37yo British Good Omens obsessive

[tossyouforedinburgh]

it's not a personal attack if someone else liked Good Omens 3.

I liked Good Omens 3.

you are allowed to feel any way you like about it.

Aziraphale is disappointed in every single one of you who hurt Rachel Talalay though. consider managing your big feelings better than that.

[anja32]

Wait what? Who hurt Rachel?!

[tossyouforedinburgh]

she's locked down all her social media because of the way some fans were speaking to her, that's as much as I know

[tossyouforedinburgh]

it's not a personal attack if someone else liked Good Omens 3.

I liked Good Omens 3.

you are allowed to feel any way you like about it.

Aziraphale is disappointed in every single one of you who hurt Rachel Talalay though. consider managing your big feelings better than that.

[tossyouforedinburgh]

I'm gonna be honest a very personal issue that only I am having is they styled David Tennant for Professor Anthony Crowley as if they met my dad one time and then tried to copy him and look I've got Daddy Issues like you would not believe but this. this is really... I haven't watched it again, and I might not watch the last ten minutes again ever, but it's not for the same reasons the rest of you are struggling with

[tossyouforedinburgh]

I think the take away has to be, you're never going to get the perfect world you think you want. you can fight to try to make that perfect world, and it will break you and it. the only way forward is acceptance. risk that it won't be how you imagined.

but maybe you'll find something that looks different, that makes you happier than you could ever have been if you didn't let go.

season 3 was about OCD. about anxiety disorders that ruin your life. and about hope.

[fellshish]

new chapter email in your inbox. oh! exciting! it’s an ao3 fic you’ve been following for years and years. that you’ve loved and commented on and you even found friends in the comment section. it’s the final chapter of an extremely long and plotty and funny and romantic fic. you open it. the tags have changed. suddenly it’s tagged major character death. that’s what watching the good omens finale felt like

[tossyouforedinburgh]

ah okay you've explained something to me.

fandom and TV are so culturally different, and a lot of people have expected TV to behave like fandom.

this isn't like, a moral judgement. just an observation about expectations.

[bonelizzard]

I can’t lie, I was sort of surprised to see how upset everyone is about the finale.

Maybe it’s because I’m newer to this fandom, but I actually really enjoyed it. There were so so many sweet moments in the tiny time frame. Crowley keeping the bookshop clean without any miracles. The great war. Their private moment, with apples from the garden of Eden and leaves and books and birdsong all interwoven like their tapestry together. Their declarations of love. The exploration of Crowleys fall with Lucifer, which was a subject vital to his character we’d never seen details about, and helped Aziraphale (I think) connect with the side of Crowley he never really got to. God as a black woman. Jesus as a Palestinian queer person. The angst of everyone leaving after Aziraphale did. The angst at the beginning.

Of COURSE it was so sad that the Aziraphale and Crowley we know didn’t get to fully revel in their final love and acceptance of their feelings and YES it sucks from a queer representation standpoint to not have a traditionally happy ending for them.

That being said, it was an ending that genuinely surprised me. I didn’t predict it and I loved it for it. It was an imperfect happiness, where the love between two people united in their genuine faith in the value of humanity let all the beings who spent millennia polarizing themselves could sit in a restaurant together.

Angels ate alongside demons. Not just Aziraphale and Crowley. All of them.

Jesus shared food with queer people and the woman who owns the sex shop and people of color and everyone. I actually think that even in his little window, Jesus was a beautiful reminder of what Jesus actually was. He was a carpenter with rough hands. He told stories because they brought people together. He inspired community and hope. He wasn’t a puritanical leader. He wasn’t what centuries warped him to justify. He was everything scripture has told me he was and nothing like the symbol of a church of segregation taught me he was.

If anything, I find it reductive to center on the “old man yaoi didn’t kiss”. There was so much more to this story than that. It was an emphasis on the community of love needed in our current society of polarization, of us vs them.

It was not ideal, for certain, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I laughed. I cried. I smiled and giggled and kicked my feet. It was beautiful not in every way, but in the ways I think mattered to me.

[inhonoredglory]

all of the things mentioned here are some of my favorite things from GO3. I desperately love this Jesus and crave more scenes depicting him like this. him talking to a queer person right off the bat was so healing and satisfying.

