I'm not really in this fandom and obvs don't support Neil Gaiman, skimmed the episode out of curiosity in a way that wouldn't put any money in his pocket, etc. But I just generally feel a lot of empathy for the Good Omens fandom, which I know has become a safe space for a lot of Queer people during a pretty tough time to be Queer. I understand how and why those are precious, and why it feels to some of you like you're losing that space, and that's why it hurts so much, because it can feel like we're still fighting for those spaces in real life. That it's not just about a television show but a world where you could envision the kind of happiness you yourselves want for the Earth and that that happiness could be indestructible.
So, as an outsider: if nothing else, the ending of Good Omens 3 really emphasized for me that the deeply and uniquely romantic opus that was 'crowley and aziraphale loving one another across time and space' was essentially made and perfected by the fandom, one that a certain rightfully disgraced author could never, despite his intentions, successfully appropriate into the actual text with as much depth and complexity. Fandom always realized that story far more powerfully (and with way, way more curiosity into their inner lives, something that always utterly mystified about the actual show) than seasons 2 and 3 ever did. And the finale can't actually kill the most beautiful version of the story, which the author ultimately validated as true but never fully realized better than all of you did. I hope at least there's some power in that. NG was in the end only a small fish nibbling sustenance off the belly of a larger fish which was all of you. I hope at least there's some power in that. That story will always be quite literally infinite.
Well this made me sob 😭😭😭
I have read so many fanfics that are so much better than what we got in the finale, especially the last parts. I’m sad that we’ll not see any of those enacted by David and Michael. We deserved something worthy of us. And we’ll continue to get it from the fandom, like always.
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