I also partly love Good Omens because of its portrayal of beings outside the human world, such as angels and demons.
Very often, non-human races or supernatural creatures are written as strange reflections of human society. For example, aliens still have an alien version of a house, an alien husband-and-wife couple, an alien car, meaning a flying saucer, alien quirky music, and alien morality that is still fundamentally similar to human morality. It’s actually quite rare to see authors fully detach themselves from everything they already know.
In the case of this series, we are shown angels who exist outside of space and time. They are unfamiliar with the rules of human existence and see their primary purpose as following God’s plan. Concepts like consumption, biological processes, or even physical existence itself are foreign to them, since most of them do not even truly possess bodies. They are also disconnected from human expressions of emotion and physical intimacy, although they still seem capable of their own peculiar form of love. Their image could probably have been made even more detached from earthly existence, but in my opinion the series strikes a very good balance, enough to make them feel inhuman and otherworldly, while still allowing the audience to empathize with them.
I also think this perspective can help viewers look at life from a different angle. We tend to center our thoughts around isolated events in our lives: work tasks, university projects, what our friends think of us, whether we’ll pass some exam or test. It’s funny how meaningless many of these small anxieties become when viewed on a larger scale, even just compared to everything happening across the world.
Part of this idea was reflected in Crowley and Aziraphale trying to push Nina and Maggie together, casually interfering in other people’s lives as if they were pieces in a story. They don’t really view humans as individual personalities, but more as parts of humanity as a whole. They don’t fully understand and often don’t particularly empathize with the motivations and emotions that guide people through their small individual lives.
