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Fanatic totally in love with Almost Human. Obviously my favourite character is Captain Sandra Maldonado. Other stuff like Star Trek, Star Wars, and the Legend of Korra may appear on this blog too.

[darkwillowz]

So tired of people insulting us who were disappointed with the good omens finale by cheapening our love for Good Omens and our connection with Aziraphale and Crowley as "just wanting smut".

Not everything is about sex! We have many other reasons why the finale broke our hearts...

Not everything was about wanting a kiss ( though there was nothing wrong in hoping for one considering the S2 finale )

I'm sick and tired of a lot of GO3 defenders only wanting to focus on accusing us on JUST being upset about there not being any physical sexual intimacy. As if they only see us as having smut brain rot or something.

This only happens with queer stories. You never see these kind of arguments/takes with cishet stories when people are upset with the finale.

TO BE HONEST, when it comes to the hope of physical intamcy between Aziracrow, most of us were just yearning to see them hug or say I love you, or just have some kind of actual intimate conversation about their feelings......NOT hoping they'd be doing it crazy style in the back of the Bentley like wtf...

[darkwillowz]

Exactly.

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Seconded

In isolation I like the finger kiss and I'm someone who hated the kiss in S2. For me it was oh great you had to throw in the bog standard romance intimacy trope for a couple that didn't need it thanks.

Probably helps that I've been in fandoms that experimented with this before

Different levels of intimacy is fine it could have a been a kiss, a hug, words of affirmation, them 'sleeping' together with Aziraphale trying something Crowley likes to do, or actually sleeping together with a do not disturb sign swinging on a closing cottage door.

The point being everyone knew going in that the ending was a South Downs cottage in retirement and I was fully prepared for the plot to suck to get there, but at least the ending would be a happy one.

And I'd argue that it isn't even Word of God that gives that expectation outside of South Downs in specific as normally I'm one of the first to claim death of the author the text stands alone.

And the text does do that!

In S1 no matter how bad things got, Aziraphale is discorporated, Crowley lost his car, the bookshop is gone, the great war is upon them. There was still a way out and all was restored in the end, because the world and everyone in it was worth it.

In S2 after the attack on the bookshop Mr Brown is fine, the humans go back to their regular lives a few wonky memories not with standing. Gabriel and Beelzebub are off and happy and Crowley is ready to go have an extremely alcoholic breakfast at the Ritz.

That's why the final 15 is such a gut punch it's a twist on formula, but not a bad one really as this was supposed to be the bridge to the last part of the story, a downer ending is harsh, but appropriate.

The finale doesn't have that excuse.

It's the ending's job to tie everything together for plot, themes, and characters and it fails across the board.

Plot wise it starts out as usual oh look they lost the Messiah just like the anti-Christ and here goes Jesus finding the lady and that connection to humanity all on his own to pull out a win at the 11th hour.

And then he doesn't.

Well okay we're at the end of the universe, but we're writing a new book of life filled with the memories of their encounters with humanity over the centuries a figurative us vs them different, but good. And everything comes back because of love, imagination, and our angel and demon spending their time truly talking and so not only is the world repaired once again, so is their relationship and of course we end as we began in a garden in South Downs.

And then god shows up.

Okay, okay, but She asks if they want Her to put everything back as is was and they can decide no they want the world as it was without upstairs or downstairs constantly going for the nuclear option.

We've been shown everyone just going in and out of heaven and hell like it's nothing, the back channels, the in-between. We could have a true meeting in the middle, shades of grey, dropping all pretense just all angels and demons being an us and deciding what that looks like for them alone.

And then our main characters decide to off themselves to give us a real universe. The thing they worked so hard to protect up until now is apparently better off dust.

Everything from the importance of humanity, to free will, to the second coming, to Aziraphale and Crowley themselves and their respective offices are dunked in the dip

for a blank canvas of a universe full of people we have no connection to.

If it's a totally godless universe then all I'm watching is a bunch of strangers with faces that look familiar so who cares, and if there is a soulmate, reincarnation, thing going on then divine intervention is still in play so god lied and the entire sacrifice was pointless.

Anyway you look at it this ending sucks.

[apoclyphal]

GOOD OMENS "The Finale"

[whitechocolateandwindydays]

You know what kills me about this scene? It's that they tried so hard to recreate the one in season 1, except it didn't land the same way at all. Even though it was funny the first time to hear Aziraphale call the CDs bebop, having this again in the finale hurts, because after everything they've been through, after The Final Fifteen, after all those years away from each other, the finale still felt like focusing on the tiny differences between them.

