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[monica00]

25 yo David Tennant in Quality Control

Watch David Tennant's Rediscovered 1996 Short Film, 'Quality Control'

After decades out of sight, the rare Channel 4 short film survives thanks to a recovered 16mm print, and the generosity of the people who ma

[ineffably-queer-book-lover]

Be kind to each other!

Hi, Good Omens fam, long time no see. I miss you! We're all still dealing with the finale and the fallout one way or another and this post is explicitly not supposed to be a place to argue about it in any way.

Understandably emotions are still running high, but no matter how you feel about it all, your feelings are valid! Hopefully there's still one motto we all agree on, so my Good Omens LEGO babies and I come bearing a little throwback to S1 as a gift for you.

These two want to bring you a little happiness in those hard times and hopefully make you smile with a little re-enactment of this famous moment.

They really did their best to get it as close to the original setting as possible, but please forgive any discrepancies. Almost 2000 years is a long time after all! 😉

Please enjoy, reblog, like, comment,... and most importantly:

You have explicit permission for non-commercial use of this Ineffable LEGO photo as long as you don't alter it and/or remove the credit! Be kind to each other (and to yourself). ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍

On a more serious note, I am well aware that this scene is not actually Aziraphale and Crowley asking people to be kind, but the rather horrible acknowledgement that "Be kind to each other" apparently did get everyone upset enough to crucify Jesus. And yet, this scene, this snippet, this quote has become one of the fundamental principles of a huge part of the Good Omens fandom. It has been a cornerstone to deal with a lot of bullshit inside and outside the fandom. It's one of the most used gifs as a gentle reminder that whatever bullshit we're dealing with, please be kind to each other. And I love that appropriation of this scene. I've got to know so many wonderful people in this fandom who embody this principle to the point that I've stayed through the good and the bad times. I'm clinging to the hope that we'll survive the current rift, too! Again, with patience and kindness.

To Our World! 🥂

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍

Tagging the usual crowd with the customary addendum to please let me know if you want to be added to or removed from the list! 😘

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[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"

[sixidiotsdavidtennantfan]

From David’s Stlylist Steven Smith (steviesmithmakeup) on Instagram

[vivi-theakuneko]

Coping art #2

I mean... there's nothing else to lose why not make good use of the privacy.

[linipik]

Crowley entertaining himself with the simplest things

[gingiekittycat]

Jesus should have appeared when Aziraphale summoned God with the New Book of Life.

He's God, isn't he? Part of the "triune godhead." Then we could have gotten a completely different version of the scene in the bookshop, one where Jesus defends the world he knows and the people he's met and the things he learned (in his short time back on Earth) about love and generosity and helping people become better people. 

Maybe Aziraphale and Crowley ask him to create a world without angels and demons. Maybe he says, but aren't they people too? Can't they learn about love, and generosity, and helping people become better people? Of course they can. Look at the two of you.

And we could have gotten a beautiful mirror to the end of Season 1, where Christ does the same exact thing as the Antichrist, where he doesn't destroy the world but puts it back just the way it was. Even slightly better. 

Because angels and demons should have a chance, too. 

[thisbisexualbrainrot]

And they really thought they ate with this ending like it’s so crazy…

Y’all literally Job’d the fuck out of us.

[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

[tickety-boooo]

it's literally "to THE world"

not "to A world"

not any old world, THE WORLD, THE ONE WORLD THEY LOVE

[tickety-boooo]

also once you reveal God and her intentions, then things aren't very "ineffable" anymore, are they?

[ezra-didntreallyfall]

Crowley in the Bentley: *is about to hit a pothole*

Aziraphale: To the left!

Crowley: Take it back now, y'all *hits the pothole straight on*

[whispsofwind]

Ok no

One last thing about the GO finale because if I see another post about "that's how Terry would've written it" and "it's beautiful and makes thematic sense" and "you just don't get it" I WILL lose it, and I am getting pissed already because you don't get to drag one of my favourite authors through the mud to justify a rapist making a mess of a beloved story.

This is from the book. You know the only thing Sir Terry Pratchett actually had a hand in writing

Pag 206:

Adam wasn’t listening, at least to any voices outside his own head. “It’s all too much of a mess,” he said. “We should start again. Just save the ones we want and start again. That’s the best way. It’d be doing the Earth a favor, when you come to think about it. It makes me angry, seeing the way those old loonies are messing it up . . .”

Pag 212

“Er,” said Wensleydale, “don’t you think our mothers and fathers—” “Don’t you worry about them,” said Adam loftily. “I can make some new ones. There won’t be any of this being in bed by half past nine, either. You don’t ever have to go to bed ever, if you don’t want to. Or tidy your room or anything. You just leave it all to me and it will be great.” He gave them a manic smile. “I’ve got some new friends comin’,” he confided. “You’ll like ’em.” “But—” Wensleydale began. “You jus’ think of all the amazin’ stuff afterwards,” said Adam enthusiastically. “You can fill up America with all new cowboys an’ Indians an’ policemen an’ gangsters an’ cartoons an’ spacemen and stuff. Won’t that be fantastic?”

