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** Even if they return after being zapped (after all, the same demon gets zapped twice, once before bookshop battle, once during when it tries to accept Aziraphale's offer and retreat), the fact of the matter is there is no way to create new demons or angels. Even if we go with generous Ars Goetia estimate that there are two thousand legions of demons in Hell, that is still just twelve million demons (one legion normally having six thousand demons). Which makes one demon being responsible for five hundred humans each because there are around six billion humans. All of which makes Crowley's annoyance with other demons legitimate ("14th century minds, all of them!"): in 14th century, there was one demon for 30 humans, about max number for classroom size so a teacher can give each student appropriate attention. You could spend decades trying to corrupt a single person then, but now average demonic workload is nearly 17 times that much.
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** Even if they return after being zapped (after all, the same demon gets zapped twice, once before bookshop battle, once during when it tries to accept Aziraphale's offer and retreat), the fact of the matter is there is no way to create new demons or angels. Even if we go with generous Ars Goetia estimate that there are two thousand legions of demons in Hell, that is still just twelve million demons (one legion normally having six thousand demons). Which makes one demon being responsible for five hundred humans each because there are around six billion humans. All of which makes Crowley's annoyance with other demons legitimate ("14th century minds, all of them!"): in 14th century, there was one demon for 30 humans, about max number for classroom size so a teacher can give each student appropriate attention. You could spend decades trying to corrupt a single person then, but now average demonic workload is nearly 17 times that much.much (actually, 16,666* times).
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** Even if they return after being zapped (after all, the same demon gets zapped twice, once before bookshop battle, once during when it tries to accept Aziraphale's offer and retreat), the fact of the matter is there is no way to create new demons or angels. Even if we go with generous Ars Goetia estimate that there are two thousand legions of demons in Hell, that is still just twelve million demons (one legion normally having six thousand demons). Which makes one demon being responsible for five hundred humans each because there are around six billion humans.
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** Even if they return after being zapped (after all, the same demon gets zapped twice, once before bookshop battle, once during when it tries to accept Aziraphale's offer and retreat), the fact of the matter is there is no way to create new demons or angels. Even if we go with generous Ars Goetia estimate that there are two thousand legions of demons in Hell, that is still just twelve million demons (one legion normally having six thousand demons). Which makes one demon being responsible for five hundred humans each because there are around six billion humans. All of which makes Crowley's annoyance with other demons legitimate ("14th century minds, all of them!"): in 14th century, there was one demon for 30 humans, about max number for classroom size so a teacher can give each student appropriate attention. You could spend decades trying to corrupt a single person then, but now average demonic workload is nearly 17 times that much.
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* Aziraphale and Crowley talk with each other during most of the "To be, or not to be" monologue. They stop and listen when it mentions "the pangs of despised love", and "the insolence of office". Their shared inability to acknowledge their mutual feelings (either [[HoYay/GoodOmens2019 romantic]] or of [[HeterosexualLifePartners good friendship]]), and the bullying from their respective Head Offices, are the only things keeping them apart.
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* Aziraphale and Crowley talk with each other during most of the "To be, or not to be" monologue. They stop and listen when it mentions "the pangs of despised love", and "the insolence of office". Their shared inability to acknowledge their mutual feelings (either [[HoYay/GoodOmens2019 [[ShipTease/GoodOmens2019 romantic]] or of [[HeterosexualLifePartners good friendship]]), and the bullying from their respective Head Offices, are the only things keeping them apart.
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* Why are the PunchClockHero angels not genuinely good while the PunchClockVillain demons are genuinely evil (with the exception of Crowley)? It's easy to purposefully do good things for other people while having no genuinely good intentions, whereas it's impossible to deliberately make people miserable without any genuinely malicious intent. For example, a person may give money to a homeless person just to ease their guilt or to look good, but stealing money from a homeless person requires genuine evil to do.
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* Metatron's decision to appoint Aziraphale as Supreme Archangel was previously shown to have merit to it. When the angels and demons are squabbling after Gabriel and Beelzebub leave, Aziraphale rings a bell to get their attention and sternly orders them to speak one at a time.
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** Even if they return after being zapped (after all, the same demon gets zapped twice, once before bookshop battle, once during when it tries to accept Aziraphale's offer and retreat), the fact of the matter is there is no way to create new demons or angels. Even if we go with generous Ars Goetia estimate that there are two thousand legions of demons in Hell, that is still just twelve million demons (one legion normally having six thousand demons). Which makes one demon being responsible for five hundred humans each because there are around six billion humans.
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* Crowley transforming Job's children into animals instead of killing them takes on new meaning when you remember that God is omniscient, and so God ''knew'' that was going to happen all along.
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* Why is Hell so understaffed? Because they keep zapping anyone who annoys them. However many demons they had to start with, that's gonna add up.
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* The demons falling for Crowley's lie that humans must be allowed to evacuate in the case of angel-demon warfare makes sense considering it was stated in the first season that demons lack imagination.
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* [[TheDitz Muriel]] aside, it seems odd that none of the other angels think to confirm basic things like “how are humans born” and just go along with whatever they’re told, even when they have no reason to trust that person or even have contradictory knowledge… until you realize that anyone who had the capacity or desire to ask questions probably ended up like Crowley.
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* Agnes's prophecies being perfectly accurate predictions of the future, as stated by God Herself, seem like they go against the free will {{aesop}} the series had. However, when Agnes is to be burned at the stake. She notes that her executioners are 10 minutes late. While she is the most accurate prophet in all of history, to the point where God considers her pretty much 100% accurate, free will is still a disrupting variable.
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* Agnes's prophecies being perfectly accurate predictions of the future, as stated by God Herself, seem like they go against the free will {{aesop}} the series had. However, when Agnes is to be burned at the stake. She stake, she notes that her executioners are 10 minutes late. While she is the most accurate prophet in all of history, to the point where God considers her pretty much 100% accurate, free will is still a disrupting variable.
