7. Tyler B. Craig: The ups and downs of being coward

 

For those who don’t know what I’m referring to, Miracle Workers is a show about 2 angels who have to get 2 humans to fall in love before god blows up the Earth, or at least that’s what the 1st season was about. These 2 angels names are Craig and Eliza, who both work in the department of answered prayers, Craig has been working in this department for 10,000 years, he likes to play it safe and not take risks, leading to many of the prayers he answers being deemed as “impossible” so he spends most of his time helping humans find their keys or gloves through hours of work (melting single snowflakes or blowing a single leaf away). Eliza is a angel who has recently been transferred to the Department of answered prayers, she is a big risk taker and is bold, bold enough to demand that god do something about Earth. But I’m not here to talk about her, I’m her to talk about Craig.

Craig constantly tries to play it safe, when him and Eliza first start on their task of making 2 humans fall in love, Eliza has a plan to make them both run into each other at the hospital by dropping a melon on one of their heads, pretty bold right? Craig doesn’t think this is a good idea so he makes the melon fall and only hit the sidewalk, he believes that the best way to get them to talk to each other is through subtle sly signs and hints. For example, when these 2 humans met they had a talk about badminton, Craig tries to use this as a sign, spending hours blowing a badminton birdie from a roof top court to one of the humans houses. Expecting them to take the sign, but they don’t, and just throws it out the window. Even after this he still tries to play it safe, which in most cases is over thrown by the risk taking of Eliza and later on another angel, Sanjay, and most of the time the risk pays off, except for in one instance. They have 1 day left until the Earth is set to blow up, the humans relationship has been progressing nicely, now they are set to go to a basketball game, where Eliza plans to use the courts kiss cam to get them to kiss. Everyone thinks this is a great idea, except for Craig, he knows these 2 are shy and very timid, so he thinks the kiss cam will just freak them out, instead he suggest they just let them get to that point on their own, without the kiss cam. Of course everyone thinks he is wrong and is just being a coward, and when he tries to stop them from doing this they throw him in the broom closet and lock him in, but when the time comes and they show up on the kiss cam, the humans freeze and don’t kiss, and after a horrible series of events following this such as a mascots appendix bursting and said mascot dying.

 Eliza and Craig almost fail, because no one would listen to Craig and his more timid ideas, I believe the writers of this show are trying to show that there can be unsides to playing it safe, if Eliza had just listened to Craig, they wouldn’t have had to make a mad scramble to try and save Earth. They end up saving it anyways, Craig even makes a very bold and risky decision that could have merged his brain with a bee, very strange I know, you’ll have to watch the show to see more of it. But in the end, the actions of Craig Bog (yes that’s his real name) show that is isn’t a bad thing to play safe sometimes, it could even lead to a happy ending, at least in this case. 

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