i’ve been doodling them a lot in the sketchbook because i’m back in the fucking building again :(


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i’ve been doodling them a lot in the sketchbook because i’m back in the fucking building again :(

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At the end of the day, aside from the endless plot holes and nonsensical narrative that is literally canon non-compliant with s1 and s2, this ending does not and will not work for me on many personal levels, including this one:
I am the wrong person to talk to when it comes to erasure and replacements and how shiny new unblemished things are a clean slate and therefore better. My apartment is filled to the brim with old things. I am helplessly attached to that which is broken and battered and resistant in spite of the trials they’ve been put through. I treasure every chip and crack that marks the antique porcelain and vintage ceramic I rescue from flea markets and I adore the crumbling gilt gesso frames I pluck from the trash. I am not put off by mirrors that have begun to lose their silvering and I still think leather bound books are a treasure even as their spines splinter and unravel under the pressure of a long life. I honor the craftsmanship that cannot be replicated today and that has been forgotten or shoved to the side as unnecessary and frivolous. I save things at my job every day, works on paper in such bad condition after being exposed to the elements and that which is life that they’re financially meaningless but mean everything to those who love them in spite of their damage.
Restoration and healing is a worthy pursuit and is never hopeless. Sentiment should not be punished. Memory should be honored. What we go through cannot be erased, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to heal and keep living. It doesn’t mean it’s not always worth it to try. I will always choose kintsugi over a factory replacement.
The epilogue reverting Crowley and Aziraphale to their angel selves is not only weird for the "they're trauma less now so they're truly free" implications, but also because it says that if they had been free from heaven they'd have been attracted to each other immediately. But that never happened when Crowley was making nebulas? Yes, Azi was a bit smitten but Crowley didn't even look at him twice lol. The beauty of their love was that it all started on the wall, with the "I gave it away!" "You wot?". And then their love grew, deepened, became multi-faceted as they went on with the arrangement. They weren't destined to be together, they actually noticed each other and choose each other, they started loving the other after the fall and temptation of Eve. Why did the whole narrative suddenly retcon things, Aziraphale saying Crowley was "the best angel", indicating they knew each other deeply before the fall? Why did that become more important than their 6000 years together, the arrangement, their mutual help of each other, their companionship?
A drawing before I'll have to lock in again and go to superhell aka school

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And with that I will be unreachable for the next 3 days, have fun I’m gonna run away before I get shot
Work is killing all my braincells and my time but I really wanted to try doodling them for the first time 😭
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ROME!!
It’s not right, yet. But it’s getting there.
I did say he'd be more poignant, didn't I? Maybe I should have said more long-winded detailed.
Asa and Anthony are supposed to be a celebration of the ordinary imperfect human lives we all have, but because they can only come in right at the end to give the Ineffable Husbands some semblance of a ‘Happy Ending’, the only flaws in their lives we get to see are minor superficial stuff like books selling below expectations and second editions and mediocre haircuts. Which actually makes them and their happy seemingly perfect frictionless relationship come off as a lot more idealized and inhuman compared to how messy and imperfect and human Crowley and Aziraphale were.
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nobody would even notice us
(GO3 critical) Personally, pre-GO3 I was sure whatever solution they were gearing up to present to the whole situation with heaven and hell in the Good Omens universe, it wouldn't involve the complete annihilation of angels and demons.
Because there's this bit in the book where Adam and his friends are discussing angels and demons/heaven and hell through the lens of the Them and the Johnsonites, which I personally interpreted to be in support of this line of thought:
" Seems to me, " said Wensleydale, " that if you asked people in lower Tadfield, they'd say they'd be better off without the Johnsonites or the Them. " ( ... ) " but I bet they'd think it'd be a jolly sight less interestin' if we all weren't here. "
And it was, in my opinion, " a jolly sight less interestin' " for them to have simply removed angels and demons entirely. To have removed that bit of fantasy that made the Good Omens universe what it was. Its entire premise.
I would've thought the conclusion would be more along the lines of what's being said here. Re-emphasising agency to choose to make one's "own side" despite the influences of heaven and hell in their universe. (Which, were arguably not as big and overwhelming as they'd hoped for anyway.) (And wasn't that the joke? That no matter what Crowley and Aziraphale did to influence humanity, it didn't matter all that much, because humanity's capable of both great good and evil all on their own?) (I see arguments that they meddled in Maggie and Nina's relationship in S2 but Maggie and Nina didn't end up immediately together like Crowley and Aziraphale had hoped either. Doesn't that then also prove the lack of real influence angels and demons have on humanity?)
Here I'm talking about the agency of humanity, of course, but also of the other beings in that universe. Many of which were already breaking away from the pure black-and-white thinking expected of them (other than our main leads, there was Gabriel and Beezlebub, Muriel and Eric, etc.).
To quote another part of the book I think many have already pointed out:
Being a demon, of course, was supposed to mean you had no free will. But you couldn't hang around humans for very long without learning a thing or two.
This was in reference to Crowley. Why not applied to other angels and demons as well? I would've personally loved to see more supernatural beings hang around humans and learn a thing or two. The shenanigans that would've ensued.
In my opinion, there was a way for everyone to be happy in their original universe.
Exactly! Take this quote from the book: "And on the other hand, you got people like Ligur and Hastur, who took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might even have mistaken them for human." Like the demons are almost out of work because humans can do it worse.
The show tried to make heaven and hell more important then what they supposed to be since season one.
I'm going to use a quote from a post that used book! Aziraphale and Crowley to react to the deal TV!Aziraphale and Crowley did: "Humanity’s plenty free,” groused Crowley, “free to do good, free to do bad, we’ve been over this! Ancient history. That deal seems awfully fishy to me. God? In person? Never ends well. Burning bushes is the least of it. And who’s going to make sure God keeps their word?”

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im kinda sick of the whole "theyll find each other in every lifetime" and "doing laundry and taxes" and "their souls live on" sentiments because no im sorry this ending does not do that justice. Im a huge sucker for "in every lifetime" but you have to EARN that theme. You cant just kill off characters in an ending with 30+ years of buildup and then reincarnate them in the last 20 minutes of a show, and expect the takeaway to be "aww theyll find each other". Its good in other media but good omens is just not one of those shows to me. Its a show about how just because things are bad that doesnt mean you have to destroy it, it means you have to fix it. About how free will matters more than predestiny. Now the message is oh well its not worth keeping but love goes on. Are you kidding
Without wanting to jump too deep into, like, moral and ethical commentary on this matter or whether they’re happier or not now, thinking about the (depending on how you look at it) replacement and/or reincarnation of Aziraphale and Crowley with the human versions, I feel that it really diminishes the appeal of their relationship from a narrative/viewership perspective.
To me, what was so beautiful about the relationship is that by any reasonable standard it should not have occurred. Heaven and Hell were diametrically opposed in the extreme, but through shared experiences, Aziraphale and Crowley built a deep love for each other and for humanity, growing past what was expected of them and building something truly unique all on their own. We never got to see that growth through to completion.
There were so much narrative potential there to explore: what it looks like for characters with this type of past living with this kind of expectation to come together and grieve together and grow together. I would think most of us expected that, and in my opinion, it was stolen from us.
These new versions don’t have the same history, they don’t have the same challenges and without wanting to diminish the human romance, it does make the story a lot more conventional and a lot less interesting. The romance side, in particular, becomes very predictable. They meet, they go on some dates, they get married, they retire. The complexity is gone, the depth feels gone. If there is depth for this other couple, we don’t really get to know about it. The reward for the lessons Aziraphale and Crowley, specifically, experienced doesn’t manifest.