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Okay, can we all agree that you can’t just casually drop that Metatron was meddling with the Book of Life and... just leave it there? Because now, every time we talk about plot holes, loose threads, or out-of-character behavior, there's always the explanation that it was Metatron's doing. Wild... and not in a good way.
[When I first saw it, I thought they were going to do a series of flashbacks, like when Gabriel was reconnecting with his memories. Yup, guess I was wrong.]
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So, back when I still had Hopes about GO3 and the world was rosy and innocent, one of the Character Flaws I was really expecting/hoping they’d tackle is Crowley’s extreme codependency issues. Like, hey, yeah, the end of GO2 brought up that a lot of the personality flaws we thought were resolved in GO1 still persisted and that’s a very poignant message about how progress isn’t linear but… surely they aren’t just going to rehash the same character beats again, right? Maybe they're gonna focus on the character flaws that GO1 didn't already cover?
And out of all the character flaws that were kinda present but not resolved in any way in GO1 and highlighted in GO2 is this aspect of Crowley’s character. And the through-line in GO2 about the unequal amount of sacrifice in the relationship is, like, you could definitely argue this is most importantly a problem of Aziraphale taking Crowley for granted and not Giving him enough and Taking too much but... the whole thing also highlighted Crowley’s emotional neediness making so dependent and so bad at asking for what he wants Given to him and bad at insisting upon his boundaries.
So at first I hoped that maybe the Ineffable Divorce would be good for Crowley in the long run, Aziraphale has finally crossed a boundary that Crowley isn’t going to acquiesce to or compromise on (his identity as Crowley, not the Angel he was). Crowley is staying on Earth around the same place as Muriel and all of the Human secondary characters established during GO2… maybe he’s gonna actually develop some emotional connections with Other People, learn how to still love Aziraphale while not making him the entirety of his world and reason for living. Obviously, that’s not what happened, Crowley’s codependence and obsessive dedication and tendency to spiral into self-destructive self-loathing has only gotten worse…
But at first that still made me hopeful (first mistake when it comes to GO3, I know) that this will be the set-up to his character arc. That the point is to show this flaw of Crowley at its most harmful extreme before he starts climbing out of it…. Right?
And, like, when I first went through the Finale, I was pretty ready to just chuck this down in the very long list of ‘Ineffable Husbands Personal and Interpersonal Issues That Were Not Meaningfully Addressed by the Finale and Only Resolved by FUCKING Reincarnation of All Things", or I suppose you could say that STPUID ASS ‘you were the Best Angel’ speech was supposed to totally resolve all of Crowley’s self-loathing problems and thus also his dependency problems??? Because THAT was the point of GO2, right??? That interpersonal issues can totally be fixed forever with one big dramatic gesture?
But the more and more I think about it, I start considering the possibility that the narrative never gave Crowley a chance to fix his toxically selfless codependent ‘I will basically try to destroy myself over and over again if I can’t be with my Angel’ issues because… it doesn’t actually see them as issues. It just sees them totally unironically uncomplicated expressions of love. Him behaving like that isn't a tragic flaw to heal from, really, it's just a demonstration of how much he loves. The narrative sees the problem with Aziraphale being a 'Taker', not showing Crowley his love enough, but not in the fact that it's also bad for Crowley that, regardless of his partner's behavior, he is so emotionally dependent on Aziraphale, selfless to the point of it being unhealthy.
This is a very serious topic, so I want to make sure I'm being clear as possible. This isn't, like, blaming Crowley for every time he tried to set a boundary but Aziraphale argued and pouted until he surrendered. I'm not saying "Oh this is equally Crowley's fault as a person, for not being good enough at insisting on himself", I am saying that from a character and narrative standpoint, not being able to say 'no' to the one you love is a flaw that a character should raise above and overcome, and it should not be romanticized as a showcase for just how In Love this character is…
In Season One, this was an issue that was easy to overlook. Crowley just seemed to enjoy spoiling Aziraphale rotten, so it was just easy to just see these gestures as romantic and sweet, and even the biggest red flag, so to speak, him resigning himself (and the world) to death because he thought Aziraphale has died…
I mean, it's not healthy, but he was literally just reeling from the shock and grief and guilt of thinking Aziraphale has died probably less than an hour ago… It's a contrast to Book!Crowley's near-constant resolve and optimism, but it still felt like an understandable reaction given the timeframe.
