little bit to carry themselves just that little bit more. To live a life in a world that (from the teeny tiny glimpses we see of it) allows for good without the punishment of the bad, but rather the equality of both good and bad happening independently- leaving free will to act, well, freely.
2. The reality of Aziraphale and Crowley having to take a stand against God and suggesting and implementing change. Perhaps season 3 was going to be our guys guiding Josh (Jesus) around the world, healing the sentiment behind the need of all sides for was and destruction. Living creatures chase energy and war provides the biggest, baddest dose of it. But our world, US, we are all more than that. This is our world, our reality. It existed and it is perfect because it existed at all, and we need to actively protect it. This, in the times we live in, is more than a theme, it has the potential to be rallying cry.
But I believe the creators of this show, everyone who worked on it, does really love us. So they tried their hardest and gave us what they did, when it could have really been a harsh lesson as to why things fail when we don't move with love and reverence for all living things. We could have gone the "best friend" route or something, but we saw them choose companionship even when they didn't know who they were before they met in this lifetime.
It's hopeful and bleak at the same time for me. I love their love and I mourn the message that I could only catch a glimpse of.
