The game is.....something

The first gif is what we saw in the show. The second gif is Michael and David out of character in between takes (Michael is wearing his orange jacket, which Aziraphale/Asa is not wearing in the show).

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

Hey Blitzyyy 💜

Version 1 & 2 I couldn’t choose

That smile belongs only to Alastor

Deeply tied together by the events of what happened at house Davinos. How Julien and Occtis’ dynamics with Thaisha would affect that. How they learn from one another about their experiences with the houses and finding common ground or leaning on each other for support.

Thaisha trying desperately to set up her daughter with Occtis only for a man she hates to fall for him instead is soo funny. Oooooh I’d be sat. And you KNOW Matt, Alex and Aabria would play that so well.

some herb, what looks to be sticks of wood maybe imbibed with scented oil rather than the high quality incense he should have used and leftover thread... and he is begging to have it back and turns desperate for that guano...

This pouch wasn't worth 10gp... it was probably not even worth a few silver pieces... and guano in a petshop? May not even have been charged if he had just asked for it. All of these were super basic components and, yet, they really did a good job of making it feel like Caleb had been scrounging those together for days, most likely... and all of it for 6 seconds of Frumpkin 😟

That's one sad wizard, is what I'm saying, and I love the crumbs of storytelling they sprinkled so generously in the first episode... like with Nott asking if he was cursed, because she needed to know that she wasn't alone and the reverence with which she took the button or how horribly her addiction is treating her... Also, Caleb using a boy scout trick to light up the fire instead of a cantrip... maaaan

Anyway! we're not done with the sad wizard I guess 😅.

Hal, faced with something strange and unsettling: well this is