So as with everyone else I’m loving your hallelujah vid and the “minor fall/major lift” scene was flawless (I actually got the sauntering vaguely downward reference before I even noticed it was the falling in love scenes). And the hallelujah rise with crowley throwing his hands up. But I also loved how during the “maybe theres a god above” you used crowley. Bc in the entire series we only see one person talking/praying to god. And it;s the FALLEN ANGEL. Loved it.!
YEAH!!!!! Technically there’s that scene where Aziraphale is “calling” God but it really is framed that way–as a phone call, rather than a prayer, though it uses the surface level palms-together-eyes-closed posture of prayer.
As you say, Crowley’s the only one doing the shouting-at-the-ceiling variety of talking to God, which is the most prayerlike prayer you can make, IMO. I also have some half-formed theories that he has a more personal and intimate relationship with God than any other character in the show? For one thing, there’s the tone and wording of the one-sided conversation he has with her vs the two Aziraphale has (one when he’s phone-call “praying” and the “Where’s the flaming sword I gave you, Aziraphale?” scene). If English had retained its formal-vs-informal “you/thou” distinction, Aziraphale would be horrified to use anything else but You (formal) to God, whereas Crowley is clearly thouing it up all over the place (informal/familiar).
Also I feel like he thinks about her and her motives more actively than anyone else – he doesn’t just write it off as “ineffable”, he asks questions. He presses because he wants to UNDERSTAND, not just blindly accept.
You know how when writers have a favorite character, they love them so much that they put them through all manner of hell and torture, just to watch them shine? I think Crowley might be God’s favorite character.