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Aziraphale in the finale: because I only want one thing. But this not what it's about anymore.

This line openly tells us what the finale ultimately means for Aziraphale. He died believing that everything he had ever wanted, everything he had protected, everything he had loved and everything he wanted - no longer mattered.

In fact, it never had.

I'm devastated.

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I will never be over how cruel the finale seemed toward Aziraphale in general. But especially the way we could so CLEARLY see he didn't want to go through with Crowley's plan, the way he hides his face and sobs brokenly. He didn't want to die. Certainly not at the hands of his beloved. But he goes along with it, I think, out of guilt and despair.

What a horrible thing to witness on my screen, honestly.

Aziraphale, you mattered. You sweet, soft bastard, you went along with heaven as far as you could.

For thousands of years, you walked an impossibly thin tightrope, trying to follow your own heart and conscience without open rebellion against everything you came from. You kept the demon you love at arm's length, to keep him safe--loving him silently, more with actions than words.

You deserved the chance to love freely, to be yourself without shame or fear, to be treated gently. To have that picnic in the sunshine.

Being kind to Aziraphale and wanting good things for him is like...loving myself by proxy? It's somehow easier. I think maybe that's why the cruelty of the writers feels so sharp and hurtful to those of us that connect so deeply with this character.

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I had been lost to you, sunlight

And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight

Oh, your love is sunlight

But it is sunlight

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Georgian BTS

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Just a thought expeirment, trying to connect dots.

I joined the fandom post season 2 and I diddnt like the ending

I joined the fandom post season 2 and I liked the ending

I joined the fandom before the show or during season 1 and I diddnt like the end

I joined the fandom before the show or during season 1 and i liked the ending

Remaining time: 2 days 12 hours

eklmrlos

please just 90 minutes of them cuddling and being in love

ladybracknellssherry

Unfortunately remembering that time I sent a rambling “thank you letter” to NG’s ask box. I THANKED him for Good Omens. I wrote about so much of my trauma, including something very vague about SA, and becoming disabled, having to move back in with my parents, having to drop out of grad school, about the death of my best friend, the death of my partner, my cancer, the death of my CAT, all of which happened in the three years leading up to it. I told him that Good Omens brought me back to life after years of depression and numbness and hopelessness. It’s all so gross and twisted now. And to think, I was buzzing with joy and excitement (and embarrassment) for days because his response gave me so much hope for Season 3.

What an absolute ass. Thanks, NG, for taking away my joy and adding more death and heartbreak and trauma to the list. 👏 👍🏻

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And this is why i don't stop blaming him for it. Because he did this on purpose. He knew people cared. he had been told so many times how much they cared. But for whatever reason, it amused him to hurt those people.

And that's not something those people just need to suck up and deal with. That's him being cruel. He deserves to have that attached to him forever.

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Part 1 ★ Temptation Accomplished

I don't suppose we will get any answers....

Please give us your questions for Rob Wilkins here! Rob is keen to emphasise that collecting questions in advance is not about censorship -

#anti go3 #anti good omens 3 #good omens 3 critical #good omens s3 critical

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David Tennant during a reading through for Good Omens 3

ingravinoveritas

(CW: Neil Gaiman mention.) It seems that GO 3 co-writer Michael Marshall Smith has just published an article on Substack (a conversation with horror writer Lisa Morton) in which his work on Good Omens was mentioned.

The full article does not directly relate to Good Omens, but Morton asked MMS at one point about writing for/condensing the finale, and this was his response:

It is now abundantly clear that we (the audience/fans) were deliberately misled about Neil's involvement with the finale in terms of what happened following his "removal" from the project after the allegations against him came out.

MMS states above that all of them (he, NG, and Peter Atkins) have known each other for 30 years, and we know they have worked together previously. So despite Neil being "firewalled" (a turn of phrase that frames NG as a victim of the situation and seems entirely dismissive given the circumstances that led to his removal in the first place) from the production, it is more than reasonable to believe that his interests and what he wanted to have happen were being represented by these writers.

I'm particularly galled by the sentence above, "It was seeking--against a strong headwind--closure for beloved characters." Because Aziraphale and Crowley are beloved queer characters, and yet three straight men set to work removing every scrap of visible affection from them, acting as if the chemistry and attraction between them never existed, and denying them any chance at meaningful communication.

I can also think of nothing that embodies stunted emotional development more than deciding that "Better to erase all of history and everyone in it than to talk about our feelings" is an optimal form of closure. The question then becomes, closure for whom, exactly? This is something MMS conveniently left out of the article above, as his comments sharply contradict the sentiments coming from so much of the fandom. So if it wasn't closure for the characters (I'd say not) and if it wasn't closure for the fans (which it sure as hell wasn't), then who was it for?

Because here we are all, two months later, still trying to reckon with what we were given. Still trying to work our way through confusion, disappointment, through an ocean of duplicitous double-talk and seeking--against a strong headwind--some scrap of understanding about both everything that we saw on screen and what we were told by those in the know.

Yet the one thing I understand more now is that this finale was never for us, or for Michael and David, or anyone who was so invested in Aziraphale and Crowley. And what closure we have been left to find will not ever come from the finale writers. It has to come from ourselves...

itsineffhazbinle

So, can ppl finally stop saying this was what Terry Pratchett wanted/wrote and #for Terry? Because I'm getting annoyed by ppl doing that with no clue whatsoever. Plus, it's interesting he says "we had fun generating story". I thought they had a lot of material from the (in)famous NG and TP 1990/2006 conversations about the sequel, to work with? Now suddenly there was "no adapting really bc the novel had been covered in the first season". So what material were they using for s2 and 3 especially? Was most of it invented by these 3 men lol? So long for "TP's last dying wish". The man had a good intuition, in having his hardrive steamrolled. Oh and so long for NG being completely excluded from the show! It's his story through and through. Now it's official. Also I wonder, what closure did the characters even need? S1 and the book covered that pretty fine. What closure does s2/3 bring to them, apart from a literal erasure of the whole story and the work that was done with TP when he was still alive and able to give his input to what was, rightfully, half his story? This is so disrespectful. But the worst of it all, is how this idiot is framing NG being removed as him being a victim. I seem to remember this Marshall follows the Neil Gaman apologist substack on, well, substack, am I wrong? No wonder he's defending his long time pal. Sigh. The more I hear about this show, the more disgusted I get.