Tending my night garden

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔

[laudnumdrinker]

Oh Crowley, you would have hated Neil Gaiman 💔

gif from @fuckyeahgoodomens

[bot-pilot]

You know what? We should have expected this from the writer of the cursed Good Omens movie script.

[miellez]

Oh for somebody' sake just please show people that you at least watched other seasons

[hey-must-be-a-devilbetween-us]

'i want free will to be a real thing.'

yeah well I want continuity to be a real thing but I guess that's too much to ask.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

… I mean, it is pretty darkly ironic that, like…

I get what they were trying to with this exchange from a Meta perspective. Characters from a world that was Doomed by the Narrative arguing with their own Creator that They can't be the one who decide that the story is over... Eventually creating a a 'real' Universe of endless possibilities that will extends past the will and control of God, and which ends up being the one place that allows the two of them to Un-Doom their Yaoi and finally get their Happy Ending, in a very deliberately 'Fluffy Fanfic AU'-like setting….

I absolutely get what they were going for in terms of the themes and meta but… It's just that it's because of this scene's heavy meta-ness, it's kinda hard to forget that this story did already come to an ending before, and it was an extremely straightforward Happily Ever After for both these characters and the Universe at large.

So a lot (… not all, but a lot…) of the people who should, thematically speaking, be on Crowley and Aziraphale's side in this exchange, the ones for whom the characters of the story have 'come alive' in their heads and were pushing for a happy ending…. Are instead the ones saying '…You know what, maybe this story didn't have to go past the last page of it's book...'

[bot-pilot]

Yes! It’s *so* abstract and metatextual and pleased with itself that it becomes completely divorced from its own context and characters. This is why it’s so deeply unsatisfying, even more than the poor quality writing or the lack of budget or lack of intimacy. The whole thing felt like an uncanny valley version of the GO tv show I knew and loved.

[aduckwithears]

The end of good omens 3 except instead of Satan and God showing up in the bookshop it’s the delivery man from s1 to pick up the backup copy of the Book of Life that has been there all along.

[bot-pilot]

See! A better ending is so easy to think up.

[thestuffedalligator]

The best part of getting older is aging out of the demographic that gets killed in horror movies. I am now the age of the kooky local at the gas station who warns the band of college kids not to go to Camp Murderblood

[sapierror]

okay okay okay I get it, it's not Gabriel and Beelzebub disappearing off together that was the intended mirror, it's the Gabriel and Beelzebub disappearing, gotcha

[depraveddame]

Sorry to ask questions about the media that centers a character who has been persecuted for asking questions that wasn’t very blindly faithful of me

[snogfairy]

they were just some guys. the whole point was that they were just some guys. they met in Eden. Aziraphale didn't like Crowley because he met him as an angel and saw the good in him. he met him as a demon on a random day that was the most important day in the beginning of the world because they both made it that way. they met and they quite simply hit it off. they kept meeting again and again because they sought each other out, not because some red string of fate twirled by god forced them together. two like-minded emissaries on earth. they liked each other from the start and neither felt bad about it at all. they both recognized that angels and demons were the same. they were equals. they challenged each other and grew together but also they were lazy bastards who didn't care about humans all that much. they cared about their earthly pleasures, like driving irresponsibly fast and hoarding treasures. they wanted to save the earth mostly for egoistical reasons, though humanity as a whole and as a concept had also grown dear to them. they were never more important than anyone else. they were not god's best or specialest little angels or grim-dark generals or leaders of armies or people called upon to make decisions on behalf of anyone. they weren't even good at what they were supposed to do, often consciously so. one was not better or smarter or more right than the other. they were some guys and they didn't give a fuck and they gave all the fucks and cared so much and they were truly, absolutely bastards worth knowing. their friendship and love story was so grand because it was not grand. they were supposed to be just some guys.

[bot-pilot]

On a hater reblog binge

[electricarpeggio]

I have settled on #go3 critical as my primary tag for finale-related analysis, but team. Team. #bad omens was RIGHT THERE.

[bot-pilot]

So right

[aduckwithears]

[cobbbvanth]

gonna start throwing rocks. crowley was not the best angel! he was a good demon! he didn't like the end goal but he still did his job (mostly)! and people had the free will to fall for his temptations! sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't, sometimes they made up worse things! and that's why he liked them so much! keep testing them BUT NOT TO DESTRUCTION

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[carry-the-sky]

enjoying trailer day a normal amount 👍

[madaims]

This took way too long to make for something so dumb…….

Good Omens fans is me, I am Good Omens fans. Just saying.

[taurzza]