I suppose part of the reason I want to see it is that after S2 I'm longing for more moral complexity? I prefer interpretations where it's not just Heaven and Hell that are equally wrong, but Aziraphale and Crowley who are equally complicit?
One of my issues with S2 is that it seemed to push things in the direction of Crowley as blameless victim - but that's boring. Aziraphale wants to love Crowley and enjoy the world while preserving his belief in Heaven's (and his own) moral superiority; he avoids responsibility (“I'm the nice one, you can't expect me to do the dirty work”) and lies to himself - that's clear. But the story is more interesting if Crowley's “I only ever asked questions” is akin to Aziraphale’s “I am a great deal holier-than-thou”: at once technically correct and a self-serving lie.
I think we need to see the Fall because both their characters turn on it, and neither Aziraphale nor Crowley are reliable narrators of their own motivations, and we need to see the truth of them laid bare.
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One of my issues with S2 is that it seemed to push things in the direction of Crowley as blameless victim - but that's boring. Aziraphale wants to love Crowley and enjoy the world while preserving his belief in Heaven's (and his own) moral superiority; he avoids responsibility (“I'm the nice one, you can't expect me to do the dirty work”) and lies to himself - that's clear. But the story is more interesting if Crowley's “I only ever asked questions” is akin to Aziraphale’s “I am a great deal holier-than-thou”: at once technically correct and a self-serving lie.
I think we need to see the Fall because both their characters turn on it, and neither Aziraphale nor Crowley are reliable narrators of their own motivations, and we need to see the truth of them laid bare.