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I got tired of having to jump around and do a treasure hunt just to watch Monster High media, so I made a document of the original volumes (1-6), as well as uploaded the entirety of the webisodes, TV specials, and movies to a drive. I'm sharing it here in case anyone ever has trouble finding anything- it's all here. :)

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Daisy, Daisy 🎶

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inspired by @baguettenjoyer's recent fic (here) and @dragon-spaghetti 's art (here)

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Thinking about how Aziraphale and Crowley go along with Heaven and Hell as far as they can… and I’m feeling the same with canon right now…

I am literally currently willing to go along with canon as far as Aziraphale and Crowley both deciding what they want to ask God for.. I mean they’re finally on the same page. And they’re willing to self sacrifice to save everyone. The willingness to do it should count for something.

But, then, before they get to actually make their request… Joshua steps in and requests everything go back to what it was before, but instead of the great plan… they let Angels and Demons decide who and what they want to be. And make it so nobody has the power to undo everything again. (The whole point of Jesus is to save everyone dammit)

Then do the pub scene with everyone together as they have been this whole time, but getting along and having fun. Also throw in Nina and Maggie and bring Mutt back, why not? Then do the south downs scene but it’s our Aziraphale and Crowley. Because I liked this scene but I would have liked it more if it was them.

[alivedean]

You didn't deserve that. Since when do we get what we deserve?

[armageddidnt]

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

[nortsauce]

Good omens 3 If i wrote the movie

Disclaimer: I am not saying that mine is better, this is just how I would do it bc i like to write

WARNING YAPFEST!!! ITS LONG I REWROTE THE WHOLE MOVIE!!

Okay, we start off pretty much the same.

Aziraphale is in heaven having the worst time dealing with bullshit from mean ass angels (and Muriel <3)

meanwhile Crowley is having sadboy hours on earth, giving up his bentley for the bookshop everything sucks

All hell breaks loose when Jesus, looking for a semblance of a life he's lost, waffles off to earth and finds Crowley.

Crowley, despite being drunk as fuck, sobers up and has a "AAAH GABRIEL" moment bc hey i know you i havent seen u in 1700 year- JESUS??????

Meanwhile Aziraphale is trying his damndest to keep everything afloat and stick to his vision. But the only ones hearing him out are Muriel, and surprisingly... Michael.

Crowley is dragged to hell and asks if he knows the bullshit goin on in heaven and Crowley is like "dunno don't care" but inside he's shitting bricks bc Jesus is literally on earth eating cheesy bread and the demons are asking where tf he is.

meanwhile, Aziraphale is slowly being manipulated by michael into following a plan of their own, BUT!!! Aziraphale is a bit smarter and happens to keep suggesting things that move back with his Happy World plan. Michael, every time, has a moment of "... of course (:" but all of aziraphale's plans keep ending in "Coincidental" failure because of "Convenient coincidences" (Its michael you know i know we all know)

Muriel, being Aziraphale's emotional support angel (and lowkey exposition) Tells Aziraphale to ask for Crowley's help, but Aziraphale is hesitant.

Meanwhile, the archangels are watching Michael's downward spiral and they are all getting concerned. They go to the metatron for help but wouldn't ya know it? HES GONE.

Back on earth, Crowley is taking care of Jesus and taking him to his little gambling ring and Jesus manages to learn his lesson there, and manages to help Misty to the point where she helps them win against her father.

Aziraphale finally gives in to ask crowley for help when the Book of life goes missing as well as the fuckin metatron

Crowley ofcourse is not easily swayed into helping. It takes Aziraphale getting his bentley back (in the crossword scene bc i genuinely laughed so hard at that) to have crowley CONSIDER a chance. Meanwhile, jesus, after helping Misty, is now off wanting to help more people like he did all those years ago. Aziraphale and Crowley catch up with him and hijinx ensue.

All the while, Michael is spiraling further into mania as they call their connections in hell, Dagon. Dagon and Michael have a lil Toxic Yaoi/Yuri moment as they discuss, through begrudging tolerance, that the end times are afoot and that it can't be stopped.

Uriel walks in on Michael and Michael banishes them in a fit of mania. Camera pans out to show that the same has happened to Sandalphon. Muriel, terrified as FUCK runs to saraquiel. Saraquiel tells Muriel to run to Aziraphale to warn him of Michael's Manic Episode (... manic season...)

