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An Aziraphale/Crowley Thought
…About the show, really, not the ship.
I wouldn’t have expected anything else from a series written by Neil Himself, given that he’s always been insistent that everyone can and should interpret the characters and their relationship however they choose to, but I really appreciated the complete and total absence of No Homo especially after recent Marvel movie experiences.
Like, okay, the deep and abiding and (nearly always) unwavering love and trust between Aziraphale and Crowley is of course the core of the story and the only thing that allows them to avert Armageddon, and if you tried to dilute or qualify that you would break the story, so not doing that is maybe just basic not-fucking-up,MARVEL. But I really love how much the show stuck to the attitude of letting people draw their own conclusions.
A lot of the time the “mistaken for boyfriends by strangers” thing is used to discredit that subtext, either by having the characters deny it or just setting it up to be a Big Joke That Someone Mistook Them For Boyfriends Ha Ha. But on Good Omens they just… didn’t? The three times that it’s mentioned, neither of them ever deny it or object to it and the show doesn’t frame it as a big joke; the third time, it comes in a fairly serious moment and there’s no pause over it. And, idk, it was just really pleasing to see a show let a close and passionate m/m relationship exist without feeling the need to confirm or deny or try to force one interpretation or another.
(I mean. They’re super, super married, tho.)
I wouldn’t have expected anything else from a series written by Neil Himself, given that he’s always been insistent that everyone can and should interpret the characters and their relationship however they choose to, but I really appreciated the complete and total absence of No Homo
Like, okay, the deep and abiding and (nearly always) unwavering love and trust between Aziraphale and Crowley is of course the core of the story and the only thing that allows them to avert Armageddon, and if you tried to dilute or qualify that you would break the story, so not doing that is maybe just basic not-fucking-up,
A lot of the time the “mistaken for boyfriends by strangers” thing is used to discredit that subtext, either by having the characters deny it or just setting it up to be a Big Joke That Someone Mistook Them For Boyfriends Ha Ha. But on Good Omens they just… didn’t? The three times that it’s mentioned, neither of them ever deny it or object to it and the show doesn’t frame it as a big joke; the third time, it comes in a fairly serious moment and there’s no pause over it. And, idk, it was just really pleasing to see a show let a close and passionate m/m relationship exist without feeling the need to confirm or deny or try to force one interpretation or another.
(I mean. They’re super, super married, tho.)
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