Huckleberry Spin

[huckspin]

Hey, before you hate on Nolan’s Odyssey, please think of all the hardworking Epic: The Musical editors who now have so much more to work with.

[emotional-support-demon-crowley]

What could have been...

Good Omens was such a slam dunk of a best love story of all time.

I think it might be rooted in the fact that it wasn't originally written as an obvious love story, but it slotted easily (some might even say perfectly) into that genre when it was nudged in that direction.

It should have been enemies to lovers, except Crowley and Aziraphale were so compatible they just immediately dropped the enemies part in every way except for keeping up appearances. And it was the slowest of slow burns because they both knew that was the only way they could be together on Earth as themselves.

But the story! More than 6000 years of just... existing as close to each other as they possibly could while also staying safe. All of human history while they pined and made dangerous personal choices to keep each other from danger. And then they saved the world together, even though they weren't very good at it overall, they tried very hard the whole time and they did what needed to be done in the end. And they each went in the place of the other to what should have been their deaths and they came out the other side finally free to explore what it could mean for them to really be together.

Not only is it a glorious setup, it can also be read in so many different ways. Ace? Yes. Gay? Yes. Something else that can't be defined? Yes. Platonic? Yes. Boiling over with barely restrained sexual tension? Yes. Good Omens was one of the most representative friendly depictions of love in modern media. The type of thing that's incredibly difficult to set out to do on purpose from the very beginning because usually the hand of the author makes it all feel too contrived.

But some gritty realist didn't see the love between Crowley and Aziraphale for the gift that it was. He thought it would be a more interesting option to have them fall out of love over the course of a single conversation. I'll be the first to admit there were cracks in their relationship prior to the final 15 (lord knows I've written fanfic about it), but I'll never believe that those cracks, most of which were necessitated by their inability to express their feelings freely until after season 1 because of the threat of being found out, could ever outbalance everything else that they had together, everything they felt for one another for so, so long. In the moment that it was happening would it be enough to form a rift? Yes. Permanently? No! Of course not!

But we're supposed to believe that neither of them ever had enough of a moment of regret or doubt or loneliness that they were willing to suck it up and reach out for any reason? Not even to check in? Not even to say, 'hey, I think we might have misunderstood each other fundamentally and in the heat of the moment, I hurt you in ways I never wanted to see you hurt and it's brought me nothing but pain every moment since...'?

We're supposed to buy that they both agreed to willingly walk into the very depths of Heaven/Hell for each other on the assumption that they correctly predicted how their sides would try to kill them, but if they had been wrong, they would have been forced to endure whatever alternate punishment had been devise, but talk through their issues? Oof, no thanks.

So, instead of exploring how they could still find a way back to each other and repair that damage in season 3, the answer is cease to exist. With the honest-from-god promise they would not be made new in any way, shape, or form on the new, godless Earth they requested but had no way to confirm was actually made. And never once did they stop to think that both of their lives were better when they existed with the understanding that nearby each other might be the best they'd ever get?

It could have been something incredible. It should have been a shining beacon of comfort and hope. It would have stood the test of time and been talked about for the rare, positive depiction it was. But I guess happy endings and true love stories just aren't worth writing for some people.

Apparently, I'm still more than just a little bit miffed about all of this.

[theonevoice]

Break of Dawn

[huckspin]

This is it. This is the finale we were supposed to get. Beautiful.

[lelet-draws]

Oh yeah there was no kiss because they wanted to represent us asexuals, 100%, no doubt.

It’s not like the show is being produced by a billion dollar conservative corporation that has a habit of censoring queer people.

[discorporateddee]

The Jesus plot could've really worked if they had involved Jehsua in negotiating with God and convinced her to put everything back with no heaven or hell and then maybe, cause angels and demons don't exist anymore, a human azicrow ending would've been fine cause it would at least be OUR aziraphale and crowley continuing their lives. with their memories. This would also parallel s1 with Adam refusing to be the antichrist in front of Satan and now jesus refusing to give up this world in front of God.

And in both times it would be aziraphale and crowley being the guiding light to the protagonist. It was that simple.