And Crowley and Azi talking to God and Satan was THEME FOOD, it was amazing.

[doonarose]

You have to stop looking at it as Aziraphale and Crowley's love story. Like the very best tragedies viewed for the first time, we didn't see it for what it was until it was too late. But I think this was always a tragedy for them because that was the cost of everything else existing with any sort of freedom.

They were never going to live happily ever after because their story is a tragedy. And their story had to be tragic because their choice to sacrifice themselves is the very thing that created a thousand other love stories that could have happy endings.

The astrophysicist and the bookshop assistant. Every single human AU we've ever written, read, imagined. That’s all real because of the tragedy.

More than that every single love story ever is possible because theirs wasn't. Without their love and their choice to lose it forever, no love would ever have existed at all.

When you view it through that lens, the readiness and bittersweetness that they walk straight into their tragic ending makes perfect sense and is an exceptional story of love for each other and for all of humanity. It’s heartbreakingly tragic. But also very beautiful.

[tossyouforedinburgh]

I haven't seen this take yet so here it is

by deleting them from existence in their universe, Aziraphale and Crowley have been wiped out in the universe that NG controls. and they've been placed safely in the most fandom coded universe imaginable, with the solid promise that they will keep doing this, in every fandom universe, everywhere, but never again under NG's pen.

they have been gifted to us. handed over, by people who had to fight to get them, and now they belong to us and us only. they're ours to play with for eternity.

[not-an-aardvark]

And, if you think about it, Crowley and Aziraphale are really the fathers of humans. Crowley is the one who tempted them, leading them into sin, and Aziraphale gave them the sword to protect them. There would have been nothing if they had not have done that. They created humans as they are, it only makes sense that they would sacrifice themselves for humankind, that’s their children. They did more for the creation of humans as they are than anyone else besides god, who for the most part just created them. Most of the biblical divine interventions seem to have been led/attended by at lease one of the two, or at least influenced by them.

Being the (figurative) first humans (the first morally grey, sinning people at least) it makes sense as to why they would become fully human, if that is what happened, as a way for God to almost thank them. for all that they sacrificed for humans to live the way humans do, the way that crowley and aziraphale always wanted to, but never had a chance. And thank them for the end(less) amusement and predictability their pining provided.

[tossyouforedinburgh]

you can't cope with Aziraphale and Crowley not getting eternity because you're terrified of your own mortality

[ineffable-romantics]

You know, since time sort of no longer existed at that point, we have no idea how long Crowley and Aziraphale spent together in the bookshop garden. You think it would phase God if they left her to yap with Satan for another hundred years? A thousand? Several, even?

I'm choosing to headcanon that the Ineffable Husbands got a Husbands of River Song ending offscreen before sacrificing themselves. They took their sweet time with the time they had left, and made their case with no unfinished business. 💕

[starmaker-astral]

Good Omens 3

[tossyouforedinburgh]

alright but it's kind of funny that yesterday I was the only person I'd ever heard say that I thought season 1 had the perfect ending and it could've just stopped there

[tossyouforedinburgh]

put Queen on shuffle and Who Wants To Live Forever came on. Jesus Joshua Christ. okay. bit on the nose rn.

[asummersarah]

crowley and aziraphale sacrificed themselves so humanity could exist without divine intervention and they still found each other in the new universe 😭

[milliekr]

GO hot take apparently

Imagine finding out you have 90 minutes to tie up a love story that's developed over thousands of years. You create something beautifully in character and completely on point for the plot. You pay homage to the original writer's legacy in a fitting and poetic way and create an ending that not only shows the depth of two people's love for each other but the wider love they have for the thing that brought them together in the first place.

And then you go online to find the loudest outcry is that everyone hates it and "THEY DIDN'T EVEN KISS!"

I feel sorry for people who didn't get anything out of that stunning finale.

[tossyouforedinburgh]

I shouldn't do this but I'm gonna, block me if you're mad

not really season 3 spoilers but just in case

it's kind of telling that the people who are angry and upset about the ending of s3 aren't using spoiler tags and the rest of us are