You know the thing I like best about time, is that every day it takes us further away from the 13th of May 2026. I really didn't like the 13th of May 2026.
Take me back to when the saddest part of good omens was the bandstand scene and the most contentious debate was how aziraphale managed to get into the bathtub without getting crowleys socks wet.
i don't understand why are people acting like "this was the only way go could've ended" like its a force of nature and not a scripted tv show... cmon guys
I want to ask what they were thinking using a team of allocishet white men who specialize in dark fantasy and horror to write a queer comedy in 2026, but I suspect the reason is no one respectable would touch Neil Gaiman's work after we found out about his rapist history.
And it'd be nice if they gave a fuck, but they don't even care enough to watch it.
And now we know what was wrong with Good Omens 3, and I am so sorry for all of us it let down. Both the fans and creative team who loved it and did their best.
Wasn't the whole point of the original book (and season 1) that people do actually have free will? Like, heaven and hell were trying to follow the plan they have always believed in, and then it just never came true because the main characters have proven that the big plan is bullshit. And yeah, they have talked about the possibility of heaven and hell fighting against humanity... But doesn't that kind of prove that humanity is one of the big players? As strong as the supernatural forces? I don't know, the finale seemed to contradict the main themes to me. Also, I just personally dislike the plot in which the ineffable husbands do actually affect the narrative. Them being totally fucking useless was my favourite gag ever. Anyway, in my personal universe, this finale is not even canon. Everyone else can go on enjoying it, of course.
I will say this, though: it's very clear that season 1 of gomens was intended to be the only version of the story when it aired. Gaiman may have had other vague ideas for a continuation in the back of his mind, but gomens was originally greenlit by Amazon for a single season with the assumption that this was all it was going to be. Therefore, season 1's ending of the world being saved and Aziraphale and Crowley having forever was written to be canonical. The fact that this idiot retconned things years later doesn't change that, when he did write in all those extra scenes of Aziraphale and Crowley throughout the millennia, they were written with the intention to matter. In the s1 universe, their time together mattered and never got erased.
I think it's hard to ignore official episodes for a lot of people (including me lol), but you can honestly say the happy ending of s1 can be considered the true ending and everything else can be disregarded, if you want. After all, the book was considered to be a standalone work for decades, and that ended happily
Rewatching Season 1. Remembering Aziraphaleâs line from the end:
âWe canât give up now.â
They never gave up. They fought. They fought to the very end. Even when they thought there was no hope. Even when it felt like the light was fading.
They always found loopholes. That is exactly what their story is about.
They would never have allowed everything and everyone they fought for to perish. Because in that ânothingness,â there would be no classical music or Queen, no restaurants where theyâre known by name, no old bookshops. No funny, strange, contradictory people they came to love so deeply.
And there would be no them.
They feared for each otherâs lives until the very end. The entire first and second season is saturated with them doing everything to save the other, in one way or another. Crowleyâs death for Aziraphale would be as devastating and annihilating as Aziraphaleâs death for Crowley.
Without Aziraphale, Crowley doesnât need Earth. He doesnât need the universe. He doesnât need anything. We see this in Season 1 when he thinks Aziraphale is dead. He goes to drink; he doesnât care that the end of the world is only hours away. He takes that random (as he believes) surviving book from the fire just to keep a piece of Aziraphale close until everything ends. Without Aziraphale, he sees no point in anything.
He doesnât love humanity and the world more than Aziraphale. He loves humanity and the world as much as he loves Aziraphale, if not more. And without one, he doesnât need the other. Or at the very least, he cannot be happy without either of those two things. He is completely unable to be happy.
Aziraphale was his meaning, his light. The one who showed him he wasnât alone. The one who gave him the strength to keep fighting. And Crowley gave him the same in return, with equal intensity. In Season 1, he almost gave up only because he didnât know Aziraphale was alive. He thought his light was gone. Then he was in darkness, alone.
But the moment he realized Aziraphale was alive, it immediately gave him the strength to keep fighting. To fight until the very end. It gave him hope.
This. Story. Is. About. Hope!
