Good omens 2 spoilers:
Ok but those last 10 minutes of the show hurt so bad...
I think one of the reasons the final scenes hit so hard is because the "parting" was very unexpected giving what happened just a few minutes earlier.
Just a few moments before "disaster", we see Nina and Maggie talking with Crowley and inviting him to be more open and honest about his feelings (the same goes for Aziraphale too, even if he is not there). While he keeps saying that he and Aziraphale "talk all the time", Maggie points out an important truth: "but you DON'T really talk" and that's a truth that Crowley needs to hear; he realizes that they didn't actually talk about their feelings for each other and he decides in that moment that he is going to declare his love to Aziraphale.
This conversation gives us hope, we think they will finally open their hearts to each other and be together, but that's not what happens and that's why Neil Gaiman is a great writer.
Unfortunately, it makes perfect sense that all those years of indecision and missed opportunities to be honest with each other and address their feelings come back to haunt both Crowley and Aziraphale right in THAT moment.
This season made perfectly clear that they love each other and that all they want is to be together, but they want to do it in a different way. Aziraphale wants to create a new heaven, one that allows Crowley to be back and to be free to be his true self, but Crowley takes his invitation as a " I want to change you, because I don't like you enough the way you are right now".
According to Crowley, they already created "their heaven" on earth, they don't need anything else and I think that's why there is so much tenderness in the way Aziraphale says that "Oh Crowley" before the "nothing lasts forever" line; I think that Aziraphale finds the idea of living forever in their own little world very naive ; he is still an angel and he still wants to be an angel, especially now that he is a chance to change the way heaven works. That's the big difference between the two of them in my opinion: Crowley is ready to leave behind the whole heaven/hell stuff, while Aziraphale is not.
So here we circle back to the "You DON'T really talk" line: unfortunately that's true; in all those years, they didn't talk to each other in a completely honest way, not only about their feelings, but also about how they felt about their future and how they wanted to live. I mean, they both want the same thing, to be together, but they ended up misinterpreting the other's intentions, thinking that one was rejecting the other and vice versa, while their actions were truly just moved by love and by the desire to protect the other.
Despite everything they did to him, Aziraphale is still moved by blind fate and I think that's what infuriates Crowley the most; but that goodness, that capacity for forgiveness is a fundamental part of who Aziraphale really is, just as well as his "rage" and resentment towards heaven are part of Crowley (obviously his feelings are very understandable, since in this season we saw once again how cruel heaven can be to whoever rebels).
some thoughts about (a possible) season 3
I think it would be very intresting in season 3 to know more about Crowley's fall, so that we can understand why he rejects completely the idea of going back to heaven.
On the other end, I think that Aziraphale will finally come to terms with reality: he is going to realize that he can't really change the way heaven does things, that he is just another pawn in God's hands and he needs to make a choice and decide if it's worth leaving behind everything he loves (including a certain demon) for his unshakeable fate, just like Gabriel did.
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i think the thing that makes azula so impressive beyond just her raw skill and power at firebending is that the majority of the time she ensures she's never alone when fighting others. like sure, she'll duel when she needs to and whip ass at it, but more often than not she's strategically placed allies around her. mai and ty lee, the dai li, backup soliders and fire benders - she never refuses assistance on egotistical terms. and she really has every right to, i mean her fire is blue, that puts her in a league that no one else touches. yet that ego doesn't translate to her battle tactics
azula operates with personal arrogance, and tactical humility. i think thats one of the reasons she's such a terrifying opponent
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Me all the time: omg HATE this good person x good person ship. You guys are boring as hell. Wheres my TENSION. Either one of you has to be terrible or better yet, BOTH. If there's not 34 dead 689 injured when you guys get together i will quit watching
Me when Chaggie: Omggg hiiiii awww girlfriends theyre supporting each other through thick and thin they will make hell better whether you like it or not :'))
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I truly do love where Bells Hells' relationship with the gods is going, because in what has so far been a very atheistic party we're now experiencing some wildly different journeys with divinity. FCG is over here living his best life, like "I am all in on the Changebringer!" right as Laudna, Orym, and Ash return with all their trauma and complicated experience with how harmful the gods can be, so now Deanna is speedwalking in the opposite direction like "what do you mean :) you have issues with the Dawnfather :)) wait :) what do you mean militaristic churches :)) can i :))) have a fucking minute :)))" and then she hopped onto a quick zoom call with the sun itself, heard all she needed to hear, called him a bitch, and left. queen shit. anyways this is a Deanna stan post, my girl do what you've gotta do I'll support you the entire way
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