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currently thinking about sad magic men with long hair, a tragic past, and scars
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whoever decided to give this man long hair has my eternal gratitude
He just misses his mom
It just always felt very thematically important to me that Crowley and Aziraphale demonstrate the Theme of Humanity being kinder than any Angel and eviler than any Demon by being the most Human Angel and Demon and thus also being simultaneously the best and worst Angel and Demon.
Like Aziraphale is a covetous lazy hedonist easily swayed by mortal pleasures into disobedience, he is kinda jaded about Heaven in the book, he is the one willing to deceive a pair of Humans to go assassinate an eleven-year-old for him and the one willing to pull the trigger when it comes down to it… But he’s still also the only Angel who cared more about saving Humanity and the Earth than the beef with Hell, and even in the book he did managed to talk himself into having faith that Heaven will do the right thing and even his first act of disobedience, his lie to God, was because he just cared about humans so much, and he still does, more than any other Angel.
And Crowley is a Demon who has just as much if not more affection and care for Humanity, he often doesn’t have it within himself to actually cause meaningful harm to anyone, as the Serpent of Eden his greatest act of Temptation actually gave birth to human morality… but he’s also very much a slothful hedonist, he Rebellious and self-interested to the point it makes him rebel against Hell itself, and he is still Hell’s most effective tempter and corrupter by far and he did destroy a fellow Demon in cold blood, which was established in the Book as a huge Moral Taboo even for exceptionally cruel and sadistic Demons like Hastur and Ligur.
And then also, their ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actions are full of gray areas. They try to save the world and humanity mostly out of their hedonistic self-interest, both of their most ‘immoral’ actions happened for understandable reasons; Crowley destroys Ligur in what is clearly self-defense and Aziraphale plots out the assassination of a grade-school out of a sincere belief this is the only way to save the world. Moral ambiguity and humanity, that’s what this whole story is about, right?
And since GO1 sticks fairly close to the book, I think this idea is preserved… pretty well there as well. Like, I’d say that actually getting to see Aziraphale interact with other not-Metatron Angels helps drive the point even better. But also… Aziraphale lost his jadedness, while his sweetness, softness and faith in Heaven was emphasized, but so were his hedonism, pridefulness and hypocrisy. So it still evens out, just a lateral move, I think. Having Crowley be the first to explicitly mentions the concept of killing Warlock kinda lessens the importance of Aziraphale resolving to do it all on his own, but it’s done to heighten the drama around the subject, so there’s still plenty of impact when Aziraphale actually pulls the trigger…
And Crowley’s effectiveness in and fondness of Modernized Sin Spreading has been greatly de-emphasized but…. At least the new emphasis is on his laziness and deceit, which would still be ‘Hellish’ qualities, although I think this is still a much… safer variation of hellish qualities than letting him be a shameless little shit. On the other hand, Crowley’s rebelliousness and self-interest is emphasized greatly even compared to Book!Crowley, the whole Alpha Centauri plan showcases that he can narrow down the world to just himself and his Angel when things get dire.
…But even at the time it kinda bugged me how the concept of Crowley crossing some sort of Moral Taboo by destroying a fellow Demon with Holy Water was basically entirely gone. Not only was Hell 100% fine with publicly executing Crowley by Holy Water, they killed that other tiny random Demon basically just for the lols!
But, y’know, the Body Swap Sequence was otherwise so fucking Peak by Basically Every Other Metric (including furthering other important themes with Aziraphale and Crowley’s characters) that I was wiling to forgive it. Now, like, I still love all the Body Swap stuff to bits, but I also worry that it was an… omen of things to come. A Bad Omen, if you will.
Because by the time we get to GO3, this through-line is… maybe not exactly entirely gone, but definitely frayed and torn and jumbled. I suppose you can say this whole sequence plays on the whole ‘Aziraphale is simultaneously the Best and Worst Angel’…
But, like, both this scene and the whole Finale in general gives so little attention to Aziraphale’s good qualities, to that kindness and sweetness and courage, to the fact faith and trust and hope don’t have to just be foolish naïveté (And GO3 is not a Subtly Written TV Movie Thingy). And like, it's not just that wanting to enjoy Earthly Pleasures doesn't 'negate wanting to do the right thing, Aziraphale’s ‘sins’ intersect and blend with his ‘virtues’. His Hedonism fuels his genuine kind love of Humanity, his lies to God and Heaven, always to protect innocent Humans, were a demonstration of his conviction and bravery. Only Aziraphale really stands up to his own defense, and quite frankly, it feels mostly to set up the segway to Aziraphale talking up Crowley.