Meanwhile, like, yeah, GO3 Crowley spending years wallowing in an alleyway, dedicating himself to protecting the Bookshop he thinks Aziraphale will not return too, sacrificing the Bentley he considers to be basically part of himself, spiraling into alcoholism and gambling in a desire for self-destruction, always subtextually musing about how much he needs Aziraphale in his life...
It's not like it's not romantic or not heartwarming to see how much he misses Aziraphale and how sad he is without him and how dedicated he still is to him, but… I think it's also tragic because this is not a healthy level of dedication, this is not a healthy level of self-sacrifice… But I'm afraid that GO3 only sees it as a problem as Aziraphale being at fault here. And like, for whatever blame Aziraphale holds for the problems in their relationship, he did not make or ask Crowley spend his last years on Earth sad and miserable in an alleyway, Crowley's own depression and codependence are the main cause here!
The main reason I started getting worried that this story doesn't see that Crowley's behavior isn't just romantic, but also emblematic of a real hurt that he needs to heal from is because… well… not only does he never get a chance to really show that he's ever healed past it (like I said, plenty of character flaws didn't get this kind of resolution in the Finale), his ultimate character resolution is STILL an overdramatic gesture of selfless self-sacrifice in the name of love! He just switched from sacrificing in the name of his love for Aziraphale to sacrificing in the name of his love for Humanity!
A sacrifice that was 'self-destructive' in the most literal meaning of the word, but we're supposed to see as beautiful and the culmination of Crowley's character. Because he's just so caring and selfless… and that care and selflessness has never actually being unhealthy or problematic for him, right?
And then also the only real 'culmination' to Aziraphale's arc is that he starts appreciating Crowley and giving him and sacrifice in the relationship… as demonstrated by the fact that he gave Crowley 100% full control about what kind of world they want to ask God to make next, and went along with what Crowley wanted even when it meant to wipe both of them out of existence… was the problem ever was that Aziraphale was being a 'Taker' or 'Selfish', or was it really just "yeah, he should've been Dramatically Sacrificing Everything to the Point of Self-Destruction just like Crowley always did???"
The possibility and implications here just make me sad. Crowley and Aziraphale both deserved a better narrative. Aziraphale deserved a narrative that meaningfully celebrated his positive qualities and allowed him to actually grow past his flaws, Crowley deserved a narrative that acknowledged his flaws so he could also have the chance to grow past them.
More GO Metaverse/AU Musings
Many people have written eloquently about how, since the book/radio drama/S1 all end happily with character arcs wrapped up, there is plenty of justification for taking them as one's personal canon. This is probably going to be my approach.
However, I do think there is justification in the structure of the show to consider each season as its own AU. I'm not saying you have to interpret it this way, just offering the possibility.
Season 1 begins with the OG wall meet-cute, which establishes A&C as a pair of slightly befuddled agents from opposing sides who have more in common with each other than head office. Of the three seasons, this one retains the most of the Cold War spy setting from the book, with them meeting in public places and expressing fear about getting into trouble with their head offices. Also, this is the only season that mentions the Arrangement, which is a concept that only makes sense if they both know that angels and demons are the same.
Season 2 introduces a new meet-cute that, to me, can be read as resetting the story into an AU about religious institutional trauma. The two angels are more like church friends, with one about to be ex-churched, and while the fear of their institutions persists, the conflicts between them throughout S2 seem more philosophical than S1's more practical and obvious emergency. In addition, among a number of moments that I find contradictory to S1, there is no hint of the Arrangement and generally A&C seem to lack the common knowledge and experience that I read them as having in S1.
Season 3 doesn't have breathing room for much of this kind of analysis, but the third meet-cute seems to launch us into a war AU with A&C as soldiers on opposite sides of an unbridgeable divide, who will never find more than a moment's peace together, which leads into their final decision. This is a huge reversal from S1, which showed characters successfully building relationships across their differences.
Chronologically, the only way I can make all three meet-cute scenes make sense in order is by assuming external manipulation. Their memories and/or their Book of Life pages must have been altered, or we must be watching them in different timelines or universes.
This is not the only issue I have when trying to consider the story chronologically. To me, the S1 flashbacks show a slowly developing relationship, allies to friends to lovers, over the centuries. The S2 minisodes disrupt that flow, with the Job flashback getting very intimate, then whipping back to a more distanced tone at the Crucifixion. And how do we get from Bastille Aziraphale, who is experiencing in real time what a hungry and oppressed populace will do, to the Aziraphale of Edinburgh 1827?
