Thank you! Crowley saying "I know, looking where the furniture isn't" wasn't empathising with Jimbriel, it was sympathising with him.
Crowley's forgetting people (Furfur, Saraquel) is a power play, he knows exactly who they are.
I really don't think Crowley's memory has been altered. He knows it hurts Jimbriel to try to remember because he's smart and observant and just as invested in solving this mystery as Aziraphale is, and he's been hanging out with Jimbriel for the last day or two and watching him have these weird almost-remembering spells. So of course he understands perfectly well by this point that continuing to push Jimbriel to remember is going to continue causing him pain. He doesn't need to have had his own memory messed with to have connected those dots very easily.
idk, I think a lot of the fan theories floating around about Crowley are actually very easily explained by him just...being who he is, lol.
It just occurred to me what a troll Aziraphale was being when he put Jimbriel in this absolutely bonkers glittery rhinestone-covered outfit for this party, knowing what we know about Gabriel's love of sleek sharp tailored suits in S1.
I find it very disturbing that we clearly have not seen the whole conversation between Aziraphale and the Metatron (not to mention there’s about eight hundred million things about the season in general that are still open questions) and yet fans are still willing to conclude that they’re positive Aziraphale doesn’t love Crowley enough and wants Crowley to change, is oblivious to Crowley’s pain, hasn’t deconstructed, &c &c, and assume he needs to apologize for going back to heaven and/or asking Crowley to come back, as though all of that could only from a naïve and ignorant and oblivious place - when there’s still lots of other possible explanations open. I wish we wouldn’t assume the worst possible explanation of his behavior. Not only are there things we might not know yet, but there are literally things we know we don’t know yet.
Only slightly less disturbing: making excuses for him like “he was drugged” or “he was traumatized”, as if there wasn’t the possibility of an explanation for his choices that makes them make sense in their own right.
Have you considered the extremely viable third option: That there’s something going on we don’t know about that casts everything in a different light.
At the end of the day, the real reason I’m an Aziraphale “defender” (though that isn’t even the right word for it; I don’t think we know enough to “defend” or condemn anyone and it weirds me out how the implication is that Aziraphale must have done something that needs “defending”, like we’re his lawyers or something) is not because I am “afraid of complex characters” (that particular accusation that I’ve seen floating around is an especially low blow, in my opinion) is not because I can’t face the possibility that Aziraphale might have made a terrible mistake, but because WE JUST DON’T KNOW ENOUGH YET TO KNOW for certain what’s going on, and for so, SO many reasons it’s not a good practice to form conclusions, especially conclusions that put someone’s actions in the worst possible light, with incomplete evidence. (Yeah, it’s fiction, but how we interpret fictional characters informs how we interpret people in real life. That’s why representation is so important! But I digress.)
That’s what bothers me most about the blame I’m seeing heaped on him.
I just want people to keep an open mind and give him the benefit of the doubt.
See if feel the opposite. IMO I think we are in the over thinking stage, seeing patterns where there aren't any. Over analysing and making connections that are so tenuous that they make my brain hurt. A bit of not being able to see the forest for the trees, and losing the heart of the story in weird conspiracy theories. I feel like it's gone from Meta to A Beautiful Mind and it's not really a great place to be, at least not for me.
I love how our thoughts, theories & metas on Good Omens have developed since GO2 came out.
The immediate theories were all very emotional, knee-jerk reaction type ones. Very well thought out, but thinking with hearts rather than heads.
Now that time has passed, I’ve seen a big change in the ‘angle’ of the theories. They’re more logic-based, more reasoned, less emotional.
We could all have studied 5 seconds of film close up months ago, but we weren’t in that headspace then. But we are now.
It shows that it’s worth it to have time go by to let a show sit & mature in your brain. To mull it over and chew on it. Formulate your own theories and thoughts and really sit with them. It requires time. And brainrot. So much brainrot.
I have a question. At what point did Aziraphale realise that Crawley/Crowley was in fact the same angel he met making Nebulas. It has to be after the wall in Eden but before Job, right?