Which honestly just makes the whole situation here worse. Like, first things first, it just demonstrates how much of Crowley's rougher edges have just been... sanded off and retconned out over GO2 and GO3. He is just "The Best Angel" (and by implication, the Worst Demon), no interesting gray-areas nuance there. And in addition to many many other things that are Fucking Terrible about Aziraphale's 'Best Angel' speech (the inability to give Aziraphale a satisfying conclusion to his character arc, invalidating Crowley's own conception of his identity and past, the supposed 'love confession' culmination of the relationship being entirely in PAST TENSE, the massive imbalance in how this narrative treats Crowley vs. Aziraphale...), it also highlights how much we've lost the plot on this Theme of Humanity as it used to relate to the Ineffable Husbands.
In the book it was made very clear that living alongside Humanity has had a big effect on Crowley and Aziraphale, that it shaped them into the Beings we see play things out in the main storyline...
And back in S1 you could... insinuate that this was still the case. Obviously with the bigger focus now being drawn to Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship, you expect there to be a mixture of influences from both each other and Humanity as a whole but... As GO2 and GO3 went along, any sort of influence from being around Humanity got minimized more and more for the both of them. Like, Aziraphale already got so many of his positive traits and character moments attributed to being 'thanks to Crowley' and that absolutely includes his most 'Human' traits. Aziraphale couldn't even figure out how to eat food just from blending in among Humanity, Crowley had to tempt him to that first...
And with Crowley, this whole speech is about how great Crowley WAS, before his Fall, before the Beginning, before HUMANITY. If we see this Stupid Ass Speech as an accurate judgement of Crowley, then he basically burst fully formed out of God's Brow with all of his traits just inherent to his being from the start. Nothing of the things that made him so great were anything he also learned from Humanity or even just subconsciously rubbed-off on him.
Like, y'know, naive ol' me, when GO1 said Crowley was the only Demon to have an 'Imagination' in a piece of dialogue that seemed to deliberately call back to Book!Crowley's inner monologue saying Imagination is one advantage Humans have over Demons, I stupidly assumed that this means Crowley honed his Imagination from being around Humanity! That it was a cool, thematically-poignant moment because despite Crowley's Magical Miracle Power being what is literally keeping the Bentley going, the actual real Superpower behind this iconic badass feat is an inherently HUMAN trait!
...When instead I should've obviously realized that Crowley is just an inherently imaginative uniquely artistic soul who was like this since before the dawn of time and we humans have nothing to do with it, silly me!
It just drives home just how much Humanity has been diminished in this story, that is now trying to conclude itself with a Big Poignant Thing about Humanity. The agency of Humans is all but gone from the narrative that led us to this moment, no representative of Humanity is here to bring in our perspective while those four supernatural beings discuss the fate of the world, and the qualities and influences of Humanity that used to define our two main leads were gradually wiped out to glorify one of them as So Great and Wonderful and the Most Special (and thus also the least interesting version of one of my favorite characters...).
Maybe in a Better version of this scene, Crowley and Aziraphale could've realized that they are actually not that different from Adam Young. That much like him, they are technically 'divine' beings that have lived so long amongst the Humans, shaped by them, have been basically 'adopted' by Humanity, that both of them have much more in common with plain ol' mortal folks then they do with the two other supernatural beings sitting in the bookshop with them, and try to make their arguments from a point of Empathy, from the angle that they do kinda know what it's like to be a Human Person in a world jerked around by the whims of God...
(Something like that would've definitely lead into a 'Turning Human' Ending in much more satisfying and thematically coherent manner. Although I will emphasize that I'm talking about Crowley and Aziraphale turning human AS THEMSELVES, none of this reincarnation mindwipe bullshit that skips over all the emotional catharsis. But also like... maybe not inherently? Adam rewrote reality so that he was always Human and yet he still got to keep his powers, so....)
Instead all of Crowley's observations about Humanity and how much he cares about them is all in the third person, distant, pitying more than it is empathetic.
And Humanity is also diminished in the resolution of our story. Like, both in the sense that, like I said many times before, this whole ‘asking God to kill Themself and create a new universe’ thing is just not… actionable enough, at least not how they played it in the show, to be anything the Human viewers could feel like they could achieve to escape their own problems with systems of oppression, even metaphorically. It might’ve worked if we had more focus on how Crowley and Aziraphale’s Human qualities were the things to defeat God in any meaningful way.
But it’s also about how this conclusion is all about this Big Dramatic Gesture of Purely Selfless Self-Sacrifice for the Abstract Greater Good, which is… obviously there have been cases of Humans acting like this, that’s the whole ‘more grace than Heaven’ thing. But… for the climatic ending, the culmination of a series that supposed to be celebrating Humanity, and moral shades of gray, it is kinda weird for it to end on something so straightforwardly… Heavenly.
