Obsessing over Good Omens

[somebebop]

I can't draw, I can't write, the only thing I can do is make Good Omens edits to music I like, and it works as therapy for me.

So I decided to list posts with my edits here for my own convenience mainly.

Ribbons by The Good, The Bad and The Queen

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths

(Don’t you) Forget About Me by Simple Minds

1000 Oceans by Tori Amos

Runnin’ Up That Hill, Kate Bush cover by Ellevator

Mad About You by Hooverphonic

Sonnet by the Verve

To the End by Blur

Yesterday by the Beatles

[fellshish]

i hate that i’m not over the gomens finale yet. i want to be a much stronger person. i want to be like oh well it’s just a tv show and canon doesn’t mean anything and i am. i do. mostly. like 70% of the time. or so. idk. and then there’s a wave of grief just crashing over me again

[adverbian]

Right there with you. It’s not “just a TV show,” is the way I think about it. It’s all the real-life things this story connects with, all of the real-life hopes and fears and sorrows, all of the pieces of ourselves.

[masnadies]

I do love the book, but from the time I saw the show, I saw that These Characters As Portrayed were everything and must be allowed to be happy.

No matter how much projecting we are doing, the idea that these traumatised, lovely, clever, anxious beings that distanced themselves from their people because they couldn't go along with them, and who are exactly the kind that our society has less and less tolerance for-- that they could succeed and heal together happily? It was everything. I don't know if it hurt more that they-as-themselves failed, or how they did, or how they were first contorted into uncanny imitations of themselves first to rip apart the parts of our souls who love them so dearly by not being who we think know they are and taint not only their present (recent?) selves but also themselves through the entire canon? There's a post somewhere on Tumblr that through loving characters we identify with, we learn to love ourselves. What happens now?

[fellshish]

i don’t know where we go now. but i found this comment very comforting. let’s go there and hold hands

[ladybracknellssherry]

"Rejecting something and refusing it to have power over you sounds like a very Pratchett thing to do."

[aduckwithears]

Meanwhile the good omens book boys are just kicked back in their cottage watching all this go down, still completely mystified by the choices humans make.

[aduckwithears]

Okaaay... so I kinda wrote the thing. Read on for some South Downs Cottage slice of life... I'm not sure the boys liked the finale ending though 🙃

"Crowley," said Aziraphale as he looked up from carefully tapping at his mobile phone device (1). "I do believe that there is some sort of controversy regarding our, ah, modern media counterparts."

"That so?" Crowley was busy folding origami shapes out of junk mail. The shapes had far too many legs. Some of the legs twitched.

"It's actually dreadful!" Aziraphale sounded properly upset as he returned his gaze to the mobile phone device. "It seems that we, that is, they, failed to stop the end of the world once again--“

“No surprise there, honestly.” The many-legged little figures were swatting experimentally at each other and a nearby glass of whiskey. Crowley frowned and shooed them back towards the stack of junk mail (2). 

“But instead of, oh, I don’t know, doing something clever, or asking those creative humans for help, they chose to mmmmm…..” 

“Chose to what, angel?” 

“Chose to ask God to end everything! Including themselves!”

Crowley froze, and the origami wavered uncertainly. “Ugkghhh… that’s…. but WHY? That’s properly bonkers!”

Aziraphale shook his head. “Apparently God promised to then create a universe with nothing divine, nothing diabolic, no greater powers at all. A free humanity, at the price of oblivion and the end of the current universe.”

“Humanity’s plenty free,” groused Crowley, “free to do good, free to do bad, we’ve been over this! Ancient history. That deal seems awfully fishy to me. God? In person? Never ends well. Burning bushes is the least of it. And who’s going to make sure God keeps their word?”

A pause. “I don’t believe they covered that.”

“Well. Clearly a muck-up from start to finish then. Come on, angel!” Crowley slanted to his feet and swept the table clean of mail and little paper figures alike. “That new restaurant you’ve had your eye on just opened up a table and we’ll make it if we hurry.” He strode out of the cottage and toward the Bentley, muttering about free will and poor choices and no one doing it better on TV than the Golden Girls anyway.

Aziraphale looked at his mobile phone device one more time with a sort of pitying, exasperated expression. Then he carefully placed the device on a side table, shrugged on a well-worn knit sweater, and followed Crowley out to the door and to dinner.

