princessamericachavez:

I’ve seen a lot of talk about how Aziraphale was wrong and why but we also need to face the fact that Crowley’s solution is also a mistake.

He keeps going on about running off to Alpha Centauri because he’s a romantic but in reality that has never really been the right option for either of them.

The whole reason this solution works for Gabriel and Beelzebub is that neither of them gives a flying fuck about Earth. Leaving it behind, along Heaven and Hell, means nothing to them.

But Crowley and Aziraphale love Earth. They stopped the entire Armageddon just because they wanted to stay here rather than go back to spend eternity in their respective realms.

Leaving, even for love, even for each other, is never going to be right for them. Just like trying to fix broken systems from within will never work (but that’s a whole other issue).

The answer, the only real answer, is to stay and fight back and chose Earth and life and maybe even mortality… together. They were close to the answer during s1, but it still took some pushing. Especially for Crowley (who has already faced awful consequences for daring to take a stand) compared to Aziraphale (who is far more naive and therefore inclined to an ‘I can fix it!’ mentality).

But they never really settled on that choice. Not yet, anyway. Which is why, at the smallest hint of trouble, they each reverted to their instinctual answers (flee vs fix it). Starting with their answer to Gabriel and building up to the ultimate consequences in their final break up.

The thing is… THE THING IS that Crowley, by ways of recognizing and acknowledging his feelings for Aziraphale, is maybe closer now to the correct approach (“You can’t leave this bookshop”) but neither of them is entirely there yet.