I do think S2 and S3 have more connective tissue to each other than to S1, so again, a S1-only canon makes a ton of sense. But I think, if it helps, that you can also apply an AU lens to each season.
To be honest, what hurts me the most is seeing something like “In every lifetime and in every universe". It just reminds me that they stripped away everything I found meaningful and beautiful about their love.
Yup, apparently I’m still not done being sad and angry about it.
[I’m not saying it’s wrong to like the soulmate trope. Of course it’s okay if you do. I just personally find it hollow.]
I didn't like the finale. I engaged in many discussions about it with both people who loved it and people who hated it. I didn't change my mind, but I came to understand why some people like it, and I respect that! However, after seeing some recent posts, I really wanted to emphasize two things.
(1) I respect Sir Terry Pratchett and have a great deal of love for his work. But that doesn't mean I'm obliged to like every story he wrote. The fact that the finale was planned by him doesn't mean I have to like it. [To be honest, I think this ending would have worked much better without Season 2, and even the same conclusion with a different script might have changed my opinion, at least to some extent.]
(2) This is the part that genuinely makes me angry.
Invoking media literacy, someone’s sexuality, or whether they believe in God is not an argument. It’s a way of dismissing someone’s position in the discussion without engaging with what they actually said. This applies to both "sides" — people who loved the finale and people who hated it.
If you disagree with my reasons for disliking the finale, that's completely fine. I'm happy to hear counterarguments. Discuss the story, the themes, the characters. But don't tell me I only dislike it because I don't understand it, because I was only shipping the Ineffables and not interested in the deeper meaning, or because of who I am as a person. If you want to challenge my opinion, challenge my arguments, don’t just throw assumptions about me at me.
That's especially odd when these claims are directed at large parts of the fandom. You have no way of knowing the identities, beliefs, experiences, or motivations of thousands of people.
Oh! One more thing. Some people say that disliking the finale is "spreading negativity". But dismissing someone’s opinion by implying they’re too stupid to understand it doesn’t really feel like spreading positivity either.
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The thing is, I could get over the fact that I didn’t like the finale. But I just cannot accept that, at least the way I understand it, it sends more than one harmful message. And that took me completely by surprise.
Repression is a coping mechanism, not a personality trait
You have probably seen what Mickey Ralph wrote. And of course, everyone can interpret the story presented in Good Omens differently. But I have to say that I really, really disagree with his comment. There are two reasons for this:
(1) We didn’t need “I love you” to be sure that Aziraphale loves Crowley. We already knew that. The love was clearly there in Season 1, even though there were only a handful of touches.
(2) I find framing “being repressed” as a personality trait alongside “impulsive” really shocking. Repression is a coping mechanism. And that is exactly why I wanted Aziraphale to say “I love you”, to witness him heal, work through his trauma, and finally fully accept (embrace) the fact that he loves Crowley.
But of course, this is only my opinion, so it is just as valid as his :)
Take care!
Wings
Do we think that the fact that we see only Crowley’s wings in the finale, and that they are the very first thing we actually see, was foreshadowing the conclusion that he was the best of angels?
This part of Aziraphale’s monologue sounds terrifyingly close to something like: C: “I am not a boy.” A: “But you were such a pretty boy!”
He could just say "being"...
You know what I mean? Yeah. So, do I even have to say that I don’t like it?
In Seasons 1 and 2, we thought that we were seeing Crowley constantly reminding Aziraphale that he is not “that angel” in order to show Aziraphale’s need to finally fully accept that Crowley is a demon, and that Aziraphale loves him for who he is. Season 3 makes it seem as though it was actually there to show us that Crowley finally needs to accept that he is still that angel. Uhhh.
Why I understand the finale symbolically, but not emotionally
Ok. Some time passed, and I did a lot of thinking and posting. And I figured out what precludes me from accepting the finale. It is literally two minutes. If those two minutes were changed, I would accept it. I wouldn't like it much, because of all the reasons that I discussed, but I would accept it. Let me tell you why, if you want to hear.
It is the apple tree scene.
I understand it symbolically. There is an apple tree and a decision to be made. This time, however, it is Aziraphale who tempts. And Aziraphale was the temptation, right? Placed there by God, so close to Crowley, not on the Moon. This time, however, Crowley decides to give a flaming sword to humanity and wonders whether he did the wrong thing. [And although Aziraphale is initially devastated by Crowley’s choice, he realizes that this is exactly why he loves him.]