Crowley has tried so hard to understand Aziraphale, but not the other way around. Crowley knew which books were new when they swapped bodies, yet Aziraphale still has no idea what type of music Crowley enjoys, and I understood this scene as "look, they're not on the same wavelength, and Crowley knows, he even expected it from his angel". What was a silly joke in season 1 became yet another bad thing in the finale: Aziraphale doesn't understand Crowley in all the small ways Crowley does about him. And then it's left unresolved.

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Yes it really feels like Crowley was the one giving all the emotional effort in their relationship and thus really does make Aziraphale come off as cold and cruel and indeed a taker as Mrs Sandwich said.

And I know that's not true!

No one creates a ball as an excuse to dance with their beloved demon and talks about our bookshop and our car, or fights so hard against giving holy water because he thinks Crowley will use it to hurt himself, a point of miscommunication that they could talk about and never do, or knows letting Crowley save him makes his demon happy if Aziraphale wasn't just as smitten!

I've said before that I was so ready for hard feelings in the beginning of S3. For Aziraphale to be distance because we've seen that with other angels. They have no connection to humanity because of the isolation of heaven and that could show Crowley's point about toxic systems. I was ready for Crowley to be closed off too after the final 15 where pouring his heart out and trying to be an us one more time got him 'nothing lasts forever.' and 'I forgive you'.

Although the lack of 'supreme archangel Aziaphale' snark will forever bother me.

But that's why the South Downs ending was so crucial because in order to get there Crowley and Aziraphale would truly have to build something that was theirs! To really talk and understand each other to want that fragile existence together.

Then we would get the high point of watching them pick out a cottage together. To fill it together with statues and books and mismatched chairs a la Up while Golden Girls reruns play in the background.

Instead all we get are miserable shades of grey for 90 minutes where even the supposed happy ending stand ins Asa and Anthony do that all the becoming an us stuff for 20 years off screen!

[kohinoor4u]

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[twilightofthesandwiches]

... The thing is that I do actually have a huge weakness for middle-aged and old people falling in love (and especially queer people). But... this is partly born out of my desire to believe that it is never too late, that as long as you are alive in this world, you can always grasp the chance to change your life for the better, like choosing the person you want to share your life with, or finding the bravery to live freely and without shame. That's a big part of what makes the concept so heartwarming for me.

And I really just really wanted it to not be too late for Crowley and Aziraphale, too.

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Yep if Asa and Anthony were a couple Aziraphale and Crowley were watching from a cafe table while talking about being smitten and flashes of love it'd be fine.

I think that's why I wasn't sure whether I liked or hated the finale initially, because at first blush it's okay we're getting human AU ending and then it hits oh god we're getting a human AU ending. Humans AUs are fun to read and write fanfic about to see what qualities people keep and change to bring the familiar into a new setting, but the canon was still what it was with an angel and a demon toasting at the Ritz with immortality and miracles and Queen.

Now the canon is the one saying oh these two characters are dusted, after spending the last years of their lives utterly miserable, like seriously do either Crowley or Aziraphale ever look happy with The Decision? But we're giving out these new ones that vaguely look and act like the characters you just watched for over 12 hours, well I quite liked the old ones.

[greenteaduck]

Could a depressed person do this?? NO!

(But for real I am very sad)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[the-dragon-hearted]

I raise you:

[stra-tek]

You want to watch a Star Trek movie! Which one do you choose?

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek Nemesis

Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Section 31

Voting ended onJul 9

[trekcore]

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Star Trek 5 I find is actually pretty decent before the plot shows up. Good chemistry between the trio. Love Scotty and Uhura's couple banter. Chekoy and Sulu off adventuring in the woods if this had been called Star Trek 5: Shore Leave and just focused on crew antics and them running off to save the day at the end of the movie from like the return of Apollo it would have been a perfectly serviceable film.

[itsoverfeeling]

ppl on ao3 should use the "this work was inspired by" option more. so many fics out there that put links to other fics in the a/n but theres a better option.....

☝️ use this!!!!!!

[itsoverfeeling]

important addition i forgot that not everyone might know. similar to how ao3 bookmarks work, you can also link to non-ao3 fanworks using this format. so, for instance, if theres some fanart on tumblr that inspired you to write the fic? you can link that fanart to your fic!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separation-passports-canadian-citizenship-9.7220110

You know some Brexit people were surprised and offended when after Brexit they were not allowed to cross borders into EU countries anymore. And also some brexit people after brexit looked up terms like EU and Brexit.