[huckspin]

Reblogging with my comment since I wrote a damn essay:

Nobody would have blinked at the book of life, something that was mentioned briefly but never brought into play in S2, being cut from S3 entirely. The whole thing could have centered on Jesus, the 2nd Coming, and A/Z finding a way to work through their shit to chase Jesus down and get him to solve things.

Everyone ending up human would have been disappointing to most of us, but the reason we have always talked about it being worst case scenario (LOL who knew how much worse the worst could be) is because we knew it was a possibility. In over 3 decades of this property and fandom existing, it was never promised or even implied that that was off the table. Adam is human, Jesus is presumably human, it’s well within the bounds of the story being told to imagine such an outcome for Aziraphale and Crowley, even if it feels a little cheap after everything they’ve been through.

The story we got took extra work and mental gymnastics just to paint itself into an unresolvable corner. Regardless of when and by whom this narrative was crafted, the fact that it made it through every step of the production process, filming, and airing on a major streaming platform is almost shocking to me until I remember that they knew they had a built in audience for this and no incentive to appeal to even 1 additional person beyond the existing fandom. The money was made, the reputation of the remaining co-author is already destroyed. There was no motivation to provide the audience with something good or satisfying. They just needed us to watch it and we did. A far more cynical view than I ever imagined I could have about Good Omens, but here we are.

[midnights-dragon]

what a spectacular review of go3 this is

[huckspin]

#sarah d you genius #wrap up the discourse #Sarah D has it covered

[vivi-theakuneko]

THE FALSE NARRATIVE THE AUDIENCE WERE LED TO BELIEVE ABOUT AZIRAPHALE

I never said this out loud after Season 2 because, at the time, I felt like it was just me taking book canon to the extreme (and also the fact that I agreed about the cuteness of it all) but after GO3, I put everything into perspective and realises I was not being irrational about this. So here goes:

1. The Flashbacks:

Apparently, since Season 2, there has been a tendency from the writers to take away little things that made Aziraphale special and give it to Crowley.

I personally did not like the angel Crowley scene (Before the Beginning). I will always stick to the canon of the book/Season 1. That being Aziraphale never met Crowley as an angel before.

The reason being: It shows Aziraphale treats everyone the same, regardless of affiliation. He firsr met a demon on the wall of Eden. Instead of immediately smiting or chasing him away like other angels would, he talked to Crawly. You could see some concerns in him, but since Crawly hadn't done anything bad, Aziraphale didn't harm him. He has no concrete clue that this demon was trustworthy, but he extended a wing to sheild Crawly from the rain.

Now, put the angel Crowley scene (and the War in Heaven from Go3, and "you were the best angel") into the mix, and what do you get? Oh, so Aziraphale wasn't just being kind to some demon he just met. He had been having a crush on angel Crowley all this time and recognised him in Eden. So... I guess he wasn't being brave and kind, then? Talked to Crawly cause that was his crush? Cool...

Oh, angel Crowley shielded him from space matter? So him shielding Crawly was just returning a favor? Alright...

Oh, Crowley also gave the sword back to Aziraphale in that scene at the Eternal Flame. Guess Crowley did that first too, then.

Do you see the pattern here? Aziraphale's actions turned out to have been done by Crowley already.

2. "You taught me to be brave" (not accurate quote. I don't want to rewatch.)

Aziraphale had always been brave. He gave the flaming sword away. He lied to God. He lied to Gabriel. In the book, Crowley was about to run away but he told Crowley to stay and face Satan because he didn't want to leave the humans in danger.

In Season 2, he helped Gabriel despite Crowley telling him it was dangerous. He bravely performed a deadly magic act. He also defended the bookshop....

Aziraphale never needed Crowley to teach him how to be brave. He was already courageous on his own.

But it was Crowley who showed him that, I guess. Apparently, Anthony Just-run-off-to-Alpha-Centauri-with-me Crowley was the brave one all along.

3. Problem Solving/Intelligence

Aziraphale had never been stupid or passive when it came to dealing with problems.

