Tapioka

I may seem pretty calm on my previous post, but honestly I was just taking a break from bawling my eyes out.

Because they were the only couple I believed to be capable of eternal love. Literally. Because unlike mortals, they had been existing from the beginning of time, I actually believed they could spend eternity together.

I'm a cynic, I was never much of a fan of "happily ever after." Because all kinds of things happen in our lives and we all die in the end. But I thought maybe, just maybe, an angel and a demon could be different.

You can't make me believe in eternal love(even if only in a fictional world) just to take it away from me. That's...diabolical, don't you think?

Although I would desperately like to believe otherwise, Asa and Anthony are just...not them.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy for them, but who are they? They are Aziracrow's human lookalikes, without their original personalities, the adventures they shared, the sense of being on "our side" and defying heaven and hell.

Forget the apology dance.

Forget the dine at the Ritz.

All I wanted to see was the two of them spending eternity together as themselves.

Was even that too much to ask for?

Okay, I see some people say it's a good ending and others are complaining because we didn't get a kiss, that we just care about Aziracrow and not the series as a whole.

Very well. I will try my best to leave out the romance and stick to the story while I explain why I just can't be happy with this season. Kindly bear with me.

#1 The Second Coming?

The Second Coming, like the Armageddon in Season 1, was supposed to be this gigantic project everyone in heaven and hell was working on for such a long time. If I'm not mistaken, all we got to see was that Michael just lost it on their own. What happened to groupwork?

#2 What was the Metatron for

I first want to say that I totally understand the physical limits the staff had to face, with the series being cut to a single episode. But it seems to me that the Metatron was very important in the previous two seasons, a mastermind. He claimed that speaking to him is the same as speaking to God. For such an authoritative character, he gets so little screen time.

#3 Why Jesus

As the Antichrist was a central character in the first series, I expected Jesus to be one in the final series. But all he did was play with cards, give out free pizza, comfort people, and disappear. Seems to me he has no role whatsoever in the main plot.

#4 How did Crowley and Aziraphale keep existing (only to disappear in the next moment)

How did they still exist if all the pages of the Book of Life was burnt but that one page of the bookshop? Were they not in the Book of Life? Then how come?

#5 How can God create a godless universe?

I'm not a religious person, so I may be wrong but I think this might go against the whole concept of being 'omnipresent'. Creating a universe where God still exists but doesn't intervene, sure. But creating a universe without God's existence? I'm not even sure that's logically possible.

#6. What happened to the defiant Crowley?

Crowley is famous for asking questions, which is what got him in trouble in the first place. Up till the end, he was all '"I don't believe you get to decide." But at the last minute, he accepted the options God handed out to him. That there were only two options, that either the human world or he and Aziraphale had to be gone. Why did he not consider other ways out, such as rewriting the Book of Life? Or making a deal with God or something like that?

#7. What happened to the "I can make things better" Aziraphale?

Just to add to the previous question. The Aziraphale we know would try to make the situation better, see it in a new light. He would question why free will and angels and demons cannot coexist. He would suggest a new solution, no matter how naive it might seem. Even if he knows God would dismiss it, at least he would ask. Because he's an angel who tries to see the good in everything, who believes he can actually make a difference.

I could also add how the human version of Crowley and Aziraphale aren't them, just as how Job's seven new children couldn't be the same as the original ones. And how betrayed and wretched I feel because the original Aziracrow are gone along with 6000 years worth of their history. But I said I would leave the romance out of this, so I'll save that for another post. (Questions 6 and 7 aren't about the ship, it's about the consistency of characters.)

If you were somehow so patient as to reach the end of this post, THANK YOU SO MUCH for reading. I'm dying to talk to someone about all this, so please feel free to leave your opinions.