Beautiful, right? Right? Well, no. I cannot understand it emotionally. Imagine that you have a person who constantly expresses that you are the most important part of the universe. Not directly, but loudly enough. “Let’s run away together,” “I would like to spend...” And then, when you finally accept your feelings as well and confess them, this person does not even acknowledge your confession. It would feel like betrayal. It would be heartbreaking. And it did break many of our hearts.
Crowley’s final choice was about logic, not humanity
Ok, yes, yes. This will probably be an extremely unpopular opinion, but I need to get it off my chest.
So. I don’t read Crowley as an artist. I have always seen him as a scientist.
I can absolutely understand why people say that his final decision was about choosing humanity. But I read it differently. To me, he reached a point where he simply could no longer stand a universe that is irrational. He believes the universe should make sense, and is horrified that it apparently does not.
Just look at his question to God. At its core, it can be summarized as: “Why is all of this pointless? Why does none of it make sense?”
Even his final choice fits this interpretation for me. He is not sacrificing himself for the humans currently living in the universe. [Well, before the wipeout.] He is sacrificing himself for the idea of humanity in a new universe, one that is logical, meaningful, and allows genuine freedom. [Not free will. That concept never really made sense to me.]
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely believe that he loves humanity. He repeatedly puts himself in danger for humans (like drinking laudanum and facing punishment from Hell afterward). But I still read his final decision less as a pure emotional devotion and more as a rejection of the universe that makes no sense to him.
And yes, you guessed it — I hate it. I generally hate sacrifices and big heroes/martyrs. I don’t care whether it concerns humanity or logic. But then again, I hate almost everything about this season.
Edit: You see, what also bothers me is this: what kind of people see no point in anything? People submitted to chronic stress, burnt out, depressed ones...
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Why I didn't like the idea of soulmates in S3
[If you liked this idea, that’s great! I am not here to convince you, and this is probably not a take for you. I just wanted to understand why I find it so deeply unsatisfying.]
In Seasons 1 and 2, Aziraphale and Crowley repeatedly choose each other. Against all odds, literally Heaven and Hell are against their partnership/relationship. Not always at the same time, not always completely, but it is definitely their choice.
In Season 3, they become soulmates who are destined to find each other. [Not to mention that it is implied they were literally designed by God to be attracted to each other, and not able to escape this attraction, which essentially undermines everything I wrote above.] That option is definitely less satisfying and actually less romantic for me. Maybe if it had been emphasized that they are not soulmates, and that it is just circumstances that bring them together, only for them to actively choose each other again... But that was not the impression that I got.
Reflection on the Season 3 ending
There seem to be two interpretations of the Season 3 ending.
People who hated the ending seem to see it this way:
The love between our boys turned out not to be enough. They never succeeded in being together as themselves, with all their history and experiences. They never succeeded in DISMANTLING the oppressive system. Instead, they had to destroy the universe along with themselves, all people, and all other beings. Their versions could be together only because they were freed from their circumstances, bad memories, and traumatic experiences.
This is not a happy story. It is depressing. It tells you that you cannot succesfully stood up to opressive system, and you cannot find happiness while carrying trauma from your past.
[This is how I have been reading it, if you want to know.] People who loved the ending seem to see it this way:
The love between our boys turned out to be enough. They succeeded in DESTROYING the oppressive system. Their versions, finally freed from their circumstances, bad memories, and trauma, could finally find peace and be together.
This is a happy story. A “love conquers all” kind of ending, even against a literal omnipotent god.
The thing is, I believe that both interpretations are valid, and maybe it is time we acknowledge that. A slightly sad part is that I don't think one group can ever convince the other, because we are looking at the same story but interpreting it differently, probably because of our experiences. For this reason, people are now throwing insults at each other. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking. Fandom should be a happy place.
I have a final remark. It was to be expected that this ending would be polarizing, right? I am really surprised that this is the story we were given. [And no, do not tell me that it was the only possible ending. This is literally fiction. There were endless possibilities. I think even quite minor changes to the script would have made it less polarizing.] Sending love to both groups.
How I would fix S3 with a minimal number of changes
I know it is not my story to tell, but this is how I would tell it. This is how I cope. Maybe someone will find it helpful. If you love the finale in its current form, that is great and completely valid! I just cannot.
This idea came to me after reading a wonderful post today (https://www.tumblr.com/quoththemaiden/817328396769132545/reconstructing-s3?source=share).
(0) Reconciliation.
At some point, we need reconciliation! With “I am sorry” and “I love you” said out loud, not merely implied. From both boys! This is non-negotiable.
