[ID: A series of gifs from the Good Omens 2.2 minisode "A Companion to Owls."
Sitis looks disbelieving as she says, "…No. God wouldn't!" Crowley gives an exaggerated frown and replies, "Are you sure?"
Sitis looks horrified and says, "But they've done nothing! They're innocent!" Crowley nods impassively: "So were the goats." Sitis stares at him in horror.
In the cellar, Aziraphale looks back over his shoulder, seeming offended. "God's [side], of course!" Crowley reclines, raising his eyebrows and nodding. "Oh, really. Same God that wants me to whack the kids?"
Aziraphale looks very uncertain, and slowly says, "…Yes. But…" Crowley grins slowly, gesturing to Aziraphale and saying, "That's just how it started for me."
Back in the house, Sitis looks devastated and desperate. "If my children are dead, then… I will curse God, and—"
Crowley swings abruptly around the doorframe and rushes over to interrupt Sitis. "WHOA! That never ends well."
At the cliff's edge overlooking the sea, Aziraphale looks on the verge of tears but determined. "Well. I'm ready to go." Crowley asks: "Go where?" Aziraphale swallows. "To hell."
Crowley sits down on the rock and says, "I'm not taking you to hell, Angel." Aziraphale looks over at him, his tearful expression turning confused. "Why not?" Crowley replies mildly, "Well, I don't think you'd like it."
God, you listening? Show me a Great Plan. Okay, I know you're testing them, you said you were going to be testing them. You shouldn't test them to destruction. // It's the Great Plan, Crowley. Yeah. For the record, great pustulent mangled bollocks to the Great blasted Plan!
Thinking about how God gets they/themed by Sitis in Episode 2 and how Job calls Crowley a person not a man and it's just. Such casual reference to nonbinary identities in an historical context and a biblical context no less - I don't have words for how important that is to me. Just as much as Crowley getting to explicitly and without repercussion or consequence correct someone who calls him a lad.
Crowley and Job. Curious questioners who lose everything on a whim of God for no good reason who both still have more faith in Her than their spouses. Torture themselves wondering what they did that was so bad to earn her wrath. Both internalize anger (though Crowley will also externalize it as well).
Aziraphale and Sitis. Faithful but duty to spouse and children first. Willing to endure the tests of God and accept God's will to extraordinary levels, illustrating great faith. Would lose home and livelihood (job, status) and not lose faith in God. Draws line at children. For Sitis-- her own kids. For Aziraphale-- his kids, the humans of Earth. If God killed the children, Sitis would have cursed God, then and there. There's an argument to be made that the Sitis parallel suggests the destruction of Earth or the imminent threat of it and confirmation that it is God's will would break Aziraphale's faith.
Remember what happens when Sitis thinks her kids are dead? She says if it's true, then she will curse God-- she says that to angels of Heaven. She starts to say more, even, but she's rescued from damnation by Bildad the Shuite, right?
Aziraphale would do this same thing over humanity. If God allows the destruction of Earth to begin, Aziraphale could go full Sitis and curse the hell out of The Voice of Frances McDormand and her Great, Ineffable Plan.
okay i’ve been silent for too long- Sitis is an amazing and underrated character. While Job was sitting in the ruins of the barn, hyperventilating- which like yeah man me too- she was getting ready to weather the wrath of God. She was ready to curse God for killing her children without a second thought. She didn’t care what God had to say about whales, all she wanted was her children. She caught on to the New Children bit almost instantly.
My FAVORITE part about Sitis though, is how much she trusted Crowley. How she assumed he was Bildad the Shuhite and didn’t question it literally at all despite the fact that she had never seen that man before in her life. How Crowley’s mere suggestion that God would hurt her children was enough to shake her unending faith that God was good. How when Crowley told her to trust him and then told her to remove her husband’s ribs, she did it, without hesitation. and that’s an insane thing to do. i love it.
Not only do Aziraphale and Crowley do an awesome job when going about how to avoid what Hell and Heaven say in the Job situation, no pun intended. But the fact that everything went above Job's head but Sitis got it instantly and not only played along but had to make Job play along too? Nailed it.