(1) Crowley had bought it for him. He occasionally tried “scrolling” although most of what he saw seemed to be advertisements, which surely couldn’t be right. He was probably scrolling it wrong.

(2) Junk mail had been one of his. Always seemed to have a life of its own.

[somebebop]

Oh, thank you.

Hellooooo my new headcanon

[themostineptthateverstepped]

So you know why I love Good Omens?

Because it's HAPPY.

I am tired of watching shows and films that think that the only way to be compelling or "edgy" is to showcase abusive relationships and torture and kill their protagonists.

Good Omens is compelling because it shows genuine love, respect, and kindness when it would have been so easy to show literally anything else.

Crowley, a demon, doesn't lie to Aziraphale, doesn't hurt him or trick him, doesn't disrespect or power-trip him; he cares about him and treats him well. Aziraphale, an angel, never for a moment rejects Crowley for being a demon, he doesn't try to change him, tell him he is wrong or attempt to "save" him, but instead recognizes all of the good in him and treats him well.

The only unhealthy relationships are between heaven and hell, and they FREE THEMSELVES OF THESE ABUSES.

The whole thing is filled with healthy relationships of all kinds.

Adam and the Them? Even though Adam is seen as the leader of the group, he takes this as a responsibility to provide his friends with the best games and bring them joy, not as a means of controlling them.

Witches and witchfinders fall in love.

No one is tortured or tormented, the world does not end, and a fucking nightingale sings in Berkeley Square.

Good Omens was the first time I have watched a series that didn't leave me tense wondering when the hurt was going to start. I actually realized how emotionally abusive media has become, and that is so fucked up.

[aduckwithears]

Sliding in here... not to say how wrong OP was given the current circumstances, but to say how RIGHT they were for saying it in the first place.

[crowleysgirl56]

I really want to know OP’s take on the finale now, because THIS is what Good Omens was and I’m still so fucking devastated with what it BECAME.

[somebebop]

This

[depraveddame]

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?

[rainbowhyperfixation]

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

[theonevoice]

After all, if the author is god, then canonically we can be

[somebebop]

Goodness yes

[mrghostrat]

wheeze can we start the #great omens tag for people who wanna actually enjoy and appreciate the show and not have to hold our breath and dodge rage bullets in the main tag

[somebebop]

Yeah because the NG news last year didn’t break the fandom enough 😞

[prohedrie]

Spoilers for GO Season 3

A lamentation

Okay, I tried. I tried to look at it positively. Yes, the last scene was beautiful. Hearing Crowley say that he has everything he ever wanted and that he is finally happy and content. Seeing them married and in the South Downs.

But then I remember that this isn’t the Crowley or the Aziraphale I’ve come to love over the past few years. The ones I love are gone.

Under the circumstances, I had expected plot holes, a rushed storyline, and unanswered questions (e.g., why it suddenly no longer mattered that they could perform super power miracles together, why the Metatron was so relieved that Aziraphale went with him, why they, of all people, survived Michael’s act of destruction…). But I had hoped for something wittier, more interesting, FUNNIER, and cleverer, just like in Seasons 1 and 2. Not a boring story involving the Book of Life. And not a complete departure from the message of the first season (as others here have already explained). Instead, they wiped out my favorite characters in a plot that is so unnecessary and unimaginative. I can live without a kiss, but not with the fact that they’ve basically disappeared and been replaced by a human copy who will only live for a few years. (One of the charms of this love story—at least for me—was its supernatural nature. There are enough human love stories.)

The plot of Season 3 isn't going to win the Nobel Prize in Literature anyway—so why not give us a truly happy and satisfying ending (just like so many fanfiction writers have done)? Is there some law that forbids making longtime fans happy in the series finale?

Yes, I see. They’ve tried to give the fans something—a few familiar tropes, like the story of them finding each other in every universe, getting married, the South Downs, and the creation of our universe out of love—and I envy those of you who find that comforting, because to me it still feels superficial. They’re only allowed to live together for a few years and don’t remember a thing.

The worst part is: Every time I see pictures of them now, read something about them (even fanfiction), or rewatch something from Season 1 or Season 2, I can’t help but think of the scene where they say goodbye and fade away. It breaks my heart. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to rewatch GO again, because I’ll be thinking the whole time: everything here will be erased, every character I love will be gone. I feel kind of empty right now, like I’ve lost someone dear to me. My go-to comfort zone, my safe space, has vanished. Well, but I’m an adult with a life, and nobody around me will understand that I’m heartbroken over the loss of two fictional characters. I’ll feel better—it helps to read that others here feel the same—but my joy for this series is gone.

