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they had the wrong boy!!! Adam choose humanity all on his own, he had no occult or etherial influence!!! they HAD THE WRONG BOY!!!! they were useless to the plot of stopping Armageddon because that was the POINT!!! they were the comedy can anyone HEAR ME
Too soon?
I will say this, though: it's very clear that season 1 of gomens was intended to be the only version of the story when it aired. Gaiman may have had other vague ideas for a continuation in the back of his mind, but gomens was originally greenlit by Amazon for a single season with the assumption that this was all it was going to be. Therefore, season 1's ending of the world being saved and Aziraphale and Crowley having forever was written to be canonical. The fact that this idiot retconned things years later doesn't change that, when he did write in all those extra scenes of Aziraphale and Crowley throughout the millennia, they were written with the intention to matter. In the s1 universe, their time together mattered and never got erased.
I think it's hard to ignore official episodes for a lot of people (including me lol), but you can honestly say the happy ending of s1 can be considered the true ending and everything else can be disregarded, if you want. After all, the book was considered to be a standalone work for decades, and that ended happily
I strongly believe that the second season 2 started, and the writers decided to turn the light and affectionate comedy of Aziraphale and Crowley‘s love story into a queer tragedy, that is the instant it all crashed and burned. From that moment on, everything was leading up to the pain and the destruction and the loss of it all and the whimsy and lightness and fun was gone. The moments of humanity and understanding the real morality of good and evil and how love conquers all and how we can fix things if we work together. There were moments of it that remained, but it was all leading toward the end. And queer love deserves not to end in tragedy. It deserves to just be sweet, without the bitter parts.
Good omens is, and was always intended to be, a comedy, not a tragedy 
The 5 real themes of good omens that the finale completely botched
I know we only had 1 episode and whole plotlines were scrapped but I was just left feeling so empty after the finale given how powerful and moving and profound the themes of season 1/the book were. So buckle up for a long ride let's talk about it
Theme 1: Human Incarnate
The book and the show established that humanity is unique because it is neither purely good or purely bad. From the book: "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people." This Aziraphale describes as "much better" than either Heaven or Hell
This is one of my favorite sequences in the whole show. And the music is soaring and gorgeous. Adam recalls the things in his life he has come to know and love; his parents, his friends, his dog, his home. He makes it have nice weather all year. Aziraphale could feel that love at the Tadfield Manor. Heaven and Hell tried to create an instrument of destruction. But by putting that inside a human boy, they didn't realize the strength of one boy's love would be strong enough to literally burn the hell out of him. He told Satan himself to shove it and rewrote reality to have the dad he truly loved. The power of humanity's love is stronger than any immortal power could ever be.
This is the idea that would have been so cool for the finale but unfortunately never paid off. As the second coming prepares to destroy Earth again, Aziraphale and Crowley could have teamed up with the power of humanity to reshape heaven and hell for good. Adam and Jesus as the antichrist and christ born to end the world and instead used their humanity to save it. Instead we got the book-of-life arc and humans were literally left to dust
Theme 2: Free Will
Next good omens establishes that angels and demons are just puppets but humans are the ones with real free will because they have the ability to be good or bad. Even with heaven and hell, the humans on Earth always have a choice. In season 2, they agree on this, but Crowley's main grievance is the inequity of it all. Humans have free will but it still isn't fair.
God made angels and demons and humans but the humans never had to follow her 'plan.' Free will and the ability to recognize what is truly right outside the propaganda of good vs evil is what saves the world.
Humans always had free will, even if God was around to kill a bunch of them with floods or take their stuff to win bets or something. Creating a new universe without God wouldn't change that. They would still have free will, just less threats from above/below, I guess. What Crowley's established character really should have wanted here was to fix the inequity inherent in human society. That's what is truly holding them back, not a lack of will. Removing God from the universe doesn't actually solve the root problem here
Theme 3: Our Own Side
This is something Crowley learned very early and spends the whole show trying to teach Aziraphale. That good must be separated from heaven and bad must be separated from hell.
