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I find this oddly... comforting?
If the ending as we saw it was always planned, then that's a huge misstep for me in terms of the narrative arc, the genre expectations, and the faithfulness to the story as presented on screen in season 1.
That's okay. It's not my story. But I don't have to engage with it further. It's a miss. I don't think it works on any level and maybe that's part of the reason the sequel was never written in the first place.
People are like “Their love was so big that it started the Big Bang 🥺🥺🥺”
Ok, then why were they so mean to one another during 99% of the finale? And how could you love someone that much and stand to sacrifice them?
No.
The ending didn’t make sense. I’m sorry, but it wasn’t sweet and it was badly written.
Asa and Anthony are precious on their own, but the rest was plot holey nonsense.
how are we meant to believe that Crowley and Aziraphale would sacrifice each other and the known universe when Aziraphale was ready to merc a child on the tarmac in Tadfield so he and his husband could keep enjoying books and wine
Because the current state of the Good Omens fandom makes me really sad, I promised myself I would try to refrain from posting my negative thoughts about the finale...
But you know what? I just saw pictures of angelCrowley and 'Anthony' back to back, and maybe this is me being stupid and in denial, but I’m only realizing now that this 'Anthony' is, in fact, a "reincarnation" or whatever of angelCrowley and NOT demonCrowley, the being we spent the story with, the being he became after millennia of experience on Earth - I mean THE Crowley, our Crowley, Aziraphale’s Crowley, and I just...
It makes me even more furious than I already am. They erased nearly everything that was making this character interesting. After showing us time and again how terrible Heaven was, how free will is important, and why labels shouldn’t matter as long as you stay true to who you are deep down ("just a little bit a good person", "just enough of a bastard", "just an angel/a demon who goes along with Heaven/Hell as far as he can"), they told us that a fallen angel was a bad thing, that it shouldn’t exist after all. They ended with two 'angels' falling for each other.
I wonder, what happened to shades of grey?
I fell in love with those two because they were are far more complex than what it says on the tin. I don’t give a damn about the purest of angels. I care about characters who ask questions, who doubt, who evolve, who fight for what they believe in, who love unconditionally, despite the odds.
And to think about all the other narrative decisions made in that finale...
What a shame that ending was. What a terrible, terrible shame.
Take me back to when the saddest part of good omens was the bandstand scene and the most contentious debate was how aziraphale managed to get into the bathtub without getting crowleys socks wet.
jarvis cocker!
he's really my style..
It's not important, and I've seen plenty of discourse to the contrary.. but it's still bothering me.
You want me to believe that a being who's given in to EVERY earthly delight he's come across.. food, drink, dancing, clothes, theatre, books, music, intrigue.. would suddenly and arbitrarily draw the line at a little bit of lust with his true love of 6,000 years? Especially when he finds out his feelings are reciprocated?! And then end with Bury Your Gays?! But here, have some other unrelated gays you just met and know nothing about other than they look just like the ones we just killed off. No. And I'll thank you to fuck all the way off.
Hey guys. Just a reminder about the last time we truly got those nightingales
Remember back when Crowley and Aziraphale actually chose the world and each other 🥲
COVER ART BY THE FANTASTIC @isiaiowin đź’ś Go give her some love. She deserves it so much!
YOU GUYS.
The Do You Believe in Love Afterlife Epilogue is here!! 🥹
I can't freaking believe it!!! This project has been happening for over a year and a half, and today it's come to an end. 89K words, 39 chapters. Today I posted the final chapter!! This is the end of our Ghost Story, and as I promised, this is also the well earned happy ending coming to our rescue.
I hope you guys have enjoyed this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you to all those who tagged along as it was a lil WIP, and welcome to all those who're about to start now it's ended!
Story Summary: Aziraphale comes into some money and decides to buy himself a bookshop to run. Unfortunately, it’s not long before he realises it’s haunted. Will the occult be the answer to his lonely heart’s need?
(Think Just Like Heaven meets The Exorcist — ghost romcom with some extra spookies, you get the gist!)*
👻 Read the epilogue here ❤️‍🩹
Or
✨ Start at the very beginning, in a bookshop in Soho... 💜
And join @goodomensafterdark for more fic and art and community! đź’–
"A handbag?!"