Pag 286

“I can make them better, too. Better trees to climb, better ponds, better . . .” His voice trailed off. “You can’t,” said Wensleydale flatly. “They’re not like America and those places. They’re really real. Anyway, they belong to all of us. They’re ours.” “And you couldn’t make ’em better,” said Brian. “Anyway, even if you did we’d all know,” said Pepper.

Remaking the Earth so it would "be better" and making new people to populate it is, you know. The Bad Ending of the book. As written above.

Anything but saving and protecting and improving the flawed world we have right here right now is a slap in the face of the original work.

So don't come at me with bullshit

[tickety-boooo]

it's literally "to THE world"

not "to A world"

not any old world, THE WORLD, THE ONE WORLD THEY LOVE

[legendary-lunatic]

It seems that some people don't seem to understand what's so upsetting about all of this so let me help you out: Aziraphale and Crowley are DEAD.

They died, along with their entire universe and everything they ever fought for. They never got to properly talk through their creation long existence together of an undefined relationship, they never got to talk out their grievances, or religious guilt, and they never got to directly choose each other over anything else.

They never got to be an 'Us.' they never got to experience that raw unfiltered, unafraid of the consequences love we've been teased with because they were too focused on trying to hold the world together and God appearing and just fucking shit up.

This isn't just about a kiss, this is about them not getting to communicate after establishing in the other seasons that they need to be more direct with each other. This is about how after 6,000 years and before the creation of time they have been drawn towards each other and will never get to truly settle down.

This whole alternate reincarnation thing is bullshit. That's not them. They are lookalikes who have lived an entirely different history from inception. No ethical struggles, no fall, no falling in love with humanity, no existential crisis, they will have a mother and a father, possibly even siblings, they presumably have a sex and gender now that's not the same as a non human entity- fundamentally they are different beings raised as different people.

THEN you factor in the fact that their love that transcends time, their long history of trust and learning to choose to protect each other in the face of powers greater than their own, a love that is unfathomable in depth, is just FORGOTTEN.

No Bastille, no War Raid, no Flood, no wall of Eden, no Shakespeare, no Knights, no Bildad the Shoeite and Aziraphale becoming a hedonist, no powering beyond their circumstances- None of what we knew about them is at play. None of what we've grown to love about them is relevant to characters from a DIFFERENT UNIVERSE.

And that's the thing, it's a different universe. They fucking gave up and let the Earth they fought so hard for just be erased. Just like that? That's insanely out of character. What about all the poor mortals doomed to fail that Crowley sympathizes so much with? What about the history and culture written down in Aziraphale's books that they've seen built over the centuries? That's their world. Y'know: "To the world."

How could they be okay with their world, and each other dying, for the sake of people that didn't exist yet? You had the book in your hands, you could've written anything!!!

There were plenty of things they could have asked to be written differently. There were plenty of ways this story could have not put them on that situation to begin with. Sorry not sorry, but I'm not just taking handouts and saying 'yes thank you' just because they gave me content. Call me ungrateful, but I expected the narrative to at least give a singular fuck about the story and characters thus far and give us a decent execution.

I don't believe that just because something is officially released that it has to have merit, because it's still a piece of fiction written by flawed people with their own opinions and constraints on giving a shit. This was a cop out- it was a way to take the story as they were struggling to resolve, and throw it in the trash in front of its fan base for having the audacity to ask they don't leave us on a massive angry kiss cliff hanger.

Also, reading comprehension and analysis isn't just taking the slop that's force fed to you- (like wow, no shit they put some set up for the agenda they're pushing in there, congrats picking up on the obvious---) It's being able to critically think about what's happening, how it fits, whether you like it, the execution, and allowing yourself to question the author and their agenda. Writers, especially teams of writers, do stupid shit all the time

So no, I don't consider this canon; I consider it a slap in the face to the world and character dynamics we fell in love with. I see it as an insult to think I should be complacent with this half assed AU substitute billions of years after the characters I actually grew to love fucking OBLITERATED themselves when all I've been wanting since the start of the series was for them to find a resolution to their challenges- not roll over and decide 'fuck it, just start from scratch.' Canon is a suggestion, and one that I'm stepping on and ignoring fully because it contradicts the core of what's appealing about a series I started for demon/angel shenanigans. I didn't come for a wattpad fic.

Screw Jesus, who knows why he was there. Fuck Mrs.Sandwhich, best of luck in the next life. Sorry for the existential crisis' Crowley and Aziraphale, turns out you're just God's soap opera and she's decided she's bored all of a sudden because Michael threw a hissy fit from being underappreciated.

Sorry I wanted a resolution to the ride or die couple we've been following, and I was hoping they wouldn't pick DIE. Sorry that a five minute meet cute with them sporting the world's worst haircuts isn't doing it for me, especially when they don't remember shit and will only get to be together for maybe 20-30 years before dying with the presumably confirmed absence of an afterlife after watching their angel and demon selves struggle for over SIX THOUSAND YEARS!!!!

I wanted a resolution to the ineffable husbands, not some doppelganger fuckery. Sue me. This ending sucked because it resolved nothing, it accomplished nothing, and it shut down everything PAINFULLY because they are effectively dead, and all the accompanied interesting world building with them. Just switched the whole ass genre on us. You thought this was a Star crossed religious fantasy romance? PSYCH, now it’s a dime store novel. Yeah, that’s what I signed up for. Not.