Season 1: Figured out where the Antichrist was, found a way to return to Earth after discoloration, almost shot a kid to stop Armageddon, the first to suggest the Metatron/Gabriel that the Great Plan wasn't the Ineffable Plan.

Season 2: Figured out Crowley's tricks with the goats, went on a mystery solving mission, tricked demons into the summoning circle...

What did we have in Go3?

After the crossword scene, the rest of the Finale Aziraphale was mostly passively waiting for Crowley to come up with the solution for something. Book of life? Crowley explained it. Michael threw the BoL in the fire? Let Crowley, the miracleless demon, say "take my hand" and transport them to the bookshop. Everything is gone? Let Crowley, the I-don't-read demon, figure out any book can be the BoL.

Oh, and the most important decision in their life? Let Crowley decide because he's the only real boy in the universe. Don't even discuss or argue his decision. Cause Crowley knows best.

Aziraphale became like a yes-man. Just following Crowley's leads instead of them teaming up and helping each other figure out a solution.

4. Pursuing Crowley

I have seen people saying that they love Asa/Anthony because Asa asked Anthony out first because Crowley/Anthony deserved to be pursued for once.

First of all,

I did not read their relationship like this from Season 1 and 2. It was never just Crowley chasing Aziraphale. The angel himself just did his pursuing differently from Crowley.

Crowley's love language in the show was gift giving and being a dashing hero. It was more blatant and easier to see. That's why many people only saw it from his side and thought Aziraphale never chased after Crowley.

Aziraphale's way of showing love was more subtle. He let Crowley into his comfort zone. He allowed Crowley to play his hero acts. He dressed like he wanted Crowley to mess him up in the French Revolution, btw. (The equivalent of a lady dropping her handkerchief). He gave Crowley the holy water at the risk of Crowley doing something stupid with it.

He showed Crowley he trusted him with his life during the magic act. He let Crowley lean onto him in Edinburgh despite how that could look if Upstairs saw it. He was suggesting a further relationship the whole S2 (the ball, "our car", "our bookshop"...)

Aziraphale literally hinted to Crowley that he would choose "Us" in their final moments. But guess what he got in return? He had to bite his tongue, put up a smile, and agreed to Crowley’s decision.

He was willing to frickin' DIE just because Crowley asked him to! No question asked.

The point is: Just because he was being subtle about it didn't mean he never tried to return Crowley's love. The two of them danced together, not just Crowley doing all the courtship ballet.

Second of all,

No shade to Asanthony's cuteness. Why can't it be Aziraphale himself who gets to do that after everything in the old world turned out okay?

Why can't we have Aziraphale initiating a second kiss? Or suggesting moving together into a cottage he bought years ago? That he had been waiting for this moment to tell Crowley?

Why can't Aziraphale have that after 6000 years? Why must the only way for him to be able to do this be his death? Erasing all the 6000 years trauma and himself was the only way??? He can't live with the trauma and still end up being the one to do what Asa did?

5. Aziraphale's EQ:

Another thing I noticed was that many fans and the show itself treated Crowley like a good boy. He did no wrong. He was nice and kind and-

NO!

In the Book, Crowley deliberately tried to harm animals. He loves causing minor miseries. He just cannot handle seeing actual torture. He loves doing his demonic job. He would not be a good angel!

Why did I mention this? Well, apparently, to make Crowley a good boy, the writers subtracted Aziraphale's empathy level to below 0. Suddenly we have:

Aziraphale being oblivious to Joshua's disorientation and sadness when he just got resurrected. Not even an offer of food or drink? Remember how he treated Gabriel/Jim?

Aziraphale not defending Muriel when people called them dim.

Aziraphale not contacting Crowley even once. Sure maybe he couldn't. But the Finale never showed it. So all we have is: Azi really wanted to be an Archangel and stayed up there for 4 years, leaving Crowley in depression. Poor snake. Azi is so cruel.

Aziraphale not staying to help Crowley up in the alley (like what the opening credit showed us. Do you feel scammed yet?)