A little satirical concrete poem for hump day. I read a lot of poetry, and some collections feel more "arduous" than others. So this is a tongue-in-cheek piece featuring an obscure Oscar Wilde reference. Because in the end, it’s all a performance, isn’t it?
"A handbag?!"
Try to decipher the page while all the words blur together.
I have a headache with the weight of the Oxford dictionary.
So I scour the thesaurus, hoping it brings some definition.
Still, I don’t understand these arduous descriptions.
I’m not an English lit. professor, nor have a doctorate in prose.
I just wanted to read poetry and enjoy the flow of words.
But now I feel like a dumb belle, instead of being read well,
and I can’t help but compare it to the words of Lady Bracknell.
The thing is. The thing is, the show is a romantic comedy. The book wasn't, fine. But the show IS. intentionally so. What was the point of the Jane Austin emphasis in S2, all those mirror couples, the ball, the freaking S1 cold open and subsequent breakup... if not to tell us that we're doing romantic comedy? It follows all the beats including a big disagreement/ rupture in act 2.
If you are going to do that, you HAVE to follow through on expectations for the central couple. That's what the audience expects and how these narratives are crafted. Instead, they decided to go "nihilist philosophical" in the last scene with no warning and flip the table on everyone's expectations, and it isn't fair to do that and then say we're the ones who are media illiterate because we didn't like it. They are the ones who set the expectation in the first place and capitalized on that.
Today's vent:
For the sanity of myself and others ive accepted the end credits as canon, especially the moment that shows them as we know them together in a garden
I'm happy you're dealing with it.
I am not accepting go3 as canon. Period. Any of it. It's not only the ending. The whole thing makes so little sense to me that I can't accept it. My brain just won't let me.
s3 feels so disconnected from the rest
I keep seeing people claim that this ending was the only one possible, that the whole narration up from s1 (or even the book) was building up to this finale, that a hard reset of the universe was the endgame all along. I don't see how. Good Omens's original charm was being a parody of all religions (and a bunch of deterministic movies like The Omen). The problem of free will was discussed often with a light-hearted, parodic approach. I'm reminded of when Ligur said "I made a priest look at pretty girls in the sun today: he could have become a saint, now he's going to hell." Isn't this literally a parody of how simplistic religious moral beliefs are? The whole point of GO was not just to mock them, but to reflect on how humans are more complex than that, in a universe where, even if Hell and Heaven are literal and operative, humans still managed to successfully exercise their free will AND avoid Armageddon, even if it was advertised as inevitable by Heaven/Hell. The point was to prove both wrong. Az and Crow were there just to say that “who's to say it wasn't God's plan all along, maybe there were some small-font clauses hidden somewhere in the Plan?” It was beautiful, hilarious, humanist, comforting, open-ended. God was never this evil final boss, overarching puppeteer: the point was that she almost didn’t seem to exist at all and it was just a bunch of humans doing things while claiming a bigger entity wanted them to do that.
My takeaway from the book and first season has always been: Azira and Crowley thought they could impact humanity with their work, then quickly realized they didn't need to do much work AND that both their bosses would never understand that, so they just relaxed and enjoyed the ride lol. What I liked the most about the GO's message was: humans are both bad and good, beautifully human anyway, even in a world with Heaven/Hell, which doesn't impact their lives that much. Dumb Corporate thinks they're pulling the strings of the world, when in fact the strings have always been so loose they could as well be nonexistent: still, humanity is doing just fine. The point of avoiding Armageddon was to protect that world, created with free will and humanity being its beautiful, "human incarnate" self. That Specific Humanity was worth saving, just like Job wanted His Specific Kids back. The best thing was that humanity saved itself! No need for celestial beings basically Jesusing themselves for the world, except what they're saving is the abstract concept of a “free humanity”. Where did s1’s love for That Humanity go? They only save the ideal of it with their sacrifice: was that really the only option? It’s a fictional world, so every writing choice reveals a specific intention and message.