Especially when you compare it to the Book/GO1, how Adam’s victory over his Demonic ‘Destiny’ is this very human mixture of wanting things to be better, but also wanting things to be better for your own sake, because you’re the one who’s going to be living in this world…
And love, not just generally for some vague abstract concept of ‘Humanity’, but to the specific people around you that you love, to the places that you love, to the small world you’ve made around you to make sense of the hugeness of the universe…
And, yeah, a bit of selfishness, to avoid the burden of responsibility that comes with being in charge.
And Crowley and Aziraphale, for what little part they actually contributed to saving the world, did so, like I said, out of a mixture of kindness and selfishness. And all of the other Humans who contributed to saving the world did so out of an obvious, yet heroic, desire for self-preservation, and they each had their own quirky self-contradictory mess of virtues and vices…
This all feels very discordant when compared to Noble Suffering Hero Crowley’s Ultimate Selfless Sacrifice as an Ultimate Act of Universal Love to Humanity.
The conclusion to Crowley’s character shouldn’t have been about how he’s the Worst Demon because he’s just too damn selfless and caring, it shouldn’t have been about he was the Best Angel either. It should’ve been about how he’s a fundamentally Human Occult Being (and so is Aziraphale!) And not just in a tacked-on ambiguous maybe-reincarnation Human AU way, in the way the culmination of their story (and them saving the world, if you really must leave these two bozos in charge of saving the world, anyways) should have emphasized the inherent complicated self-contradictory selfless selfishness Humanity that they possess regardless of their literal species.
when i saw the final scene for the first time my first thought was "those are crowley and aziraphale's colours in that sky"
watercolour, ~A5
Forever obsessed with the idea that Crowley COULD have tempted Aziraphale to Fall.
If he'd really put his mind to it, he might have even succeeded, even though Aziraphale has such a strong will.
It would have made Crowley's life so much easier! If he and Aziraphale were on the same side, if they didn't have to worry about their respective home offices disapproving of their relationship! It would have made life so much easier for Crowley.
But Crowley DOESN'T try. He tempts his angel in small ways, yes. To try food and drink. To enjoy the little pleasures that God's creation had to offer. To be his friend. To see nuance when his superiors are telling him everything is black or white.
But he doesn't try to turn Aziraphale from angel into demon. And the Job flashback tells us exactly why:
"I'm not bringing you to hell, Angel. I don't think you'd like it."
Crowley knows that Aziraphale wouldn't be happy as one of the Fallen. Just because rebellion was the right choice for HIM doesn't mean it's the right choice for everyone.
And not only does he respect that....he protects his angel's innocence as best he can, while still encouraging him to see the shades of gray. He wants them to find a middle ground together.
Mad respect for that renegade demon, who wants to let Aziraphale be *himself* while still learning and growing. It's one of my favorite things about their dynamic. He doesn't want to change him fundamentally, even though it might make his life easier.
It's a kindness of Crowley's. He's protecting Aziraphale from unnecessary misery, and it makes my heart soft.
AND ANOTHER THING.
“Destined to find each other in every universe no matter what” is literally the definition of predeterminism— it’s the soulmate trope.
Is the free will in the room with us?
This was my comment when I reshared this meme I made about 6 months ago:
Yes, this. Fuck predeterminism, fuck god shipping people she’s torturing, fuck queerphobia even if it’s unintentional, and fuck Neil Gaiman
I didn’t love them because they were soulmates or “meant to be together in every universe” or because God shipped them.
I loved them because they were two lonely weirdos who found each other all on their own while getting by in a fucked-up little universe. I loved them as an angel and a demon who cobbled together something strange and meaningful between them even when they were never supposed to do that. I loved how they loved each other in spite of the great plan, in spite of a system intended to tear them apart.
I wanted their love story to be one of defiance, not compliance with destiny.
i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this
And what if I never needed their souls to be 'intertwined by fate'? What if all that I needed is for them to love each other because they have known and understood and shaped each other for so long? And what if I never cared about them ‘finding each other in every universe?’ What if all that I wanted is for them, in this universe where the odds were so stacked against them, to choose each other?
SILLY SHOWS ARE IMPORTANT TOO
Silly shows can be deep!! Silly shows can teach us things!!
I'm extremely late to the party, but after finishing Good Omens, I watched Our Flag Means Death for the first time and I'm really sad that not one but TWO great shows didn't get the endings they deserved.
GO and OFMD are comedies that start off with very silly premises. An angel and a demon team up to stop the apocalypse. A wealthy man abandons his aristocratic life to pursue his dream of becoming a pirate. These premises alone are enough for some people to dismiss a tv show in its entirety, but that's because we often forget to take a closer look.
