@@alherx999 limitless access to anything in the world plus no income worries. I’d have a library museum too. 😂 i’d never part with my favorites, or even the good ones i disagreed with.
"Goodnight Angel" IM DEAD, like- the fact that Crowley's only two options of what to do during lockdown is a)spend time with Aziraphale, or b)sleep until July
Don't forget Alpha Centauri. If it's good enough for escaping the end of the world, it's more than good enough for escaping this pandemic. Of course, he could still ask Aziraphale to come with him, just like he did in the series.
I've listened to this several times, but I think this is the first time where I've truly appreciated how much Aziraphale is trying to get Crowley to come over without outright asking him to. He's "shouldn't you be out and about making people miserable," and when Crowley says they're miserable enough, Aziraphale specifically points out, "I'm not," as if to say "come and make me 'miserable'." And then Aziraphale turns down Crowley's offer to come over by stating that "it would be against all the rules," which he knows is like catnip to a demon. Plus, he mentions the burglary. Out loud, sure, he says he handled it, but the subtext is, "We need to fight together, which means we need to BE together." Sometimes, I just can't get over how good the writing for series is. Three and a half minutes and you can perfectly understand the situation AND the characters' personalities.
this is such a good take. aziraphale throughout the centuries has flirted incredibly subtly just like this!! too bad crowley doesn’t pick up on the hints and aziraphale isn’t bold enough (yet) to match crowley’s forwardness 😭😭
If they’re not dating yet it’s actually Crowley’s fault lmao Az would be looking at him with hearts in his eyes and be like “We can’t, it would be against the rules~” and Crowley would reply “Well ok, bye.” Crowley ! You brainless wiggly noodle !
Even more hilarious when you remember he was the snake that tempted Adam and Eve. Did them a good favour, in the end, really. Better than being thoughtslaves in the garden just prancing about doing nothing.
How...is Crowley....an immortal being....bored after a few months. How is Crowley...so sad about not seeing Aziraphale for a few months. They're in love your honour.
In the book, it's said that Crowley hates boredom and will sleep through what he considers the most tedious eras of history - he actually slept through the entire 19th century - and in fact loves the 20th century because there's always something happening. So yes, it's no surprise that he'd find quarantine completely soporific!
In Lockdown 6 and nearly at the end of Aug 2021, Crowley is def my mood. I’ve learnt patchwork in lockdowns 1&2 Earned virtual challenge medals during lockdowns 2-4 Panicked through lockdown 4 because will my 5 night staycation happen? (It did…just) Worried through lockdown 5 - started a week after I got back from my vacay and gave me bills - tax bills, holiday bills, and suddenly no work=no pay Lockdown 6? I’m in a mire of chest-deep quicksand. Hope is mostly gone and what little remains is dying fast. There’s nothing to do, nowhere to go, every single thing takes hours if it gets done at all. Apathy, tiredness, doomscrolling, insomnia, sleep - rinse and repeat. What day is it? Who knows? Who cares? What does it matter anyway?
Bro the fact that Michael and David can make it to where you can hear how much Crowley and Azi miss each-other just from from their voices makes this even better..and that “goodnight angel” 🥺
8Rincewind, that sounds like mischief territory to me but, being Australian, I’ve never experienced the M25 so I might be wrong. As for the mobile communications, I find that quite relaxing. He also made a turncoat of the antichrist and is cosmic BFFs with an angel, so theres that.
@@laurahibble5947 I was kind of joking and so was the book / film. A big part of the story is that neither angels nor demons are particularly good in the long. Crowley in particular says that he didn't fall, he just "wandered vaguely downwards". A defining trait of Crowley and Aziraphel are how much they love humanity and his they've embraced it. Whatever the case Crowley does seem broadly quite good at doing "demonic evil". His redesign of the M25 actually resulted in it going on fire. His explanation of his acts do make a lot of sense. You might supposedly value losing your mobile network, but many people depend on it and will become very angry if it goes down. Millions of people in London being slightly to extremely angry, is sure to make thousands of people less virtuous. In contrast, a demon tempting one priest with a prostitute is relatively small scale.
“I’ll see you…when this is over” Michael Sheen, how dare you use that much disappointment at the realization that Aziraphale has no idea when he’ll see Crowley next
Came back to relisten after s2 and BOY does this hit differently. Aziraphale sounded so disappointed to turn Crowley down even though he’s the one doing it himself. They’ve always been like this: they know exactly what they want from each other, but Aziraphale’s never felt like he could act on it. It’s always on Crowley, the one with more relative freedom, to begin the temptation, and on Aziraphale to deny himself.
