I'm quite tired, when I explain why I didn't enjoy Good Omens 3, of being yelled at by people who did like it. And all your explanations do not fix the following:
It was poorly written, the characters were badly characterized, plot points from S2 were simply abandoned and in their place poor substitutions were hackneyed in (looking at you Eternal Flame!) Yes let's let Michael - who apparently DOESN'T have free will? - destroy the Book. Let's have Crowley grab her arm but then let go almost immediately so she can continue destroying the Book. Great!
Meanwhile entirely useless side quests were forced in. Like the end of the War, not even the whole War or the Fall, just the end of the War where our heroes aren't even given original dialogue. Just more call backs to remind us all that they can't be together.
Look. I like Slorch the Vile as much as anybody but we did not NEED that. It was a fun thing for Michael Sheen to do, bless him, but it didn't add any relevance at all. The same with Crowley losing his powers, the Bentley, and the bookshop. Brian Cameron plot why? Why was so much time spent on this idiot gangster? Where is my optimistic, imaginative demon?? Why is he rolling around (sluttishly) in a dirty alley!?
Hey? What happened to Gabe and Beez? Obviously they couldn't get those actors but we had zero in-story explanation either! Sloppy!
God, the reason and driving force of all of it; the Creation, angels and demons, the temptation of humanity, then BAM destruction. Why? Humanity learned nothing evidently, and had no importance other than to be part of a plan that only God knew and apparently didn't care about.
Why do this? Why show Aziraphale and Crowley pining and yearning and finding ways to be together anyway and loving each other anyway.....and it all meant nothing. This is a comedy!
Season two was stuffed chock full of Clues and references to secret knowledge and side quests and plans that meant NOTHING! Something besides hiding Gabriel was going on and several people have written extensive metas on it.
I'm very very tired of being handed half ass endings. Asa and Anthony are ADORABLE. Of course they are. But they DO NOT have the Ineffable Husbands memories. If you wiped most of my mind and sent me off to live a new life, is that really me? No.
I know a lot of people have said the same things. So here's more of that I guess. 🥂
Rail at me in the comments if you like. I might even answer. I'm just so tired. Too many of my beloved stories end like this (Looking at you Game of Thrones, The X - Files, and Sleepy Hollow!)
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