Why go against Heaven and Hell in order to stop the apocalypse? Why would an angel and a demon care about the fate of humanity? Because they love it! After living among us for thousands of years, they found something that was worth saving! They realized that we always have choices and that things CAN be better, and in doing so, Aziraphale and Crowley found love in each other, too. (Which is why the "free will" universe in the finale makes no sense, but I won't get into that.)
Why give up a wealthy life? Why risk everything for a silly dream where Stede will most likely die a horrible death? Because he wanted to be happy! Because even though people made fun of him, he believed in himself! Even his crew didn't have faith in him, and it took Ed a little while to really SEE Stede, but while doing the impossible, Stede found love and friends and family. And this helped Ed realize that he was unhappy, too. Stede's journey of self-discovery grew far beyond just him because his dreams brought his crew together.
These shows are about love and forgiveness and hope and patience. They encourage us to form our own identities and to find family everywhere we go. They remind us that we CAN fix our mistakes, our relationships, our systems, and ourselves. We can choose love and kindness over violence and hatred! We can and should ask questions and be curious! We should tell others that we love them and remind ourselves that we are loved as well!
I'm aware that GO and OFMD faced different obstacles. (Screw N*** G*****) I can only hope that the writers did the best they could with what they got. Personally, I'm okay with the ending of OFMD while I didn't really like the GO finale. However, in both cases, I really believe that we (audience, creators, and characters) deserved better. Queer shows with older protagonists deserve better. Silly TV shows deserve better.
Season 3 of Good Omens wasn't good
This is going to be long...buckle up!!
I will say, I believe my opinion is the general consensus. But if you are someone who enjoyed the ending, thats great, and you are free to peacefully share your opinion about if you wish to.
I've seen people trying to excuse the ending because of the pacing and time crunch, and while sure, the ending was always going to feel rushed because of it, however my biggest bone to pick with the ending was...what was the final message? I'm genuienly asking.
Like, Crowley and Aziraphale literally killed themselves and wished for a universe with no celestial beings or whatever, but...genueinly what was the ending of the show trying to communicate? Like, the world would be much better with free will sure !!! But free will literally already exists in the original universe.
Thematically, the series has always argued that people are more than the roles they're assigned. In Season 1, Adam defies his destiny as the Antichrist because he chooses the humans he grew up with over the role Heaven, Hell, and prophecy assigned to him.
Just like how Anatema Device refuses to spend her life following the path laid out for her. She learns that all of her choices were predicted in advance and that she's basically been living as an extension of her ancestor's plan. When she receives the new book of prophecies, she chooses to burn it rather than continue being defined by it.
And I mean, especially Crowley and Aziraphale themselves who literally fought agaianst the destruction of the world because they loved living in it. They loved the music, the nature, the hot cocoa, the books, the little every day life domestic rituals. They loved humans for who they are.
They spent six thousand years building lives for themselves despite Heaven and Hell breathing down their necks. Aziraphale and Crowley built a life worth living. They made friends, collected expiriences, developed tastes and preferances, and found their own personal meanings outside of the roles that they were born with. The point seemed to be that even within an imperfect universe governed by powerful institutions, could still create lives worth living.
The entire reason they opposed Armageddon in Season 1 wasn't some grand ideological commitment to "maximizing free will." It was much more personal than that. They simply thought the world was worth saving.
Fast forward to season 2, and the main thematic purposes are still there. Even the flashbacks reinforce this. Time and time again, Crowley and Aziraphale bend the rules, help humans, cover for one another, and make decisions based on compassion rather than doctrine.
If anything, Season 2 argues on the idea that identity is something you create through your choices.
Nina and Maggie prove this too. Aziraphale and Crowley spend half the season trying to orchestrate romantic moments and push them together, but it completely fails. Their plans don't work.
What ultimately matters is what Nina and Maggie themselves want. Their feelings develop through their own conversations, experiences, and choices. No supernatural intervention overrides their agency.
Then of course, theres Beelzebub and Gabriel’s reveal. This pair is meant to directly parallel Aziraphale and Crowley. Beelzebub and Gabirel who are both respectively powerful figures (one from heaven and one from hell, representing both sides). They end up doing something Aziraphale and Crowley have probably only dreamt of doing: choosing each other and walking away from the system that was actively harming them.
This act of rebellion inspires Crowley specifically, understanding that Aziraphale and him too, have a chance. If Heaven’s archangel and Hell’s ruler can leave together, then Crowley and Aziraphale might be able to build something beyond Heaven and Hell too.
They have already experienced brief glimpses of that possibility before!!! in their time together, in their quiet outings across the centuries, in their meals at The Ritz, and in the many small moments they carved out for each other away from Heaven and Hell.
In those moments, they were able to exist outside the roles imposed on them, simply as themselves. Because of that, Beelzebub and Gabriel’s decision resonates so strongly with Crowley, it makes him realize that the life he and Aziraphale have only been able to experience in fleeting moments could truly become something permanent.