As the ineffable idiots help Jesus navigate the world, they slowly remember their their time as godfathers and it makes them reminisce. Through Jesus's Hijinx, we get to see them growing closer again as they are reminded why they fell in love in the first place; Their mutual love for humanity.

Aziraphale finally tries to explain to Crowley that he was just trying to save the humans he loves so much, but realized that Crowley was right about Heaven and its angels being flawed beings as well who also needsd guidance. Aziraphale thought he could provide that.

Crowley explains that its not easy to just forget about how pushed aside he felt, how unimportant and overlooked he felt when Aziraphale would dismiss his concerns thinking that he, like he was as an angel, was having his suggestions and questions ignored or punished

It doesn't solve there as Aziraphale's mind is still set on saving heaven and Crowley knows this, but its a step in the right direction.

all the while jesus is paralelling them as he preaches forgiveness and calls out to those of soho london who are lost, afraid and weary.

Just then, Muriel runs down and is saying that they know where the Book of life is, and that its being abused by Michael.

Before C and A can react properly, a whole chunk of land disappears and Jesus is like "??? did i do that????"

Now they need to find michael. They go to heaven and ask saraquiel but well.... it seems Michael got to them first.

So they go to hell and we get Aziraphale and Muriel's silly demon forms as Crowley stays behind with jesus.

While muriel and aziraphale are doing their silly moment (and i self-indulgently add eric and muriel interacting) Crowley and Jesus finally speak. Jesus talks about the past and how much he misses his friends and how mean the angels were. crowley talks abouy how the humans were mean too, why did jesus forgive all of them?

Jesus said that it wasn't easy but that at the end of the day he believes in humanity. That if he himself is human and feels love and goodness, that all humans must feel it too.

Crowley ponders this as another chunk of land disappears.

We get to see Michael traveling the galaxy, wide eyed and manic as hell, mumbling about the greater good and the plan and Gabriel's "betrayal" and Aziraphale's "incompetence" and how if they were the one to take down Satan then they could do it again that this was always meant to happen it says so in the book, this is god's plan it HAS to be? It doesn't matter if God hasn't spoken in millenia this is the right way!

Michael and Aziraphale will parallel eachother in trying to do the "right thing" but unfortunately leaving pain and destruction in their path to do so

Eventually the conversation with the Demons leads to the flashback of the war in the center of the universe with the eternal flame at the core. The flame looks different, you can see a bunch of flaming swords surrounding it indicating that this is where they were all forged.

Michael, walks up to the flame, and drops a bunch of pages in their wake. Each page that falls causes another catastrophe, but they don't disappear until Michael burns it, using the flaming sword from Aziraphale.

Michael drops aziraphale's sword into the pit and the eternal flame comes to life again. Michael keeps chanting prayers and God's name and the plan as they cry about how this is it, all of it was for God, how they were loyal and that only they can save God's plan.

Crowley and Aziraphale HAUL ASS towards the center of the universe, while Muriel and Jesus spend time on earth. Muriel helps Jesus around and Jesus slowly starts performing his own Miracles to help the humans escape the chaos.

Ineffables get to Michael who is on the final brink of sanity. They have several voices talking to them and they are in Pain and crying about to throw the book of life into the fire, aziraphale and crowley slowly try and calm them down and hand the book over. It almost works, until Aziraphale says that damn "I forgive you" line. Crowley looks up in shock and pain as Michael breaks again.

Michael yells about how they were the only loyal angel to God's plan and that the others should be the ones begging for forgiveness. They hold their head in pain as all the knowledge and voices yell at them to stop this and that they know something is wrong but Angels don't have free will and intellect so Michael just writhes in agony as they finally shatter and slam the book into the fire.

In a moment of desperation, Crowley pulls out the bookshop's page, as Muriel pushes Jesus into the bookshop recognizing the signs and hoping that the bookshop being a sanctuary will help. Wrong idea but it works!

The Bookshop is the only thing that remains as Aziraphale and Crowley, with nothing left to do, have the conversation about their relationship. Aziraphale asks for Crowley's forgiveness, but crowley still feels conflicted. He instead asks Aziraphale what he would do now that they have nothing.

Aziraphale instead replies that he would wait til crowley is ready. Even if it takes another 6000 years. Crowley pauses, contemplates, and then a stack of books falls

and there's Jesus. Standing there not knowing what to do.