Aziraphale not explaining himself the whole movie, not even a proper apology. Then demanded forgiveness in the bookshop at the end. Tried to do that stupid dance with a smile???

Speaking of smiling... Aziraphale wasn't crying or feeling distraught by the erasure of the whole universe right in front of him. Remember the angel who cried over a deformed baby in Edinburgh?

Aziraphale insisting Crowley was the best angel over and over again despite knowing Crowley hated Heaven and hated the idea of becoming an angel again.

And the things from Go3 also ruined otherwise cute interaction in S1 and 2.

The "our car" thing now reads like Aziraphale being demanding, controlling over Crowley's things.

Same with Azi making Crowley to the dangerous magic act with him. Ignoring that Crowley didn't want to do it.

The way Crowley had to do an apology dance to him despite not being wrong about the danger of keeping Gabriel now feels kinda like a red flag. But that's Crowley's own decision so this is just honorable mention.

There are probably more that I forgot...

Anyway, point is, Aziraphale was villainized by the writers so that Crowley would end up being the only real boy, the only one who cared. Note: what God and Satan said to berate Aziraphale is exactly how the writers and some people in the fandom sees him. I guess Aziraphale never cared for anyone or anything then? What a selfish angel, am I right?

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And don't get me started on how Crowley and everyone treated him the whole Finale, the way Crowley was completely silent about the indirect love confession in the talk with God, because then we would be here all day.

Wow this has been long. If you made it here, thanks for reading. I needed to get all of this out for my sanity. There was no script so I am sorry if things aren't organized well.

-Vivi-

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Okay, yeah, sorry, I just put that as one part of a longer post I just made, but the longer I think about it the more it PISSES ME OFF and I have to dedicate to it it's own post.

I think GO2 made a solid argument for how Aziraphale can be kinda Passively Selfish, especially in his relationship with Crowley but… Aziraphale taking on the Supreme Archangel position was a selfless sacrifice. He gave up on the joy of a shared life with Crowley and all of his beloved Earthly Pleasures to dedicate himself to working on a better world, and on saving the Earth and Humanity from an actually destructive Second Coming.

And as soon as he gets down to Earth, he gets 'called out' for being Selfish and a 'Taker', not just towards Crowley, but to the whole Whickber Street, because he abandoned them and offered no help when things started getting rough. But the only reason he left is because he honestly thought that was the right thing to do in order to save Earth (of which Whickber Street is famously a part of). If he was following his purely Selfish desires, he would have never left Soho and continued being the World's Only Ethical Landlord happily forever.

But you can make the argument that, sure, what Aziraphale was doing was technically what he thought was best for the 'greater good', but by losing touch of the individual people he knew and loved, losing touch of the 'small picture' of what they wanted and needed, what they would have asked him to do, that still felt cruel and that still felt selfish to them. And that's a decent argument to make. But then….

Is that not exactly what Crowley was doing in the ending?? Making a grand gesture of self-sacrificing his chance of happiness with Aziraphale for 'the Greater Good' while totally ignoring what the actual individual Humans he knew would have wanted or needed?? Would Mrs. Sandwich want to remain erased from existence before she ever had a chance to make amends with her sister?

And then also the biggest thing the narrative keeps critiquing Aziraphale for is his belief that he could actually make things better via Heaven. It's saying the sacrifice he made was pointless because trusting and believing Heaven and the Second Coming could ever be made into something beneficial to Humanity was a fool's errand. Which, yeah, okay. Heaven is a System that's fundamentally broken and cannot be truly 'fixed', should be dismantled rather than trying to engage with it in good faith, don't trust it, I can follow that logic.

…But then, isn't Crowley's 'sacrifice' entirely dependent on them trusting God to keep Her word? The same God who is just the Most Powerful Person in the System? Who is it's biggest representative? Why is this more savvy than Aziraphale trying to trust Heaven? At least Aziraphale actually stayed in Heaven and kept an eye on them to see that they are actually doing what he asked them to do (that's the whole reason he hasn't been back to Earth). Crowley's idea is 100% depends on God not going back on Her word as soon as they are disintegrated!

