Billy: Cause unlike you, pretty boy, I don’t give a damn about the limelight, or Goop Magazine, or being on the ten o’clock news. All I ever cared about was the 126. … You think this is the 126? It is not.
Do you guys ever think about how Crowley calls on God when he’s in pain and Aziraphale calls on God when he’s trying to get what he wants? What does it mean??
Crowley still sees Her as a protective force, much like a young child to their parent. Despite being cast out of heaven for nothing more than asking questions, he looks up to Her and trusts Her to protect him.
Aziraphale, on the other hand, has spent his whole life being told by other people that God won’t let him have what he wants. A quiet life on earth? Nope! You have to fight in the Apocalypse. Crowley? He’s the enemy. He can’t be friends with you.
He’s tired of being told second hand that he can’t get what he wants. He wants to hear it from Her. Because he doesn’t believe the other angels, because he wants to believe that She is loving and kind, he wants to believe in her benevolence the same way Crowley does.
Crowley is the lost child who still believes in a loving mother, too distant to see what She really is. Aziraphale stayed and lost faith, too close to ignore the truth, no matter how much he wishes to, but still grasping on to the fantasy.
To me Crowley consciously will say that God is unfair but deep down he still has hope and that’s why, even though he seems to be the most cynical character, he’s the only one who also has a moment of genuine faith during the story.
And that’s one of the strength of Good Omens really that characters are irrationnal and have their blind spots and cognitive bias about some very carefully chosen things because that’s just how real life people are as well.
