too much heart

Do you know how fucked up your team has to be for Bucky Barnes to be the most stable member

Putting aside the ending, the episode as a whole was not very well written. Season 2 ended with a huge relationship changing moment, but there’s not a lot of meaningful acknowledgment of it. They pretty quickly fall back into their old dynamic, we get one scene when Aziraphale does the apology dance and says Crowley has to forgive him and that’s it. What they really needed was a long scene with just the two of them akin to the confession from s2. Their fight about Aziraphale leaving and going to heaven wasn’t just about a fundamental difference of beliefs, it was a romantic rejection. Crowley confessed, Aziraphale rejected him, the season ended on a cliffhanger and nothing was resolved. Therefore in season 3, the natural resolution to that would be Aziraphale having his confession moment. Except we don’t really get that. There’s the scene when Aziraphale tells Crowley he was the best angel which was sweet but short, and Crowley has little reaction, just stares at him sadly. Then Aziraphale asks God “Why give me Crowley? Why make me complete and then take it away?” but again, Crowley has no reaction to it. The only acknowledgement of the kiss itself is when Aziraphale does the finger to the lips thing. It’s very anticlimactic. At what point does Crowley realize his feelings are reciprocated? We don’t know. They never get that moment together and so the story feels unfinished, all because the writers didn’t prioritize resolving the conflict they set up between their two main characters.

You’d think as a supernatural fan I’d be immune to bad endings but alas