I am so upset at the ending of good omens that I genuienly haven't been able to stop angry ranting about it in this blog. I already wrote two pretty extensive different posts about why GO3 sucks and I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface enough.
So I'm gonna list even more grievances I had with this ending, and how it will never work for me, and why many viewers are torn about it.
1. The entire point of the character of Jesus and what he represents, and why the way his arc was handled leaves a dangerous and grim message.
I loved Jesus in the series, I thought he was extremely tender-hearted, confused, torn and most impostantly he is so incredibly human. When I was watching the series, I assumed that his character was meant to represent the importance of unity and why humanity works.
When Jesus gains conciousness again, he immediately asks for his friends, his mother, he asks for the connections he made during his human days that mattered the most to him. He choose to reach for his people over destiny or power.
Despite being Jesus, he's portrayed less as a divine figure and more as someone trying to navigate overwhelming circumstances while clinging to the people he loves.
He ultimately wanders through Earth and continues to be defined by his desire for connection. That's why his arc initially felt so powerful to me. It seemed to be building toward the idea that humanity's greatest strength is its ability to form meaningful relationships with one another.
Love. That's one of the most consistent theme on the show. Time and time again, the story emphasizes that the connections we form with others are what give our lives meaning. Characters endure unimaginable hardships because of the people they care about. They find reasons to keep going because someone matters to them.
Because of that, I assumed his arc was leading toward a reaffirmation of one of the show's central messages: that love is what allows humanity to survive, to heal, and to move forward.
I didn't expect his arc to not feel rushed in a 90 minute run, but what we got was worse in my opinion. It wasn't just rushed, it was ultimately a plotline that just dissolved into this wierd, tragic excuse of a plot.
Jesus as well as humanity, gets erased à la infinity war thanos snap. Before he dies he tragically says how he never got a chance to give it a go.
This just...sucks!! What even is the point of having the representaion of love and unity just dissaper into particles hopelessly? what message does that leave the viewers? Why did we even follow his plotline if ultimately it led us to absolutely nothing?
2. Crowley's choice in the end is ultimately framed as selfless when in reality it not only selifsh, but cowardly.
Crowley's character has always been about taking a clear stance. He defies the systems that were built and rebels by choosing his own moral compass over blind obedience.
What makes Crowley compelling is that he acts. He questions. He pushes back. He sees injustice and refuses to quietly participate in it. Even when he's afraid (and he often is) he still makes choices. He still stands his ground.
That's why his "wish" frustrates me so much.
Crowley's choice is framed as selfless because he is willing to sacrifice himself. He is willing to give up his own existence if it means creating a world free from Heaven and Hell because apparently thats the only way free will can actually exist.
The problem is that he isn't only sacrificing himself. He is also sacrificing Aziraphale. The decision is not solely his to make, yet the narrative imposes that he has to take it upon himself anyway.
Also, What about Beelzebub and Gabriel who literally carved a live out for themselves outside of heaven or hell?
Or Adam who quite literally rejects the role assigned to him because he choose his own friends and family? He rewrote the universe in season one because he refused to destory it, he wanted to fix it.
Then there's Maggie and Nina whom whose entire role in Season 2 revolves around the idea that relationships only work when people are allowed to make their own choices, free from outside interference?
The series repeatedly celebrates autonomy, self-determination, and choosing the people you love over the institutions that claim ownership of your life.
That's what makes Crowley's decision to reboot the universe in the name of "free will" so hollow.
In a strange way, his choice mirrors the very institutions Crowley spent the story opposing. Heaven and Hell repeatedly make enormous decisions for others because they believe they know what is best. They impose their vision of the future on countless people without consent.
That is what makes the choice feel cowardly to me as well. Rather than confronting the broken systems and finding a way to change them while preserving the people he loves, he chooses a solution that removes the problem by wiping the slate clean entirely.
A universe without Heaven and Hell may sound liberating, but if achieving it requires erasing the very individuals whose lives give that universe meaning, then the solution begins to undermine the values the story spent so much time celebrating.
Also it's a choice that the he would never make. This is the same Crowley who, when the world was on the verge of ending, didn't choose a grand ideological solution. He wanted to run away with Aziraphale.
Crowley's priorities have always been remarkably consistent. No matter how much he complains, no matter how cynical he pretends to be, when everything falls apart his first instinct is to protect the people he loves and stay close to them. Which is why he dislikes Armageddon in the first place, he loves the world he's in, he just doesn't like the people in power who control it.
