Ignoring the shift brought by Season 2 is Good Omens’ Finale's real problem. My two cents.
I need to talk about Good Omens or I’m going to explode. I still can’t fully come to terms with the ending. Even though I had known for a long time that humanity was the only path truly available to Aziraphale and Crowley, the way the story ultimately got there still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
The thing is, this ending feels 100% consistent with the Aziracrow of season one and the book. The core of the first season has always been humanity, starting with an Antichrist named Adam who chooses to stay human. In that context, Aziraphale and Crowley sacrificing themselves for free will makes perfect sense: no God, no Ineffable Plan, no apocalypse. Even Crowley’s desire of granting free will to humans feels entirely in character with who he was in season one.
If only there hadn’t been an entire season in between that shifted the narrative focus somewhere else.
In season two, Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship becomes the emotional center of the story. Humanity is still there and still meaningful, but the focus moves toward romance and emotional intimacy. The audience is thrown into a radical shift in perspective compared to season one, and the “divorce” in the final episode fully cements that perception. The ending is not about humanity, it's about an angel and a demon, who are explicitly in love with each other, taking different paths.
Then season three arrives. The story returns to the apocalypse, to the theme of humanity, and to the ultimate sacrifice for free will. The shift introduced in season two remains only in its practical consequences, but not on an emotional level, where Aziraphale and Crowley instead seem to regress into the versions of themselves from the first Armageddon. Is that a choice to blame? Not necessarily. That was always the original idea, and the writers simply respected it.
Season two was a later addition, and the difficulty of integrating its consequences into an ending conceived around different assumptions is palpable. Season two (I won't name names) leaves season three’s writers with the impossible task of steering a story that had shifted toward romance back onto existentialist tracks. And in ninety minutes.
The result, at least to me, is a sense of inconsistency not with the original characters themselves, but with the overall development of the series, including season two. That’s where the feeling many people had (characters who feel OOC, and a conclusion that doesn’t fully fit) comes from.
To me, it’s not a bad ending, nor do I think the characters are truly OOC. But, as far as I’m concerned, this finale failed to fully reconcile the original vision with season two, leaving behind a sense of incompleteness. Especially for that damned kiss.
The major upside, however, is that Sir Terry Pratchett’s ideas seem to have remained the priority. A win is a win.
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