[aydracz]

I fucking hate how the GO finale destroyed for so many of us the joy we found in the story and in the characters.

Why? Just why? What was the point?

[somebebop]

I have a feeling that no fandom ever tried THIS hard to accept new canon.

And failed. Well, I failed for sure.

I used to think about this story as something that brings healing, and now I see it is an orphaned child who has gone through loss and abuse and neglect.. It still needs love, and I will love it, but I need time to learn to love it in a new way.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

My thoughts about the Good Omens Finale

Note: I do not wish to convince anyone of my opinion or be convinced of theirs, I just want to write down how I feel about the finale. Also, I've heard that the creators are getting some hate messages, omg? Please if you have a slightest inclination to do that or to be mean to someone because you disagree with them then log off the internet and go for a walk... try to find a rainbow, feed peas to a duck ❤.

Simply put... I hated the finale. During while some things felt quite rushed I was thinking that it's because of the 6 episodes to 90 minutes shortening and even if it won't be perfect it will still be worth it because of the ending. And then came the scene in the bookshop with God and Satan and our ineffables after which they... died. And then we saw some two human clones who looked like them ending up together.

...

Crying, I couldn't have believed my eyes. The finale killed Aziraphale and Crowley and all the characters we came to know and love and replaced them with some random people who looked like them and we are supposed to care about?

Have I really just watch Soho struggle, learn that Mutt have died, Nina and Maggie had to leave, and people there were barely hanging on to be given a bit of hope by Jesus so they would be erased and this wouldn't matter at all?

I can't even start to begin to describe how much this is not Good Omens that I love. My words fail me and I am left stuttering and waving my hands erratically.

Not starting again but fix what we have has been an important point of Good Omens. Same as Job and his wife don't want some new children but the old ones. But somehow replacing the Earth is the ideal ending now?

The finale is trying to convince us that it's better because now there won't be any Hell and Heaven with their influences, but the big part of Good Omens was always that the humans do have their free will unlike most angels and demons - and all the big events on Earth like World Wars or Spanish Inquisition are created by humans, no matter how many coins Crowley glues on the pavement. If this was truly a problem then even a God's edict that from now no direct influencing people would do (not that we have that much reason to believe that there was that much influencing going on in the first place - most demons and angels kept to their dominions and Aziraphale and Crowley had The Arrangement), Aziraphale and Crowley could have been left on the Earth to make sure no such things was happening. But no, let's throw this all out, kill everyone and start over with real dinosaurs this time because it will surely be better... or will it? The humanity without Hell and Heaven seems the same to me in the ending. Hmm.

The whole scene with the God and Satan (what happens to him? who knows) where God calls Aziraphale lazy felt very very weird.

My brain is completely baffled why I should care about some random two men that look like Aziraphale and Crowley when I just saw my ineffables die. It's not them. It's like someone killed me and cloned me. I would not be very happy about it. And I know that some people like to say it is at least an imprint of them because they created the universe and they find each other in every universe over and over but nothing like is stated there, it is just wishful thinking of a broken heart imho. Aziraphale and Crowley are dead after Aziraphale spend years trying to make Heaven better and Crowley spent years in depression...

...which is another thing of itself:

Crowley is an optimist. (so seeing him in the finale makes me want to put the gif of from The Godfather: "look how they massacred my boy" here :D)

I hate this trend where you have an uplifting funny movie/season/book/something and you see that it is successful and people love it because it gives them comfort and hope and you go "oh but what if we make it drama where suddenly our characters full of hope and energy are depressed and see dying as the only option because surely that is what the fans of the original material appreciate". Fuck that.

I can't help it but the finale doesn't feel like Pratchett. At all. Perhaps there is a reason for that:

I have decided that I will consider only the book and S1 the canon in my head (perhaps with occasional visits from Bildad, Muriel or Furfur ;)). But I simply can't take this ending into my heart.

I have been waiting for the Finale to find out if it rekindles my passion for Good Omens, which sort of died away after the info about NG came out. I'm afraid it hasn't and I don't plan to update this blog much more anymore, perhaps sometimes if I see something that I want to share but I am not sure how much. Thank you for following me all these years, it's been a blast ❤.

