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like whose word are they taking for GO2/3 being from plot discussions for a never-materialized sequel to the book? Neil Gaiman?? Pathological liar and serial abuser Neil Gaiman?? give me a fucking break. as if his general character isn’t enough to make it clear he is not a trustworthy source, the man already lied through his teeth about S1 being the totality of show!omens and switched up the story to justify an obvious cash+attention grab. and some people are still taking his word that this is what he and Pratchett supposedly planned? without a shred of actual concrete evidence? i need them to expeditiously get a fucking grip

and quite frankly I don’t give a shit what anyone on the production team or from the Pratchett Estate has said on the matter. because to be blunt i’m sure it eases the discomfort of having helped produce a Gaiman creation post-2024 to focus on the other co-writer of the book and pretend it was for/inspired by him. as for whatever the Pratchett estate has said, shockingly enough being the executor of an estate does not grant you moral authority nor divine omniscience into a dead person’s thoughts. but i do think Pratchett’s whole “bulldoze my works-in-progress after I die” request sent a pretty fucking clear message that his estate ignored in favor of making money. and they got monkey paw’d by allowing Gaiman to continue writing for, and thereby forever tarnishing the legacy of, something that was at least 75% a Pratchett creation.

The Ending SUCKS because the WRITING SUCKS.

NO, I don’t find the concept of ‘tHeY FiNd eACh oThEr IN eVerY uNivErSe’ beautiful.

1) Because they don’t. There’s zero evidence that this is a recurring thing, thats 100% fandom copium- and even then they don’t have any of their memories and aren’t the same people. THATS. NOT. THEM. And it never will be because people are the sum of their experiences AND THEIR CHOICES. You don’t take a comedy Christian satire and make the solution some Buddhist-esque reincarnation philosophy that requires an entirely new suspension of disbelief no one signed up for or wanted. That’s shit writing.

2) So not only does the finale spit on every theme it had prior regarding championing human choice as miraculous and the world being worth fighting for in all its flaws as it is- you are going to sit here and tell me that actually they never had any choice at all, so they decided to toss everything down the garbage disposal for the next life. That is, frankly, terrible, and nihilistic, and not at all sensible for this series.

Aziraphale and Crowley are a wonderful love story because they were on opposite sides and they CHOSE each other, and they CHOSE to love humans. They chose to be hedonistic and compassionate and selfish and ‘human’ as they were because they knew how to make choices. Their love has always been THEIR choice.

So how can you tell me that the ending is great because they sacrificed everything for humans to have free choice- which they already had by the way- and then say the ending is beautiful because Aziraphale and Crowley are Predestined to love each other in every reality. How is that not massively hypocritical to the concept they are trying to sell us last minute out of nowhere? Is predestiny not the antithesis of what they asked for by your own definition?!

How is taking their 6000 years of choosing each other over and over again, and summing it down to a deterministic soul bond, more ‘free will’ or beautiful than them literally defying cosmic powers just to stay together and eat dinner at the Ritz on a casual Tuesday?!

People act like their life was just complete suffering, but they were perfectly happy on their own earth. Season 1 left them exactly where they wanted to be!!! Together with the Earth. It was so EASY to circle back to that, all they had to do was write it, and no one would have questioned it because that’s THEM and what they want to be doing. If Adam defied Satan for humanity, why would Jesus Christ- who’d already died once for the salvation of humanity- not tell God to be merciful?! Why not have the humans make the choice, rather than Crowley- which is another hypocritical move because he’s making choices for them just like he’s telling god not to!

How do we have any evidence this new world doesn’t have a god? Trust? In the woman who just destroyed the world after having a casual laugh with Satan? Okay. They didn’t trade their existence for freedom, they traded the apple of knowledge for ignorance.

The fact is, is that the world that championed choice and love was the one they came from, not the one they sacrificed themselves for- because choice and love doesn’t mean there are no complications, it means you take a stand and you do what you want anyways.

This dystopian nightmare of an ending where they let the universe die and don’t know each other was never a thought in anyone’s mind until it came into existence with the most shallow and contrived justifications of all time ten minutes before close, and that’s because it’s out of character nonsense.

And I’m sick of hearing ‘they were always gonna be human’ ‘it was always gonna be this way’ like there was rational grounds for it beforehand. No it wasn’t, and it certainly didn’t need to be. At most it was everyone’s joke of a worst case scenario, and that’s what they decided to give us- probably after a quick google search to find out what would piss everyone off the most.

This was Neil Gaiman and his team of horror writers, who probably didn’t even consider the source material, throwing a temper tantrum and abusing the fandom for liking Terry Pratchett’s divine optimism more than his petty ass. They designed every ridiculous contingency in this horrible script to justify their own mess.

The Ineffable Husbands were fine as they were. Even as a Demon and an Angel they were already ‘human’ enough, THATS what was funny. What the hell is so great about being mortal and not being able to have a free table whenever they want, and having to deal with real world shit like taxes, and homophobia, and Dying?

Enough Dyin’. No Maur DYIN’. It’s it’s-ITS NOT ON!!!

"Oh yes, Professor Crowley, I have just the book for you. 🤭"

Like I’m sorry this shit is so tacky and OOC, not to mention out of place in heaven.

The eponymous captain Blake was originally played by a Welsh actor. The second-in-command (with whom Blake was often shipped by slash fic writers) sounds like a perfect Tennant character.

One can dream, right?

Oh, my. Well, first of all, thank you for sharing this with me! It's been lovely to hear drips and drabs of what David said and spoke to folks about at the two cons he did this past weekend.

But as soon as I read the words "Blake 7" in your ask, I felt activated like some sort of sleeper agent and immediately flashed back to Michael and David in an interview with Ali Plumb/the BBC for GO 2. David says that the opening scene of season 2 is set in space, and Michael makes a comment about likening it to sci-fi, and mentions...yep, you guessed it: Blake 7...

Now, I do realize that David has mentioned Blake 7 previously, over the course of many years, because it seems to be a favorite show of his. But this is yet another instance of David either referencing or outright mentioning Michael in a long line of mentions across multiple interviews over the last two weeks. We had the mention on Live with Kelly and Mark (where David was the one who brought up Michael/Traitors, unprompted), and mentions made by the hosts on The One Show, and BBC 2 radio.

Then yesterday, one MORE Michael-adjacent reference happened with a clip from another of David's interviews where he was asked to pick a favorite piece of classical music...and chose Mozart's "Requiem." As we know, Michael has been in several productions of the play Amadeus (including one coming up for the Welsh National Theatre next year), and David referenced the film Amadeus as well:

But perhaps my very favorite of the multitude of Michael mentions was this little moment described by a fan who saw David at Fan Expo Philly on Saturday. David just casually mentioning that he's going to see Michael next week...

I absolutely love that David just let that slip. Quietly, without fanfare or fuss--perhaps without even thinking about it, because seeing Michael is such a common occurrence for him. It revealed to me more about their relationship than anything we've seen or heard in a long time, and felt so oddly reassuring given the lack of interviews or any sort of promo involving the two of them for GO 3.

And so it's all of this taken together--mentioning or referencing Michael repeatedly, directly or indirectly--that just warms my heart so much. It's that they have so much in common, love the same TV shows and music, and are clearly able to share that with each other. There is no question that Michael is on David's mind (and likely vice-versa), and I am so delighted to know they are a continued, steady presence in each other's lives.

They are here, in every universe. Smitten every time.

In love every time.

As he wrote, he spoke aloud:

Good Omens 3 SPOILER!