5 Good Omens Moments That Prove Aziraphale & Crowley
Are Still Endgame
The series finale of Good Omens season 2 left off with a heavy-hearted and rejected Crowley, and a newly promoted, Supreme Archangel Aziraphale, returning to Heaven to spearhead Armageddon 2.0 - the second coming. But Crowley and Aziraphale shippers, all hope is not lost. Several moments across season 2 prove that the pair are still in fact, endgame...
SUMMARY
Across millenia Crowley and Aziraphale have always been on opposite sides of the fight against good and evil, but chose to cosmically cancel each other out.
Neither of them want Armageddon to happen at all: whether at the hands of the Antichrist or the Second Coming.
Aziraphale is in denial of the fact that Crowley is his person, but he has never lost him - until now.
Good Omens follows angel, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon, Crowley (David Tenant) as they balance out the forces of Heaven and Hell on Earth. Crowley has challenged Aziraphale’s black-and-white view of good and evil since before the beginning of time, but they have also taught one another to see in shades of grey for the sake of saving humanity and each other.
Over time, Aziraphale and Crowley’s influence on each other has developed into a trust so deep, that they’ll break sacred rules to save one another over and over again. So despite season 2 ending with Aziraphale choosing to return to Heaven as the supreme archangel, when the lines of good and evil inevitably blur during the Second Coming and he realizes all of the truths he's been denying, he’ll fight his way back to his safe place - to Crowley.
5. Crowley has challenged Aziraphale’s beliefs since before “The Beginning”.
Aziraphale first came across Crowley when they were both angels, before the beginning of humanity. Together they watch in awe, as Crowley creates a nebula where thousands of stars and protoplanets will expand ad infinitum over millions of years. But when Aziraphale informs him of Heaven's plan to destroy it all in a mere 6,000 years in service of ‘people’, Crowley can’t help but question the point of it all.
While Aziraphale is appalled at the suggestion of questioning the Almighty’s plan for Earth and the universe, Crowley insists that other’s perspectives or questions should be welcome and encouraged. This first interaction establishes the key difference in each of their belief systems - Aziraphale warning away inquisitiveness, led by fear, and Crowley persisting with a naive defiance, led by passion. While Crowley’s questions would lead to his fall from heaven, Aziraphale would soon ask himself the same questions over the millennia on Earth.
4. They both go along with Heaven and Hell, as far as they can.
After the “Job incident”, wherein Crowley is given authorisation from Heaven to destroy everything and everyone Job loves, save for his wife - Aziraphale can no longer deny the flawed nature of Heaven's dynamic with Hell and questions his duty as a soldier. After his pleas to spare Job’s children are shot down by the archangels, Aziraphale and Crowley take it upon themselves to save them. Now understanding what it feels like to choose to defy Heaven for the sake of saving humans, Aziraphale is left feeling lost.
Having fallen from Heaven for arriving at the same conclusion long ago, Crowley encourages Aziraphale to leap forward in making his own choices, instead of following orders. To go along with Heaven and Hell as far as they can, but trust their gut and forge their own paths after that. A once lonely endeavour, except now they had each other to fall back on - for eternity.
3. They chose to cosmically cancel EACH other out, instead of fight for Heaven & HelL.
Aziraphale and Crowley have been crossing paths on Earth since the beginning of time, performing miracles and temptations, respectively - trying to abide by the black-and-white rules dictated by Heaven and Hell. But once they realize one's efforts would always cancel the other's out, the pair decide that they could take on each other's duties, or even skirt around them altogether.
The freedom they’d granted themselves by agreeing to live in “shades of grey”, allowed them to create a routine together on Earth and in Season 1, Aziraphale and Crowley go as far as to balance out the Antichrist and foil Armageddon, in order to protect the life they had built together on Earth.
2. Aziraphale is in denial of the fact that Crowley is his person.
When the former Archangel Gabriel wanders into the bookshop in the opening of season 2, a naked amnesiac, carrying a fly in a box, Aziraphale is very weary of him. After the events of season 1 and Gabriel's overall callousness towards humanity, Aziraphale interrogates Gabriel to find out his true intentions on Earth. But when all of his efforts fail, Gabriel explains that he was led by an indescribable feeling. Despite knowing nothing at all, he knew with absolute certainty that being around one person would make everything alright.
As Gabriel described this feeling of absolute safety and belonging afforded by being around that one person, Aziraphale's expression immediately softens. Gabriel was describing being in love, and it is later revealed that he fled to Earth in search of Beelzebub, his person. Aziraphale instantly recognizes this feeling because Crowley is his person; but he swiftly remembers himself, denies the feeling, and continues to do so for the entire season, culminating in the pair's heartbreaking final scene.
1. Aziraphale Has Never Lost Crowley Before - Until Now.
When Metatron proposes for Aziraphale to become the new Supreme Archangel, with a promise of the power to change Heaven and Earth, Aziraphale rushes to tell Crowley the good news. But having lived the consequences, Crowley is fearful of what he knows Heaven will do when Aziraphale tries to make a difference and begs for them to abandon Heaven and Hell. He confesses having denied his true feelings for Aziraphale and tries to make him realize that, whether they’re on Earth or in some distant galaxy far away, they will be alright as long as they are together - a team.
Desperate not to lose him, Azirphale begs Crowley to return to Heaven with him instead, so that they can be together, as angels. Aziraphale’s final plea that he needs him, leads Crowley to grab him in a kiss that leaves him shell-shocked. This final ditch effort leaves them both heartbroken as Aziraphale continues to deny the truth of his feelings and chooses Heaven. But just as Crowley’s naive defiance led to his fall, Aziraphale’s passion for doing good foreshadows what will await him when he inevitably questions Heaven’s plans for the second coming. Once Aziraphale comes to terms with the truth of what's at stake and Crowley is no longer there to help make it all okay, he will fight to make things right - for humanity, and for Crowley.