Alecto

We knew, deep down, that Aziraphale was OOC when he asked Crowley to go to heaven with him. That's why we had a lot of theories and we were waiting for season 3 to confirm any of it. There was no way that Aziraphale could think that The Metatron 'wasn't so bad'. There was no way that he could said that heaven was 'the side of light/truth' when they had punched him and afterwards tried to kill him, and kill humanity. There was no way he could think Crowley would want to go back to heaven as an angel.

I never believed the coffee theory, of course, but the scene was so OOC that I thought it was some kind of performance for the Metatron. I trusted it would be explained.

It feels like they keep telling us it’s over, and while, yes, the series is done, that does not mean we have to stop creating. Good Omens has belonged to the fandom for a long time and as long as we keep creating stories and art then Crowley and Aziraphale will never be gone.

I have some big writing projects in the works, but this damn heatwave is melting my brain and I have summer seasonal depression which has made things hard to focus.

I think the closest we got was the brief flashes at the end of Season 1 and then when Muriel first appeared in season 2.

After yeeting Adam at the nuns, he tried to convince Aziraphale to help him stop the Apacolypse, and you know what his arguments were? If Earth is destroyed, we won't have anywhere to go on our pretend real dates. Food, music, the bookshop. Things they enjoyed together.

When he realized they raised the wrong kid, his entire plan became ditch Earth and run away. Three times he decided that was the best next step. Twice he pitched it to Aziraphale and once while he was alone.

When he thought Aziraphale was murdered, he gave up on saving Earth or running away to hide and got spectacularly drunk instead.

When he realized Satan was on his way, it took Aziraphale threatening him before he locked in. And that threat was fix this, or we (literally) end here.

Crowley loved Aziraphale more than he ever loved people and more than he loved the Earth.

crowley ended up at the center of the entire story. the film constantly frames him as a tragic, miserable figure, but a lot of his actions barely make sense. after losing his miracles and bentley, why didn’t he stay in the bookshop? the idea that "it hurt too much" doesn’t really work for me considering how much that place meant to him and how much he cared for it. and after winning at the casino, why refuse the money? it felt less like character writing and more like the story trying to force sympathy: "look how much aziraphale ruined his life." which makes even less sense when they reconcile almost immediately afterward

and then there’s aziraphale. he basically becomes the scapegoat. heaven dislikes him, people on earth blame him for leaving whickber street and crowley, and suddenly he’s treated like some selfish careerist who never truly loved crowley and only cared about his angelic side. the line "you were the best angel" ... fuck. seriously?

From the article "Good Omens Finale Revels in Heartbreak: Whose Happy Ending Is It, Anyway?" by Sarah Nathan - read below

Because who thought it would be a good idea to let the canonically and chronically depressed and passively/actively suicidal demon decide the fate of the universe? On the same day that the angel who broke his heart shows up for the first time in three years and said demon is at peak despair?

And what do you mean Crowley, who has asked Aziraphale to run away with him no less than three times but chose not to run away by himself when Aziraphale said no would then choose to end both of them AND everyone else? Same guy, by the way, who almost had a full breakdown when he thought Aziraphale died in the bookshop fire. Same guy who walked on consecrated ground to save an angel who could have easily saved himself.

And also, what do you mean Aziraphale, who had no issues saying no to Crowley across 2 seasons and 6000 years, and who refused to give Crowley holy water as protection because he thought Crowley would use it to kill himself, would just accept Crowley's "nuke the universe" wish? Especially after what he just spent the last 3 years doing?

Would it have been so hard to give us something like this? Give them this one, small moment to express their love for each other?

Don’t get me wrong, I kind of grew fond of the hand kiss gesture. But in the Bookshop Garden, when they had privacy - probably for the first time ever - I really grieve a heartfelt conversation; about the things they did wrong, about their affection, about their options. About the reasons why they decided to choose humanity over their own happiness *sigh*

I remember copying Ingres at school was gruelling but equally rewarding. It usually involved hours at the Met drawing room with a magnifier. Each one of his lines is expressive, and every edge is finely controlled. An Ingres copy wouldn’t have the feel of the original at all if it’s not done this carefully with a SHAAARP pencil on very smooth paper. (Ironically, not Ingres paper...)

I took out the same magnifier and all the Ingres catalogues I could find at my place for this drawing too... The struggle is real (?)

They were never supposed to be martyrs for humanity, and that was the point. Every motive they had to save the earth came from selfishness.

They loved through hedonism. They loved humanity, loved earthly pleasures, and more than anything they loved each other. They don’t even fully consider meddling in the apocalypse until Crowley brings up THEIR life, wines, restaurants, parks.

