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The Autistic Hag

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Aziraphale's Eden clothes play so differently after S2.

In S2, Before the Beginning and the Job minisode show us that the angels (minus Gabriel) were all still wearing the same shapeless robe with the gold trim through even the first couple of thousand years of Earth. When you consider that? Aziraphale's clothes in Eden suddenly seem really rebellious.

In Eden, Aziraphale had thrown out the uniform that they were all expected to wear entirely and made his own look. He was abiding by certain rules of Heaven's colors but he was using his clothes to make a statement. And these choices he was making here?!

Gone was that horrible robe with the gold collar and wrist trim evocative of the angels being shackled to Heaven. Gone was any sense of a lack of individualism. He made these clothes fit his body and his own sense of style, with different shades and textures that he enjoyed. Aziraphale was even coming at Heaven's warped ideas about consumption by wearing a decorative top layer. This was all about asserting individuality and free will and, amazingly... none of these things were even the most political part.

That was the fact that the draping in the top layer was subtly creating a sash within Aziraphale's clothes... like the signature look of Lord Beelzebub and which we have seen is echoed by many of the original demons who were first cast out in The Fall, like Furfur and Dagon.

This seems like it was a protest look? Aziraphale was subtly trying to convey solidarity with the demons from whom Aziraphale was supposed to be guarding the humans and The Garden.

There's also the other layer to the sashes, as well, which is that they not only have had ties to a zillion different political movements but that they have been worn in different times in history as part of mourning.

The idea of Aziraphale's clothes in Eden being designed to reflect political protest and grief then makes the pattern on them a lot more significant. It didn't mean much of anything to us in S1 but, after S2, we might see why Aziraphale chose a scrolling pattern of intertwined circles.

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I know we've already talked to death about that whole confession scene but it really does break me.

Especially "and I would like to spend-- (david tennant noises)". I can't find a good gif of it but OH GOOD LORD.

The way he's clearly struggling and pushing through. The way he gives up on that sentence. Him looking up to stop the tears from falling. The little lip tremble at the end that SO BADLY needs to be kissed away for him i can't. David Tennant when I find you

#crowley#good omens#david tennant#final fifteen
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