comicreliefmorlockWhy Ineffable Husbands?
I’m not a participant in fandom. I’m not a “shipper” by any means. And yet, I am 100% ride-or-die on this #IneffableHusbands #A/C ship. {The last thing I expected, honestly.}
This isn’t a series where the audience is forcing their interpretation on the media. This isn’t a series where I’m wistfully going “yeah it’d be nice if they were in love, they have such good chemistry.” This isn’t the Fans™ demanding that their interpretation be considered Nice and Accurate. It’s not even “canon” as in the author reluctantly wrote in a “yeah they’re a thing.”
Look, I’m an English Major for Life. I understand exactly how fun it is to interpret something and needle new information out of the most minute details. And that is absolutely happening on a wide scale with “Good Omens.”
…but it’s not being forced on the work, it’s coming from the work.
Neil Gaiman has said they love each other. The actors deliberately played the characters in order to portray love. The story was written by two friends who loved each other. Was turned into a series as an act of love for Terry Pratchett. Is about love in a thousand different forms. Aziraphale & Crowley are deliberately the Love Story.
And it’s a Love Story about making difficult decisions, about learning who you are as opposed to who you’ve been told to be, about the pain that comes with love, the fear of losing what you love and even yourself if you change because you’re in love. It doesn’t shy away from the fact that people in love say hurtful things and have to forgive each other for them, or that you won’t always agree on important decisions.
It also tells you that love is worth fighting for. It’s worthwhile, it helps you find parts of yourself you didn’t know you had, shows you that the world is worth fighting for because it has things your beloved likes, things you like and if you back down and give up, you’ll lose what makes your entire existence worth living.
For everyone. (Not just Crowley & Aziraphale.) Love is what genuinely makes the entire story work and it’s not a slapdash interpretation, it’s not wistful thinking or cherry-picking. It’s there, explicitly and deliberately, and to me, that’s a message that everyone needs more of.
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