It’s funny how much emotional association can totally change the way the same image looks to you with different context. Remember when the GO3 Trailer just dropped and the whole fandom went crazy in love over this shot?
I mean, look… it’s Crowley’s smiling, at Aziraphale, without his sunglasses, and the background is blurry but it looks so beautiful and sunlit… I mean, the emotional honesty implied by this shot, the catharsis, the vulnerability! This must be a moment of beautiful reconciliation between the Husbands, a properly articulated love confession, maybe they’re even in their South Downs Cottage!
But now, knowing what this scene actually is…
All I can feel whenever I have to look it is just visceral disgust. This wet-eyed hollow Crowley simulacra just pisses me off whenever I have to look at him. And it really doesn’t feel like I’m looking at Crowley at all anymore. I mean, Crowley was super OOC through all of that ‘Finale’, but I can at least kinda still think of him as ‘TV!Crowley but very badly written’ or even 'TV!Crowley in a mental-health rock-bottom that he was simply not allowed by the narrative to ever overcome'. But I just look at this scene and the only thing I can see now is a total stranger. Who is this man???? Get him OUT of my house!!!!!