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equalseleventhirds · 10 months

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made it through train hell and back home and i think i think i think

what it is for me is that humanity plays second fiddle to heaven and hell in the gomens show, whereas in the book it was the other way around.

aziraphale and crowley don't stop armageddon. in fact, they so badly fumble both their given jobs and the jobs they made up to stop the apocalypse that basically they just, and entirely accidentally, help some people be in the right place at the right time. accidentally keep heaven and hell's focus on them, and not on adam.

it's adam--wonderfully human antichrist adam--and a bunch of human kids, and one human witch, and some human guy who is so extremely bad at computers, who stop armageddon. it's their collective choices to be so very human, to use that humanity, that stop the world from ending. aziraphale and crowley are just kind of There, and then say some stuff to heaven and hell to sow a bit of doubt in their bosses and stall a bit.

and then, like, who starts armageddon, as well? adam (with influence of other humans, like anathema) as well. going back--the human nuns. the horsepeople are representative of the world ending, but they're all formed by human belief (except death, but u kno). the world was even meant to end by very, very human weapons.

it's both sides. the evil and the good. the power to do both, or either, or neither. human all the way down.

shaz points out in season 2 that humanity does so much worse stuff than she can think of; but it's so incredibly crucial that they also do so much more good than heaven and angels (and even one really nice demon) can imagine. and all that without aziraphale and crowley helping them along, fixing things for them, making them better--because humanity could be better without them. that's the whole point.

.........anyway. so. i still haven't finished the show but i've seen enough spoilers to know about armageddon 2, right. and if the show goes back to the core of the book, then it is not aziraphale, not crowley, not gabriel or beelzebub, not any of heaven and hell who can stop it.

it has to be humans.

.......the problem ofc is that i can't see a way that s2 is ramping up to that, bcos the focus is so very very heavily on heaven and hell, aziraphale and crowley, and even the humans with their mundane lives seem less to show themselves to be crucial to the universe and more just kinda. foils. background tools to show what the angels and demons are up to.

like, not impossible? but not the direction i am gleaning from this. seems much more abt showing the 'human' side of angels and demons, which like, ok, cool and good, but also: what about the humans. not just the humans they help. the humans who do things while the angels and demons tuxedo mask 'my work here is done/you didn't do anything' meme. cmonnnnnn.

#spoilers for gomens s2 under the cut #general musings idk i am still a little gumpy abt things #i misss........... the message.#it's also 1:30 am and i am SO tired and so that may be affecting. the me.#kay gnight

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