This is also the same Crowley who, the last time we saw him, kissed Aziraphale in a desperate attempt to get him to stay. He was begging for Aziraphale to choose a life with him.
That's why the reboot decision feels so disconnected from the character we've been following.
You're asking me to believe that a Crowley who couldn't bear the thought of being separated from Aziraphale would willingly choose a future where both of them cease to exist entirely?
if there is one thing Crowley has consistently chosen throughout the entire story, it is Aziraphale.
3. What the hell even was the point of the Metatron's character then?
Season 2 literally builds up this character in a way that suggests he is going to be one of the most important antagonistic forces in the story.
His presence is unsettling from the moment he appears. The way he manipulates conversations, the way he isolates Aziraphale from Crowley, the way other characters react to him, this all creates the impression that there is something deeply wrong beneath his calm and polite exterior.
The entire tragedy of the finale hinges on the Metatron's intervention. He is the catalyst for Aziraphale's decision, the reason Crowley and Aziraphale separate. He is also arguably the single most important character in the climax outside of Crowley and Aziraphale themselves.
Which is why I'm left wondering what the point of all that buildup was.
Season 2 encourages the audience to pay attention to him. It practically begs us to analyze his motives. Fans spent years discussing whether he threatened Aziraphale, whether he was lying, what his true goals were, and what role he would play in the final conflict.
Instead, the Metatron quite literally gets killed in the first 15 minutes or so. We don't even get him as anything remotely close to a fully realized antagonist. That's what makes the decision so baffling to me.
The framing around him suggested that he represented something larger: the corruption of Heaven, the abuse of authority, the systems that manipulate people while presenting themselves as benevolent.
If that's what he was meant to symbolize, then why remove him almost immediately??? that literally prevents the story from fully engaging with those ideas.
It would be one thing if his death served as the beginning of a larger conflict. Sometimes a villain dies early because they are merely the face of a deeper problem. But if the narrative never properly explores that deeper problem either, then the Metatron's storyline starts to feel strangely hollow.
Looking back, it raises the question of why the audience was encouraged to fear him in the first place.
Why dedicate so much time to establishing his manipulation of Aziraphale?
Why make him the architect of one of the most emotionally devastating moments in the series?
Why position him as the looming threat over the future for Earth?
If the answer is simply for him to die before any of those threads are meaningfully explored, then the character ends up feeling less like an antagonist and more like a narrative device used to force the separation in Season 2. And for a figure who carried so much thematic and emotional weight, that's an incredibly unsatisfying payoff.
4. The archangel Michael being the plottwist antagonist
This was not only predictable, but just hollow to me.
A plot twist works when it either recontextualizes what came before or reveals something meaningful about the characters involved. Michael becoming the true antagonist doesn't really accomplish either of those things.
Michael wanted to destory the world, including their own coworkers who Michael had some sort of likness towards. Michael does this because they are tired and just...I don't know actually?? a comical crash out??
Like, I get it, we only have 90 minutes, but more reason to either build up the Metatron as the actual antagonist who we were already exploring last season, or atleast make Michael's motives make sense??? They really just erased existance for the fun of it I guess.
5. Aziraphale's mistreatment and mischarectarization
As someone who adores Aziraphale, this makes me so mad. We got like, the fanon version of his character instead of the fleshed out angel we know and love.
Mrs. Sandwich verbally berates him, calling him a taker and that he is the reason whickber street is the way it is now. And like, I think if we view this from Crowley's perspective then sure.
From Crowley's point of view, Aziraphale left. He chose Heaven. He chose an institution that has repeatedly hurt both of them. Crowley is heartbroken, and the people around him are witnessing the aftermath of that heartbreak.
However, Aziraphale went to heaven in hopes because of Crowley and he was also trying to avoid the second coming from happening. I am frustrated with how much Aziraphale is put down for this choice and tries to give the viewers no air to feel actual sympathy as to why he choose to leave.
But anyways, a specific scene that to me felt out of character was when Aziraphale finds Crowley extremely broken and sulking on the floor, and Aziraphale begs him to get up. Ultimately Crowley pushes him away and the angel leaves.
That's not the lovingly stubborn angel I know.
One of Aziraphale's defining traits throughout the entire series is persistence. When he loves someone, he doesn't give up on them easily. This is the angel who spent centuries arguing with Crowley. The angel who repeatedly sought him out even when they disagreed. The angel who continued believing there was good in people, in humanity, and even in Crowley when others would have walked away.