They talk and ask Jesus how he got here, and Jesus is just as confused. Without warning, Satan (who has been perusing) explains that since this is the end of everything, they must hold onto anything.

Satan talks to Aziraphale and Crowley and Jesus and explains some things. Aziraphale starts to piece togethrr that crowley joined with satan because no matter what, satan had an answer for every question asked.

Satan has a silly moment introducing himself as Jesus's weird Uncle Brother??? and Jesus is taken aback. All of them are.

Satan, while a bit of a presence, feels just as human and grounded as the four of them do.

Satan admits that the war was truly for naught and that all he wanted to do was to prevent humans from suffering (I READ THE BIBLE I KNOW THE REAL REASON LUCIFER FELL) But went about it wrong.

Pride got the best of him, thinking that he could make a better world over God and soon it overtook him and his cause, which lost them the war.

Now they are stuck in the void here, awkwardly not knowing what to do, surrounded by blank books and the void.

Finally, crowley asks again, if it were possible to finally call upon God for some answers. Not like there was a hell to banish him to or a heaven to fall from.

Satan and Jesus look at Crowley and say that not even they have heard from God in a hot minute. The last person to talk to God in that room, was aziraphale. 6000 years ago.

Aziraphale prays to God and asks forgiveness, and everyone wonders why until he brings out his flaming sword. That he lied to God and that he just wanted to protect thr humans.

God startles them all saying "I knew. But I have a feeling that you already know that."

The ending plays out much like the original. God dodges questions while Satan answers them with vagueness. Finally, God gives them the choice.

Crowley and Aziraphale talk about humanity, and how there is so much good that can come from the angels and even the demons, if they just gave earth and humanity a chance.

But as they are about to make a decision, Jesus pipes up and asks Crowley if he could have an apple from the tree they are standing by.

crowley has a sense od deja vu as he asks jesus if thats really what he wants. Jesus says that there can't be harm in a little apple, and Crowley begs to differ. As he does though, Jesus takes an apple regardless and takes a bite.

Aziraphale is absolutely horrified but intrigued. Jesus says that he honestly ought to thank Crowley for making the humans what they were. Humans were nothing without free will and intellect, and that the apple was what truly made their souls.

Jesus then tells the two that they don't need to make a decision, because he has already made one.

Just like before, Jesus will sacrifice himself to bring the humans back. To give the angels, demons and humans all a chance to take a bite from the apple tree.

They go back and Jesus talks to his mother. He wants to save humanity at the cost of his life once more. Satan scoffs and asks him if he's serious, and makes a joke about how he's never allowed to live past a certain age isn't he?

But Jesus has made up his mind. He holds up a souvenir that he got from misty earlier in the movie and holds it close, saying that Crowley and Aziraphale were right and that humanity will always be worth it.

In the end, we get a sequence of Michael walking out of Heaven's elevator to join the angels and demons at a restaurant as Muriel is teaching Eric how to drink tea with saraquiel rolling their eyes.

Dagon and Uriel speak and sandlphon miracles a napkin to wipe off some crumbs from his shirt. Michael sits by them and awkwardly says hello, and they all stare pensively before offering them an apple tart and smiling.

the metatron serves a grilled cheese to the person Jesus had taken it from earlier and we see Misty sitting with them and helping her father into a seat with a cane.

Finally, we pan to the Ritz, where Aziraphale and Crowley are dining, finishing up a meal before walking to Berkley square. They sit on their bench, and look up at the evening sky. Aziraphale talks to crowley about how beautiful the stars really are and how much of an artist he is. Crowley interjects with a prod about being too sappy. Aziraphale apologizes snarkily, and Crowley, suddenly very sincere says that he forgives aziraphale.

Aziraphale, misty eyed, looks to crowley as Crowley takes his hand.

Later in south downs, we see them starring at the night sky and we FINALLY GET THAT KISS. A nightingale sings

as the camera pans out to reveal Jesus, sitting in a bookshop, writing "The End" on a once blank Book before closing it, looking around and smiling at the blank books he will fill.

AND FIN

lmk if i ate or if this is trash

[gingiekittycat]

I'm sorry but this was not Crowley fighting for humanity. "Don't bring it back as it was, create a new one" is not fighting for the world he knows. The humans he knows. Where is the belief in us. The belief that humans are flawed but find goodness and kindness anyway. That despite Heaven and Hell being against them they still prevail. Where is the hope.