That's exactly what I can't stop thinking all the time. Azi is always the one who turning down the temptation and unconsciously waiting for Cro to ask him again.
right? he so totally came over like 15 minutes later, aziraphale probably called him back and said something like "but hypothetically speaking... _how_ would you? slither over, I mean. I-I-I mean you can't go driving around with the lockdown and--" Crowley just casually went: "yeah no, stay on the line, angel" and went through the phone line boom. ♥
Coupled with the "shouldn't you be setting a bad example" I feel like that was Az's subtle way of suggesting this would be a very demony thing to do :P- break the rules and come over.
Things I noticed that Aziraphale has in his bookshop that I cry over: 1. One of Crowley's feathers 2. Photographs of Crowley 3. Letters either to or from Crowley 😭😭😭💙💙💙
To be fair, a painful amount of said heteronormative film scripts still have PLENTY of queer flirting in them. (They just refuse to capitalize on it or admit it in any way.)
Crowley’s random noises are absolute gold, not to mention how he just answered with “what”, and how defeated he sounded when Aziraphale didn’t instantly accept is offer to come over.
@@_ghost.pit_ Because he sounded so excited about it when he said it. I thought caps would do that justice but I guess your inner voice screamed it at you when you read it ^^" (Also I don't know if I can format text in YT comments to italics)
Crowley: *offers to come over and help aziraphale eat cake Aziraphale: *gay panic* Heaven and hell listening in: "their still friends right....? last thing we need is a...what do the humans call it. A power couple"
I always loved how Crowley is a utilitarian demon, prefering the things that make the most people collectively miserable are as opposed to making one person really really miserable. that or i always loved his laziness
There is also a mention in the book that the humans are so good at finding ways to destroy each other and spread suffering that he just gave up and now is just receiving the awards, sometimes for events he wasnt even aware of.
@@MrEvans1 I haven't yet finished the book, but it wouldn't surprise me if he got credit for events he still wasn't aware of after he got the award for doing them in the first place.
1. Play that bit through a good speaker while 2. RECORDING IT ON YOUR PHONE ! 3. Set as your message alert or summat. 4. SQUEEEEEEEE TO INFINITY ! MY WORK HERE IS DONE. 😊
@@deedee4955 What HN-kr1nf said, but to clarify further, Neil confirmed that Crowley never told Aziraphale. Had Aziraphale known, you know damn well he would've let Crowley stay with him.
@@writingbeginner Let's just wait a few years: Aziraphale starts feeling completely depressed and lonely, takes a look at the Earth (or just go back to Earth) and sees how much he hurt Crowley. Realising how stupid he was, Azi flies to his demon and stops Crowley from killing himself with holy water. He does the dance, Crowley forgives and they organise a little party in the bookshop during which, they finally dance a gavotte.
@@Bremen25 oh they came up with more than this, check out Staged, if you haven't already, a lockdown project David and Michael did together with their families and some friends
Based on what is established about their nature within the universe (no sex/gender, appart from them choosing to be male- or female-presenting; no such thing as reproduction), it appears that both angels and demons are generally ace and panromantic. Furthermore, based on their treatment of each other and their zero fucks given about gender, norm or sides, I choose to believe they _are_ in a romantic relationship, that just doesn't exactly *work* the way humans would imagine it to. In their form of existence establishing such a thing as "boyfriends" was just completely irrelevant, they just love each other, whether in the way 99.9% of the fanbase obviously perceives it or any other.
the creators of Good Omens are fucking _experts_ at playing with viewers' hearts with dialogues like these. you guys are TOO good at this. which means that one of you has to have an AO3 account.
OK, so I come back and listen to this about once a month because what else is there to do, and I've come to the conclusion that "I could slither over and watch you eat cake" is *the* sexiest proposition ever delivered, and to be perfectly honest I would have been just as flustered as Aziraphale and rejected the advance out of sheer panic because of the overwhelming sexiness of it. I see you angel. I see you.