Heaven can do some truly appalling horrors and demons, at least Crowley (and somewhat Beelzebub I guess) have the potential to be kind. 'Their own side' is one where they have the freedom of humanity, to do what is truly right. Aziraphale and Crowley sort of found their way there in the finale, but it was all rushed and Aziraphale never really turned his back on heaven, it sort of just became irrelevant when everything started disappearing. What a beautifully flawed and nice world they could have created together
Theme 4: Love Conquers all
What was it all for? Love. God made Aziraphale and Crowley for each other because she liked to smile at the silliness of their love. The literal only constant in the entire universe. Their love for the world and each other saved it. I think the decision to turn Aziraphale and Crowley's queer love story into a tragedy was the biggest mistake of seasons 2/3. Forcing the soft and romantic comedy of good omens into a queer tragedy was the instant it all crashed and burned. Now everything is tainted leading up to the pain and destruction of it all and the whimsy and lightness is gone. There were moments of it, but it was all leading toward the end. And queer love deserves to not be a tragedy. We have far too much tragic queer love in our society. Yes we got the south downs, but Aziraphale and Crowley never got to experience that freedom. They finally came together just to instantly be destroyed. We deserve happy and fulfilling queer love that is sweet without the bitter parts. Good omens was intended to be a comedy, not a tragedy
And then this was SUCH A COOL IDEA they introduced. Perhaps the first time ever an angel and a demon performed a miracle together. The power of their love could create magic stronger than anything heaven or hell had ever seen. I was so excited to see the wonders they were going to create, they ways in which they could have rebuilt the world better using that love. If they had this kind of power doing a tiny miracle, what could they have accomplished if they really put their minds to it? God herself couldn't have stopped them. And instead, the finale literally revoked Crowley's magic for the entire episode. They sacrifice themselves for a new earth and people that didn’t even exist yet instead of using any of their power to change it. The god awful execution of this theme is probably the biggest letdown of the entire finale imo
Theme 5: Fix It, Don't Replace It
This is so obviously established in seasons 1/2 I cannot believe how badly they missed the mark with this one
Literally shows us the horror of replacing the Earth with all new people. Even children can recognize that just because something is broken, it doesn't mean you throw it away and start all over. They loved the world enough to want to save it. The world is inherently worth saving, flaws and all. If you love something, you don't abandon it. The ENTIRE PLOT of season 1 explores the horrors of humanity and yet humans, Aziraphale and Crowley do everything in their power to save it.
It absolutely blows my mind how directly this scene contradicts the entire message of the finale. Job didn't want new children, he quite liked the old ones. Aziraphale and Crowley didn't want the antichrist's new Earth, they quite liked the old one. We didn't want new human versions of Aziraphale and Crowley, we QUITE LIKED THE OLD ONES. Where the hell did that mentality go when they told God to create an entirely new universe????????????? Season 1 said the world is flawed but it deserves saving exactly as it is. Season 1 said an angel and a demon go off to the ritz together, exactly as they are. The finale said the world is too broken, we have to make it disappear and start over. The finale said Aziraphale and Crowley have too many issues/traumas to be happy, we have to destroy them and start over. That's why as cute as Asa and Anthony's love is, we quite liked them exactly as they were, angel/demon trauma + history and all. They deserved saving too.
Good omens has always been so special to me for how much it pokes fun at but also celebrates the messiness and wonder of humanity and love. The 6-to-1 episodes was a major setback but somehow the finale still managed to drop basically every one of its most endearing and powerful messages. What is the "real world" the finale is trying to make us value? One without a god to screw things up sometimes?? The best parts of humanity always shined through not even despite, but BECAUSE of the heavenly challenges they overcame. It's very clear good omens as a whole was always meant to be a one-season/one-book story. There was so much potential and missed opportunities and I wish we could have had the finale we were all dreaming of. I will always love the world of good omens season 1/the book, so that is the world I'll keep in my heart. And all the nightingales therein
first half of wake up dead man is blanc reading jud's written story and trying to accurately visualize the events and then we as the audience watch blanc's visualization of jud's story. second half is blanc listening to jud tell the rest of the story to cy and cy's lawyer with blanc and langstrom also in the room. blanc is still visualizing it as closely to how jud tells it as possible but he's also thinking quietly about the unmentionable jewel as a little wink to us, his trusty whodunnit audience. and despite blanc being our main witness/visual medium/genre-setter we remain zeroed in on jud, who is the main character/writer/narrator. blanc was just there to enjoy and protect his story and lend it his whodunnit framework while it was useful.
