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This is my favorite Crowley. Luscious hair, braid and luminous eyes notwithstanding.

Crowley has an innocence about him in his first few scenes on earth- on the wall with Aziraphale, and here. Bigger expressions. Simpler ideas about a kinder God, who may be inscrutable and infuriating but isn’t needlessly cruel. He’s a demon, but his attitude about it is sort of “yeah, Mom and I aren’t talking right now; she got really irritable when they closed the Nordstrom’s over by Polaris so I’m trying to stay out of her hair for the moment.”

He doesn’t carry the burden of cynicism we see later. This is one is those scenes where we can watch him getting “older.” He loses faith like tires lose air, and we can see it in action just through the expressions on his face. His innocence is chipped away piece by piece, until we finally see him in Rome- where his face is buttoned up and that childlike quality is finally gone for good.

This is why I still feel like his offhanded remark to Aziraphale at the bus stop after Tadfield Airbase was so important. “What if the Almighty planned it like this all along?”

I still don’t think he said that solely to try to soften the blow of everything that had happened for Aziraphale, though that probably was one of his reasons. I think he’d started to wonder again, just like he did back on the wall, what God’s ineffable plan really entailed, because it had finally become clear that a lot of things he’d always taken it for granted came straight from Her may not have been Her doing at all.

It wasn’t exactly faith or innocence or trust restored; if he ever does make it back to any of those places, I expect it will be a long time coming yet. But it was an openness to considering the possibilities that he’d been missing for a long time–to making some sort of peace with Her, maybe, even if only in his own mind. And maybe in the end, his ability to do that is more important than any actual relationship he has with Her.

It’s also a philosophical step back toward the center–which will make it that much easier for him to meet Aziraphale there (“Could be. I wouldn’t put it past her,” Aziraphale says in response, as though speculating about such things just doesn’t feel as transgressive and anxiety-provoking as it used to. As if he’s finally lost the fear that if he says or does the wrong thing, the clouds will open up and he–and/or Crowley, which possibility probably frightened him more–will be in for another scolding, or worse.)

I really hate the idea of Crowley getting his faith restored. Even if God planned it all like this all along the plan remains unspeakably cruel IMHO. I don’t understand at all why that’d make it alright? I mean the manipulation of it all!

Personally, I like a faithless Crowley and a faithful Aziraphale. That way GO doesn’t provide an ultimate answer to the nature of God and it is up to the reader/viewer to figure that out for themselves.

That’s kind of what the previous addition was implying, too. 

“It wasn’t exactly faith or innocence or trust restored,” indeed. This is about Crowley, about the starting comment on him losing his innocence/childishness. 

It’s about him, not necessarily about his relationship with Her. It’s his opening himself back up to optimism, in general, to a less jaded view of the future. Making peace with the fact that they don’t actually know what she’s up to is very different from trusting Her, or finding back his faith in Her. I think it was meant as kind of a middle ground where both he and Aziraphale can coexist, regardless of faith or lack thereof.

I suppose I was responding to the if in “if he ever does make it back to any of those places, I expect it will be a long time coming yet.”