I'm returning from my eternal Tumblr slumber because I have things to say about the Good Omens ending that probably won't get read but I can't sleep and need to get them out.
I understand the upset about them not voicing their love vocally, and not getting a proper kiss. Truly, I'm right there with you.
But I also feel like they didn't need to. Their love was so blatant and palpable that even God herself spoke of how much it made her smile. And that came from Aziraphale asking the question, "Why give me Crowley, why complete me....." if that isn't a confession of love right then and there than by golly what IS.
Plus, after rewatching the previous seasons right before the finale, it feels like they were never that direct with each other anyway. Always dancing around each other and using subtext over open communication. Nina even calls Crowley (technically both of them but Aza wasn't there) out for this at the end of s2, and STILL Crowley isn't very direct in confessing his feelings?? He needed to give Azariphale that kiss to even get his point across, it seemed.
Having them say "I love you" directly to each other would have been nice, it would have been a beautiful moment and I would have cried so hard. But looking back on it all, it didn't seem very them of them to do, to me. Azariphale's subtle little finger kiss, holding hands until the very end, and I'll be damned the way they just look at each other, in the way that they always have that says so much more than words ever could, that felt like them.
And I also understand feeling almost sort of betrayed by them discorporating in the end to create a whole new universe. But something I haven't personally seen brought up, is right before they ask for it the Devil and God are talking about essentially 'what if I say one thing but do another' (I can't remember the exact quote atm). Then after they ask for the universe recreation, God tells them that she'll even let humans exist again "but you'll never have existed, you won't experience that," it feels like a test. A "I will say one thing and then do another." She wants to make completely sure that this is truly what they want and they still say yes. Because there's only ONE thing that they love more than each other, their shared love for life itself. The very humanity that they protected and emulated for 6000 years, together. It felt like it was both one final game of God, one last plan, even a gift if you could call it, to create a universe in which they would get the chance to truly live the humanity in which they loved and cherished for so long. Because if one thing was going to be ineffable, it's them.
Anyway I should really finish my rambling and get off to sleep. Maybe I'll have different opinions later, after a (third) rewatch, or more discussion or reading of others thoughts. But I'll end it here with how I described the ending to a friend.
"It wasn't the ending that I wanted, but the ending that felt right, for how rushed it had to be."
Also fuck neil gaiman for being a horrible human being and staining what could have been a truly monumentally celebrated piece of queer media, but that's a topic for another day.