If you an Albertan seperatist. You may wish to learn more about your position before you make decisions.

Passport, please: Would Albertans keep Canadian citizenship in a hypothetical independent state? | CBC News

As questions around the logistics of separation loom ahead of the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum on whether or not to kickstart the legal proces

[mikermccall]

The funny thing is that some of these people were too young to remember the discussions around Quebec separation in the 80s and 90s, but a lot weren't. And a lot of those people were the ones saying that Quebec would have to make its own way if they separated.

We've done this before. Recently. Under a Liberal government. How are people not educated on how this works?

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Damned if I know, but it is indeed so frustrating. We have already had this debate and the one plus point that Quebec gets is that at least it isn't goddamed landlocked!

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

THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE SMALLEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE, AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF FREE WILL, ONE MOLECULE OF SELF DETERMINATION.

Crowley: "Uuuh..."

YOU CAN'T SERPENT, IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN ALCHEMIZE THROUGH DESTRUCTION OR THAT SHE CAN WEAVE FROM STARDUST, ITS SOMETHING YOU MAKE TRUE BECAUSE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT IS. YOU USED TO BE SO CLEVER CROWLEY.

Crowley: "Ack, ngk, well...I've just been having a rough time lately..."

YES, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE YOUR WEEPY PRINCIPALITY AND TAKE SOME BREAKFAST AND COLLECT YOURSELVES. Aziraphale:"...there is no where to have breakfast?" THERE IS, AS LONG AS THERE IS SOMEONE TO EAT IT, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOMEWHERE TO HAVE BREAKFAST, NOW GO ON, THESE TWO AND I ARE GOING TO HAVE A LONG CHAT ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY AND THROWING AWAY PETS WHEN WE'RE BORED OF THEM.

[vivi-theakuneko]

GO3 is Good omens if you deliberately choose all the wrong choices in a multiple ending game.

[groovysarity]

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[iforgiveyouprime]

How convenient that they decided not to show how a frightened mother with her child disappears. A group of teenagers. A family of cats. A couple walking in the park. An old lady selling flowers. The main thing is to sprinkle it all with glittery “self-sacrifice for the good of humanity,” while not showing how no one actually asked that same humanity, and how its fate ended up in the hands of two supernatural beings (again). Great.

Just imagine how terrified Adam must have been when he realized that his act of courage and free will had all been for nothing. Imagine how scared he was when his family disappeared. Or think about Warlock, who never got the chance to live a life free from his father’s control. Or Anathema. Or Newt. Or Mr. Shadwell and Madame Tracy. Imagine them all disappearing, and how terrified they must have been in those moments.

Good Omens has always treated every life as equally valuable. There are no lives that matter more or less than others. It has always shown how even the smallest decisions matter, the smallest details, the seemingly insignificant people (like Elspeth and little Morag). It has always shifted the focus away from something vast and abstract onto something small, personal, and yet no less precious or beautiful.

What the hell, Season 3?

[miss-conception]

"It has always shifted the focus away from something vast and abstract onto something small, personal, and yet no less precious or beautiful."

Yes! Because there is where life shines! On the grand scale the world is shit, and humanity is evil and cruel (and that "new universe" that they tried to sell us is not better). But anyway, we all have lovely encounters and shared moments even if they are few and brief. And books, and music, and little restaurants where they know your name! And they fought for all of these things not ten years ago...

Also it's stupid and dangerous to forget about the real people (and dolphins and gorillas) in order to create a new world that will supposedly be better.

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Agreed and every season reinforced this!

From Adam and the Them wanting to enjoy playing in the woods and Crowley and Azirphale's happy ending being going out to lunch. To getting to know all the shop owners on the street in S2 who argue over Christmas lights. Right down to Joshua bonding with Harry the fish over finding the lady.

And the grand finale of all of these little moments from the Globe Theatre to Job and his kids and delivery drivers with their sweethearts is never getting to see any of that humanity again and their lives getting decided by two supernatural idiots.

Nice thematic cohesion well done /s

[juliadying]

Just a silly idea I needed to get out of my head. ❤︎

[harbingerofjoy]

me writing fictional couples: oh wow…. the tenderness, the devotion, the romance

me irl:

[emotional-support-demon-crowley]

Taking away Crowley’s miracles retroactively breaks the tone of his reintroduction and makes things much darker and... really bad.