I will never believe that, having the chance to save each other, to preserve each other, they would choose to die. To let each other die. I will never believe that.
As long as they were together, they wouldnât have given up.
But they gave up while standing physically side by side.
Btw this is a great time to pivot to the Book Omens fandom where Crowley and Aziraphale will always canonically be alive and well and dining at the Ritz.
This post is for those who are very hurted and hate the finale. I know it's painful as fuck right now but I cant stress this enough :
Rewatch season 1. And don't skip parts, watch all of it. Cause it's funnier
Here's what I've realised (personal opinion of course) :
1) I can't connect that it's the same show because how widely different it feels. Like the vibes. I finally feel like I'm watching Good Omens. Like actually Good Omens. Fun, witty, clever, silly, camp, interesting, logical and well written.
3) I can't wrap my head around how s1 Aziraphale and Crowley are the ones we see in go3, and therefore I can't project that ending for them. Because they doesn't feel like the same character AT ALL
4) How go3 feels like a fever dream (and if you're like me, with sleep deprivation and only watched it once, you kinda start to forget everything)
6) How fun all the weird ass unnecessary long plots and scenes from season 1 are. I swear if you rewatch, enjoy all the music, the weird bits, the phonetic of some dialogues, the choice of words.
7) I feel really better, seriously. Still mad of what it could have been, what it should have been (a happy creative queer joy time with the fandom), but it's not. But we have s1 (and s2!) and YOU can decide what you reckon with (and what you don't)
Anyway, I hope you find the strength to do that, to find the love/comfort back in it, and for my fellow artist, find creativity back
I keep seeing people claim that this ending was the only one possible, that the whole narration up from s1 (or even the book) was building up to this finale, that a hard reset of the universe was the endgame all along.
I don't see how. Good Omens's original charm was being a parody of all religions (and a bunch of deterministic movies like The Omen). The problem of free will was discussed often with a light-hearted, parodic approach. I'm reminded of when Ligur said "I made a priest look at pretty girls in the sun today: he could have become a saint, now he's going to hell." Isn't this literally a parody of how simplistic religious moral beliefs are? The whole point of GO was not just to mock them, but to reflect on how humans are more complex than that, in a universe where, even if Hell and Heaven are literal and operative, humans still managed to successfully exercise their free will AND avoid Armageddon, even if it was advertised as inevitable by Heaven/Hell. The point was to prove both wrong. Az and Crow were there just to say that âwho's to say it wasn't God's plan all along, maybe there were some small-font clauses hidden somewhere in the Plan?â
It was beautiful, hilarious, humanist, comforting, open-ended. God was never this evil final boss, overarching puppeteer: the point was that she almost didnât seem to exist at all and it was just a bunch of humans doing things while claiming a bigger entity wanted them to do that.
My takeaway from the book and first season has always been: Azira and Crowley thought they could impact humanity with their work, then quickly realized they didn't need to do much work AND that both their bosses would never understand that, so they just relaxed and enjoyed the ride lol.
What I liked the most about the GO's message was: humans are both bad and good, beautifully human anyway, even in a world with Heaven/Hell, which doesn't impact their lives that much. Dumb Corporate thinks they're pulling the strings of the world, when in fact the strings have always been so loose they could as well be nonexistent: still, humanity is doing just fine.
The point of avoiding Armageddon was to protect that world, created with free will and humanity being its beautiful, "human incarnate" self. That Specific Humanity was worth saving, just like Job wanted His Specific Kids back.
The best thing was that humanity saved itself! No need for celestial beings basically Jesusing themselves for the world, except what they're saving is the abstract concept of a âfree humanityâ. Where did s1âs love for That Humanity go? They only save the ideal of it with their sacrifice: was that really the only option? Itâs a fictional world, so every writing choice reveals a specific intention and message.