Imagine a podcast like this and with them just hanging out and chatting about all the stuff they’ve gotten up to throughout history and stuff like that
Tony Mongoose There is a single episode podfic on youtube where it’s like they started a podcast together! it’s like an hour 30 long called “it’s a new craze”
David Tennnat did do a podcast. Called "David Tennant Does a Podcast". And yes, Michael Sheen did do an episode. But the Ian McKellen one is delightful too
I love that there are these little hints of book canon in this, that never got explored in the TV show. Like Aziraphale not wanting to sell his books, or Crowley sleeping through bad eras of history. It's such a delight.
If I didn't know anything about Good Omens at all and I stumbled upon this, I would've thought that they're distant lovers missing each other and trying to catch up via midnight calls to make up for the affection and see how they're doing without the company of the other. Wait a minute-
Well, I mean-Those Daemons/Demons..You know you to either have to (in order to cause most mischief and chaos in the world) invite or demand them to be released onto the world/to come to your domain (again,that's also old-school vampiric rules/ritual as well,honestly)..Also,I may put this out as a bit of a stretch here,but..I guess the LAST time (other than back in the garden of Eden,of course) Crowley went a bit..let's say,a bit TOO loose on the coaxing of venerable innocent souls back in the day-With _his buddy/accomplice Aziraphale_ around?! Really..?- I guess the result wasn't too pretty,I presume.. And to think- _other than the fact that Azira and Anthony J. Crowley ARE technically immortal beings_ (more-or-so the less,agents of God and Lucifer,nonetheless!) and therefore,can't really get sick and all by this thing that's going on,but..- God,Lucifer and the other workers/agents in their respective domains (_*Probably*_) have got a LOT of fricking work to do, _if you catch my drift,so to speak.._
social distancing is stupid. why people are freaking out over this flu thing is also stupid. but people are stupid and they let the idiot media influence them.
*Crowley waking up from sleeping on the ceiling* _What's that smell? Is that cake?_ *Gets up and finds a certain angel in his flat* Azira: _I was just checking on the plants, oh dear is it July already? : )_
I was genuinely thinking that about a month ago....Pestilence was content enough to ignore a book saying he's retired, but the miniseries was a step too far...."Retired? I'll show YOU retired..."
I sent a headcanon like this to Neil Gaiman on Tumblr, he agreed. So people decided to jump on there and scream at us for taking the state of the world so lightly.
@Summer Evening your comment gave me the mental image that they are laying across from eachother, both holding phones, starring at eachother while conversing.
@@IneffableFoxy More like 24 seconds: the time Crowley needs to realize: "Wait a moment. I am a DEMON! I can do MIRACLES!" and Crowley "puff"s over to Zira's place with macaroons and champagne, a grin on his face and says: "Hello, Angel."
@@caradrake Yeah, there's a whole paragraph about Aziraphale's techniques, like unpleasant smells and unpredictable opening hours, "every means short of actual physical violence"- so I take it that psychological torture is alright, lol - and how he only ever sells something when he absolutely has to.
Alejandro 2333 angel food cake sounds quite suggestive also considering why the fuck would Crowley JUST watch him eat cake. He’s done that before at the Ritz and well... the didn’t just watch it was a whole stare down of intense proportions. So for Aziraphale maybe yes cake but for Crowley... ANGEL cake 😉
Hahahahahahaha take his plants. Hahahaha. That's the best part. I can almost see Aziraphel perplex at all those plants, and Crowley just: "We've decided to quarantine here. Maybe reading to my plants will make them more beautiful, and without LEAFSPOTS, DID YOU ALL HERE? I haven't tried that. Give me your best books".
That does sound like exactly the type of thing Crowley would do- of course Aziraphale would initially be upset with him, but i like to imagine that Crowley eventually conviced him to let him stay because it'd be double the bad going home again. HKFHJDKSL I LOVE THEM SM
Naturally, the fandom has jumped on "setting the alarm clock for July" as an excuse to release a slew of lockdown fics and comics on July 1st. #wakeysnakey
Am I the only person who thinks Crowley would love animal crossing? He can garden to his hearts content, organize everything all nice, annoying his neighbors to do some light evil... find people's dodo codes and plant pitfalls on their islands.... that would be nice.
No way. Have you seen how he treats the houseplants? Crowley'd be that guy on The Sims coaxing his sim people into swimming pools and erasing the ladders so they can't climb out.
Crowley: “It’s got to all be over by JUNE...” Me: *laughs in present day June* **Edit**- If I ever need to know the current month I can always count on the replies to this comment to have my back.
