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[crowrley]

the part in S1 when adam starts controlling his friends and says "My new friends are coming and we'll destroy this world and create a new one, a better one", then after he lets them go but chases them to try to get Dog back and Brian says "You're going to burn this all away, why? because some adults are mucking things up? That's a reason to fix it, not destroy it!"

like im going insane actually lmao

[zefi-thefairy]

(Credits to my friend Rory for the idea)

[somebody-got-murdered]

[ingravinoveritas]

Heteronormativity is David doing a two-minute cameo in that Four Seasons show and having "nice chemistry" with the lead actress and already being considered as a love interest, yet having earth-shattering, palpitations-inducing, life-altering chemistry with Michael for three entire seasons and they can't even have a proper kiss...

[alphacentaurinebula]

Do I think the lack of kiss was the reason the finale sucked? No.

But do I think it represents a huge part of why the finale sucked? Yes, yes I do.

Because what was also missing from the finale was a full, proper, ARTICULATED declaration of love. We get hints and lines and 'affectionate gestures' which we are supposed to interpret as showing Aziraphale and Crowley love each other. But we do not get anything close to the final fifteen of season two, and even in Crowley's confession then, he failed to utter the words, I love you.

We get 'why would you give me crowley who completes me and then take him away'. Take him away WHEN? When he Fell? So Aziraphale thinks Crowley completed him as an angel, and not as a demon!??? That utterly fails to address the conflict of the Final Fifteen.

And we get a finger pressed to lips. that's an affectionate gesture, sure. But is it an unequivocal declaration of love? No, I'm sorry, it is not.

If they'd given me 'I love you's, if they'd given me proper resolution of the multiple conflicts of the Final Fifteen, perhaps I could have lived without a kiss. But they didn't. They gave me nothing overt, in a world that we all know likes to hide queer stories, that sees a queer kiss as inherently sexual when it would not see a het kiss the same way. A world that likes to tidy us away, pay lip service (ha) to inclusion whilst failing to show things like onscreen kisses.

They didn't even give me I love you.

And for that I will never forgive them.

[crowleyswig]

imagine trying to pretend you were an equal co-author on a successful book and you don't even know what it was about. How embarrassing! Wild horses would not get me to make a 90 minute movie showing that I know fuck-all about the book I allegedly was an equal co-author on.

[legendary-lunatic]

Say it with me: IT. IS NOT. ABOUT. THE FUCKING. KISS!!! That’s not why people are mad.

The Ending SUCKS because the WRITING SUCKS.

NO, I don’t find the concept of ‘tHeY FiNd eACh oThEr IN eVerY uNivErSe’ beautiful.

1) Because they don’t. There’s zero evidence that this is a recurring thing, thats 100% fandom copium- and even then they don’t have any of their memories and aren’t the same people. THATS. NOT. THEM. And it never will be because people are the sum of their experiences AND THEIR CHOICES. You don’t take a comedy Christian satire and make the solution some Buddhist-esque reincarnation philosophy that requires an entirely new suspension of disbelief no one signed up for or wanted. That’s shit writing.

2) So not only does the finale spit on every theme it had prior regarding championing human choice as miraculous and the world being worth fighting for in all its flaws as it is- you are going to sit here and tell me that actually they never had any choice at all, so they decided to toss everything down the garbage disposal for the next life. That is, frankly, terrible, and nihilistic, and not at all sensible for this series.

Aziraphale and Crowley are a wonderful love story because they were on opposite sides and they CHOSE each other, and they CHOSE to love humans. They chose to be hedonistic and compassionate and selfish and ‘human’ as they were because they knew how to make choices. Their love has always been THEIR choice.

So how can you tell me that the ending is great because they sacrificed everything for humans to have free choice- which they already had by the way- and then say the ending is beautiful because Aziraphale and Crowley are Predestined to love each other in every reality. How is that not massively hypocritical to the concept they are trying to sell us last minute out of nowhere? Is predestiny not the antithesis of what they asked for by your own definition?!

How is taking their 6000 years of choosing each other over and over again, and summing it down to a deterministic soul bond, more ‘free will’ or beautiful than them literally defying cosmic powers just to stay together and eat dinner at the Ritz on a casual Tuesday?!

People act like their life was just complete suffering, but they were perfectly happy on their own earth. Season 1 left them exactly where they wanted to be!!! Together with the Earth. It was so EASY to circle back to that, all they had to do was write it, and no one would have questioned it because that’s THEM and what they want to be doing. If Adam defied Satan for humanity, why would Jesus Christ- who’d already died once for the salvation of humanity- not tell God to be merciful?! Why not have the humans make the choice, rather than Crowley- which is another hypocritical move because he’s making choices for them just like he’s telling god not to!