And Crowley proposes the idea to Aziraphale, leaving Heaven and Hell behind and choosing each other openly, without the constant pressure and expectations of either side. For Crowley, it is the chance to turn the quiet life they have built in fragments across centuries into something real and lasting.
For Aziraphale, however, the choice is far more complicated. His relationship with Heaven has always been conflicted. Even after witnessing Heaven’s cruelty and hypocrisy, he still holds onto the belief that Heaven can represent goodness and that it can become what it was meant to be. Because of that, he cannot fully accept Crowley’s offer. While Crowley sees walking away as a chance to finally choose each other freely, Aziraphale sees an opportunity to try to change Heaven from within.
Crowley desperatly kisses him as a last resort, hoping his feelings can come through, it's one of the most vulnerable actions he has done in the accumulation of the series.
Aziraphale’s responds with a “I forgive you” which makes the moment even more painful. The line highlights just how deeply divided they still are despite loving each other. Crowley’s kiss is an act of honesty and emotional urgency, a plea for them to choose each other and leave everything else behind. Aziraphale, however, responds from within the framework he has always known: Heaven, duty, forgiveness, and responsibility.
Rather than meeting Crowley in that moment the way Crowley hopes, Aziraphale answers through the language of the institution Crowley has been asking him to walk away from.
That kiss is the point where the relationship stops being implied and becomes undeniable. Because the buildup is so strong and so specific, the audience naturally expects the next part of the story to deeply explore the emotional consequences of that moment: Crowley’s vulnerability, Aziraphale’s conflict, and what choosing Heaven over Crowley truly means for both of them.
At the end, Aziraphale choosing Heaven is still an act of free will. That choice is painful, but it is his. He is not manipulated into it and he is not choosing Crowley any less because he cares less. He genuinely believes Heaven can still become what it was meant to be, and he chooses to act on that belief. That decision fits his character because Aziraphale has always balanced compassion with a deep faith in what Heaven should represent. The tragedy is that his choice comes from love and conviction, yet still places him and Crowley on opposite paths.
Season 2 ends on a deeply tragic note, and naturally the expectation becomes that season 3 will fully commit to the emotional consequences of that ending. Crowley has finally made himself vulnerable after centuries of restraint. Aziraphale leaves despite loving him because he believes there is still something worth saving. Both characters make active choices, and both choices hurt. Because of that, the ending feels like the emotional breaking point of everything the story has been building toward.
Yet season 3 does not fully give the audience that. Crowley and Aziraphale barely have a real conversation about what happened, and when they do, it feels brief and far shorter than the emotional weight season 2 left them with.
After such a devastating ending, the expectation is that the story will finally allow them to sit with everything that happened: Crowley’s hurt, Aziraphale’s conflicted feelings, the meaning behind Crowley’s confession, and what it truly cost Aziraphale to choose Heaven. Instead, those emotions can feel acknowledged only on the surface before the narrative moves forward.
Instead, a significant amount of focus is placed on the side story involving Jesus, which I do not necessarily mind, because his story feels closely tied to one of the central ideas of Good Omens from the very beginning: humanity. Across both seasons, the story repeatedly emphasizes what makes humanity meaningful. Jesus’ storyline connects naturally to those ideas, reinforcing the importance of empathy and the power of choosing humanity and kindness over blind obedience. In that sense, it feels thematically consistent with what the series has always been trying to say.
What makes it frustrating is that Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship had already become the most personal expression of those themes.
Their time on Earth changes them. Their love for humanity becomes inseparable from the love they build for one another.
Aziraphale and Crowley’s emotional conflict should have been the core of the season because it ties directly to what the show has always wanted us to understand. Their relationship is the clearest expression of these themes.
Crowley represents choosing freedom and love without needing Heaven or Hell to justify it. Aziraphale represents someone still wrestling with the belief that the institution he once trusted can become what it was always meant to be. Both of them are navigating the show’s biggest questions—what goodness actually means, whether love can exist outside systems of power, and what it means to choose for yourself instead of simply obeying.
Because of that, their separation at the end of season 2 feels like more than a romantic tragedy. It feels like the emotional climax of everything the story had been building toward. Their relationship had already become the heart of what Good Omens was trying to say.
But instead, Crowley and Aziraphale spend much of the season on a quest to find Jesus and the book of life, while the emotional conflict left behind by season 2 receives very little space. Their conversations about what happened feel brief, and there is very little time spent truly unpacking the pain of their separation. Most notably, even the kiss, the emotional climax of season 2 and Crowley’s most vulnerable moment in the entire story is barely addressed directly, if at all.
Instead, the story can feel like it moves around that emotional turning point rather than through it. Crowley and Aziraphale are physically together, but the deeper conversation the audience expects rarely happens. There is little room given to Crowley expressing what that rejection felt like, or Aziraphale grappling openly with why he made the choice he did.