(I still love Good Omens. I am going to The Ineffable Con 7 and I will look forward to meeting you there or at another opportunity. ❤❤❤)

[somebebop]

To the world 💔

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Today's vent:

[somebebop]

Literally, me every day

[somebebop]

Oh Tumblr feels like a never ending wake.

Why did it have to be so hard

[tsilvy]

Aziraphale and Crowley would NOT go gentle into that good night.

RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT!

[bellisima-writes]

The Real Problem with Good Omens wasn't the End, it was Season 2

Hi Fam,

Okay so I sort of lied about taking a break bc my brain wont let me. And I think I need to write this down and get it out so I can move on. So thanks for bearing witness to my healing, I guess?

It's been a day and I've processed a lot of feelings and have come to a conclusion on what did not work for me about the ending. And, of course, it's nuanced and fails to fall cleanly into one side or the other, so I will, once again, stand awkwardly on the outside of the fandom seeing pros and cons to both sides of an unending argument. But, that's just how it goes.

Spoilers for GO S3 below the cut:

I get the ending. I don't need to hear about the beautiful symbolism, the parallels or anything like that. I GET IT. AND, I do respect that this was the ending that Terry and NG came to thirty years ago. The end to their book, where the subtext was sub and the body swap didn't happen and there was no Ritz scene. Where the end left us with a whole ensemble of characters, including a bastard of an Angel and a probably too nice Demon, whose fates we did not know the end to.

In that story, a follow up with their sides coming to Earth to drag them down and punish them by maybe keeping them from returning to Earth; one where they discover the plans for the Second Coming and find a way to, against all odds, fight it, together? That's a story where, in the end, them choosing to end everything and restart the universe, where they find one another and FINALLY can be together openly and safely in a cosy cottage, makes sense. It makes SENSE. And it could work, because the theme is the system is broken, no one can ever be free, and maybe everyone deserves a chance at freedom, on their own merits, even the ethereal and occult. I get that story.

But the body swap, the Ritz, a season 2 in which the focus was almost entirely on THEM and their love and their devotion to one another: it transformed the story. Made it a love story more than anything else, and made that love almost exclusively directed at one another. Yes we know they love Earth, we are told and showed in Season 1, but I would argue we were not showed the same in Season 2. Aziraphale and Crowley had a peaceful fragile existence on an imperfect world that they felt no obligation to fix (it's fine, free will! And they're an Angel and a Demon, we are just cute insects to beings like that).

And then the Final 15. This tragic choice between love and duty. The kiss that unequivocally changed their relationship forever. It was a creative decision to end the season with a bang and separate the two love interests for an inevitable and emotional conclusion. We've read this book, many, many times over. Jane Austen's written a few.

They're very good.

And then, we have the finale. That was too short and too rushed, both things we expected and can forgive. But the end we were given, which again works for a different version of this story, does not work here. It felt hollow, out of nowhere, and inconsistent with the story we were shown on the screen. No explanations of a show runner in a magazine after the fact can change what was produced, whether they intended something different or not.

And no, the song time after time does in no way convince me this is a multi-versal story.

Would it have worked? If we were given a full six episodes to follow Aziraphale and Crowley around as they TRIED tirelessly to stop it? Watched their silly and touching antics as they did everything to save it, only to end up at the end of creation holding the last page of the book of life and each other's hands and given an opportunity to get a redo? Maybe without God and Satan there, sure. In that context, I could see it being something that I could get used to. A testament to their love and devotion, how it was bigger than them, and how they understood one another so deeply that they came to the conclusion together, without a second thought.

But, a writer chose a season 2 story that ended on a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger that inevitably undid the beauty of the ending he swore was the reason he made this show in the first place."To honor his friend." I blame all this pain and division in the fandom on that individual and those choices.

And I can live with that.

AND NOW I REALLY AM GOING TO CLOSE THIS SITE AND WALK AWAY.

[somebebop]

Thank you, yes.

[hellogoodomens]

One of the saddest things is that, for the first time after a season/movie release, I’m seeing so many unhappy people. People who are losing faith, strength, and being overwhelmed by sadness. I’ve seen so many posts from people who no longer want to create their fanart. Not because they’re angry, but because they have no strength left and simply lost hope. Was it worth it?

