I just realized Beelzebub offered to make Crowley Duke of Hell in exchange for finding Gabriel because they were planning on deserting once they got him back
GOOD OMENS S2 SPOILERS
Good Omens Season 2 in a nutshell
if go3 doesn’t end w/ the husbands finally honeymooning at alpha centuri and they drive past bee and gabriel sippin on celestial cocktails i might actually go insane
gonna keep thinking about how Gabriel went back to straightening out his posture and a certain booming and superior tone to his voice when he got his memories back... until he looked at Beelzebub. and then he crossed hands over his chest, breathed out, music kicked in... and it's as if a weight fell off him: his whole body became looser and less rigid, his voice turned oh so soft, even his face shown the way we only saw from Amnesiac!Gabriel - open and happy and in love with the world. in this case, his whole world. absolutely fantastic acting from Jon Hamm to convey just how much Gabriel's love for Beelzebub meant to him, how it breaks his shell of official pompousness immediately.
Insane how both Crowley and Aziraphale ultimately want the same thing (to be together) but keep misunderstanding each other because they’re not on the same wavelength of how to best achieve it.
Zira says ‘nothing lasts forever’ meaning ‘we can’t stay together like this forever, but we can stay together wherever we go, no matter where it is.’ But Crowley understands ‘nothing lasts forever. We won’t last forever.’
Truly so goddamn tragic
how it must hurt, to walk back into serving a system that hurt you, to take a massive risk, in order to help the love of your life and make him happy again- and have him not understand. and have him throw it back into your face.
and how it must hurt, to watch the love of your life rejoin the forces that hurt you, changed you, beat you down and left you out to dry, when you were so young, and act like you should thank him for becoming one of them
Just finished Good Omens 2 and I'm honestly boggling at the Aziraphale hate because yes, his decision led to the angsty cliffhanger, but it makes SO much sense for his character. Not just in a "Religious brainwashing and sunk-cost fallacy" kinda way but also a "Aziraphale has no reason to believe this isn't the perfect solution" way. That scene among the nebula is crucial because it establishes that Crowley loved being an angel—reveled in his ability to create and allow his creations to grow kinda like plants—and the only problem was that someone else was calling the shots, someone who wouldn't listen to his criticism. Aziraphale has also spent 6,000+ years watching Crowley do good, all the while forced to deny the fact that he's "nice" lest embracing his original nature get him into trouble with hell. Now, Metatron comes along with an offer that fixes everything in one fell swoop. Crowley can be an angel again, be nice without censure, his ideas and criticisms will hold weight because he'll be answering to Aziraphale, and they'll be together.
It strikes me that Aziraphale isn't there when Crowley sees Gabriel's trial, ergo he likewise doesn't see the (non)acknowledgement that there's an institutional problem up in Heaven. There just happen to have been two archangels who called it quits. Same when Gabriel blurts that phrase out to Crowley. Aziraphale has always been more blind to the ways in which Heaven is "toxic" (for very understandable reasons) and this season he's continually sheltered from new evidence of its structural problems. The plot just preaches to the choir: Crowley. He likewise wouldn't see the conflict Gabriel and Beelzebub have caused as evidence of an underlying problem because that's a problem he and Crowley will no longer share. Why would they be worried about Heaven still being unable to accept partnerships between angels and demons when Crowley will no longer be a demon? And that's something he presumably wants based on Aziraphale's memories of him and the ongoing admission that he's lonely.