And then, for some comical reason, Archangel Michael is the villian who wanted to destory the book of life or whatever, and they achive it. Every character turns into infinity war ass dust paritcals, including Jesus which is insane because literally even Jesus message of unity and compassion in the finale was pointless.
The reason it feels frustrating is because Jesus’ storyline had spent so much time emphasizing compassion, unity, and the power of choosing kindness in the face of cruelty. So when the ending resolves with everything being erased (including Jesus himself) it can feel like the season undercuts its own message. If the character representing compassion and unity ultimately disappears alongside everyone else, then the story risks making that thematic buildup feel hollow.
This also makes Crowley and Aziraphale’s unresolved conflict stand out even more. As the finale grows increasingly cosmic and destructive, the emotional center of the story feels pushed into the background. Because of that, ending the season with a universe-ending catastrophe while giving very little space to the emotional fallout of season 2 can make it feel as though the larger spectacle takes priority over the very heart of the story.
When Crowley saves the bookshop page from burning and they arrive there, everything around them is gone. The world has been erased, and all that remains is the bookshop and the two of them. On paper, it feels like the perfect setup for the emotional payoff the story had been building toward.
But even there, the emotional weight can feel strangely undercut. Instead of a longer, honest conversation about everything that happened between them, the moment leans more comedic, with Aziraphale begging to be forgiven and even bringing up the “you were right” dance. The callback itself is sweet and very in character, but placed in that moment it can feel lighter than what the scene had been emotionally building toward.
They are alone, vulnerable, and stripped of everything except each other, yet it can feel like the story pulls away before fully sitting with the weight of that moment.
And then the finale escalates again: Satan appears before them, followed by God herself. Suddenly the scale becomes cosmic once more, and for a moment it feels like the emotional center of the story might finally come back into focus. Crowley is finally given the chance to ask questions he has carried for centuries, but it is Aziraphale who delivers the emotional core of the scene with the heartbreaking question: “Why give me Crowley? Why make me complete and then take it away?”
That line lands because it finally says out loud what the relationship had been building toward for years: Crowley is not simply important to Aziraphale, he is part of how Aziraphale understands himself, his world, and the humanity he has grown to love. It is vulnerable and devastating in exactly the way viewers had been waiting for.
God laughs and answers that it's because their love always made her smile. This acknowledges the depth of what Crowley and Aziraphale mean to one another and confirms that their bond mattered on a cosmic level. But at the same time, it can feel bittersweet because the relationship is finally being named with complete honesty only when everything else has already collapsed.
Then God offers them privacy and allows them one request. And finally, after everything, the story gives Crowley and Aziraphale a quiet conversation with no Heaven, no Hell, and no one else between them.
She gives them privacy, and they talk. Aziraphale asks Crowley what he wants, Crowley scoffs and asks why he should have a say, Aziraphle responds with "because i only want one thing, and it's not about that anymore", which is crazy to me because it basically in my eyes implies he just wants Crowley.
That line is honestly one of the most emotionally revealing things Aziraphale says. For so much of the story, his choices are framed around duty, what the “right” thing is supposed to be. He has spent centuries tying his wants to responsibility. So hearing him say that he only wants one thing, and that it is no longer about the fate of the universe, feels incredibly personal.
And with everything the story has built between them, it feels almost impossible not to read Crowley at the center of that.
Because by that point Aziraphale has already tried choosing Heaven. He has tried duty. He has tried believing he could fix things from within. And all of it led to loss. The systems he kept prioritizing have fallen apart around him. The one thing that has remained constant through centuries of change and every impossible situation—is Crowley.
But then Aziraphale places the final decision in Crowley’s hands, and Crowley ultimately decides to reboot the universe with no angels, demons, or celestial beings at all, and that is where the ending feels especially frustrating.
The idea itself makes sense on paper. Crowley has always questioned authority and pushed back against systems built on obedience. A world free from Heaven and Hell could be read as the ultimate extension of everything he has believed in. A universe where everyone is free to exist without celestial interference.
But emotionally, it can feel unsatisfying because it turns such a deeply personal story into a massive reset.
What about Gabriel and Beazebulb who choose themselves over the system? They presented a more intimate and emotionally grounded answer. The series shows that freedom can come from stepping outside the system rather than erasing everything entirely. It shows that love itself can be an act of rebellion. That someone can say no to Heaven or Hell and still build something meaningful afterward.
For two whole seaons, this series spent so much time building attachment to this world: humanity, Earth, the bookshop, all the strange and lovable side characters, and especially the specific relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale. The emotional weight comes from how much history they built inside this universe. And that they had found things worth living in it despite the roles imposed upon them, they found each other.