How do we have any evidence this new world doesn’t have a god? Trust? In the woman who just destroyed the world after having a casual laugh with Satan? Okay. They didn’t trade their existence for freedom, they traded the apple of knowledge for ignorance.

The fact is, is that the world that championed choice and love was the one they came from, not the one they sacrificed themselves for- because choice and love doesn’t mean there are no complications, it means you take a stand and you do what you want anyways.

This dystopian nightmare of an ending where they let the universe die and don’t know each other was never a thought in anyone’s mind until it came into existence with the most shallow and contrived justifications of all time ten minutes before close, and that’s because it’s out of character nonsense.

And I’m sick of hearing ‘they were always gonna be human’ ‘it was always gonna be this way’ like there was rational grounds for it beforehand. No it wasn’t, and it certainly didn’t need to be. At most it was everyone’s joke of a worst case scenario, and that’s what they decided to give us- probably after a quick google search to find out what would piss everyone off the most.

This was Neil Gaiman and his team of horror writers, who probably didn’t even consider the source material, throwing a temper tantrum and abusing the fandom for liking Terry Pratchett’s divine optimism more than his petty ass. They designed every ridiculous contingency in this horrible script to justify their own mess.

The Ineffable Husbands were fine as they were. Even as a Demon and an Angel they were already ‘human’ enough, THATS what was funny. What the hell is so great about being mortal and not being able to have a free table whenever they want, and having to deal with real world shit like taxes, and homophobia, and Dying?

Enough Dyin’. No Maur DYIN’. It’s it’s-ITS NOT ON!!!

The two were horribly out of character this entire film. All the film did was spit on the world building and take the magic out of it.

[catkelpie]

This post on Twitter kinda sums up the entirety of what's wrong with Good Omens 3 - they destroyed all the magic. They destroyed that magical, whimsical, optimistic universe and replaced it with bleak reality, a world without magic. Before the finale, we could visit all these places and believe that they were there, read ancient history and believe that they'd been there, blame our computer troubles on Newt, take things as prophecies from Agnes Nutter...and now? We're left with emptiness.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Um, excuse me, waiter? Waiter? Yes, sorry to bother you, but I think there must've been some sort of mix-up in the kitchen… Are you absolutely sure that is what I ordered? Because on the Menu it says this Middle Aged Yaoi is a Ridiculously Long Slow Burn with Mutual Pining, Fate-Defying Forbidden Lovers and Angst with a Happy Ending, but this is clearly a Love at First Sight 100% Domestic Fluff Soulmates with Mo Meaningful Friction?

[spacefruit]

Good Omens 3: Diversity Win! We cast a queer Palestinian man to play Jesus, so you can watch him mourn that he never got a true shot at life before being obliterated into dust on-screen. We also cast a Black woman to play God when the script made her an actively cruel deity who uses the (alleged) last moments of her existence to call Aziraphale fat and lazy and clarify that she did, in fact, want to blow up the Earth after 6,000 years. But don’t worry, she fujo’d out about the demon and angel right before killing them. Woke!

[mentallyillmindmeld]

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[moolmung]

[darkwillowz]

They gave up their life of being pirates and fighting against a system built to make them fail, but at least they still got to be who they already were while also finding happiness together on their own terms without having to sacrifice the world or their current life in order to get it.

Their ending and new beginning is what Aziraphale and Crowley deserved but never got...

[somebody-got-murdered]

The one show in the OurGoodShadows fandom that got it right

[sapierror]

also, I really don't know how to phrase this but to me the finale misses the joke, you know?

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

that corporate satire was what allowed this to be a comedy, a space to tell a beautiful story about choices, humanity, and love. the finale for some reason treats that background seriously, it turns that setting into an omnipotent, dystopian threat, which completely suffocates both the romance and the humor by replacing a petty system you can outwit, outsmart, outmanouver with a bleak, unearned nightmare where "the company controls your every breath, and you can never clock out"

[nataliaphantomhivesblog]

If you are a queer Good Omens fan... *hugs* I feel you. I feel your anger, your frustratation, your grieving and sadness for a space and media that was meant to welcome us, that was meant to make us feel safe.

If you are deeply upset about the ending, you aren't alone, and you shouldn't feel ashamed for feeling this way. You have every right. Us people of the queer community, we are tired. We are tired that our stories never are fully heard, that our queer representation in media always ends in some form of cosmic tragedy. So many queer couples or characters we see ourselves in end up dead, separated, or we were led to believe their relationship would matter only for it to be treated like bait. It's as if people keep telling us we don't deserve love, that we don't deserve joy. That we should be greatful for the crumbs they give us, and we are so tired.