[hey-must-be-a-devilbetween-us]

and another thing, the premise of them annihilating themselves from existence and memory and just creating a universe that has 'true free will' makes no sense.

That's....the joke? That's the joke! Of the Book! That's the entire premise!

Everyone already does!

ITS FUNNY because demons and angels NEVER DID have any influence over them AT ALL.

Except them! And they were the best parts! Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Sword Aziraphale gave to humanity that Them used to stop the apocalypse! Because they loved the world! and THAT WAS FREE WILL. Crowley and Aziraphale GAVE THEM FREE WILL!

What was the point of stopping the apocalypse the first time if it doesn't fucking matter???

The mission statement of this narrative was that Crowley and Aziraphale wanted to live, and be free, (and love each other) because that's what they deserved, simply because they exist, from an ethical standpoint how can anyone say they didn't deserve to exist?

How is it not incredibly out of character that the two beings who were TERRIFIED of having to spend eternity away from each other just...sacrifice themselves? For nothing.

That the world in which they existed doesn't matter? Because you can go ahead and throw away the whole 'the world they made after was better' because its literally not! They already had what this facsimile of Crowley is saying they didn't. It retcons the entire premise.

What happened to 'you shouldn't test them to destruction'? What happened to Aziraphale saying he couldn't just leave the humans to fend for themselves? They just gave up! The earth was still destroyed! Everybody still died! It's literally is Jobs children!

Death isn't freedom, its just death.

[ohdirtyriver]

"for my money, the really big one will be all of Us against all of Them."

SO SPITTING MAD ABOUT THIS i had to edit and repost from x/bsky

am i the only one who remembers this good omens sequel idea that was laid so beautifully at our feet in the year of our lord 1990? that was important enough to be quoted near verbatim in S1? the one where mortals of the world unite cuz we have nothing to lose but our chains??

"ohhh you're upset about the finale because you only care about aziracrow you don't care about the bigger picture" nah man don't pin that on me. i am 40 or 50 years old and i do not need this. you can't gaslight me into forgetting that one of the fundamental charms of GO is that aziraphale & crowley are actually very bad at saving the world, they cock up pretty much everything they try to do and it's only through serendipity (or implied providence??) that their actions end up facilitating HUMANS' efforts to save ourselves. you can't gaslight me into thinking that the universe getting destroyed & recreated on a whim with absolutely zero HUMAN input or agency is a happy ending, or that it's at all in keeping with the spirit of the original story.

the concept of the multiverse got traction in genre fiction via comics where it was introduced as a PLOT DEVICE to reconcile timeline inconsistencies (and an unnecessary one at that; the way to deal with "timeline inconsistencies" in long form serial fantasy is to IGNORE THEM). writers should have never started relying on the multiverse so heavily as a storyline foundation (MCU i am looking at YOU) because the logical end result is to make stories MEANINGLESS! what's the point of fighting for anything if you can just escape to another universe where things turn out better?! "we found each other in every universe" bitch i care about THIS ONE! how does that treacly platitude teach ANYONE anything meaningful or relatable or transferable about real life?!

stand UP! i want the good omens sequel where HUMANITY rises up against this bullshit system and A&C are there to cheer us on. and if you think "oh there's no way A&C could ever have been happy in this universe, this was the only solution" get out of my way cuz if that's the limp attitude you bring when it's a WORLD OF FANTASY FICTION WHERE LITERALLY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN i do NOT need you around me in this world.

[ladybracknellssherry]

thank you for your justified rage

[tickety-boooo]

Good Omens Poetry: #chillomenstober day 25

A Love Poem by The Starmaker for his most lovely Angel Star - Here's a freeform for prompt 9: Stars. (You know you're in deep when the poem you're writing makes you tear up T-T) Stars are so cool! Their life cycles have a couple different paths, depending on how massive they are. And I love that new stars can be formed in the decay of old ones. So here are my thoughts, as Crowley contemplates the far future. Do angels (and demons) actually experience eternity? or are they like Heaven's massively powered celestial stars that have the lifespan of a universe or two?

Two protostars Formed in the burning dust of celestial nebulae Yet to understand the ways of the universe Gravity said some questions cannot be answered It pushed me away but it also pulled me back to you Now we orbit each other as we evolve As the Earth turns We turn together Becoming Giants, Blue and Red Eons pass us by, we burn so bright! But nothing lasts forever Someday that light will fade, turning cold white to black Or Will we go out with a bang? Leaving a mark on the universe that we were here That we existed, and that we loved As any moment without you would leave a black hole at my core Desperate to absorb any more of your light And in the dust of our dying forms Could we be reborn again?

[tickety-boooo]

So... I wrote this almost two years ago? Who knew the last two lines would be so on the nose T-T

This is still my favorite gomens poem I wrote that year. This finale has been hard for many (myself included) for different reasons, but don't forget these characters will continue to burn bright in our hearts if we want them to. They've inspired me in so many ways, and I choose to take what I value from their story and leave the rest.