So when he finds the person he loves completely devastated and clearly not thinking rationally, it feels bizarre that he gives up so quickly. I'm not saying he should have magically fixed the situation. Crowley is allowed to be angry. He's allowed to reject him.
But Aziraphale's response to rejection has historically never been, "Well, I tried once." This is the same character who spent six thousand years maintaining a relationship that Heaven and Hell both disapproved of.
Yet now, in arguably the most important moment of their relationship, he seems strangely passive. Their reunion was an absolute let down.
I will give Michael Sheen credit where it's due. His performance is one of the few reasons the scene carries any emotional weight at all.
His voice cracks when he talks about Crowley. The look on his face communicates heartbreak, regret, fear, and love all at once. Even when the script isn't giving him much, you can tell exactly what Aziraphale is feeling.
I can see the love on Aziraphale's face. I can hear it in his voice. I absolutely believe that Michael Sheen's Aziraphale loves Crowley.
The problem is that Michael Sheen is acting emotions that the writing doesn't fully support.
6. The completely useless Bentley sideplot
First of all, I think taking Crowely's ability for miracles was a dumb plot device to allow some stupid gangsters take his Bentley.
It feels less like a meaningful conflict and more like a mechanism to keep Crowley occupied until the plot needs Aziraphale and Crowley to interact again.
Anyways, yes Aziraphale helps Crowley get the Bentley back and that's kind of the "truce" between them instead of like,, I don't know maybe an emotionally charge conversation? Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship has always been carried by dialogue.
If the Bentley storyline absolutely had to exist, then at least make it emotionally relevant. Make the Bentley represent something. Make Crowley's attachment to it part of a larger conversation about loss, identity, or the life he built with Aziraphale.
It feels like the writers wanted a reconciliation without having to write the difficult conversation that reconciliation actually requires.
Instead, the Bentley subplot ends up feeling like a distraction from the conversation the audience was actually waiting for. If you're going to dedicate screen time to a side quest in the middle of a story that already has limited runtime, that side quest should accomplish something beyond moving pieces around the board.
7. The lack of intimacy in Aziraphale's and Crowley's relationship this season was genuienly such a strange thing.
I feel like Good Omens always was good at writing such intimately sweet and precious moments between these two. And I feel like here, this season ultimately fails to deliver that.
Again, David and Michael translate their love through their performance amazingly. The problem is the script doesn't seem nearly as interested in those moments as previous seasons were.
I have already complained about not getting any sort of kiss (when, again, they had literally already crossed that line in Season 2). But I think what makes it worse is what happens with the alternate versions of Crowley and Aziraphale.
We get a camera pan of their hands with wedding rings. The narrative goes out of its way to communicate that these versions of them are together.
Because the original Crowley and Aziraphale never got that.
The versions we spent years following.
The versions who shared six thousand years of history.
The versions who suffered, grew, changed, argued, reconciled, and fell in love.
Instead, the story presents alternate versions who have not lived through the same experiences and then gives them the visual shorthand of a happy ending.
They aren't the people whose relationship formed the emotional heart of the series.
So while I understand what the scene is trying to communicate, it doesn't land as a reward for me.
It lands as a reminder that the characters who actually earned that future never got to experience it. And that's why the moment feels strangely hollow. It's not that I needed a wedding. It's not even that I specifically needed a kiss.
It's that after Season 2 already made their romantic feelings explicit, the finale seems reluctant to give the original Crowley and Aziraphale even the smallest moment of mutual romantic fulfillment, while simultaneously making sure the audience notices the wedding rings on their replacements.
The result felt less like a payoff and more like a workaround. A way of acknowledging the romance without fully allowing the characters we've spent years loving to actually live it.
....And there's sooooo much more but i'll never shut up so i'll end my list here (if you want to add on to my list, be my guest, theres so much to say about this awful ending to such a beloved series!!)
Ultimately, I feel for the creatives who did care for this show yet had their hands tied when it came to this god awful ending. I feel for both Michael Sheen and David Tennant who put their heart and souls into these characters just for this to be the resolution. The cast and crew who worked tirelessly on this show and had to watch it crumble this way, I can't imagine how it feels.
But most importantly, I feel for the us, the viewers, whom connected with this show and followed it for years. The LGBTQ+ fans who for once, wanted a romance story that was promised ended right. For the queer love in the story to have been as loud as it had been in the past 2 seasons instead of just dancing around it.
After all these years, queer audiences are not asking for special treatment.
We're asking for the same thing every audience asks for: for the stories we invest our hearts in to follow through on the promises they make.