(1) Why is Whickber Street in such a bad shape?
The idea is that angels and demons stationed on Earth grow to love the places where they live. This love is essential for a place to actually thrive. It is not intentional. They unintentionally meddle with reality. Remember Tadfield, with its perfect weather thanks to Adam?
That is why everything goes sideways when Aziraphale leaves. What about Crowley? Well, Crowley is heartbroken and really not in the state to emanate love for the place. Or is it that he is heartbroken, so the world is broken too? I think this would also nicely explain his lack of miracles. I prefer this explanation over the one we were given. It would also explain why in Season 2 Aziraphale’s miracle did not work on Nina and Maggie. He was too anxious.
So, angels and demons — Heaven and Hell — are crucial for sustaining the universe in its current form. (2) Heaven and Hell are destructive.
Ok. So we see that the Second Coming, which was supposed to end life on Earth, didn't happen. Jesus is out there giving never-ending pizza and bringing people peace. And immediately we jump to Michael stealing the Book of Life. I would not make it a mystery, as it really is not. It needs to be ridiculous. Another threat of destruction. And why? Because Michael is burned out at work?
This is important for the narrative. We need to see that Heaven and Hell will always be destructive, and the universe will never be safe with them around. (3) Decision.
Aziraphale and Crowley need to realize that, although angels and demons are crucial for the existence of the universe, they are also its doom. There needs to be a decision to perform a miracle together to rebuild the universe so that there are no longer angels and demons. I would leave God out of it. A miracle driven by love for each other (because they are never going to be happy and free in this universe) and for humanity (because humanity will always be doomed when angels and demons are here). I hate that the finale framed it "us" OR "hummanity".
Imagine Crowley taking Aziraphale’s hand and Aziraphale kissing him instead during the miracle. I have always found this idea beautiful, like annihilation — particle and antiparticle transforming into pure energy. They don't know how this will end for them. (4) Ending.
We do not get a Big Bang. I hated that idea. If there was no free will, then why would we end up with the same history in a world with free will? I would instead make it a callback to Season 1.
We see Aziraphale and Crowley dumbfounded. Human. [I know, I know, sorry.] Crowley flustered, Aziraphale a bit too proud of himself, am I right? :D You know I am. And the thing is, the universe is almost the same as before, yet there are no angels or demons.
Imagine former angels and demons (now human) leaving the same building, equally dumbfounded, and then going to the pub together, because what else can they actually do?
Reconstructing S3
It seems likely to me that the 6-episode version of Good Omens season 3 always went roughly this way, and the script was cut down to 90 minutes instead of being rewritten into a clear, satisfying, 90-minute arc.
With that thought in mind, it makes me wonder what the missing pieces would have been, and how they would have built up to this ending feeling like a clear fit. I.e., how do we get from S1's Adam being convinced not to replace his friends' parents and S2's Sitis saving her children to S3's clean slate approach?
I think there are snippits within the remaining 90 minutes that hint at how the necessity for rewriting the universe could have been supported by what was in S3.
The decay of Whickber Street could have been a case study in it: Aziraphale left, and in the span of just a few years, it utterly collapsed. Why? Well, Aziraphale wasn't there supporting it. When he lived there, he wasn't just passively failing to collect rent; he was supernaturally molding the environment around him to provide sturdy buildings that don't require maintenance, protect it from gangsters and government inspectors, and everything else to ensure that he and his neighbors never encountered any serious problems.
Tadfield could have been another case study: We saw at the end of S1 that Adam kept his powers. The first newspaper headline in S2 says "Is Tadfield the Best Village in England?" Adam presumably kept using his powers to make it a wonderful place to live, with idyllic weather, no devastating highway construction or predatory corporations moving in, and neighbors who never moved away. Adam renounced being Satan's son, but even without his conscious meddling, he still kept Tadfield intact.
Crowley's plants are a case study as well: Without miracles, he has only one left alive, and it doesn't look like it will last much longer.
Aziraphale leaves, and Whickber Street crumbles. Adam stays, and Tadfield remains. Crowley loses his miracles, and his plants die.
Why can't the current universe exist without God? The same reason Whickber Street can't exist without Aziraphale.
To lean into the trend of angels and demons pairing off (from S1's Aziraphale/Crowley, S2's Gabriel/Beelzebub, and S3's Muriel/Eric), this could even be because of angels and demons, not God Herself.
