Bits from Good Omens [the book] that when considered within the context of the finale, have me screaming
Basically I re-read The One True Copy and Honestly I Can’t Believe The Nerve Of This Man Would You Just Look At What He’s Done To Our Story
I’ve talked about this so many times at this point. The book and seasons 1 + 2 stated that humans always had free will to begin with. They literally come up with things beyond and original to anything from heaven and hell. The whole idea of there being Good and Evil is literally what creates the concept of free will in the first place. The reason some humans can’t do as well as others is because there is inequality of the humans’ own making, therefore some are born in castles while others are born in poverty. And Crowley even BELIEVES that he’s “[hung] around humans” long enough to have some free will of his own. Please tell me how God has to do with literally any of this???
The issue was literally never about free will. Having free will or not, being influenced by God or not, being influenced by Satan or not, was shown to be fairly insignificant in the book. Despite anything that heaven or hell or God ever did to the humans, what they did to each other was always better and worse. God is literally completely irrelevant. Actually, God only speaks once (in an Infamous Bible to ask Aziraphale where his flaming sword went) but otherwise does not interact with anything or appear anywhere else in the book at all. The fact that the finale tries to paint God as the one true thing that was always keeping humanity from having a “chance” never ceases to blow my mind.
I’m willing to bet my life Terry Pratchett wrote this one
Certainly not giving Depressed-And-Suicidal “God will always stack the deck against me” Crowley here, is it???
***For context for the next one: Adam is talking about getting rid of both The Them and The Johnsonites gangs as a metaphor/allegory for Heaven and Hell going to war to try and get rid of each other
While they mainly suggest that either gang coming out as the sole winner is as undesirable as either heaven or hell winning for eternity, I think this serves to make a point about how getting rid of both sides entirely is also a bad idea. The neighbors, the bystanders, the rest of humanity, may see it as “a plaque on both your houses,” But “it’d be a jolly sight less interestin’ if we all weren’t here.”
And remember, Terry Pratchett was responsible for The Them scenes in the book.
“That’s because the people trying to sort it out were [Gai]men.”
*cue vague sounds of frustration as I tear my hair out in the background*
NG deserves jail time for taking this quote from Adam and giving it to Crowley to serve as his Righteous Hero Speech. Also, they didn’t sort anything out while any of the humans were alive and only declared that they had ‘sorted it’ after the entire universe was dead 💀
I cannot believe this line. It is literally presented as sarcasm, as satire, and yet the finale unironically adopts this entire philosophy in the end.
*cue somewhat louder sounds of frustration as I tear out what little hair I have left in the background*
*Me crossing out every single line in the finale script I just printed* 
This is what I did to my good omens copy, btw
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