Pirate GO 3 if you must watch it

Was Aziraphale changed in S2 and S3 into the manic pixie dream girl trope? Is GO3 reframing their problem as insufficient romantic certainty rather than structural oppression and danger? Because that's what I see discussed all the time now (and yes, always have, but I thought we were past this). The whole - Aziraphale just needed to choose Crowley, abandon faith in Heaven etc.

And I am sorry to say but I can't tell you how much it irked me for Aziraphale to say 'you complete me'. It feels incredibly ooc to me. And also that his question to God is about Crowley. Yes, that part is romantic, it was sweet, but ultimately I don't think that's what Aziraphale would have asked. Because he already knew the answer. And can I repeat that Crowley is not depressed in GO3 because Aziraphale doesn't love him. Or didn't choose him. Crowley already knows Aziraphale does. They already chose each other. Repeatedly. For thousands of years. Crowley is depressed because he thinks there is no point to anything. He already said so at the beginning of S2. And he had Aziraphale around then.

The thing they never had was safety. Their main conflict was how to approach high stakes problems. But Crowley always came back to Aziraphale who chose to keep going. Running away could not be the answer. It'd be always death. Or worse.

So why twist this message?

Aziraphale is not:

emotional fulfilment object

destiny figure

or reward for Crowley

And the idea that their love only becomes possible after removing history, pain and memory feels unbearably sad to me. That they don't get to heal together. And not from wounds inflicted on each other. But from how torn apart by their sides they constantly were.

S2 seemed to double down on that. Other angels and demons could fall in love. Other angels, like Muriel, could like the Earth. Other demons, like Shax, could be surprised by humanity's cruelty. If anything, the story seemed to be leading towards the realization that if angels and demons just gave a chance to humanity, to love, to connection, they could all be happier for it.

I’m not trying to see the ending as bad on purpose - I desperately wanted it to be good and would have happily settled for mediocre.

It’s not that I don’t get what they were trying to do - I see it perfectly, and also how they failed to achieve it or understand the implications of their own narrative choices.

And mostly lines which are Crowley's inner monologue thinking about how little influence Heaven and Hell actually have on Humanity and how they already have free will!

And don’t get me started on how much it emphasizes the irony in having these four supernatural beings determine the fate of the universe and humanity with no feedback from Actual Humans and the irony in the story trying to pretend it has always been about humanity instead of underplaying this aspect of the novel in favor of the Ineffable Husbands Melodrama when Crowley starts using lines cut and stolen from Book!Adam.

If you are deeply upset about the ending, you aren't alone, and you shouldn't feel ashamed for feeling this way. You have every right. Us people of the queer community, we are tired. We are tired that our stories never are fully heard, that our queer representation in media always ends in some form of cosmic tragedy. So many queer couples or characters we see ourselves in end up dead, separated, or we were led to believe their relationship would matter only for it to be treated like bait. It's as if people keep telling us we don't deserve love, that we don't deserve joy. That we should be greatful for the crumbs they give us, and we are so tired.

Good Omens wasn't suppoused to be like this. Aziraphale and Crowley's love for each other was meant to be taken seriously, it was building up for emotional cathartic moments follwing reflective messages. This show means a lot to queer people specifically,because we barely get stories where a relationship like theirs is allowed to exist with that much complexity and sincerity without being reduced to a joke or treated like an afterthought.

And some of us really did get to see ourselves in them: in the longing, in the restraint.

There's many queer people who feel connected to Crowley, with his rebellion, with the way he exists outside of every system that tried to define him, and with how alienated he often feels while still refusing to give up on what he believes is right. It's admirable to see a character whom has been cast out, labeled as wrong but still chooses love, still strives to stand up for his personal beliefs no matter what it costs him.

A lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community know what it feels like to be made to feel “other,” to live with that distance between yourself and the systems or communities that were supposed to welcome you, and to still keep searching for a place where you can exist honestly. Crowley carried so much of that.

I personally saw myself so much in Aziraphale, his character arc meant so much to me as someone who has a complicated relationship with religion and my queerness. Watching him wrestle between duty and desire. The way he tries so hard to do “good” while loving someone he wasn’t supposed to love felt painfully real. As a queer person who grew up trying to reconcile love with systems that taught us that love was wrong, and Aziraphale embodied that conflict with so much compassion and humanity. His journey mattered so much to me, to see him unlearn fear, to see him keep trying to choose love despite everything he had been taught.

Aziraphale, to me personally, represented that deeply human conflict of wanting to believe in goodness and belonging while also trying to make peace with parts of yourself you were taught to fear.

So it hurt deeply to see how unresolved his arc felt in season 3. Because for so many of us, his story was never just about whether he and Crowley would end up together. It was about watching someone who had spent so long carrying shame and trying to earn his place finally reach a point where he could choose love without fear.

And what do we get? instead of finally giving Crowley and Aziraphale the honest emotional payoff their story had been building toward, We get half-assed conversations between Crowley and Aziraphale that don't go anwhere. After everything they had been through together, it felt like they were still being kept at a distance from the very truth the story spent so long asking us to invest in.