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i fucking hate judblanc theyre fucking shrapnel in my fuckass chest and if i move they will kill me. he's a PRIEST
Judblanc is so soulmate coded how do we not have like 50 fluffy cringey 2015 style soulmate AU fics
We have forgotten the ancient ways…
Thinking about this still:
Mark that means something related to your soulmate but might not make sense until you meet them - Blanc has something like a dove that he’s been trying to puzzle out for years but it clicks after he meets Jud
Words/mark along the same lines - Blanc having something obviously tied to religion and it annoys him so much, he thinks it’s so stupid to the point he’s like I don’t even care if I meet my soulmate, it’s not gonna be a good match. Enter Jud. (He’s still kind of annoyed about it)
Rather than something you’re born with, it’s something you develop after falling in love. Lots of potential for the Blanc/Phillip of it all with this one - maybe Phillip already had and lost a soulmate and Blanc never got a mark so they both think maybe it could work? Maybe you can have multiple and it’ll still develop or maybe neither is really looking for a soulmate anymore. Then if they break up/divorce…Blanc’s like well in a way it’s good he wasn’t my soulmate :(
Or Blanc and Phillip already being soulmates and along comes Jud unexpectedly, very much not wanting to come in between them even though there’s something profound building between him and Blanc too
Blanc who’s written off the idea of having a soulmate entirely by the time he meets Jud and Jud who’s never quite believed he deserved it
Jud, master of storytelling to himself, torn between his vows and Blanc, justifying an exception because that’s his God-sent soulmate
Where it’s possible for a soulmate to be one-sided, and they both assume the other doesn’t see them as soulmates and start quietly pining away
The classic “first words your soulmate says to you” mark: Hellooo and Always being so simple (and Jud especially being like hello? That’s it?) but the moment they meet in that church it couldn’t be more obvious. And having the rest of the case to work through before they can even talk about it
Jud at some point after killing that guy, in a fit of self hatred, getting his mark tattooed over to pretend it doesn’t exist not wanting someone to be stuck with him as their soulmate. It doesn’t matter so much as a priest because he’s devoted himself to Christ anyway. He regrets it after meeting Blanc and he’s ashamed for Blanc to find out about it. Blanc on the other hand…he kinda really likes the tattoo :)
#blancs mother would probably love that his mark is related to her belief. she's convinced he'll find a good christian woman one day#holy shit would he hate it#maybe they both got their marks covered up and now theyre so embarrassed about ot#and even more embarrassing is that they remember exactly what their marks were and have been waiting for this their whole lives OHHHHH EXACTLYYY @thirdsonofeve maybe even part of the reason she settles on Benoit for a name and definitely a source of horrible contention when he comes out. Ironically Jud would be both her wish come true and worst nightmare at the same time
a catholic priest with a horned devil neck tattoo half-peeking from his clerical collar is such insane character design i still black out a little when i actually think about it
hmmm
what if you were a priestly stick figure with an anxiety disorder and you got knocked out while running away from the cops for a crime you didn't even commit and woke up in purgatory a creepy forest and the only thing standing between you and the manifestation of your inner demons was a weird old bird with the voice and demeanor of a chainsmoking southern dandy
don't even worryyy about it
something so tense starts happening between blanc and jud if not from the moment they meet then definitely the second jud implies he put his faith (his faith!) in blanc and is now losing it and this intensity keeps escalating to insane degrees up til the moment louise reminds jud of his priestly duties and he acts up in what i can only describe as gay panic and not in an online meme sense but in the historically scary sense. their push-pull arguments after that are what keeps that insane energy between them intact in a different way but then blanc's damascus moment propels them into a brand new dynamic based on mutual trust (as seen by the way they tag teamed getting a confession/last rites out of martha and hid the jewel) and then there's a one year time skip that just glosses over whatever the fuck that relationship may have grown into just to end on an emotional hug that jud initiates and it somehow makes them look both giddy and seconds away from crying. once again i ask: what the fuck
what do you think is jud's relationship with his attraction to men? what do you think was/is his journey to discovery and to acceptance?
this post sums jud up for me (pre-meeting blanc).
men = violence and priesthood = restraint therefore priests > men except of course he quickly discovers that priests = some of the worst men in the world and his mentor langstrom happens to be a very dignified and restrained exception.
i don't think jud has ever had a positive queer male influence before blanc, and whatever sexual experiences he may have had with men were probably not good or healthy. and i do think he's had some, i think his violent past is an apt metaphor for other "unbecoming" urges and experiences as well, hays code censorship style.
but the thing about jud is that he is as hopecore as he is traumatized. the second he senses something nice and hopeful on the horizon he can't help but bask in it. and sure by the end of his story he is even more traumatized than before in some ways but he has also found a man he can trust with his actual deepest secrets (i didn't just kill a man, i knew what i was doing. i did it out of hate. i'm happy wicks is dead. i hid a flask and i hid a diamond and i'm hiding so many violent urges that i fully believe i could snap and kill again.)
and what does he do with this man that got so many nasty truths out of him? he throws himself into his arms. it's no coincidence that the movie opens with jud hurting a bad man and ends with him embracing a good one. benoit blanc canonically healed jud's relationship with his inner demons/with masculinity to an insane degree. so it's really not that hard to push this concept just a little bit further past the catholic self-censorship: precisely thanks to blanc being canonically queer we can so easily infer and include jud's queerness and sexuality in the ways being around blanc has helped him learn some self-acceptance.
because again, as traumatized and quick to spiral as jud is, he is also so full of hope. his craziest trait as a now-infamous killer priest with a cartoonish penchant for half-truths and controversial secrets is that he does in fact have genuine faith that things will be okay
