So I've let the finale ruminate on my head for a few hours, and my feelings have changed
I would have loved GO3 if they hadn't included the ooc human au bit
Don't get me wrong, I will be crying over their sacrifice for ages, but it would have been a very Pratchett ending without those last ten minutes.
Having read all of Discworld (most of it multiple times), love, choices, and free will have always been common themes. Doing what is right regardless of whether the law/societal expectations agrees on what should be done.
Book!Omens has always been about love. Not just romantic love, but all love. Familial, platonic, universal. Love for the world, for friends, the village, for hereditary enemies that you have more in common with than you have with head office, for humans, all that love is THE reason Armageddon v.1 didn't happen.
The decision that our Ineffable Husbands made, is the decision they always would make. It is their love for humanity, the world, and the entire universe that led them to this choice. Because there is no real free will as long as there is a God playing complicated solitaire.
With that one decision they freed all living things from being pieces on an ethereal game board. They gave all living things true freedom, real choices, true free will. Because they love us. And if that means they don't exist either, that is a price both of them would always be willing to pay. Because they love all of creation. Narratively, their end is perfect.
They did what was right. Knowing the consequences of that choice, they still made it. Because of love. And I truly believe Sir Terry Pratchett would approve of that ending. Because humans should have the freedom to make their own choices. He was always very adamant about that. In his books, and in real life.
It hurts, it was bittersweet, I will be having feelings about this for a long time.
But that ending, without the human au bit, is an ending I love
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