And then?

Now imagine this:

You get this Character on your playthrough, he comes carriying a friend, very injured one(I supose he is carriying curly on the first picture), his dialogue Is about how his friend got injured probably because the sun, and how he is taking care of this friend because he is the only one who can really take care of him(he's not, maybe You could get other characters tell You something about how really curly got injured, or maybe the tv broadcast making a point to call the police if You see jimmy but no picture comes to the screen and only gives You a description vague enough)

He begins to gives You the idea maybe he is not okay, but You test him and it comes like human, You Cannot test his friend, maybe this guy is invested on his friend surviving, but never because his friend is valuable for him, maybe he begins to get concerned about resources, maybe the For-Rest delivery service is not enough to make him calm down, You can have the cat in your house the moment he apears, but one day he is alone, no friend, he is alone, he looks weird, he is alone and he is calm?, no more problems, he looks calm, Instead of hunching over his Friend he looks calm, maybe Even sitting at the table or on the floor, resting, calm, but....

There's stains near the sink and fridge handle, redish-brown stains, on your screen during your playthrough You never Saw the message "It smells like somebody died today", there's no trash bags, just a very calm, very alone guy in your kitchen, You go and talk to him

He Goes on and on over how he fixed the resource problem, there won't be any problems anymore, life it's good finally on this whole visitor madness, You are confused, how?, what can posibly make him Say he fixed the problem he began to spiral over himself, WHERE IS THE FRIEND?

And then he says it

"There's cake in the fridge"

Because he fixed it, there's also a gift for everyone who wants to get a snack from the fridge, because HE FIXED IT

You make the Smart question, "A what?" Or "Where is your friend?"

It won't matter, the response is not verbal anymore, You want answers?

Go get the "cake"

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I also feel like the broadcast gets triggered because he enters the house, the characters dialogue Is just as it Goes, maybe You can get swansea with his dog looking for his wife and he yaps about this weird guy who desapeared from his workplace after the whole visitor thing and then how they got a call from a hospital Where other coworker desapeared from the hospital when they got shut down and his family could not find him, like, they both went away at the same time, how Anya can go to your house and she won't get Inside if Jimmy is already Inside, and if he is already Inside she leaves after warning You about how Jimmy Will hurt curly sooner than later, but now, if the opposite happens, Anya is inside and Jimmy comes knocking the door, he notices Anya Inside, he Goes, no negotiations, he notices Anya, he tells your she is a "Liying excuse of a nurse" and Goes on his way, Anya's story about what went down with Jimmy and curly is almost the same as swansea, but she tells You about the assault(Almost the same non-direct, not saying the Word rape or assault to You, like the cashier girl), she tells You how dangerous Jimmy is, She tells You that the injuries of curly are Jimmy's fault, and how they both went missing at the same time when this all began.

Now, maybe You can't get all of Anya's dialogue because she could die because a visitor(All the crew are always human), but also, Swansea could gives You the coworker story before his looking for My wife story, maybe You can't get all the dialogue from Swansea because he dies, Even Jimmy notices Swansea Inside and he just leaves, no comment, just leaves, but swansea notices Jimmy Inside, he comes Inside, rest on the kitchen table keeping an eye on him

Maybe Jimmy Will wait for Swansea to die, maybe Jimmy entering the house triggers an ending, can be, maybe the only way to stop that ending is Killing Jimmy with the Shotgun, gives You the achievemet of "The good ending", but the ending Jimmy triggers is just "I hope it hurts hurts hurts hurts"

Que vienen estos locos a decirme que me tengo que mover de mi casa porque dice que las grúas todas grandotas esas ya traen la maquinaria para acá!, como es eso?!, yo vivo acá desde siempre y mi mamá y mi abuela y la abuela de su abuela también!