That's why the ending of s3 feels really disconnected to me: suddenly we're in a world where God is extremely involved, humans can never have actual free will, they're all "puppets in her own book", all the messages of caring for others and trying to improve the existing world instead of throwing the whole thing in the trash (The Them at Adam during his power trip), trying to find your footing in life despite your past and your nature (Crowley being a failed demon, Aziraphale struggling with his wavering faith, etc.), all blown out the window! I don't want to say it feels like a retcon, but it definitely feels like they flattened a lot of the previous messages and themes just to achieve the tearjerker ending. It doesn't feel earned, it doesn't feel organic, it doesn't feel particularly satisfactory as a way of tying up all the loose ends. It's nothing short of an "it was all a dream" ending.
TLTR: on where the 3 seasons differed to me:
S1 was hope and humanity in all its beautiful, messy glory, making Az and Crow basically useless, giving them a relative freedom from their jobs. Humanity is the main protagonist, it saves itself, who's to say that wasn't the Plan all along? Sure, there’s the "this wasn't the big one, the next one will be Us against all of Them" line, but it doesn't have to be literal: a well-written sequel could have kept the original themes while exploring other interesting moral conundrums in a clever way, instead of going the cheap route of "it's all bleak, let's press reset."
S2 was a wrestling match between different, opposite outlooks on life: do we stay and try making the world better, or do we run away and choose each other? Is there any reason left to hope, or is the world bleak? Can we reform an unjust system, or is it rigged from the start? A more intimiste approach, a slice-of-life approach, if you will.
S3 doesn't even try to do anything except say from the start: everything is ending, there's no point in this life, all is lost, humanity is doomed, free will never existed, I'm tired boss let's just restart the universe because as long as God exists we'll never be free (in a show from a book that was basically saying the opposite and also, a friggin' PARODY of religion, it was never supposed to get that serious*).
*Small footnote under the cut:
I am constantly amazed at how in depth many of our fandom can be at articulating every nuance. I’m envious. But I agree with all this!!!!
Maybe the real message of Good Omens is the real god for the GO universe (Gamain) will always fuck with things and it's our job (the humans) to fix it
because it already was a real world. because the humans and all the life of the earth and the angels and demons were already real. just because they were created by a sadistic, psychopathic omnipotent being for a cynical, selfish purpose does not mean those people didn't have free will, and it certainly doesn't mean they weren't real. that was the whole point of the apple business, that was the whole reason that Aziraphale and Crowley could never really change them, try as they might to follow the orders of their respective head offices (or not). it's why Adam Young didn't need an upbringing by a demon to make mistakes with his power, or an upbringing by an angel to choose to reject it. he was already human, and real. it's why Crowley and Aziraphale loved each other at all, because they were already real, too, and yeah, they also had free will, which is why they chose "to the world", and each other. the point is that it was all worth saving, whatever its flaws.
I utterly reject the ill-conceived, capitalist, nihilistic, filmed & aired "finale" of this story as the anti-life, anti-humanist propaganda that it is.
the world is always worth saving, no matter who or what has tampered with, exploited, or tried to destroy it. that was & is the real message of Good Omens.
a corsage for GO fandom
"Huh," we said collectively after s2. "How's that work exactly."
And we AUed and we fic-conjectured and we metaed and we arted and we debated and sometimes we even argued, mostly civilly...
... and what we collectively came up with, even the most baroque and unlikely stuff (and I'm the first to admit some of my meta was pretty convoluted)...
... was more moral than the finale. Was immensely kinder than the finale. Was cleverer than the finale. Was funnier than the finale. Was more clearly in tune with theme than the finale. Made more sense as a plot than the finale.
We're just better writers than whoever wrote that finale. We are. There can be no question about it. Even our least of fanwriters is better than whatever that was.
We're also better people. We've taken some flak for wanting to continue supporting GO in light of the manifest evil of the one we do not name, and I take no position on whether we deserve it -- perhaps we do. I'm also well aware that being better people than the one we do not name is an incredibly low bar. But all that awareness aside, and with some unfortunate exceptions (we Do Not Harass cast or crew, gentlefolk, it's Not Okay), we're a decent bunch.
So here's to us. May we find our way back to the hope and love and kindness at the core of Good Omens.
