#and like how the ‘exactly argument’ foreshadows the 2x06 one

[daisysmalia]

Throwing my thoughts in the ring with the whole miscommunication topic, and I agree with many of the posts about how they’ve had to dance around each other so much and be careful about what they say for millennia that they don’t know how to communicate properly and openly because of it. That they’re bad at it because they’ve conditioned themselves to be careful and had to protect themselves and one another in this way.

Even now when they’re free, their first conversation at the start of this season in the present day is over the phone starts with Aziraphale saying to Crowley ‘Don’t say anything’ and so Crowley doesn’t. And then Aziraphale asks for confirmation ‘Are you there?’ To which Crowley does reply to reassure him ‘Shall I say something now?’ And Aziraphale replies ‘No’.

Showing that even though they’re free and not affiliated with heaven and hell anymore they’re still on alert in their conversations of being listened in on and that four years isn’t enough to break the cycle of not saying how you feel or really think in fear of being caught out.