Good Omens wasn't suppoused to be like this. Aziraphale and Crowley's love for each other was meant to be taken seriously, it was building up for emotional cathartic moments follwing reflective messages. This show means a lot to queer people specifically,because we barely get stories where a relationship like theirs is allowed to exist with that much complexity and sincerity without being reduced to a joke or treated like an afterthought.

And some of us really did get to see ourselves in them: in the longing, in the restraint.

There's many queer people who feel connected to Crowley, with his rebellion, with the way he exists outside of every system that tried to define him, and with how alienated he often feels while still refusing to give up on what he believes is right. It's admirable to see a character whom has been cast out, labeled as wrong but still chooses love, still strives to stand up for his personal beliefs no matter what it costs him.

A lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community know what it feels like to be made to feel “other,” to live with that distance between yourself and the systems or communities that were supposed to welcome you, and to still keep searching for a place where you can exist honestly. Crowley carried so much of that.

I personally saw myself so much in Aziraphale, his character arc meant so much to me as someone who has a complicated relationship with religion and my queerness. Watching him wrestle between duty and desire. The way he tries so hard to do “good” while loving someone he wasn’t supposed to love felt painfully real. As a queer person who grew up trying to reconcile love with systems that taught us that love was wrong, and Aziraphale embodied that conflict with so much compassion and humanity. His journey mattered so much to me, to see him unlearn fear, to see him keep trying to choose love despite everything he had been taught.

Aziraphale, to me personally, represented that deeply human conflict of wanting to believe in goodness and belonging while also trying to make peace with parts of yourself you were taught to fear.

So it hurt deeply to see how unresolved his arc felt in season 3. Because for so many of us, his story was never just about whether he and Crowley would end up together. It was about watching someone who had spent so long carrying shame and trying to earn his place finally reach a point where he could choose love without fear.

And what do we get? instead of finally giving Crowley and Aziraphale the honest emotional payoff their story had been building toward, We get half-assed conversations between Crowley and Aziraphale that don't go anwhere. After everything they had been through together, it felt like they were still being kept at a distance from the very truth the story spent so long asking us to invest in.

And then the ending asks us to accept a sacrifice where they reboot the universe into one without angels or demons, without the versions of themselves we followed and loved. It's like they straight up ripped everything we saw ourselves in and loved apart and laughed in our faces.

These two characters loved each other so much, and the story's direction was never aimed for them to just disappear. These characters suffured so much, longed so much and chose each other over and over again just for the ending to make all of this feel futile.

Not just to the characters, but to us viewers who felt emotionally invested. Especially queer viewers who found something deeply personal in their story. For a lot of us, their relationship felt safe. It felt like seeing pieces of ourselves reflected back with tenderness. And when a story spends years building that trust, asking us to care, , to believe in where these characters are headed—only to make that journey feel like it led nowhere, the hurt goes beyond simple disappointment.

And then, the political climate we are living in makes the ending even more grim. At a time when queer people are still having to defend our right to exist openly, stories like Good Omens matter in a very real way. This story become more than entertainment. They become places where people feel seen, understood, and safe.

That’s part of why this ending feels so heavy. A story about two characters who spent centuries resisting rigid systems and finding home in each other ends without that love being fully honored, instead it ends with their disappearance. With sacrifice. With the versions of them we loved no longer getting to exist at all.

And this just, adds wound to the salt. Because queer people are constantly being told, in ways both subtle and explicit, that our lives, our love, and our futures are still up for debate. So for Good Omens, a show that lets be honest, has a major queer audience, erase Aziraphale and Crowley's romantic history and the thematic messages along with it.

We were genuienly left with nothing. The alternative versions of them didn't even feel authentically like Aziraphale and Crowley, so it doesn't hit. They get married yes, but we didn't really get to see the progression of their love or get to know these new versions on a deep level, so does it matter?

Aziraphale and Crowley didn't even get to kiss. And if you read them as aroace, that’s genuinely valid—people connect to these characters in different ways, and that interpretation matters too. A lack of physical romance can feel meaningful and affirming to a lot of people, and that deserves respect.

Howeveeer: they have kissed before.

But narratively, that’s also why this feels so frustrating for many viewers, because the story itself had already crossed that line. By season 2 especially, the emotional and romantic buildup was no longer subtle implication or fandom projection. The story intentionally framed their relationship as romantic, built around confession and choices neither of them could keep avoiding.

So the frustration isn’t “they needed a kiss or the story failed.” It’s that the narrative itself spent years building up so much intimacy and love between them in a way that clearly pointed toward resolution.

