A few more people have found this blog so here's a pinned post with links to my metas, little things/gif series, art etc and the nuts and bolts of stuff here in case you want that.
ETA — Post S3 update:
Hey everyone. First of all THANK YOU I don't know what i would do without this community.
If you follow this blog you know how i feel right now - mostly sad, tired, and grieving. I'm trying really hard to get the sense of peace and closure that some are feeling post finale and I'm not there, but I'm going to be doing more reading and writing and musing on that.
However! This post is mostly to say I am here for you if you are feeling some kinds of ways. Please feel free to pop into my messages or asks. I'd love to chat.
I've also decided to reblog some stuff from this blog from waaaaaaaaay back in the immediate afterglow of season 1. Tagged #good omens s1 revisited
And that's it. Hang in there. Do things that make you happy. Book omens and S1 are forever safe in our hearts and hands. <3<3
I'm a rabid reblogger of most everything Good Omens from meta to shitposts to fan art to fic to edits. Some of it ends up in a queue but mostly it's a firehose. Show, book, all are welcome here. I've been in this fandom one way or another a loooong time (yep, tumblr elder here) and can quite comfortably hold multiple and sometimes opposing characterizations and theories in my head at one time. I do try to tag but I'm gonna be honest it's less about organization and more about using the tags to chat and snark and get emotional b/c it makes me happy.
I use #fan art and #good omens meta and #good omens theories and #good omens speculation. My own stuff I tag with
#a duck talks
#a duck gifs
#a duck draws - Good Omens fan art
#a duck writes
I love wordy additions to posts, and if you yell in the tags we are family. Oh, might be NSFW stuff but not usually. PS I don't love angst but I guess I do now? Thanks season 2!
And... since there's a few out there now, some links to my metas and things.
Little fic of a conversation in Job's cellar
Credits split-screen colors
Let's Talk Laudanum
Little things to love about gos2 series
GOs1/GOs2 Parallels in gifs
A comforting thought
The bookshop as Eden and 2 different Apples
Crowley's 1827 outfit
The scent of bitter almonds (an alternate coffee theory NOT having to do with mind control)
Road Trip fic prompt
Aziraphale's Fairy Tale
The Duality of Jane Austen
aaaand... my post freaking out about s1 that broke containment a bit
The more I watch the few short seconds of behind-the-scenes-Michael that we got from prime, the more I realize how devastated he looks about literally all of this 🥲🥲🥲
For being a seemingly openly anti religion metaphor, Aziracrow's sacrifice basically boils down to the christian morale of suffering on earth for the hope of a reward after death, the same morale they were trying to criticize as being a horrible existence because it lacks true free will. They do an act of faith, completely remitting themselves to God, who in the end rewards their blind faith and grants them a reincarnation in a better world as a reward.
An interesting mix of atheistic and religious philosophies that, in my opinion, failed to convey anything truly meaningful, coming across instead as merely moralistic and empty, just for the sake of a forced happy ending, that ironically to many of us felt more like a horror story, a pitiful sop thrown at us to console us of the loss of 6000 years of interesting, complex, multi faceted characterization that explored the themes of free will and personal freedom that comes with a cost, much better than this preachy conclusion.
between david “crowley evaporated” tennant and michael “aziracrow chose annihilation” sheen do you guys remember the days when this show was actually a comedy and didn’t end in the destruction of everything we loved about it?
The production of Good Omens: Epilogue, is underway! This is a rough little advertisement that I'll likely spruce up. Links below! Nobody under 15 are allowed to participate.
Oh also we need an actor for God.
Crowley and Aziraphale reappear in the bookshop after speaking with God...
We have three roles that must be filled! We need voices for God, Crowley, and Aziraphale. This is the link to the script! Good Omens: Epilog
Gathering information from the animators to try to split up the work fairly. Unless I've already accepted you into the project, there are no
The finale really made it seem like Crowley was the sole protagonist all along. Aziraphale even says it himself, that everyone else was just a character in a book, but Crowley was special.
And I got the feeling that through the series, and especially in the finale, Crowley was becoming more powerful and important, compared to how him and Aziraphale were portrayed in the book.
Crowley got the ability to stop time, he’s implied to be one of the Archangels, he makes the stars. None of this is in the book.
In the book they were equal, just two beings who happened to be thrust into similar circumstances, but in the series Crowley is much more important and powerful than Aziraphale, and the finale drives this point home. Crowley was right, he can do no wrong, he doesn’t have to apologise for anything, he’s God’s favourite little guy, he’s just so special and perfect.
Meanwhile Aziraphale is portrayed as a bumbling idiot, in the end gets insulted by God, and doesn’t get a single complement, not a single thank you from Crowley for trying before they both die.
This series favouritisim of Crowley was easier to ignore, when I thought season 3 would even out the playing field, and show that Aziraphale’s sacrifice was valid, but now I can’t stop thinking about it.
it surprises me when people call the ending “not homophobic” simply because it leaves two men in a romantic relationship. the problem is not that anthony and asa fell in love with each other. the problem is that aziraphale and crowley, characters with one of the most unusual and deeply developed queer stories in modern fantasy, were sacrificed for it
a romance between two men does not automatically make a story good representation. especially when those characters are reduced to a set of generic traits: they are kind, they love each other, and that is basically it. we have already seen countless stories like that, and this is not just about gay relationships. people loved aziraphale and crowley not because they were a couple. they loved them as individuals: complex, contradictory characters with their own dynamic, history, and personalities that developed over many years. that is why it feels so strange to watch them be replaced with a flatter version of the same idea
to me, bad representation is not the absence of a kiss. it is when unique queer characters are erased in favor of a safer and more conventional romantic story. that is a disservice to the fandom
If in your show the only important parts of the plot happen in the last 15ish minutes of each season (and I mean you could literally just have those 15 minutes and you wouldn’t miss anything plot critical)… well, I think you may be going about it incorrectly.
