pls spoil it for me. what happened in the good omens finale? i am not watching that after the whole neil gaiman thing. but im curious!!
oh boy okay so
aziraphale spent years up in heaven without checking in on the bookshop or crowley, plus he recalled miriam to heaven after a couple weeks. he only goes back to earth because jesus escaped heaven to go to earth and also someone stole the book of life and unwrote metatrons existence, and he wants crowley to help him sort it out. the street has gone to shit since he left; most of the businesses are closed and rat infested, and the bookshop is only in decent condition because crowley has been taking care of it (WITHOUT HIS DEMONIC POWERS because hell closed his miracle account or smth idk).
theres a brief murder mystery where we dont know who has the book of life but that gets solved pretty quickly because there are only like five angels. it turns out its michael who is tired of having to work for other people without thanks and thinks shes the only one who can do the end times right. but the book of life is too taxing on the mind for anyone to stay sane while in possession of it (a la the finale of season one of dr who) so she started losing it and murdering the other angels.
after unwriting the metatron, sandalphon, and uriel, michael goes to some fancy eternal flame that heaven and hell fought over during the original war (i didnt pay enough attention in church to understand this but im assuming its a thing idk) and throws each page of the book into the fire one by one, slowly erasing all of existence. anyone and anything that gets unwritten turns to dust and disappears (a la the movie that preceded avengers endgame that i cant remember the name of rn).
meanwhile jesus met a guy who taught him a card trick and then passed out infinite pizza to a bunch of random people as a modern bread and fish thing (they didnt even put fish on the pizza. it was cheese and pepperoni 🙄) and then got thanos'd.
crowley has gone to heaven with aziraphale to help sort all this out and they realize that michael must be at the eternal flame thing because thats the only place that the book of life could be destroyed apparently? but theres no way to get there, oh no! its okay tho; crowley has a trick up his sleeve! if he drives the bentley at full speed it will launch into space like a rocket and end up at the place where the eternal flame is.
so they get to the eternal flame and michael is throwing in pages one at a time. they try to talk her down but it doesnt work and she ends up throwing the whole book in. good news tho crowley manages to grab the page of the bookshop and take it out of the fire. so now the bookshop is the only thing in existence. they somehow use the page to teleport to the bookshop. for some reason they didnt disappear with the rest of existence even tho their pages presumably didnt make it out.
so theyre there in the bookshop and all the books are blank and theyre like ah shit were the only ones left and then theres a knock on the door. this also happened in a dr who episode btw. turns out the person on the other side of the door is satan.
crowley realizes that since the bookshop is all of existence anything they write into a book will become reality. i guess its the new book of life or smth? idk i wasnt super paying attention at this point i was mostly sitting there thinking wtf.
so aziraphale writes into a book that there are four people in the bookshop: the two of them, satan, and god. and god appears. she lets crowley ask one question, which he never gets an actual answer to, and then she tells them they can ask for one thing.
the two od them go into a garden thats in the bookshop now for some reason and they discuss what they want to do. which turns out to be create a whole new universe without angels or demons or god. aziraphale kisses his fingers and then presses them to crowleys lips and then they go back out and tell god what they want. she points out that they wont exist and theyre like yeah we knew that already.
so then the universe is created and we see a human aziraphale (asa fell) and crowley (anthony crowley) meet in the bookshop, which the metatron owns and aziraphale just works there. and he asks the metatron where to find the astrology section that crowley has asked about. they have their meet cute and then go to a coffee shop for a date where asa mentions that his mother had all sorts of old fashioned sayings like tickety boo etc. we see new versions of other characters as well- michael and dagon (hells version) both work at the coffee shop and we see jesus and an adult adam order some coffee, presumably on a date of their own.
we then see asa and anthony several years in the future, watching the stars outside the south downs cottage. theyre both old men. they see a shooting star and they hold hands and theyre wearing wedding rings. and thats the end of the show.
so all in all aziraphale is absurdly ooc and the jesus plot point might as well have not existed and when god told them they could ask for absolutely anything they said hey so you know how everyone and everything is nonexistent? yeah so we dont wanna bring any of that back we just want you to make a new version where theres no occult or ethereal interference. reset the universe. completely start over. sure we could have you bring back everything and make it impossible for angels and demons to interfere with humanity but we either didnt think of that or dont care.
the moral of the story seems to be that the world is better off without angels and demons, and by extension aziraphale and crowley. which is really fucked up considering a lot of people consider this to be an important and impactful queer love story, and now theyre being told that actually all of existence is better off without them. and sure technically they get together but its not really *them*
also the human versions are very flat and unrecognizable but its totally them because crowley likes stars and aziraphale says a weird silly phrase! /s
also also the presence of the two of them as well as all the others we see in the coffee shop implies that god did in fact interfere with this universe in order to make this cute coincidence happen