Crowley sleeping in an alley and drinking himself to oblivion night after night can work as comedy when he's a handwave away from a comfortable bed and sobriety. And that's the tone it's presented to us in, as comedy. Which fits because that's the tone of the previous seasons as well. We know he's not human, the usual human rules don't really apply.

But then we learn he can't do miracles. He can't sober up, so he's getting the full blackout drunk experience, including waking up the morning after. He can't miracle his clothes clean. He's sleeping rough, exposed to the elements. Even if we assume his corporation isn't subject to hunger, temperature fluctuations, and the negative effects of that much continued alcohol consumption, waking up soaking wet because it rained again in London, with a hangover, isn't going to be a fun experience. And it's been a few years! So throw winter weather into the mix. The more you consider the implications, the worse it gets.

There are things he could be doing to improve his living situation, but they're more work than a snap of the fingers, and he's depicted as severely depressed. Motivation to make things better, even if the task required isn't particularly difficult, tends to be thin on the ground once that sets in.

This season really shoots itself in the foot for rewatchability in a truly spectacular fashion. Once you know where it's going, there's no reason to care about anyone, especially the new characters, they're all going to disintigrate. Crowley's antics aren't amusing, they're neon fucking warning signs for someone who needs help and shouldn't be left alone with sharp objects. The exchanges between Crowley and Aziraphale that made me giggle and kick my feet the first time round feel like chewing glass to watch now.

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Yes even before we fully know what's going on with Crowley in the casino him slamming into the door while leaving which should be a staple of slapstick comedy isn't funny it's just sad.

I was just sitting there thinking oh Crowley what happened to you?

And it hurts because Crowley's path is very realistic of one that so many uhhoused people find themselves on. Where housing is lost through the landlord being a jackass and new options are out of reach.

Now in S2 where we know he has miracles and the flat loss is recent. Mail is still going there and he's telling Shax about the quirks of the place it's different. Not to mention he has access to some sort of wealth, how else did he pay Shadwell all those years? So we can roll our eyes and sigh Crowley really? You overly dramatic love struck demon go get a new flat.

Except the love struck thing plays a big role in this I think if we go back to the lockdown short film.

"You know I could slither over there and watch you eat cake."

No that would be breaking all the rules.

That's why, for me, he doesn't just get a new flat, because he wants the next step to be with Aziraphale and if he asks himself to move in or let's Aziraphale know what happened to his flat well that would just be going too fast and so he waits.

Then comes the final 15.

"And I would like to spend...ngh."

No I'm going back to heaven and you're the bad guys.

Obviously this was not what Aziraphale meant, but it is how Crowley took it and ask me how mad I am we never got a resolution to that.

So Crowley might move around in the bookshop a bit to keep out the rats, but never for long.

Because he isn't wanted there.

So he continues living in their car as many do at first.

And then you can't buy gas, can't park it anywhere overnight, it gets towed and you can't pay the fee.

Then we're down to a sleeping bag in an alley.

With one little plant trying desperately to hang on to something.

And everyone from Mrs Sandwich to Mutt's spouse treat it as the sad situation it is.

For me Crowley saying I want a no god no us universe at the end isn't a triumph of beating the system.

It's Crowley losing the battle to his own demons.

And as an ending to a series that once culminated in toasting to the world in all its wonderful, messy, keep on trying gumption it's unbelievably tone deaf.

[nataliaphantomhivesblog]

Something else that bothers me about Crowley's choice in go3 is that it unironically echoes God imposing unquestionable decisions on everyone else. We all know that the whole "clean slate" and "no us" argument ultimately destroys any chance of saving the universe that Aziraphale and Crowley have spent millennia trying to protect.

And like, Crowley isn't giving any grace to any angels or demons who could have the same opportunity he has always been fighting so hard to earn. He spent thousands of years carving out a life beyond Heaven and Hell's expectations, yet his decision denies others the chance to do the same.

I always end up circling back to this, but Beelzebub and Gabriel are exactly why this choice doesn't work. Their story proves that angels and demons can change, choose each other, and walk away from the systems they were born into.

And Crowley and Aziraphale aren’t just witnesses to that, they are living proof of it. They are their own example. They know, firsthand, that despite being celestial beings, angels and demons are capable of questioning, changing, and choosing differently.