And then the ending asks us to accept a sacrifice where they reboot the universe into one without angels or demons, without the versions of themselves we followed and loved. It's like they straight up ripped everything we saw ourselves in and loved apart and laughed in our faces.

These two characters loved each other so much, and the story's direction was never aimed for them to just disappear. These characters suffured so much, longed so much and chose each other over and over again just for the ending to make all of this feel futile.

Not just to the characters, but to us viewers who felt emotionally invested. Especially queer viewers who found something deeply personal in their story. For a lot of us, their relationship felt safe. It felt like seeing pieces of ourselves reflected back with tenderness. And when a story spends years building that trust, asking us to care, , to believe in where these characters are headed—only to make that journey feel like it led nowhere, the hurt goes beyond simple disappointment.

And then, the political climate we are living in makes the ending even more grim. At a time when queer people are still having to defend our right to exist openly, stories like Good Omens matter in a very real way. This story become more than entertainment. They become places where people feel seen, understood, and safe.

That’s part of why this ending feels so heavy. A story about two characters who spent centuries resisting rigid systems and finding home in each other ends without that love being fully honored, instead it ends with their disappearance. With sacrifice. With the versions of them we loved no longer getting to exist at all.

And this just, adds wound to the salt. Because queer people are constantly being told, in ways both subtle and explicit, that our lives, our love, and our futures are still up for debate. So for Good Omens, a show that lets be honest, has a major queer audience, erase Aziraphale and Crowley's romantic history and the thematic messages along with it.

We were genuienly left with nothing. The alternative versions of them didn't even feel authentically like Aziraphale and Crowley, so it doesn't hit. They get married yes, but we didn't really get to see the progression of their love or get to know these new versions on a deep level, so does it matter?

Aziraphale and Crowley didn't even get to kiss. And if you read them as aroace, that’s genuinely valid—people connect to these characters in different ways, and that interpretation matters too. A lack of physical romance can feel meaningful and affirming to a lot of people, and that deserves respect.

Howeveeer: they have kissed before.

But narratively, that’s also why this feels so frustrating for many viewers, because the story itself had already crossed that line. By season 2 especially, the emotional and romantic buildup was no longer subtle implication or fandom projection. The story intentionally framed their relationship as romantic, built around confession and choices neither of them could keep avoiding.

So the frustration isn’t “they needed a kiss or the story failed.” It’s that the narrative itself spent years building up so much intimacy and love between them in a way that clearly pointed toward resolution.

Which is why ending their story without ever letting them truly reach each other feels so painful. Not because every love story needs romance expressed the same way, but because their story was written around longing and around finally crossing emotional boundaries they had spent centuries avoiding.

The only kiss we have of them is genuienly emotionally devastating. It's a desperate declaration of love. It happens in the middle of fear and the unbearable realization that they want the same thing but can’t reach each other in that moment. And that’s exactly why so many people hoped the story would eventually let them have more than that.

And then, their love doesn't necesarly need to be translated with a kiss in season 3, sure. But it's not like we got any straight forward confession that mattered, and even if we had a semblance of one, it doesn't end up being relevant BECAUSE THEIR ENTIRE EXISTENCE AND HISTORY GETS ERASED.

Also, Crowely and Aziraphale are non-binary, and in the reboot version of them that gets erased too. Which also fucking sucks.

To be honest I didn't hate all of it, but there was just so much that didn't sit right with me that I can't accept it as canon (and it's not because it's "sad").

Overall it left me feeling so odd, because (aside from the bit about Asa and Anthony, which made me genuinely cry) I couldn't be sad about the Decision. Betrayed yes, but not sad.

I felt like it was trying to trick me into crying, into being amazed by this grand, heroic gesture which actually meant very little to me as a viewer. I guess tricking is something that writing can do, but when you can tell you're being tricked so easily that it actually breaks your suspension of disbelief, I'm afraid we've stepped into bad writing territory.

May I offer you a sweet getting together Good Omens Season 1 compliant fic featuring crossword loving Aziraphale who wishes to declare his feelings and doesn’t quite know how, and very in love Crowley who has no idea whatsoever where any of this is going:

<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/38627670">

It’s very soft and sweet with an emotional happy ending.

Sigh. I really wish Crowley had gotten the answer to this question:

Free will isn't free will if there are no consequences for actions.

If people just do whatever they want without consequences, then free will is meaningless. Whether you believe in Heaven and Hell or reincarnation or simply prosocial behavior for the good of society (and thus for your own good), the underlying theme is that there is a benefit to making "good" choices and a detriment to making "bad" ones.

If there is no difference, there is no choice to make. And if there is no choice, there is no free will. Consequences make free will possible.

From that perspective, remaking the universe without Heaven and Hell to ensure "true" free will does nothing except to switch out the consequence system.

Except for the fact that it does so at the expense of killing everyone and everything.

the fact that they even made that choice at all is a paradox!