He didn't fight for humanity. He abandoned it.

Not very Pratchett-like if you ask me

[olfactoryventriloquism]

So, I’ve been obsessed with Pratchett since I was 15. That’s 23 years for those keeping count. I just finished GO3 and these are my initial thoughts:

Crowley and Aziraphale becoming human: I don’t love, but you could argue that that was what he planned, and I would buy it. It does follow some of his themes.

But there is a knife’s edge that Pratchett balanced between fury and compassion. He absolutely loved humanity, but he also hated what humans did to each other out of malice, spite, or even laziness. Good Omens the novel was filled to bursting with that.

The end here lacked all of that somehow. God in S1 is unknowable, but God is S3 is just a capricious bitch who seems to have it out for Crowley specifically and through him Aziraphale. The viewer certainly gets angry at God, but the narrative seems to be that, while cold, she is doing the right thing and giving them their happy ending. And while Crowley expresses compassion for humanity, it falls on such deaf ears that the narrative doesn’t actually support that.

The closing sentiment seems to be that we can make their lives better by just erasing all their trauma and baggage. No. Sam Vimes did not pull himself out of the gutter and bodily hold himself out of it every day to be told that actually amnesia would be best. If you wanted to make them human: make them keep their memories. That would have been fine.

Terry would have Crowley and Aziraphale say “fuck you” to God and protect the earth as it was. The way they protected Job’s children. The way they did at Tadfield Airbase. Here they just throw in the towel and start a new universe. They accept their failure so quickly as to be farcical.

And you will never ever convince me that TERRY PRATCHETT would have allowed the words “a story shouldn’t live past its ending” to be spoken without the speaker being immediately eaten by a banshee.

[aureliusssss]

[heurtebizzz]

Let's talk about that cold open though

Honestly, this pure h/c cold open may be my favorite part of the finale. At least its potential to launch a thousand fics was so palpable I could feel it on my skin.

Anyway, some observations worth pondering (and what a bummer that we're never going to get official answers to any of those).

As the camera zooms in on the Eternal Flame, there's a gravely injured angel just slightly down below. Is that Crowley? The scene is blurry and poorly lit, but we can tell that the angel has a long dark hair and is wearing a hooded cape which partially obscures their face.

I tried editing the screencaps to increase brightness and contrast and apologize for not the best quality overall.

So, do we think this angel is Crowley? Because when we see him in the next couple of minutes, he is wearing a hood, and his hair is long:

But then, of course, the angel at the bottom of the Eternal Flame had wings - battered, charred even, but still white underneath it all - and Crowley, when we see him, doesn't. Did he just hide them before trying to ambush Aziraphale?

And then there's the acting credits in the closing titles:

So, Crowley was the first character to appear onscreen according to this. But does it apply to the cold open or to the main part only? Because Crowley was the first one to appear in that one too (the back alley scene). Really really intriguing.

Another feature of interest in the cold open is Crowley's eyes. It's hard to see, but he still has his angelic pre-snake eyes:

Angelic eyes and quite possibly still white angelic wings? Then in this scene Crowley is a rebel angel who had just lost the war - but he hasn't yet fallen. Sooo fascinating - and again, it sucks that we will never see any of this elaborated in the canon. But that's what fan works are for.

[soloorganaas]

Something about queer people refusing to let institutionalised Christian morality the world determine their story for them

[fellshish]

So. Terry Pratchett is the one who wrote the vast majority of the original book, based off an outline and worldbuilding done by Neil. Starting with that.

There's a line that really sticks with me, about Crowley being an optimist at heart, underneath it all, and believing that no matter what, the universe will look after them. He doesn't give up when it looks like the Apocalypse really is going to happen after all. He doesn't give up on humanity. And it's that optimism, that he's specifically gotten from all his time spent with humanity, that sets him apart and allows him to exercise free will to go against the Ineffable Plan.

And there's another line by Pratchett that the ending makes me think of: "It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." Maybe the solution all along would've been to just let all the other demons and angels have that exposure to humanity too, to help them realize they're also people.

put this ask in a blender and feed it to me through a straw you are SO CORRECT

[arashixyarts]

see now was it really that hard to do, prime?

[hollow-head]

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys