Good Omens creator Neil Gaiman: Aziraphale and Crowley were in love long before their kiss

The second season of Good Omens dropped on Amazon Prime Video a couple weeks back, and while we still don’t have a third season order, the end of the second is still giving fans plenty to talk about.

Getting into SPOILER territory, season 2 ends with the demon Crowley (Michael Sheen) planting one on the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and asking him not to take a new job in heaven. The two have formed an incredibly close bond after spending millennia together on Earth, and now seem on the verge of “breaking up.”

A Crowley-Aziraphale kiss is something that fans had wanted for a while. But even without it, there was never any doubt that the two loved each other; ask any fanfic writer. Weighing in on his blog, Good Omens creator Neil Gaiman said that “Crowley’s kiss is about a lot of things but it’s not to show they’re in love: if you haven’t got it by then you’ll never get it.”

"If a person who has watched Good Omens Season 1 and Season 2 hasn’t got that Aziraphale and Crowley are in love by that point then they will never see it, and that the kiss is not there to signify that they are in love."

Neil Gaiman explains the names of the angels

Aziraphale and Crowley’s story is presented in parallel with that of the archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm), who shows up at Aziraphale’s door having completely lost his memory. He’s one of several angels to show up in season 2; others include Michael, Uriel, Saraqael, Murial and of course Aziraphale.

One fan noticed how many of these names end in “el” and asked Gaiman about it. He responded on his blog. “Angelic names tend to discuss the relationship of the angel to god, or be a description of an aspect of god. The ‘El’ at the end of angelic names means ‘God’ (or more precisely ‘god’ because it can refer to lots of different gods).”

"Michael means “who is like God?”, Gabriel means “my strength comes from God”, Uriel means “light of God”, Saraqael means “beloved by God” and Muriel means “smells like God.”"

Muriel, the angel who joyfully impersonated a real human police officer, clearly got the best name.

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