Because we have most of the story from Crowley's and Aziraphale's points of view, we all internalised that falling is a bad thing. Crowley seemed very sad when he said he didn't mean to fall, and Aziraphale seemed devastated when he thinks he's going to become a demon.
So I absolutely can't get over Gabriel reaction...
He's like "Oh noooo! I have to go to Hell? You mean all the way down to the basement of the same building? To live with the person that I love? Well that's just too bad, let me pack my things, see you soon, bye."
Gotta love some DGAF Archangel!
"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard ...
But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
I just realised that, if we accept the fairly common idea that the Bentley is an extension of Crowley, that means that Aziraphale had already tried to change him once during season 2, when he made the car yellow, and Crowley already had the opportunity to tell him that he didn't want to be changed... 😭
Oh! And what was Crowley doing while Aziraphale was pimping his car? He was tiding the bookshop - the extension of Aziraphale - and putting the books Jim had moved back to their original places. Because he also didn't want Heaven to change his angel...
I'm gonna go lie down...
P.S : Don't get me wrong, I don't think Aziraphale wants Crowley to be someone else. I think he just wishes that Crowley were happier and he expresses it in a clumsy way.
P.S2 : This is a symbolic reflection, I'm not making a statement about their relationship here. They both care for each other and change each other because they share things with each other. Crowley is obviously not doing a good job at tidying (but point for trying though). All I'm trying to say is that we had all the elements in this scene to know how Crowley would react at the idea of being changed back into an angel and at the idea of Aziraphale going back to Heaven.
If Aziraphale's bookshop represents Eden (his and Crowley's paradise), then Metatron is the serpent, Aziraphale is Eve, the coffee is the apple, and ACCEPTING THE OFFER WAS THE FALL
Really love Ineffable Divorce from the perspective of the other shopkeepers... to them, one day, some gorgeous guy showed up naked on Mr. Fell's doorstep and a couple of days later, Mr. Fell had disappeared and so had the naked guy... so the whole neighborhood thinks Aziraphale ran off with Gabriel and that's why the bookshop is now being operated by this odd little person hired by its sad and distracted owner-- Mr. Fell's abandoned ginger goth husband with the gorgeous old car. Nothing has been this juicy on the street in decades...
Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One & Two - Part One
Links to [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ] [ Part Four ] [ Part Five ]
Just rerewatched the burning bookshop scene. Am I crazy or is the phonograph in the bookshop playing the same song that the Bentley was playing at the same time? 😱
What does that mean? I feel like it means something important 😅
I think it would be better for everyone if I were to be left alone in the future. Don't you?
David Tennant at The Assembly 2025 ❤
Q: What made you want to start work, like become an ally to the community? What prompted you to say, do you know what, this injustice has gone on long enough.
David: When I was a teenager, there was this thing that Mrs. Thatcher's government introduced called Section 28, which was about stopping the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools, which was a weird umbrella term, which was basically saying it was illegal to talk about being gay in school or to suggest that that might be a normal way of behaving. We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say. And I think the way the trans community is being demonised and othered is exactly the same.