k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes
only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life
Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy
i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD
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For a moment I thought they were going to spend eternity together in the cosmic bookshop writing the whole universe back in existence in the blank books...
the problem isn't “they didn’t get the ship moment I wanted.” the problem is thematic incoherence.
season 1 and 2 kept hammering the idea that individual lives matter. not replaceable copies. not "close enough." actual people, with continuity and memory and history. Crowley and Aziraphale repeatedly chose imperfect, messy existence over grand cosmic plans. so ending with "the universe gets reset and everyone is replaced by alternate versions" isn't just horribly depressing. it's philosophically backwards. like the story literally abandoned its own argument in the final act.
the Job parallel especially points that out pretty cleanly. The whole emotional weight there was: replacement children are not the same children. new children (even if they had, by some chance, looked and acted Exactly The Same) doesn't fix the tragedy of losing the original children. that mattered to them. so yea, this ending feels less like "hopeful transcendence to tear down The System" and more like “congrats on your happy ending! everyone is dead, but the cottage is cute!" bold creative choice ig. like serving tea with eccles cakes after detonating reality.
my frustration is basically: the story spent years arguing that personhood matters — memory matters, continuity matters, these exact souls matter. and then solved the finale with a cosmic reset that wipes out the very identities the narrative taught us to care about. very much like the nuclear apocalypse they were trying so hard to prevent. it goes against the very thing Crowley was staunchly opposed to during The Flood. against everything they did in the Job minisode. against literally the entire Jim/Gabriel narrative, about Jim not really being Gabriel without his memories. and also, to quote Crowley, "the angel you knew is NOT me."
"but they found each other again! we got them back at the end!" no we didn't. that is NOT them. and to say that they are is kind of insulting tbh. they LOOK similar and maybe have some of the same interests, but just bc a blonde and a red head are into books and astrophysics doesn't make them THEM. their memories, their history, everything they went through together and fought for, the experiences that shaped their characters, those 6000+ years — that's all GONE.
Also. people keep saying stuff like "it was the only right choice" as if there were only two horrible choices? if the story introduces negotiation and moral choice, we'll naturally start imagining alternatives. once “God offers options” enters the chat, people will obviously ask, “wait. why was this the chosen solution?” when they could've gone for idk, literally anything else. God literally offered to put things back as they were. they could've chosen to have THAT universe, THAT world —THEIR world— put back into place and then added their own conditions to tear down Heaven and Hell. they could've chosen to keep their memories. they could've chosen to make everyone human from then on if that's what the writers were so hellbent on. they could've chosen to make God erase her own memory for all i care idfk. but this ending feels like a bad consolation prize.
after EVERYTHING they did, and everything they went through, they deserved SO much better than this. THE WHOLE WORLD did.
New Earth isn't Earth. a Michael Jackson impersonator isn't actually Michael Jackson. The Other Mother isn't the real mother. those new people aren't their original selves. and whoever those guys are at the end are not Aziraphale and Crowley.
Aziraphale and Crowley did NOT get a happy ending. Let that sink in.
After everything they'd gone through together, all their history, their love spanning 6000 years, they literally vanished into dust.
Their "human versions" are not them. They met each other in their 50s? 60s? and will get like 30 or so years together.
No sticking together for centuries despite being from opposite factions in an eternal conflict, no developing their rivalry, friendship, and eventually love throughout the ages, no having each other's back despite the dangers of doing so, no bickering, no rescuing each other, no "you go too fast for me, Crowley", no 'our' Bentley, no "angel" as a pet name, NO THEM. At all.
This is my worst nightmare I'm going the fuck back to sleep.
Just some personal thoughts about the GO3 ending and my current state.
I posted this on Insta:
I feel tired. So very very tired.
There were a lot of people who came to my DMs and tried to reassure me, which I am really grateful for! And I am happy that so many of you found a bit of piece and a safe place within my comics and encourage me that it's in our hands now to create more stories with our ineffable husbands and that technically aaaaall stories are canon now.
And I know it sounds childish to say "No, I only want the canon events with the actors on screen!" but I am just so tired of the "artists and writers will fix it / come up with alternative endings where they are happy".
Why is it always our job to pick up the shards and put them back together or fill in the gaps that were left empty?
The reason why I fell in love with GO and got into the fandom was because of season 2. Season 1 was great but I protected myself bc I thought it is another queerbaiting show and I didn't want to invest my heart into those wonderful characters because it happened all the time. (I am not saying GO a queerbaiting show, it was just what I thought back then as an outstander who didn't dig deeper into the material)
But with season 2 it clearly, obviously showed the love theme and there was the whole build up with the kiss. It was clearly, unmistakenly there and I was so happy to see that in canon with my very own eyes. Not just symbolic things or sub-text. It was THERE.