Aziraphale fully intended to blow up a kid to save his life on earth. Crowley took a pause as the world was ending, just to mourn his car, and even then, he only stops time to save the earth because Aziraphale had threatened to “never talk to him again” if he didn’t do something about it. Crowley asks Aziraphale to run away from earth with him, leave it all behind. Even in Aziraphale going to heaven, it was to keep THEIR lives safe, to prevent further action from Heaven that would sully their perfect life on earth.

The both of them disobeyed their superiors, time and time again, knowing it would likely kill them, all for their life together.

And that’s why I just don’t believe it, the end of it all. The idea that Aziraphale and Crowley, hedonistic, selfish, bastards worth knowing they are, that when faced with a choice between keeping their lives as they were, or complete and utter erasure, that they would choose the latter?

No. I disagree entirely.

Both seasons, 1 and 2, they have been established as these individuals, with these beliefs, and these convictions and what not. To just go against that?? Entirely??? If I had the responsibility to pick up a story that didn’t belong to me, getting the character’s beliefs right is like the FIRST THING IM DOING. I’m analyzing, I’m scouring, I’m getting that shit right, because if I don’t, then it’s not the same story, NONE OF IT MATTERS.

Perhaps that is the rant complete. To summarize my scatter brain, they have been established hedonists for both seasons 1-2, if there was any pair of characters across the characters multiverse I’d expect to NOT sacrifice their lives, it’d be Aziraphale and Crowley, maybe for each other, but for NOTHING ELSE.

I, personally was devastated by the ending. But I want to hear and absorb ALL the takes.

You loved it? Amazing. Please tell me all the things you love about it. I find it healing.

You also didn't like it? By all means, vent. We can be hurt and frustrated together.

Ambivalent? Indifferent? Also fine.

All takes are welcome in my books (though I will raise a hefty eyebrow at people who hate on Aziraphale).

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Crying for three straight days then sobbing occasionally whenever you see anything that is black and white paired or hear Cyndi Lauper on the radio.

4. Uncontrollable rage

5. Setting fire to your local Amazon warehouse.

5. Faking your death and running into the forest.

5. Burning down the forest and starting a new life a second time.

5. Screaming into the void

5. Eating an entire chocolate by yourself

5. Starting a third fire and throwing an effigy of NG into it.

5. Write fix it fanfiction.

Hi Fam,

Okay so I sort of lied about taking a break bc my brain wont let me. And I think I need to write this down and get it out so I can move on. So thanks for bearing witness to my healing, I guess?

It's been a day and I've processed a lot of feelings and have come to a conclusion on what did not work for me about the ending. And, of course, it's nuanced and fails to fall cleanly into one side or the other, so I will, once again, stand awkwardly on the outside of the fandom seeing pros and cons to both sides of an unending argument. But, that's just how it goes.

Spoilers for GO S3 below the cut:

That Fucking Man.

So. Hate the finale, love the finale, be somewhere in the middle about the finale, headcanon the finale away—

But be kind to each other.

And be kind to the cast, crew, and other people who worked under VERY tough circumstances with what they were given. Or at the least, simply avoid interacting with those folks.

(The only one we don’t need to be kind to is That Man)

Please, please, speak kindly and respectfully to, and about, each other. Everyone who’s not harassing someone has some kind of valid point. Everyone feeling strong emotions is valid in those feelings. Avoid content that throws off your equilibrium, but comfort each other whenever you can.

The real Good Omens always were the friends we made along the way. Let’s stay that way. To our world. 🤍🥂🖤

Be as horrible to NG and his horror-writing cronies who couldn't be bothered to get to know our Ineffables and the World we all loved as you want. Don't care if you fill THEIR socials with horrible crap back.

But leave the cast, crew, Rob, and Rhianna alone. I think they did everything in their power to mitigate that dumpster fire of a finale. I think (just my own theory, based on his past history) NG NDA'd everyone involved within an inch of their sanity in exchange for supposedly "walking away" (he clearly didn't, as he's listed TWICE on the writer's credits). I think those NDAs are the reason anytime cast or crew talk about the show, they do so in a tight-lipped, clearly forcing praise out kind of way. They don't deserve our ire, or any kind of harassment.

And nor does anyone in the fandom. If you see a post you don't agree with the opinion of and you can't be kind about it, just keep scrolling past. Remember the real point of this fandom is appreciating GO, our Ineffables, the World they (and we) love, and each other. We made it through COVID holding up S2 production for 2 years. We held each other (virtually and physically, depending) through the Final Fifteen. We endured 3 years of not knowing if or when we'd even get S3 by creating our own art, fics, and theories. We closed ranks around the survivors when the allegations broke, and proved over and over that we're at our best when we're kind and protective of victims and survivors. I believe we are capable of coming together, now, too. We are capable of being on OUR side, on the side of our Ineffables, no matter how we feel about S3.

I ❤️ you all!