So having Crowley resolve everything by rebooting reality can feel disconnected from what made the story powerful in the first place. Instead of confronting the systems they were trapped in and emotionally working through what happened between them inside the world the audience spent years caring about, the story wipes the board clean.
Crowley’s arc was never just about destroying systems. It was also about attachment—to Earth, to humanity, and especially to Aziraphale. He likes humans. He loves the weirdness of living among them. He cares about the world in all its imperfection. His rebellion always felt meaningful because he chose compassion and connection over blind obedience.
Also, call me crazy but it also makes it worse implying that while Aziraphale agrees with his choice it wasn't one he ultimately wanted considering what he implied earlier? Like you give Aziraphale the development to choose Crowley just to once again, take it away.
Aziraphale telling Crowley, “Because I only want one thing, and it’s not about that anymore,” feels like a huge emotional turning point. For the first time, he seems to separate himself from Heaven completely and speak from a place that feels deeply personal. And because of the way the scene is framed, it feels heavily implied that what he wants is Crowley.
That is what makes the ending sting. Because it feels like Aziraphale finally reaches the emotional place viewers had been waiting for, finally understanding Crowley, finally choosing him openly, finally letting go of the system, and then that development is immediately redirected.
He gets the realization. He gets the clarity. He finally seems ready to choose Crowley not out of obligation or fear or guilt, but simply because he wants him. And then the story takes that moment away almost as quickly as it arrives.
Aziraphale's arc was always meant to be built around this realization. So for it to come but at the cost of just, erasing his existence 3 minutes later leaves an empty feeling. It feels like Aziraphale finally gets the character development to choose Crowley for himself… only for the story to once again put that choice just out of reach.
And then when Crowley and Aziraphale say goodbye to each other...it's just a finger kiss??? Don't get me wrong Michael and David did amazing with their performances and you can feel the love in their eyes but, we deserved a better romantic climax.
So the universe gets rebooted, and we’re shown a new world where Crowley and Aziraphale exist as humans and eventually find each other again. They get their romance, they end up together, and on paper it is framed like a happy ending.
But that is also where the ending can feel especially hollow.
Because they are not really them.
These versions may physically resemble Crowley and Aziraphale, and they may even still be drawn to each other, but they do not carry the centuries of history that made their relationship so meaningful in the first place.
The reason Crowley and Aziraphale matter so much is not simply because they fell in love. It is because they spent centuries becoming who they are with each other. Their bond was built through time, through conflict, through humanity changing them, through repeatedly choosing compassion over obedience and choosing each other even when it was dangerous.
So replacing them with human versions who have none of those memories can feel less like payoff and more like losing them entirely.
Yes, those human versions may still fall in love. Yes, they may still be happy. But it is hard not to feel like the original Crowley and Aziraphale—the ones viewers spent years caring about—are gone. Because, in retrospect, they are.
And that can feel more heartbreaking than hopeful, because the story spends so long emphasizing free will and the importance of choices. Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship mattered because of the choices they made together over centuries. Their love felt earned because it belonged specifically to them.
So ending with alternate human versions getting the happy ending can feel bittersweet, technically they find each other, but not as the two people the audience actually watched grow and struggle and love each other for all that time.
the ending gives them the romance they were denied… while also taking away the very versions of them who earned it.
So again I ask, what is the emotional takeaway of the finale? What is the audience meant to feel beyond emptiness?
If the point is that love transcends timelines and they will always find each other—there is something beautiful in that. But it also clashes with what the show spent so long teaching us. Because Good Omens made their specific history feel important. Their love was not meaningful only because they were destined for each other. It was meaningful because of every choice they made along the way.
And if the message is that love still matters even if everything ends… that can work too. But the finale also spends so much time emphasizing loss and wiping away the world they spent centuries protecting that it can leave the audience emotionally stranded. The characters are technically together, yet the people viewers became attached to are gone. The systems they fought against disappear, but so does the life they built within that world.
if the versions of Crowley and Aziraphale we followed are erased, if their memories are erased, if the world they loved is erased, and the emotional conflict season 2 built never fully gets unpacked before that happens… then what exactly was all of that pain building toward?
What are we supposed to take from Aziraphale finally seeming ready to choose Crowley, only to lose that version of them? From Crowley finally confessing his feelings, only for the relationship to reset? From all the focus on humanity, free will, and compassion, only for the universe itself to be wiped clean?
And I understand that there were under a time crunch, but the problem wasn't only that it was rushed, but that the writing quite literally it took away the central heart of Good Omens and the strong messagining that came with it.
Also, we got no KISS?? no HUG?? and no STRAIGHTFORWARD CONFESSION??? These two deserved a better resolution.