I know we only had 1 episode and whole plotlines were scrapped but I was just left feeling so empty after the finale given how powerful and moving and profound the themes of season 1/the book were. So buckle up for a long ride let's talk about it

Theme 1: Human Incarnate

The book and the show established that humanity is unique because it is neither purely good or purely bad. From the book: "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people." This Aziraphale describes as "much better" than either Heaven or Hell

This is one of my favorite sequences in the whole show. And the music is soaring and gorgeous (but was never released in the official soundtrack, unfortunately, but I digress). Adam recalls the things in his life he has come to know and love; his parents, his friends, his dog, his home. He makes it have nice weather all year. Aziraphale could feel that love at the Tadfield Manor. Heaven and Hell tried to create an instrument of destruction. But by putting that inside a human boy, they didn't realize the strength of that boy's love would be strong enough to literally burn the hell out of him. He told Satan himself to shove it and rewrote reality to have the dad he truly loved. The power of humanity's love is stronger than any immortal power could ever be.

This is the idea that would have been so cool for the finale but unfortunately never paid off. As the second coming prepares to destroy Earth again, Aziraphale and Crowley could have teamed up with the power of humanity to reshape heaven and hell for good. Adam and Jesus as the Antichrist and Christ born to end the world and instead used their humanity to save it. Instead we got the book-of-life arc and humans were literally left to dust

Theme 2: Free Will

Good omens establishes that angels and demons are just puppets but humans are the ones with real free will because they have the ability to be good or bad. Even with heaven and hell, the humans on Earth always have a choice. Aziraphale even describes free will as the defining characteristic of humanity, as the crucial element that angels should exist to protect. In seasons 1+2, they agree on this, but Crowley's main grievance is the inequity of it all. Humans have free will but it still isn't fair.

God made angels and demons and humans but the humans never had to follow her 'plan.' Free will and the ability to recognize what is truly right outside the propaganda of good vs evil is what saves the world.

Humans always had free will, even if God was around to kill a bunch of them with floods or take their stuff to win bets or something. Creating a new universe without God wouldn't change that. They would still have free will, just less threats from above/below, I guess. Crowley just kind of assumes that without a God, humans will somehow have more free will than they do now, and that will somehow solve all of the problems they’ve encountered in humanity?? What Crowley's established character really should have wanted here was to fix the inequity inherent in human society. That's what is truly holding them back, not a lack of will. Removing God from the universe doesn't actually solve the root problem.

Theme 3: Our Own Side

This is something Crowley learned very early and spends the whole show trying to teach Aziraphale. That good must be separated from heaven and bad must be separated from hell.

Heaven can do some truly appalling horrors and demons, at least Crowley (and somewhat Beelzebub I guess) have the potential to be kind. 'Their own side' is one where they have the freedom of humanity, to do what is objectively right. Not of heaven or hell, but true morality. Aziraphale and Crowley sort of found their way there in the finale, but it was all rushed and Aziraphale never really turned his back on heaven, it sort of just became irrelevant when everything started disappearing. What a beautiful world they could have created together, not one of good or evil, but one that--for all its flaws--is kind.

Theme 4: Love Conquers All

What was it all for? Love. God implies Aziraphale and Crowley were made for each other because she liked to smile at the silliness of their love. The literal only constant in the entire universe. Their love for the world and each other saved it. I think the decision to turn Aziraphale and Crowley's queer love story into a tragedy was the biggest mistake of seasons 2/3. Forcing the soft and romantic comedy of good omens into a queer tragedy was the moment it all crashed and burned. Now everything is tainted leading up to the pain and destruction of it all and the whimsy and lightness is gone. There were moments of it, but it was all leading toward the end. And queer love deserves to not be a tragedy. We have far too much tragic queer love in our society. Yes we got the south downs, but Aziraphale and Crowley never got to experience that freedom. They finally came together just to instantly be destroyed. We deserve happy and fulfilling queer love that is sweet without the bitter parts. Good omens was intended to be a comedy, not a tragedy