I’m sending you all hugs. It’s gonna be okay. We have lovely fanfiction and this fandom. Please, don’t give up.

[somebebop]

Spot on, this finale completely drained me. All I can do is stare into nothingness.

And I’m far from being as heartbroken as many other fans.

[gingiekittycat]

Riddle me this. if the mafia boss man Brian Cameron was supposed to be a mirror for God, then that would mean Aziraphale was supposed to outsmart God at Her own game. but instead he once again followed Her rules, Her ultimatum, and got played

We should have gotten a BAMF scene where Aziraphale delivers the smackdown to God a la the Crossword scene, with Crowley looking on in awe, maybe even after Crowley decided to sacrifice himself. For the emotional drama and and impact.

Aziraphale FINALLY going NO. I REJECT GOD. I REJECT HER RULES. I REJECT HER PLANS. And then outsmarting Her to end Her once and for all and give everyone a happily ever after

[insertnerdyjokehere]

There could have been a great parallel from season 1 of Adam rejecting Satan as his father. Aziraphale rejecting God and tricking the system at the same time. "What if... it was never 'God's Ineffable Plan?' What if it's always just been The Ineffable Plan?" And God and Satan are like "huh?"

But Crowley catches on and chimes in with "THE Ineffable plan. Can't know it by definition. Even Her. Who's to say God's ending is the actual intended ending?"

"Yes, I don't even think She has the authority to decide the fate of existence itself. What a ridiculous notion."

And then God is like "You aren't making any sense, if I don't control existence, who does?"

And Aziraphale looks at Crowley and then back to Her and they both just shrug and answer together: "no one." And then with a whoosh all of the books fill up with every story humanity has ever told and the world starts popping back up and we flashback to Aziraphale writing in the book but what we heard him saying is different from what he was actually writing and then we see that what he actually just wrote was "It's ineffable."

[somebebop]

Love it. It would make all the sense.

I’m actually realising that writing a tragedy with supposed deep meaning lying on the surface was easier for the writers that doing a witty comedic happy end.

[hollow-head]

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys

[somebebop]

Yea

[armageddidnt]

The 5 real themes of good omens that the finale completely botched

I know we only had 1 episode and whole plotlines were scrapped but I was just left feeling so empty after the finale given how powerful and moving and profound the themes of season 1/the book were. So buckle up for a long ride let's talk about it

Theme 1: Human Incarnate

The book and the show established that humanity is unique because it is neither purely good or purely bad. From the book: "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people." This Aziraphale describes as "much better" than either Heaven or Hell

This is one of my favorite sequences in the whole show. And the music is soaring and gorgeous. Adam recalls the things in his life he has come to know and love; his parents, his friends, his dog, his home. He makes it have nice weather all year. Aziraphale could feel that love at the Tadfield Manor. Heaven and Hell tried to create an instrument of destruction. But by putting that inside a human boy, they didn't realize the strength of one boy's love would be strong enough to literally burn the hell out of him. He told Satan himself to shove it and rewrote reality to have the dad he truly loved. The power of humanity's love is stronger than any immortal power could ever be.

This is the idea that would have been so cool for the finale but unfortunately never paid off. As the second coming prepares to destroy Earth again, Aziraphale and Crowley could have teamed up with the power of humanity to reshape heaven and hell for good. Adam and Jesus as the antichrist and christ born to end the world and instead used their humanity to save it. Instead we got the book-of-life arc and humans were literally left to dust

Theme 2: Free Will

Next good omens establishes that angels and demons are just puppets but humans are the ones with real free will because they have the ability to be good or bad. Even with heaven and hell, the humans on Earth always have a choice. In season 2, they agree on this, but Crowley's main grievance is the inequity of it all. Humans have free will but it still isn't fair.

God made angels and demons and humans but the humans never had to follow her 'plan.' Free will and the ability to recognize what is truly right outside the propaganda of good vs evil is what saves the world.

Humans always had free will, even if God was around to kill a bunch of them with floods or take their stuff to win bets or something. Creating a new universe without God wouldn't change that. They would still have free will, just less threats from above/below, I guess. What Crowley's established character really should have wanted here was to fix the inequity inherent in human society. That's what is truly holding them back, not a lack of will. Removing God from the universe doesn't actually solve the root problem here

Theme 3: Our Own Side

This is something Crowley learned very early and spends the whole show trying to teach Aziraphale. That good must be separated from heaven and bad must be separated from hell.

