justamidnightfantasy · 1 year ago
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a week after the release of good omens S2 and i'm still going through it. i can't stop overthinking so i might as well put it into a post.
Aziraphale's initial rejection
so when aziraphale was recounting his conversation with the metatron, we saw him flat out reject the Supreme Archangel position at first. he explicitly states that doesn't want to go back to heaven. aziraphale has never been known to want power. we know that he loves his life on earth and everything that comes with it. that was so very clear in S1 since they literally stopped Armageddon because they didn't want earth to be destroyed.
but then the metatron brings out the big guns that supposedly made him reconsider— making crowley an angel again. OK so maybe this would've been a major PRO in aziraphale's internal pros and cons list and we're led to believe that it was actually what made him change his mind and accept the offer.
to put it simply, i imagine aziraphale's mind going like:
Supreme Archangel job = no thanks. Supreme Archangel job with angel!crowley = hmm interesting.
what i get from this is that he didn't want the job itself. he wanted it because it would've meant "restoring" crowley's angelic status.
(don't even get me started on the topic on whether i believe that he actually thought crowley would want to be restored in the first place)
but then crowley refused. not just refused but was offended by it.
so effectively, there are no more pros if we think about it. why would aziraphale still accept the job without crowley when we were led to the conclusion that aziraphale only considered the offer because he would get to take crowley too? there's something more. there's something we're missing here. there was definitely more to that conversation than what we were shown.
aziraphale's eerie smile at the end makes me almost sure there's something more at play here because they probably made michael sheen smile like a satisfied villain for a reason. i would be more willing to believe he came willingly if he had a blank expression in the elevator. why would he smile like that especially when he just had the biggest confrontation with crowley in their entire existence mere minutes ago?!?!
i don't buy into one particular theory but there's something going on for sure.
as for what that is, i guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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