The more I think about it, the more it looks like the whole point of current day s2 and 3 were to punish and beat down Crowley and Aziraphale to the point where they made a choice absolutely inconceivable a the end of s1.
I hate it. (I’m jealous if you love it I really am, I just can’t get there)
Do you remember back in the S1 Good Omens days where we kept finding more and more little tidbits to love? More things that were layered in care and meaning and hidden subtext? S3 is like the opposite of that.
I'm sorry but the longer I look at Good Omens 3 the sloppier the writing becomes. Like it's not even "do you like it" it's just me being turned off by completely sloppy work. The cast and crew clearly put love into what they made, but you can only do so much with a horrid script.
Terry Pratchett is a master writer. When reading his books, there are so many times I have to pause and go back and reread because "did I just read that?" when it comes to wit and story telling and how "oh no that does actually work!"
Not to mention, his books know what genre they are (hint: it's a comedy, after all Crowley likes those better).
Michael and David embody Aziraphale and Crowley on screen so well it's almost possible to overlook all of the problems with the script.
There have been better posts than mine covering the narrative arcs of season one and how they're completely thrown away for season three (looking at you, Adam saying the humans need to fix their own world concept as well as embodying we don't want something NEW we want OUR world).
But it's not just the over reaching story that is ignored in season three. It's one thing to have a Chehkov's gun not fire but...how many of them are we up to? Aziraphale and Crowley's miracle power, all of us versus all of them, Crowley's missing memories, what was Crowley's angel rank and how did he know passwords, and that's ignoring the literal one of there being a derringer in the bookshop.
Leaving some of these unanswered is hasty writing. A cemetery of Chehkov's is messier than Hell's filing systems.
As much as I adored the Great War set up, it felt like introducing an Eternal Flame and having Crowley there for...no reason. Really, why does this scene exist? All the others have some level of importance, even if it's just introducing us to a new facet of the characters.
Tossing the cinnamon roll that was Jesus and his new buddy Harry the Fish and then promptly erasing them. Again, why? Aziraphale could have gone to Earth to find Crowley because the Book of Life was missing. He even could have told him then that he went to Heaven to stop Crowley being erased from the Book of Life and now it's missing. You know, an answer to the largest cliff hanger we had from Season Two that never was fully resolved, at least sadly more than this excuse for a season did.
Which was the largest problem the season had. I think the fandom could have forgiven every other problem this season had with a proper resolution of their love story. Instead we received what almost felt like early 2000 eras queer baiting for OUR ineffables and then a wedding with...zero contact.
I mean, if me and one of my friends knew we were about to disappear forever, I'd absolutely have held them for at least a moment. Told them I loved them. And that's not even close to what I would do were it my spouse whom I adore. I guess they showed pleasantries for the strangers that they lied about being for all these centuries.
That's oddly only part of the out of character behaviors. I'm sorry the same Crowley who stopped time and created a pocket universe to try to save Aziraphale and repeatedly tried to get him to run off with him is suddenly like let's sacrifice ourselves for...another group of humans even when he could save ALL OF THEM? I'm sorry, what?
And using the excuse of he's just been super extra traumatized and can now no longer be happy when... we saw him happy at the end of season one. We saw him happy during moments in season two, including that classic glimmer of his angelic smile. You can't tell me he underwent too many millennia of trauma to find joy again when we've repeatedly seen it.
While we're touching on the out of character behavior, can we mention how mean the characters are this season? The last thing Muriel ever hears is she's the dim one, Aziraphale is told he's a myriad of failures, and Crowley is repeatedly called a loser. I'm sorry, where is my gentle comedy? These don't feel like jokes between friends (season one bickering), healthy addressing of pain (season two resolution), nor like a hopeful comedy show (what it's supposed to be).
Also, you're going to let me believe that Crowley let God mock Aziraphale? The same demon who has challenged her every step of the way? The same one who we have all known for many, many years would have told Gabriel off for that lose the gut comment? Yeah, no I'm not buying it.
Finally, we get to the queer aspect. Every canon queer ship is destroyed. I mean, so is the whole world but stay with me for a minute. Nina and Maggie are sent off to fuck knows where. Mutt dies by what's perceived as a suicide from what Jesus said and leaves his Beloved Spouse, and Aziraphale and Crowley are never given true resolution. What in the Bury Our Gays media is this?
I've seen the takes saying that this is an ace phobic take because we do see Asa and Anthony married and I will tell you right now: as an elderly ace you can get off my blog. Ace representation doesn't mean zero body contact (I say as my leg is nudged up against my partners and I frustratedly type). It doesn't mean they can't hug or kiss. Hell, it doesn't even mean they can't have sex. Aziraphale and Crowley were already ace rep, they didn't need to have them act like there was a literal barrier between them.
It's not just the ending. It's the entire messy creation that feels not thought through nor executed at all. I would challenge anyone who says this is Terry's ending to find anything written by Terry Pratchett that is anywhere near this level of cringingly badly written.
On the other hand, I can see how it echoes with the Sandman story. You know, the one written by the author that should fire himself to the sun to save the rest of us the trouble.
I want to love this season. I want to be happy about it. I can't be. And the closer I look, desperately trying to find something to love about it the more I see wrong.