We only ever see Aziraphale and Crowley stationed permanently on Earth, but in S2, Shax calls herself "Hell's representative in London." The implication is that there are hundreds or thousands of angels and demons stationed all over the world.
Perhaps they're all constantly, subconsciously keeping things running, the same way Aziraphale does with Whickber Street, Adam does with Tadfield, and Crowley does with his plants. They don't need to be purposefully trying to keep the world running; their desire to have their own small part of the world be nice is what keeps the whole world worth living in. (And isn't that a nice thought, by itself?)
Telling them not to meddle wouldn't be good enough; they're meddling subconsciously, all the time. The bookshop has no rats because Aziraphale is an angel. Shutting off their miracles wouldn't save the world; it would crumble, just like Crowley's plants.
The existence of angels and demons was built into the fabric of the universe, and they can't be removed from the ecosystem without everything falling apart. The only way to have a universe without supernatural meddling is to change the very fabric from which the universe was made.
I'm not saying this is the ending I would have written myself. Looking at the pieces that still remain in S3, however, this is my current best guess for how they could have built up to this ultimate conclusion.
Not fake free will, but real free will.
I know I’ve been openly critical about Season 3 before, and I still don’t like it. But this is not meant as a critical post. I just want to join the discussion about free will, because I think I see it a bit differently.
I don’t think the presence of (fake) free will was ever really questioned. People do get to choose. They get to pick a card. But choices are usually made to achieve something, to “find the lady.” However, the game is so complicated and lacks internal logic to such an extent that your choices don’t meaningfully affect the outcome. They don’t bring you closer to finding the lady. The game is set up so that you find the lady only if the dealer wants you to. So, in that sense, it is not (real) free will.
I think this is emphasized by Crowley winning huge amounts of money in the casino. Those games, as he mentions, are logical and structured, so he is able to win. But he can’t succeed in finding the lady.
That being said, I still believe this concept goes against Season 1.
Take care, guys!
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Crowley beneath the apple tree.
So, I discussed what bothers me about the message that Season 3 is sending. However, there is one scene that led to complete turmoil in my chest, and I need to get it out. I am wondering whether anyone else had the same impression. No? Huh.
Okay. So. We meet Crowley at rock bottom, right? He is heartbroken. This made so much sense to me because he is the ultimate lover, right? But there is more to it. The whole world around him is falling apart, yet he is immersed in his own sadness. He is not actively trying to help people. And yes, someone may say that he simply believes there is no point. Fine. But you can always help relieve some pain.
Fast-forward to the apple tree scene. We get Aziraphale’s confession. Well, almost a confession. Again, I know people claim that the love was always there in plain sight, so there was no need to say it out loud. I cannot agree. When someone hurts us, we want to hear the apology. When someone loves us, we want to hear the words spoken aloud. And yes, I know they have spent centuries dancing around each other, learning to communicate nonverbally. But Season 2 showed us that they do not always succeed at it. “I feel like your exactly and my exactly are different exactlys.”
And then there is Crowley’s response. He does not acknowledge Aziraphale’s confession. I think I would have been more convinced by the scene if he had said something like: “I have always wanted you, but now we have an opportunity to build a real world...” or “... a real world where people are free to love each other and be together, like we never could in this one.”
The way the scene was scripted made me feel that Crowley did not forgive Aziraphale. That it was too little, too late. Or maybe something even worse. It felt as though Crowley saw the world as something that had always been broken, and Aziraphale as simply the best part of it. And that... that does not sound like love to me.
Again, I know, I know. It is beautiful, because we believed Crowley was the ultimate lover, while Aziraphale always chose humanity and the world first, and in the finale we learn that it is actually the other way around. Sure, if you find it convincing. I just don’t.
Anyway. Take care, guys.
[As before, I am not here to convince anyone. We all have the right to like or dislike the ending. As for me, I am reserving the right to be devastated by it. Don't come after me, please.]
Different choice.
Wouldn't it be nice to make them face a different choice?
“Well, I could create a brand new universe where you can be together freely and peacefully. You could retire. Live in a South Downs cottage, if you wish. No meddling from Heaven or Hell, because they would be gone. There could even be people. Well, new ones. I am afraid the old ones were always under the influence of angels and demons.”
“Or... I could bring back the old world. Heaven and Hell would still be looking for their Armageddon. No peaceful retirement. You would have to fight for it, together with humans. Me? You do not have to worry about me. I always rather enjoyed watching the game than truly taking part in it.”
Maybe it makes no sense from a storytelling point of view. I dunno.