There's also Muriel, who grows curious and fond of humanity. And if we include those sweet little interactions Muriel seemed to be developing with Eric in the finale, that's yet another example of a demon beginning to form a dynamic outside of Hell's expectations.

A choice like this also deprives Eric of the opportunity to grow beyond the only world he's ever known. Just like Crowley once did, these celestial beings deserve the chance to question the system he was born into, form meaningful relationships, and decide for himself who he wants to be.

So while yes, it was Michael who destroyed the Book of Life, Crowley choice in the end was just as bad. They took away every angel's and every demon's chance to grow beyond the roles they were assigned.

And not just that, but refusing to save the world they loved makes Adam and Jesus role in the story even more futile. Their entire purpose was to prove that the world was worth saving despite its flaws, that humanity, with all its messiness, was worth fighting for.

And what about Maggie and Nina? In Season 2, they quite literally confront Crowley and tell him that his meddling in their lives wasn't appreciated. Their lives and relationships are theirs to figure out, not his. Crowley respects that.

Which is why his choice in GO3 feels so contradictory to me. He chooses a godless and angelless universe without giving anyone else the chance to decide whether that's what they want. Humanity doesn't get a say. The angels don't get a say. The demons don't get a say.

Not even Aziraphale gets a say. Which also bothers me because they are a team. So why does it end up feeling like Crowley’s perspective is the one that defines the outcome? Why is his vision of what the universe should be the one that gets imposed on everyone else, even Aziraphale?

I saw a tweet that said that Aziraphale's lack of agency in that moment and his tendency to go along with Crowley's "righteous" choice even when he's not fully certain, parallels how Aziraphale used to follow Heaven.

That’s what makes it uncomfortable for me. Because if both Heaven and Crowley end up occupying that same space of “the one who decides,” then the story risks repeating the same dynamic it critiques, just with different names attached.

There is something so somber about Crowley’s “no us.” This phrase lands like a final severing of the possibility they’ve spent millennia building together.

Framed through the idea of “free will,” it becomes even more complicated. A decision meant to preserve autonomy ends up erasing the very people who have been fighting for their own future all along.

For a lot of viewers, that’s what makes the ending so sickening. These are characters we’ve watched consistently choose the each other and the world. So the idea of their entire shared existence being removed in the name of freedom feels deeply contradictory to what the story itself has been building toward.

Season 1 and 2 show us that they’re always thinking about each other, and the fragile world they’ve learned to care about together.

Crowley adores Aziraphale—there’s no question about that. And Aziraphale adores Crowley just as deeply. They’ve spent so long building a shared life, forming memories in a world they both came to love and protect.

And in that sense, both of them are smart enough to understand what’s at risk when the Earth is on the line. They’ve spent too long on it, lived too many moments in it, to treat it as something disposable.

In the end, however, we get a strange choice that arguably parallels the Biblical Flooding: a sweeping, top-down reset in the name of fixing what’s broken.

Instead of allowing the story’s central theme of free will and change to play out through its characters, the resolution feels like an external intervention that wipes the slate clean rather than letting the world continue to evolve.

This ending frames Crowley as a hypocrite, and it reduces Aziraphale from a co-equal participant in their shared story to someone who is simply carried along by the decision rather than choosing alongside him.

But yeah, sure, the finale was such a coherent conclusion and perfect for the characters !!! :))) makes so much fucking sense !!!!

[captainsandraclassof2029]

Yep I have never seen such a careful threading of the needle between characters, themes, and plot and on a reduced time frame too! /s

Like really what am I suppose to take away from the bar scene in the end? No one made the choice to be any of these people.

This isn't Michael, who with stealing the BoL, is clearly miserable on some level being in heaven deciding I'm stepping away to figure out me and what I want.

It isn't Muriel staying on Earth with their detective novels. Or Eric deciding maybe there's more than just being a minion in hell.

It isn't Jesus and Adam choosing to fix what their parents mucked up by being friends.

And it certainly isn't Aziraphale and Crowley finally, truly, getting to be an us.

It's Noah's flood combined with Job's children the worst of both worlds.

"God's going to put up a new thing called a rainbow as a promise not to drown everyone again."

"How kind."

"But we're giving him new ones."

"I think they quite liked the old ones."

We destroyed the universe and characters you followed for a book and two seasons and gave you this new one where people with their faces get to be happy it's the same thing right?

We don't even get twice as much as we had, which would have been our universe and the new one side by side.

Like honestly how do you look at the body of your work and decide yep this totally fits as a finale?