Augh, I fucking hate it here.

[lookingatacupoftea]

Ultimately, the Good Omens show never committed to anything.

It didn't commit to a tragic ending or a happy ending. And it didn't really commit to a true bittersweet ending because, imo, that requires character continuity. The characters have to know what they've lost (and gained) to make it poignant.

It didn't commit in any way philosophically, which has been explained very well by many eloquent people, so I won't add more.

It didn't commit to A&C's relationship. We never learn whether they enjoyed the human love rituals they tried and wanted more, or not. We don't get a clear answer about when they each fell in love or learn what the nightingale meant to them.

It didn't commit to a clear explanation for the discontinuities that were teased.

It didn't commit to a characterization for Aziraphale. He became whatever would generate maximum drama in a given moment.

It didn't commit to a characterization for Crowley either, but at least he got to be the only "real boy" in the old universe, the one person who actually mattered.

The show didn't need to commit to all of this, but it did need to commit to something.

[sapierror]

every day i wake up and hate the finale a little bit more. what do you mean you made me watch them kill themselves with zero prior indication this is where the story was going. what do you mean the threads introduced in the previous season got absolutely zero resolution. what do you mean new threads were introduced on a significantly smaller runtime just to also get no resolution. what do you mean the ultimate message is that the only way to fix something broken is to destroy it and start over. what do you mean this is good omens

[adevilputaside4me]

Neil Gaiman got greedy and tried to steal the beauty of the fandom for HIMSELF.

(I wrote this elsewhere, but I wanted to say it again.)

A lot of the plot points from Season 2/3 are SHITTIER versions of things I have read in fanfiction and seen in fanart. Neil didn't want us to have the story; he wanted to BE IN CONTROL of the narrative (and btw, this also applies to his shady personal life). The words God says in the end about how it's ultimately HER story seems like one giant "fuck you" to the fandom. But Neil is wrong. This story will always belong to us, in spite of his attempts to play God. WE are the ones who made Good Omens beautiful, WE are the ones who imbued it with our maximalist ideals of LOVE, and WE are the ones who kept it alive for 7 years. And it was the PHENOMENAL chemistry between Michael Sheen and David Tennant that inspired us to do so. I will always think of THE FANDOM when I think of Good Omens. We are the ones who made this story what it was.

[teatimewithgiles]

Rest in Peace, Tony.

I'll always remember your smile.

Anthony Head (1954-2026)

[fellshish]

accidentally clicked on a horrible good omens fanfic very ooc major character death memory loss human au. yeah on amazon prime

[huckspin]

The Good Omens fandom every 5 minutes:

“AND ANOTHER THING!” ☝🏼

[the-lost-mage]

i hate pointless side plots and i hate wasted villains and i hate ignoring the emotional core of the story and i hate human au’s and i hate when characters we love are replaced with different people who we’re still supposed to care about and i hate fated soulmates and i hate they will find each other in every universe and i hate making decisions on behalf of everyone in the universe and i hate endings that reject the message of free will and carving your own path against the systems that seek to restrict you that was built up throughout the story while pretending to embrace it and i hate martyrdom and i hate self sacrifice for the greater good and i hate not being able to live to see the future you helped create when you deserve it and i hate the idea that you can’t live a happy or worthwhile life in a world with oppressive systems and you should just give up

[huckspin]

#hell yeah #i like human AU but not inside of the fantasy canon #good omens finale broke me

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I still remember when Sans winning The Tumblr Sexy Man poll killed the queen. I hope another rich asshole dies for this poll again

Hopefully so

[enthusiasteditor]

Just a little thank you to every Good Omens fanfiction writer out there. Whether it’s for the laughs, the heartbreak, the comfort, the escapism, the smut, the softness, or the “just one more chapter at 2am” moments, you’ve done, you’re doing, and I’m sure you’ll keep doing an amazing job. This fandom wouldn’t feel like home without you ❤️

[huckspin]

Good Omens fanfic IS my fandom at this point and has been for a while now. Every Ineffible is Canon, Hatsune Miku style.