That's why the ending of s3 feels really disconnected to me: suddenly we're in a world where God is extremely involved, humans can never have actual free will, they're all "puppets in her own book", all the messages of caring for others and trying to improve the existing world instead of throwing the whole thing in the trash (The Them at Adam during his power trip), trying to find your footing in life despite your past and your nature (Crowley being a failed demon, Aziraphale struggling with his wavering faith, etc.), all blown out the window! I don't want to say it feels like a retcon, but it definitely feels like they flattened a lot of the previous messages and themes just to achieve the tearjerker ending. It doesn't feel earned, it doesn't feel organic, it doesn't feel particularly satisfactory as a way of tying up all the loose ends. It's nothing short of an "it was all a dream" ending.
TLTR: on where the 3 seasons differed to me:
S1 was hope and humanity in all its beautiful, messy glory, making Az and Crow basically useless, giving them a relative freedom from their jobs. Humanity is the main protagonist, it saves itself, who's to say that wasn't the Plan all along? Sure, thereâs the "this wasn't the big one, the next one will be Us against all of Them" line, but it doesn't have to be literal: a well-written sequel could have kept the original themes while exploring other interesting moral conundrums in a clever way, instead of going the cheap route of "it's all bleak, let's press reset."
S2 was a wrestling match between different, opposite outlooks on life: do we stay and try making the world better, or do we run away and choose each other? Is there any reason left to hope, or is the world bleak? Can we reform an unjust system, or is it rigged from the start? A more intimiste approach, a slice-of-life approach, if you will.
S3 doesn't even try to do anything except say from the start: everything is ending, there's no point in this life, all is lost, humanity is doomed, free will never existed, I'm tired boss let's just restart the universe because as long as God exists we'll never be free (in a show from a book that was basically saying the opposite and also, a friggin' PARODY of religion, it was never supposed to get that serious*).
*Small footnote under the cut:
s3 feels, all in all, like a fix-it fic from someone who took the first book way too seriously, injected a sense of extra existential dread into a world order that was just meant to be a parody, and basically run with this idea so much that they took the liberty to kill the whole franchise and restart it to their own liking.
It reminds me of Toy Story 4 and why many people hated it: first 3 movies were fun but also bitter sweet because toys were often abandoned by their children, so it was all about finding happiness where you could, seizing the moment, and making bonds with your friends, while surviving in a world where the laws were tried and true. It didnât try to shy away from difficult themes and difficult choices. It had guts and took risks. It didnât try to mollycoddle their audience.
Then the 4th movie came out and suddenly all the previous messages were thrown out of the window: toys should just run away from their kids and find their own happiness, letâs dismantle the system! Except it didnât feel like an empowering message, it felt like breaking all the previously established, bittersweet but beautiful messages, trampling over them, just to get this cheap, individualistic message out.
What is with sequels and their need to completely negate all the previous messages? This constant need for a hard reset, which never feels satisfactory anyway, because it rarely feels earned?
The average television show does not kill off 3000 characters in its finale. Good Omens, which kills off over 8 billion, was an outlier and should not have been counted.
you actually expect me to believe these are the same Aziraphale
I cannot accept that season 1 Aziraphale would look down at Crowley, homeless and lying in a dirty sleeping bag in a garbage filled alley with literally nothing left in the world, in the deepest darkest rock bottom pit of depression and despair heâs ever been in, get told by Crowley to close the door on his way out, knowing full well he was the sole cause of Crowleyâs agony, and then walk away.
they genuinely lobotomized both crowley and aziraphale in that finale and you cannot convince me otherwise. if you compare s3 with literally any scene from s1 you would realize that these arent even the same characters at this point. they were gone long before they actually disappeared from existence.
I've read a lot of things about the Good Omens finale and most of them were true. But my first thought really is just: Good Omens is supposed to be a comedy. That's not how to finale felt. It didn't feel like I was watching Good Omens. I was sad and frustrated.
On another note, how can you have all of season 1 be about Adam choosing not to destroy the world and instead leave it the way it is, with heavy themes saying one person doesn't have the right to choose the fate of everything else, but Crowley and Aziraphale choose to destroy their world? What the fuck was any of it for?
"But they did it they freed humanity" everyone in their world is dead. How is it different from the apocalypse in season 1 that wanted to wipe out earth? Why couldn't God free humanity from heaven and hell's influence and leave them alone? They never properly explained that. They're God they can do literally anything. Such bad writing.
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