OKAY SO I just finished binge watching Good Omens and a thought that occurred to me was that my hesitation before watching this was everyone saying “they’re so cute but they don’t even get together!!” And the other side saying “yeah back in our day we didn’t see gay couples you’re spoiled now so get over it!!” And I’m just????? Y’all. They DID end up together. What are you talking about? Usually, in queer-baiting media, the gay couple thats teased to be end game, end up being with other random people of opposite gender. Or having crushes on people of opposite gender that usually comes to fruition. But at the end of Good Omens *spoilers*, they have lunch at a romantic restaurant where they can finally just enjoy a meal without the fear of being caught together. They get to talk while a soft song plays on piano and they sip champagne and indulge in one another without worry. They didn’t have the “traditional” happy couple ending because they aren’t traditional. They’re 6000+ entities on either side of a war, finding themselves in love with humanity and each other. But, then again, the most traditional part about them is what they enjoy doing on dates: dinner and entertainment.
And they're FREE. They don't get to be free in the book, and it's such a major thing. They say "if we scare you, then leave us alone" and Heaven and Hell listen and now no one gets to define what they are except them. And they have the first baggage-free date of their whole lives. While a love song isn't just referenced, but plays. For THEM.
Like, none of it happens that way in the book because the book isn't specifically a love story and this is. Every beat of their whole narrative is laid out as part of the "epic romance" playbook and the only reason there's any ambiguity at all is we expect kissing. Is there friend-love, or romantic friendship? Sure, there are stories with that. And they're defined by how either in the story or "one day" those pairs will have hetero romances and families.
Crowley and Aziraphale are never going to put anyone else over their relationship that way. They Get Together. They already WERE.
I'd like to emphasize "They already WERE." Because the romance plot of Good Omens is a coming out story, not a falling in love story. The falling in love happens in the back story. The conflict Crowley and Aziraphale face is less "does this person love me?" and more "does this person love me enough to break the rules / societal norms so that we can be together?" with a side of "am I willing to fight the power structures for love?" For me, this is queerest thing about Aziraphale x Crowley in the miniseries.
Because the romance plot of Good Omens is a coming out story, not a falling in love story. holy shit
Holy SHIT
