#the job minisode

[aduckwithears]

That's what Satan has planned? A mighty wind from the wilderness to smite the mansion and bring it down upon them? ... Ooooooo, aren’t you brilliant.

(They invented flirting)

Bonus:

[thedoctorajcrowley]

I love Bildad the Shuhite for the beard, the sunglasses, the hair, and the grin like the rest of you.

I am absolutely feral for the caftan. I need 1000% more David Tennant/Crowley in caftans. Just that long string bean of a man shaped being in long loose flowing dress-type garment.

Like I need Crowley rocking up on the main stage of season 11 of Rupaul’s drag race.

[dubiousduckears]

[inafever]

Moments of Aziraphale believing Crowley is good enough even though he is a demon part 1:

So tell me again he needs Crowley to change in order to be able to love him

[wraithee]

Me: My heart is so full 🥰

My heart:

[thefirstflowers]

so how soon after Crowley and Azira first meet do we think the War happened?

because Gabriel says this in s1:

but when was Earth created in relation to that first meeting? it couldn't have been that far-off. Heaven already had plans for Earth. they were already designing people at the time.

so how long could A/C really have known each other before the War happened and Crowley Fell?

I'm guessing we won't really get an answer to this question even if we see the War/the Fall in s3.

back then the concept of time still didn't really exist right? or, at least, they didn't share our obsession with the passage of time. so there's no way to measure how long they got to be friends for before everything fell apart.

but at the end of the day I don't know if it even really matters; they had to start from scratch when they met again in the Garden of Eden.

because they were different people

or, at least, because Aziraphale was treating Crowley like he was a different person. and because Crowley had to make sure it was worth it to let him know that he wasn't

and what better way for Azi to earn his trust than to show him that he too believed some things were worth Falling for?

that they were both fighting the same lonely battle between doing what they were told they should and what they believed to be right

and wouldn't it be nice if it was a little less lonely?

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David: One of Job's sons is played by a very promising young actor called Ty Tennant. He's got a great future ahead of him, I hope, because I'm hoping he'll pay for my old folks home when I retire. This is my father-in-law, Peter.

Peter: Hello.

David: And this is my son, Ty. And Peter is playing Ty's father in this particular scene.

[idliketobeatree]

btw when you're being mean to aziraphale this is who you're being mean to. hope this helps

[sad-chaos-goblin]

Right after Aziraphale realises that Bildaddy-Crowley did not kill Job's goats, we have the scene with the children and Crowley sets the house on fire ("I'm a demon, I lied"). We all know he would never kill the kids, so why the charade?

I think he needed to test Aziraphale, to know for certain that the angel sees him for what he is, he needed to know that this tentative connection was real. And Aziraphale immediately proves that he does actually trust him.

The fact that Aziraphale trusts him means he sees the good in him. For a fallen angel who's spent so very long being seen as nothing but evil, just imagine how it must have felt to be truly seen.

[vidavalor]

This bit in the Job minisode is so, so underrated. Top shelf flirting. The way super smug Aziraphale is comfortable enough to tease Crowley and how Crowley covers up loving it with sarcasm that can only be delivered inches from his face, apparently. 😉 How Aziraphale looks like he wants to climb Crowley like a tree and how Crowley has a whole basement but walks over to be as close to his angel as he can be whenever given such an opportunity. It's Globe Theatre-level flirt and it's all the way back in Whatever B.C.. We aren't flailing over this bit enough.

[aduckwithears]

My favorite explanation for the change in Bildad's hair? A glow-up once he realized Aziraphale was Heaven's representative on the Job job.

Cause let's be honest - from this:

To this?

Girlfriend was looking to impress.

[reihino1988]

Job minisode Is everything ❤️

[somewhere-in-wales]

Crowley and Job

I'm sure this has been written before but I haven't read it so here's my thesis:

The Job minisode is a metaphor for Crowley.

The Job minisode shows us that this God is willing to put her favourites through significant pain, to have them lose everything, to carry out the ineffable plan. In fact, God considers their favourites to be the only ones able to endure this and remain "faithful" or "good." Funny that, as we see Crowley - a Demon who has every reason to hate God and do a lot of evil - continually showing himself to have a stronger moral compass than the Archangels.

Job is stripped of absolutely everything he has, one after another. Starting with his livelihood, his possessions, his home and finally his most loved thing - his children (sounding familiar at all?). Crowley loses his status, his identity, his job, his flat and ultimately Aziraphale.

Job is angry but not at God, he's angry at himself. He questions how much he must have done wrong to not even know what it is he did (sound familiar?)

When Job talks to God at the end, the first thing she says to him is "You have questions for me Job?" and then she responds with a series of questions back to him. She isn't angry at him asking questions.

He then returns to Sitis, a broken man, to be saved by an Angel and a Demon who reinstate his children to him, having kept them safe the entire time.

How fortunate for God that a particular Angel and Demon pair have quietly ensured that some of the most disturbing plans of Heaven and Hell have never made it to fruition.

How interesting that we see Crowley going through each of the pains of Job.

At the end of S2, Crowley is metaphorically sitting, head in hands, wondering what he did that was so wrong to deserve this.

What if the answer is nothing? What if the answer is he did everything right?

[inafever]

I'd like to introduce you all to my new obsession, this scene:

[atlas-hope]

i have no words

[mitski-leaked]

You think you're a demon? With your curly little...and neat white-