But now it is back to "if you squint hard enough, AziraCrow is real". Season 2 just feels like a red herring for me now.
I do respect that this was Terry's idea of how to end the story and I am happy for the people who see all this beauty in the bittersweet ending and say it's perfect for them.
All I can see is that my comfort characters died, without a proper heart to heart, with an unresolved ending. All they are and all they achieved is just gone.
I read so many positive takes on it in hope to see what they see in the ending with "if you squint hard enough the snowglobe is maybe their little pocket universe" or "that could be interpreted as x/y".
That is the whole point what destroys me. Now we are just back to ✨imagination✨, fanwork and "squinting hard enough at details".
I am happy for Asa and Anthony, but for me Aziraphale and Crowley are gone.
Not sure what that means for me and all my own unresolved stories I had for GO, and I wish I could be the bandage to fix some of the cracks in your heart, but currently I don't even know how to fix my own one.
So, Good Omens. I've never been a part of this fandom. I've read the book about 15 years ago, but only started to watch the series two weeks ago. Instantly fell completely in love with the love story between Aziraphale and Crowley. Most beautiful love story that I have seen for I don't know how long. Such pure, kind, heartfelt amazing queerplatonic story between two agender asexual immortal enitities. And with the book and the 1-2 seasons being the epitome of kindness and positivity and love I was sure that the finale will end with the ultimate Happy Ending. Just like the book did. God, how wrong I was.
For me, the ending contradicts everything the book and the first two seasons were about. It's still beautiful in it's own way, but it seems like the creators completely missed the point of why this story was so loved among the fans. It's was a truly tragic ending for everyone involved, and I disagree with anyone who would call it bittersweet. Because truly - it's an "Everyone Dies" ending. All the characters we've known and loved are dead. And final 10 minutes makes it even worse - because the people we see there are not the characters we know, even if they are played by the same actors. They are just some random people from the new universe, and honestly, I couldn't care less about them.
So here is my thoughts on fix-it variation, changing last 30 minutes of the Finale. Starting with the point where all that's left in the universe are Aziraphale, Crowley and the Bookshop with the empty books:
No Satan or God should be present. Satan's imput is useless, and God was mostly silent for the last 6000 years, no point starting talking now. It contradicts the premise of ineffibility of her ways.
How about instead, Aziraphale and Crowley just spend a part of eternity creating the universe from scratch again using empty books and making them into the new Books of Life. We know, that Crowley and Aziraphale can create VERY Powerful miracles if they work together.
Crowly helped create the universe before his fall, he knows how it works. Both Aziraphale and Crowley lived on Earth since it's creation, they are an experts in human nature and human history. Even if they forget something - it's still better than nothing.
And the new universe they would create would be the same as the old one - except for one thing. Heaven and Hell would not want to go at War with each other anymore. Angels and Demons would still work as before - creating balance between good and evil within humanity. But the Great Plan and the Great War would not be the focus anymore. Humans will get their reward or punishment after their death as needed and come back to Earth again if they want. And Aziraphale and Crowley would relive 6000 years of human history again - only this time they would be together - in their Bookshop, their Edem. And after all work is done - they would have whole eternity together.
And maybe, the reality of the Ineffable God's Plan is that everything needs to end, just to Begin Again.
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
My husband’s job primarily employs adult men but there is one (1) teenage girl and my husband said originally he worried she might be a bit of an outcast but instead every man on the crew was like “huh guess I am a dad/older brother now.”
She was in a car crash on the way to work one morning and called my husband to let him know she’d be late and he was like wtf guess I’m gonna be late too because I’m coming to pick you up and then he told his team and they were like I think you mean WE are coming.
Imagine you are a teenage girl probably rushing to get to work and you crash your probably new car and feel absolutely miserable and now you’ll be late to work but then suddenly in the distance a car full of all the adult men you work with just pulls up and is like “we came all the way here to pick you up” the mental image right now is fr.
Apparently she tried to call her dad but it was 3am and he was obviously sleeping so she called my husband and he not only came to find her but fished her glasses out of the hood of the car (she’d dropped them while looking inside), drove her to the hospital, and told her to take the day off. She insisted on coming back to work so he used his lunch break to watch TV with her to make sure she didn’t doze off (concussion risk).
You’ve heard of the Mom friend but my husband is very much the Dad friend. He said when he answered the phone she said “hey please don’t be mad” and he’s never felt such powerful Fatherhood energy in his life.