If you read all the way MWAK I LOVE YOU AND I LOVE THESE SILLY LITTLE GUYS and thats why im so passionate discussing this. Have a nice day <3
Another thought: five separate characters including Crowley and Aziraphale playing or being shown how to play games of skill and chance (some of which are rigged) in the finale only for it to be a plot point that goes absolutely nowhere in the final confrontation with a God who specifically has canonical history of making ridiculous bets with creatures of Hell/Heaven.
The angel and demon who found the loopholes that allowed the arrangement and helped them to delay Armageddon 1.0 didn't find a way to win their world's freedom - like the Bentley - through the games of skill and chance they had played their entire existence?
So many plot points that went nowhere 😩 Baby Jee was clearly meant to be there. He was learning Find the Lady for Plot Reasons tied to the Games of Skill and Chance. He was to S3 what Adam was to S1. He was going to Find the Lady and win the game and change the house rules.
Book that was good: I liked it 👍
Book that was bad: this sucked 👎
Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me
what if god vetoed it
I'am sorry to everyone that did but i didn't like the ending. Not only because aziracrow didn't kiss, or hug or have their happy ending. But because the series lacked meaning at the end.
I started watching Good Omens because it's a series that allows you to think and question religion without following the rules of Docma, and without denying its existence either. With its many contradictions and imperfections, but with the idea that everything has a meaning we can't quite grasp, but which is ultimately good. And this ending took that away from me.
It concluded that the rules of religion and the existence of superior beings interfere with free will. That since the system is flawed, it must be destroyed. But wasn't the world worth saving even if it's imperfect? Wasn't the fact that the world is flawed a reason to fix it, not destroy it?
For me, the problem that the series had to solve was the black-and-white mentality. That the world could be better by accepting imperfections and creating a gray area. That the fight between heaven and hell was what made no sense, and that they didn't even know why they were fighting any more.
I would have liked that, in the end, Aziraphale and Crowley gave the angels and demons the possibility to choose. Because it's them who couldn't choose and only did what they were told by god or the Metatron or satan. Humans had always been able to do whatever they wanted. And that way, the black-and-white mentality would end. Some entities would choose to be human, some would want to help humans after death in Purgatory. And Crowley and Aziraphale could stay on Earth, not to influence humans but to give them options. Because sometimes when humans don't know what to do, what we need are options so we can decide better. Not to be told what to do.
And i also wanted for aziracrow to watch over us, to protect us. And they could stay with humanity because the love that they have for each other and the love they have for the earth is one and the same. They learn to love earth because of each other and love each other because of the time that they had on earth. You can't make them choose.
So no, I don't like this ending. Thanks to everyone who worked on it because the circumstances weren't good, but there were people who love this story and wanted to give it an ending despite everything. But it's not my ending, I have another one. And we can create another one because this is our story too.
In light of the final I got the urge to quote marvel's Loki. the show had its troubles, but there's one thing that really stuck with me, and I find it HIGHLY relevant now:
"Sure. Burn it down. Easy. Annihilating is easy. Raising things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard"
(...but it's worth it)
I thought that would be the main message of good omens 3.
In the Finale Crowley was framed as some kind of hero, a main character, who never does anything wrong. I love Crowley, of course I do, but I love characters for their faults. I thought Aziraphale, who was framed as naïve for trying to fix the system, would have his moment to explain this for Crowley. Crowley had lost hope, and Aziraphale would give it back. We don’t have to destroy the world to make it a better place. We just need to fix what's broken. There's still hope. "There's still hope for us. I love you, Crowley. I love you more than anything in the entire world. But the world don’t need to die. No one does."
*cue romantic music and lovey dovey moment where they finally have their kiss and everything is fixed and nothing is ever wrong, ever again*
EXACTLYYYY Azi literally says that he chose to go to Heaven because of Crowley because CROWLEY GAVE HIM HOPE that things could be better!! And I think Jesus's little side plot was proof that Azi was unto something... if only the show had had more time to explore that :(
So, Good Omens season 3 completely forgot that Muriel was supposed to be running the bookstore? Literally, Metatron didn't care about her and just left her on Earth? But that's completely forgotten in season 3? I can't believe we were deprived of a Muriel & Crowley duo. Beyond that, Muriel could have finally been another deep connection for Crowley with another angel. We could have also explored the mistreatment of heaven and angels more. Because, really, Muriel was never spoken to except when she needed to hand over a file. It's so sad. And let's not forget the potential for her to be Aziracrow symbolic child. We flirted with that in season 1 with Warlock and Adam. Agatha & Rio had Nicholas. Louis & Lestat had Claudia. Will & Hannibal had Abigail. Aziraphale & Crowley could have had Muriel. She also could easily have taken over the bookstore with Aziraphale, who, by the way, went to live in their cottage.