And then this was SUCH A COOL IDEA they introduced. Perhaps the first time ever an angel and a demon performed a miracle together. The power of their love could create magic stronger than anything heaven or hell had ever seen. I was so excited to see the wonders they were going to create, they ways in which they could have rebuilt the world better using that love. If they had this kind of power doing a tiny miracle, what could they have accomplished if they really put their minds to it??? God herself couldn't have stopped them. And instead, the finale literally revoked Crowley's miracles for the entire episode. They sacrifice themselves for a new earth and people that didn’t even exist yet instead of using any of their power to change it. The god awful execution of this theme is probably the biggest letdown of the entire finale imo

Theme 5: Fix It, Don't Replace It

This is so obviously established in seasons 1/2 I cannot believe how badly they missed the mark with this one

Literally shows us the horror of replacing the Earth with all new people. Even children can recognize that just because something is broken, it doesn't mean you throw it away and start over. They loved the world enough to want to save it. The world is inherently worth saving, flaws and all. If you love something, you don't abandon it. The ENTIRE PLOT of season 1 explores the horrors of humanity and yet humans, Aziraphale and Crowley do everything in their power to save it.

It absolutely blows my mind how directly this scene contradicts the entire message of the finale. Job didn't want new children, he quite liked the old ones. Aziraphale and Crowley didn't want the antichrist's new Earth, they quite liked the old one. We didn't want new human versions of Aziraphale and Crowley, we QUITE LIKED THE OLD ONES. Where the hell did that mentality go when they told God to create an entirely new universe?????????? Season 1 said the world is flawed but it deserves saving exactly as it is. Season 1 said an angel and a demon go off to the ritz together, exactly as they are. The finale said the world is too broken, we have to make it disappear and start over. The finale said Aziraphale and Crowley have too many issues/traumas to be happy, we have to destroy them and start over. That's why as cute as Asa and Anthony's love is, we quite liked them exactly as they were, angel/demon trauma + history and all. They deserved saving too.

At the end of everything they’re giving up, we are simply left with asking: What is the "real world" the finale is trying to make us value? One without a god to screw things up sometimes??? All we see of this new world is Asa and Anthony finding each other. There's no evidence to show that humans are doing any better, there's any less pain or suffering, that humans have any more opportunities or free will than before. They seem to imply it's the exact same world, just without God or angels or demons. Then what was the actual point of destroying the original one??? If the real problem was God, they should've just destroyed God and left the world alone. I guess they didn't have enough time to really explore it. But they're hinging everything on the new universe being better but then do next to nothing to support that idea.

It's This. Beelzebub isn't even looking at the man next to her. That's not the person who is their hell and happiness. He's not in there. He's where his memories are -- in the fly.

In the finale ending we were given, I can see the power of Crowley's Choice, the incredible love for humanity in their sacrifice, and the beauty of Aziraphale's willingness to disappear into Nothingness with the one Being that makes him feel complete. And my little ace/grey heart is satified without a big show of physical affection, so I'm not sulking over the absence of a Kiss.

But this world, this story, told us that memories are what makes you You. That shiney new children can't just replace the children you already love. That other couples lives might mirror your story, but aren't actually You. That we build off of what is broken, and work to fix it as best we can. That brokenness is still lovable, deserves love and can find love.

Crowley told us the rules of the Book of Life, that what gets erased will have never existed. God contributed another worldbuilding rule, a coldly finite and absolute statement, in Her response to Crowley and Aziraphale's decision -- a Hobson's Choice, btw.

Eventually there'll be humans and life, in all of its mundane glory. Something that both of you will neither know or experience, though.

This is what many of us are struggling with. As much as we love this show and respect Sir Terry, this finale only gives Our Ineffables a happy human ending if the show unravels nearly every rule they ever told us -- including the last words God spoke moments before Asa and Anthony meet.

According to everything we were told, Aziraphale and Crowley are gone. It's a beautiful love story echoing throughout time and space, but it's not theirs anymore. What made them.. Them... is gone.

It's okay if you see it differently.

But many of us are stuck here, trapped in a limbo where our minds and hearts are faced with our own Hobson's Choice. Unexpected. Impossible. Heartbreaking.

Please be kind. We have a lot to lose.

We love this beautiful world too.

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