✨️driven by chub✨️

No one can convince me that the Crowley and Aziraphale we all know— the real ones, not the strangers of the finale— would ever choose our destruction (or their own, for the matter). They would understand on a personal, molecular level how vital it is to keep going and how important it is to be yourself in spite of the oppressive systems that do their damndest to shape us. They wouldn’t give up— not ever.

So fuck this finale, fuck the idea that it’s too late and fuck anyone who says otherwise, frankly.

The discussion of free will at the end of S3 is misleading. As many others already stated here it is evident in S1 and S2 that free will does exist and humans always can decide for themselves. Even angels and demons have free will, if they just dare.

The real problem is that heaven and hell are constantly interfering in human live on earth. There is always an existential threat for humans to be eradicated at a whim. E. g. the Flood, Job, Armageddon, 2nd Coming...

Crowley and Aziraphale are strictly opposed to this, that's more than obvious in their criticism and their attempts to save humans and earth as good as they can every time.

Right?

So why, WHY do they choose exactly what they always despised? That's the Flood all over but a million times worse, without even sparing anyone!

To put it more clearly: they ask God to kill all humans - so that humans won't be killed by God? Find the fault...

show!omens is a lot more the Aziraphale and Crowley show than book!omens is, even s1. that's intentional in the adaptation. with that, the central conflict also shifts. their existence was never threatened by armageddon, like humanity's was. they would have just gone back to heaven and hell, for eternity. what they would have lost is the neutral turf that is Earth, that they also happen to love.

s2, for all it's faults, does a great job laying that out. we see more of the choices they've made along the way to not only stay on Earth but to stay in each other's orbit. they start off on opposite sides and continuously choose to move closer to each other, out of loneliness, then camaraderie, then affection and culminating in the final fifteen where crowley finally voices the why. I would like to spend ...(eternity with you).

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

I don’t like it.

My reasoning is Aziraphale and Crowley are just completely out of character.

They would never agree to nix the earth and make a new one. They quite liked the old one actually. Even with its flaws. They love the world and the people in it. They would never be martyrs either. In season 1, they were prepared to fight against Satan with only a flaming sword and a hand crank, because the world is worth it. They drank champagne in The Ritz and toasted “to the world”.

On “Our” side. What happened to that?

Crowley loves Aziraphale and Aziraphale loves Crowley. They would never sacrifice themselves. They’d go down fighting. Crowley is protective of Aziraphale, he would never talk him into killing himself. Aziraphale would never let Crowley harm himself either. They’d protect each other, fight together for this world. The one they love.

And if not then (there could be some argument about whether their actions were officially sanctioned), they certainly would have cut him off before his trial to save themselves some potential trouble.