Queen of Pedantry

@johnlocked1827384

Behold

I think that line just underlines the fact that even though you've taken Aziraphale out of Heaven, you haven't quite taken the Heaven out of Aziraphale. Aziraphale still subscribes to the notion that the institutions of Heaven and Hell are a good thing; improperly managed and misguided for sure, but still fundamentally correct. I'm not saying this is wrong: it's been holding together for 6000 years, and it's not unreasonable to think that with a bit of fixing-upping, it could attain its full glory and potential. And believing in Heaven and Hell is pretty symmetrical to a black-and-white worldview, the false dichotomy of one right and everything else wrong.

Aziraphale, for all his loveable charm, still believes that Heaven is the one true right way. His "I forgive you", I felt, was a bit condescending and could even be construed as high-and-mighty because he's simultaneously saying Crowley is wrong and trying to be the bigger person by forgiving him when Crowley didn't even ask for it. Condescending and high-and-mighty is pretty much the motto of Heaven, and it's interesting to see that leak through in Aziraphale, showing that for all his flexible morals and humanity, he is very much a product of the system he still very much belongs to.

Aziraphale desperately seeks to gain validation from above and can't fathom that Crowley just... doesn't.

okay, so i'm probably not the first person to spot this but i haven't seen it on my TL yet so i'll just chuck it on here: i noticed this little easter egg we get when furfur is reading from his demonic guide for angelic beings (or whatever it's called).

please forgive the horrendous quality, as it's pretty blurred in the shot and amazon prime won't allow screenshots, BUT: if you squint really hard, you can read a few things!

so, this is clearly the page about aziraphale and first of all: i love the notes that furfur scribbled in there, probably only mere seconds ago when he watched azi perform at the theatre, since it literally says "TERRIBLE MAGISHUN" unterneath aziraphale's occuptation, lmao.

i can't fully make out his note on crowley where he circled his name, but the one written across vertically on the side of the page says something like "CROWLEY IS SUSPICIOUS" and, possibly, "HIS HAIR IS BAD" or "RED".

i think the part i love most though, and am REALLY hoping we might get a glimpse of, is that aziraphale, in between being the White Night back in Wessex and becoming a bookseller, was apparently a "Garden Desi(g)ner" and a "Bishop".

makes me think of the time azi pretended to be the american ambassador's gardener back in S1 when him and crowley were trying to influence warlock to (not) become the antichrist.