Which is why ending their story without ever letting them truly reach each other feels so painful. Not because every love story needs romance expressed the same way, but because their story was written around longing and around finally crossing emotional boundaries they had spent centuries avoiding.

The only kiss we have of them is genuienly emotionally devastating. It's a desperate declaration of love. It happens in the middle of fear and the unbearable realization that they want the same thing but can’t reach each other in that moment. And that’s exactly why so many people hoped the story would eventually let them have more than that.

And then, their love doesn't necesarly need to be translated with a kiss in season 3, sure. But it's not like we got any straight forward confession that mattered, and even if we had a semblance of one, it doesn't end up being relevant BECAUSE THEIR ENTIRE EXISTENCE AND HISTORY GETS ERASED.

Also, Crowely and Aziraphale are non-binary, and in the reboot version of them that gets erased too. Which also fucking sucks.

LGBTQ+ good omens fans, I love you, I hear you and you have every right to grieve this show. Please, keep creating fanarts, comics, and fanfics for our voices to atleast still exist in this media and fandom. You guys are amazing and what keeps this space alive with so much love and passion.

[ladybracknellssherry]

It’s been 6000 years since Season’t 3 happened and, upon reflection, that Aziraphale was written as a flat, selfish, regressed ass, and that Crowley was written as a depressed, pessimistic, and suicidal lump. They really weren’t the characters I fell in love with. So you can kill those.

I’m just declining the optional ending they gave us. And taking book, s1, and s2 AziraCrow away from all that so they can save everything and live happily ever after together instead.

[darkwillowz]

"I love how Asa & Anthony are Crowley & Aziraphale without all the trauma. They can finally be happy now without the past haunting them"

Are those with a difficult past not worth the gift of healing & finding peace & love later in life despite the trauma they endured?

Why must they erase themselves and become new people in order to be happy?

seriously, I feel like some of you are not hearing what your words are implying to those of us who are upset with how things ended

A lot of us have our own personal trauma that we desperately hope we will endure & survive from. We wish we had stories that show it's possible.

We yearn for stories that show that despite growing up in a life controlled by abusive systems and because of it having suffered many struggles, theres is a possibility of a chance we can still find happiness and never have to change who we are or sacrifice our lives & current relationships in order to get it.

We thought Good Omens was gonna show us that....and that's why the ending hurts us.

Yes it's a cute ending for Asa & Anthony and yes we can recognize the beauty in the "Love finds away" and "they will find each other in ever universe" trope...

...But for Aziraphale & Crowley, whom we see ourselves in....the fact that they had to sacrafice themselves and their current life together and never getting to know that their souls will live on in two other individual humans who get to have the happiness they desperately wanted...

...its just heartbreaking....and it tells a message that if we are suffering in this life then our only hope is the next...

Those who have experienced what Aziraphale and Crowley have will understand.

[a-zira-ziraphale-fell]

"Of course the plot of the finale wasn't coherent, they were rushed with the 90 minute time frame so they COULDN'T tell a full story"

Okay, but Disney movies literally do it all the time in 90 minutes. That's the norm for most animated films. It's ABSOLUTELY possible to use a ninety minute runtime wisely and make it feel like a satisfying story. You just have to make it focused and trim away the side quests unless they contribute in an important way to our understanding of theme or character.

What exactly did the subplot about Crowley losing the Bentley actually contribute? I'm not just trying to be snide here, I am actually truly wondering, what was the POINT?

(My point is, dolphins)

Obviously the answer is, it was probably one of the original six episodes that comprised Season 3, so they kept it in despite having to trim so much of it away that might have given it relevance. But why keep it in at all??

That entire sequence with the crime boss wasted SO MUCH of the precious runtime, time that could have been spent better elsewhere. Like, I dunno, maybe having Crowley and Aziraphale actually reconciling?? Or actually developing Michael's motivation as a villain?? Or giving poor Jesus an actual conclusion to his arc instead of Thanos-snapping him away before he ever "finds the lady"?

I just. I went into the finale feeling SO easy to please. I could have forgiven a rushed plot, bad special effects, some mysteries from S2 never being solved because there wasn't time. I could've even forgiven the fact that some major characters didn't make an appearance again, due to budget constraints and actors not wanting to return.

It didn't need to be Objectively Good for me to enjoy it! Truly!

I would've hand-waved it all away...if they had only given me the one thing I wanted in the end: Crowley and Aziraphale living in peace together for eternity.

But since we were denied that, i AM going to be critical of the plot holes and inconsistencies, because what else did they give us, really?