goodomensgaynessi mean sex is great n all but have you seen crowley standing protective in front of aziraphale in madam tracy’s body
spacerockband
garaksrod
I don’t really care about any other fancasts but Richard Ayoade is the only perfect casting choice for Aziraphale
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.
fuckyeahgoodomens
Mmmm. So, we will see The Great Aziraphale in episode one where Michael drops an improvised line that Neil truly liked. What could it be?
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.
fuckyeahgoodomens
Can we just skip the next two and half month?
Because I need to see all this new delicious things at once:
- Aziraphale being rescued by Crowley from Nazis
- Crowley in a theater watching a cartoon about bunnies
- Gabriel trying to buy pornography.
watsonraejepsen
Aziraphale: Do you know why I called you over?
Crowley: Because I accidentally sent you a dick pic
Aziraphale: [stops pouring two glasses of wine] Accidentally?
ineffableplan
Aziraphale: guns are good, actually, because they can be used to force people to conform to your moral viewpoint
Crowley: in that case, and because i know you dont actually believe that, i have transformed all these paintball guns into real guns to see what happens
Aziraphale: :0
Crowley: :D :D :D
Crowley: free will for everyone
watsonraejepsen
the good omens fandom is so?? chill with gender and sexuality??
like we know those dumbasses are in love, that’s obvious, but the way their relationship and interactions are shown in the book is vague enough for us to interpret their sexuality however we want
gay? valid
bi? sure why not
pan? nice
ace? perfect
poly? awesome
and don’t get me started on gender
aziraphale and crowley as cis men, cis women, trans men, trans women, agender, demiboy or demigirl, bigender, genderfluid, literally sexless WHATEVER I’ve seen it all and more
it’s totally encouraged by the fact that these two immortal bastards can change their physical bodies so no one’s gonnna bat an eye at whatever you want to hc them as
also we’re so cool about nsfw stuff too?? like I’ve read my good deal of smut imma be honest here, but we’ve literally had one of the main characters crossdress and pretend to be a nanny for years and
no.
one.
cares.
it may just be me, but i haven’t seen a nsfw fic about that yet
pull something like this in another fandom, any other fandom i freakin dare you
deepintheshadyglen