Good Omens
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Okay, first of all: This mystery is too slow.
Thats a lot of balls to keep in the air.
In this season, the air feels a little empty.
She goes undercover as a human policeman so you can witness the 25 Lazari miracle Crowley and Aziraphale did.
I think I agree with Crowley; resurrection is a bad measurement for miracles.
It seems too big.
Like how Celsius is more sensible but less tailored to human experience.
What of a minor miracle like finding your keys?
Is that a millilazarus?
Anyway, Muriels enthusiasm is adorable, but Aziraphales pitying gaze is what sells these scenes.
He feels so bad for this innocent little dummy.
Aziraphale does indeed borrow Crowleys car, in which he has indeed been living.
I was right: The apartment came with the job, and now Shax has it.
Aziraphale talks to technology, and the technology seems to listen, which is very cute.
Its also fun that the car changes to fit the drivers vibe: very Terry Pratchetty detail.
Unfortunately for Aziraphale, and for the mystery moving forward, he doesnt remember who was with him.
Except that they were a Mason, as theres a Masonic lodge nearby.
Are Freemasons looking to take over heaven?
Poor Aziraphale gets another harsh lesson in applied ethical theory in this mini-sode.
Believing grave-robbing to be a sin, he prevents a street urchin from selling a body to a surgeon.
Crowley and Aziraphale are debating whether the poor and the rich have the same ability to lead good lives.
The Bible does have that thing about a rich man entering the kingdom of Heaven and howits highly unlikely.
But Crowley, ever theEngelsist, feels that most of the pious ways to live require start-up capital.
Only an anti-grave-robbing rig shoots Wee Morag, and we have a slightbury your gays.
We dont need lesbians dying to teach us lessons anymore.
Or 1872, whatever.
At least it was a lesbian dying to teach a queer-coded character a lesson.
Thats progress, I guess?
It would have been a double-troper, had Aziraphale and Crowley not stopped Elspeth from offing herself.
Maybe shell buy that loom now.
Crowley, once again, did a good thing.
Only it seems like time Hell noticed since he gets yeeted into the ground.
In voice-over, Aziraphale says it was the last time he saw Crowley for a while.
Presumably, in the next episode, well find out why.
Biblical Apocrypha
Gay-o-meter isDEFCON 3: ROUND HOUSE.
Partial fulfillment of that trope, too, but hey.
A wins a win.
Adding to the G-o-meter in this episode is how Hell chooses to go after Az instead of Crowley.
Heaven is straightforward; they think Aziraphale is involved, so they go after Aziraphale.
Hell thinks Crowleys involved, so theyre going after whom Crowley loves.
The title sequence appears to mostly reference the mini-sodes this season.
Theres the exploding goats from A Companion to Owls and the body in the pickled-herring barrel from this episode.
An observant fellow could watch the credits for clues as to whats going to happen.
Not me, though.
These credits are like dreams that are only prophetic in hindsight to me.
See also:Doctor WhosTooth and Claw.
But no one ever lets Michael Sheen play Welsh.
Combined with the Buddy Holly song, it seems like a lovepocalypse is coming?
Its certainly cheerier than the last one.
Beelzebub is also feeling a little Whats the point of it all?
since no one ever tells them theyre doing a good job.
It feels like Hell would maybe have opposite-day rules about whats good/bad.
Neil Gaiman always does such a good job putting characters in history.
He knows where all the inflection points are.
