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ineffable-idiots

Something I just had to remind myself is that Crowley and Aziraphale didn’t actually give a damn about the humans with respect to the End?? Like when they heard Armegeddon was coming neither of them were like “BUT THE HOOMANS” they were both like “oh this means we can’t get drunk together anymore and we can’t have that now can we” honestly these bastards gave no fucks about what would happen to us

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ineffableplan

If you were gonna make some sort of good/evil scale, I actually figure Crowley and Aziraphale would end up around the same midground there.

People just tend to notice more when Crowley does something good and Aziraphale something not good. The novel is set up to draw your attention to it right from the prologue.

They’re people first, and their jobs second. They’re not so much an angel and a demon as they are those two assholes with supernatural powers.

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ademonandherbentley

You know what though? That opening scene has a whole different vibe to it’s novel counterpart. In the book Crowley and Aziraphale’s conversation in Eden feels like just that - a conversation. The whole drama over the apple has just gone down, and now these two creatures have nothing left to do but sit and shoot the breeze at the beginning of humanity.

In the show, Tennant plays Crowley a lot slicker and a lot more pointed. His questioning God’s rationale and casual criticism of the Plan is a lot less idle speculation and a lot more deliberately needling. His whole demeanor speaks of an intention to tempt Aziraphale - to undermine his beliefs, or to drag him down to his level, or to make him question his superiors like the demon’s did. His endgame is up for speculation, but TV!Crowley’s intentions in approaching The Guardian of the Eastern Gate are a shade more malicious than Book!Crowley’s.

And in a way he fails (Aziraphale rather smugly rebuffs him at every turn), but in a much broader sense it goes exactly how he wanted. Because here a demon is talking to an angel, and said angel reveals that he gave his sword away. The angels who escaped the Fall escaped because they are supposedly loyal to God without question, but this one just went ahead and relinquished his divine weapon to the humans that He Himself had just cast out. I think it’s fair to say that whatever Crowley had hoped to tempt Aziraphale to do, it wasn’t anything of that magnitude (and, after Aziraphale’s confession, Crowley becomes noticeably more natural, to the point that he admits he’s been worrying about his own actions and their consequences).

The whole thing establishes a subtle difference between page and screen: the book implies that Aziraphale and Crowley’s association is a slow burn across millennia. In the series Crowley really has always known that, deep down, Aziraphale was enough of a bastard to be worth liking.

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