Heaven can do some truly appalling horrors and demons, at least Crowley (and somewhat Beelzebub I guess) have the potential to be kind. 'Their own side' is one where they have the freedom of humanity, to do what is truly right. Aziraphale and Crowley sort of found their way there in the finale, but it was all rushed and Aziraphale never really turned his back on heaven, it sort of just became irrelevant when everything started disappearing. What a beautifully flawed and nice world they could have created together

Theme 4: Love Conquers all

What was it all for? Love. God made Aziraphale and Crowley for each other because she liked to smile at the silliness of their love. The literal only constant in the entire universe. Their love for the world and each other saved it. I think the decision to turn Aziraphale and Crowley's queer love story into a tragedy was the biggest mistake of seasons 2/3. Forcing the soft and romantic comedy of good omens into a queer tragedy was the instant it all crashed and burned. Now everything is tainted leading up to the pain and destruction of it all and the whimsy and lightness is gone. There were moments of it, but it was all leading toward the end. And queer love deserves to not be a tragedy. We have far too much tragic queer love in our society. Yes we got the south downs, but Aziraphale and Crowley never got to experience that freedom. They finally came together just to instantly be destroyed. We deserve happy and fulfilling queer love that is sweet without the bitter parts. Good omens was intended to be a comedy, not a tragedy

And then this was SUCH A COOL IDEA they introduced. Perhaps the first time ever an angel and a demon performed a miracle together. The power of their love could create magic stronger than anything heaven or hell had ever seen. I was so excited to see the wonders they were going to create, they ways in which they could have rebuilt the world better using that love. If they had this kind of power doing a tiny miracle, what could they have accomplished if they really put their minds to it? God herself couldn't have stopped them. And instead, the finale literally revoked Crowley's magic for the entire episode. They sacrifice themselves for a new earth and people that didn’t even exist yet instead of using any of their power to change it. The god awful execution of this theme is probably the biggest letdown of the entire finale imo

Theme 5: Fix It, Don't Replace It

This is so obviously established in seasons 1/2 I cannot believe how badly they missed the mark with this one

Literally shows us the horror of replacing the Earth with all new people. Even children can recognize that just because something is broken, it doesn't mean you throw it away and start all over. They loved the world enough to want to save it. The world is inherently worth saving, flaws and all. If you love something, you don't abandon it. The ENTIRE PLOT of season 1 explores the horrors of humanity and yet humans, Aziraphale and Crowley do everything in their power to save it.

It absolutely blows my mind how directly this scene contradicts the entire message of the finale. Job didn't want new children, he quite liked the old ones. Aziraphale and Crowley didn't want the antichrist's new Earth, they quite liked the old one. We didn't want new human versions of Aziraphale and Crowley, we QUITE LIKED THE OLD ONES. Where the hell did that mentality go when they told God to create an entirely new universe????????????? Season 1 said the world is flawed but it deserves saving exactly as it is. Season 1 said an angel and a demon go off to the ritz together, exactly as they are. The finale said the world is too broken, we have to make it disappear and start over. The finale said Aziraphale and Crowley have too many issues/traumas to be happy, we have to destroy them and start over. That's why as cute as Asa and Anthony's love is, we quite liked them exactly as they were, angel/demon trauma + history and all. They deserved saving too.

Good omens has always been so special to me for how much it pokes fun at but also celebrates the messiness and wonder of humanity and love. The 6-to-1 episodes was a major setback but somehow the finale still managed to drop basically every one of its most endearing and powerful messages. What is the "real world" the finale is trying to make us value? One without a god to screw things up sometimes?? The best parts of humanity always shined through not even despite, but BECAUSE of the heavenly challenges they overcame. It's very clear good omens as a whole was always meant to be a one-season/one-book story. There was so much potential and missed opportunities and I wish we could have had the finale we were all dreaming of. I will always love the world of good omens season 1/the book, so that is the world I'll keep in my heart. And all the nightingales therein

[somebebop]

When someone says that the narrative of s3 is logical, I’ll send them this brilliant analysis.

I only wish it were more clear which part of s2/3 were original Terry Pratchett/NG ideas, which were later additions of NG, and which just came out of nowhere in the process.