I Think Another Big Thing To Consider About The End Of Ep 6 And Aziraphale’s Decision To Try And Change

I think another big thing to consider about the end of ep 6 and Aziraphale’s decision to try and change heaven is what he just saw take place with Gabriel a few minutes beforehand.

His ex-boss Gabriel that, to Aziraphale at least, embodied everything wrong with how heaven thought and operated just had a complete change of heart and rejected heaven. So it’s possible that in Aziraphale’s mind, if one of the highest ranking angels had been able to change and reject the system, then it’s possible for everyone else in heaven to change as well. I think that’s also why he felt Crowley would have such a vital role in that change, because he believes there is so much to love in Crowley and he hoped that he would be able to show that to heaven and make them change too, just like he and Gabriel had changed partly because their love of a demon.

I think the Metatron kind of topped off that hope by making it seem that he was receptive to departing from the status quo as well. He mentioned that he too has tried human food and insists that Aziraphale indulges unlike the other, more uptight angels that belittled him for his interest in human delights. He then waxes off about how Aziraphale would be a great influence on and leader of heaven despite him going against heaven on so many occasions, which Aziraphale might have taken to mean that the Metatron would be receptive to altering the system to be more inline with Aziraphale’s philosophy.

So of course if both the Metatron and Gabriel, the two (or well, formerly in Gabriel case) highest ranking individuals in heaven sans God herself, had been open to change/abandoning the old heaven, then Aziraphale had a solid chance at changing the system to help everyone, especially Crowley and himself.

Just some food for thought