Good Omens and… no, that's it

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And they really thought they ate with this ending like it’s so crazy…

I know we are all having strong opinions right now. I would like to remind you all that we are fighting each other while leaving the terrible people who ruined the story get away with it.

The real villain is not the other fan on the other side of the fandom who you disagree with.

It is the original writer of the script, the new lazy writers who didn't bother doing homework, the cash grabbing merchs that were marketted like an important plot point, the heartless Prime accounts who shared kissing video to hype people up despite there being none of that in the Finale, the ragebaity wallpaper album that included Joshua & AziCrow's moment of annihilation as if that's not images of beloved characters dying...

I can go on.

The big corporation doesn't care, and they are pitting us against each other for views/engagements.

Keep that in mind.

I hope the fandom gets better eventually.

New tag! Good Omens Season 4

This is after Odin returns them to their original form because their god can “eat a dick.” -said like Matt Berry

This is from an animatic I illustrated for the lovely Kotias and Nosferatini

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.

It's that Crowley fell out of love with Aziraphale, I don't know how else I'm supposed to read this characterization I saw on my television screen.

It's part of the just complete thrashing Aziraphale receives in the finale for no fucking reason, but Crowley absolutely does not care to give Aziraphale one fucking inch of compassion or understanding. Even when Aziraphale is asking for it, openly. Standing to the side while God tears Aziraphale to shreds, looking on at it smugly like you seriously want me to believe there is a universe in which Crowley would find satisfaction in Aziraphale being hurt. What The Absolute Fuck.

And then the dream that Crowley has been holding onto for the longest time in the narrative, 'Our Side, A Group of the Two of Us, We'll run away together, We Could have been Us.' is just thrown away.

Crowley gave up on that dream, he was the one in the end to give up on them - which is endlessly ironic given how that's what Aziraphale has been accused of in this fandom since the s2 finale - and asks Aziraphale to give up on it too (for nothing)

And then he sees Aziraphale crying, and see's Aziraphale swallow his words and his pain and you're telling me Crowley isn't interested to hear what Aziraphale is really thinking or feeling at all?

You want me to believe there is a world in which Crowley isn't devastated that Aziraphale is too afraid to say something to him? Of all people?

And frankly, I just don't buy it, I refuse it patently, there is simply no way that Crowley falls out of love with Aziraphale after 6000 years because they had an argument and he got his feelings hurt.

He went along with fans and their fantasies and shipping in the past because he is an expert at getting people to develop parasocial bonds with him. Then, once those bonds have been broken, he turns back on his fake aziracrow enthusiasm and destroys the relationship AND the characters as revenge.

Good thing media belongs to its audience. He may have created these characters, but he does not control them in the minds and hearts of those who have grown to love them. So for me, the official canon ended in S1 (with the flashbacks from S2 included) and the story continues in my mind how I want it to continue.

Hi, Anon!

I just kind of rambled my response to this out, so forgive my scattered thoughts.

While we can’t know his motivations and reasoning for sure, I [sure as heck] see no obvious refutation to any of these statements.

Whatever GO3 was, it will be very hard to convince me it wasn’t done as an act of malice. I think he likes hurting people and I think he mistakes people being upset with his writing for being a good writer.

I believe he wanted to make the story his very own, even if it meant annihilating it. There may have been jealousy involved. I think the weird ways the characters are developed away from their book-selves suggests this.

To me, it’s infuriating to think that we were given an intricate and intriguing S2 just to set us up for being gutted, but I think that’s the case. I’m pretty sure he was heading for the nihilistic ending all along because nihilistic endings are his lodestone. He wanted to be very sure we fell in love with the characters, understood them to be in love, and to expect a triumphantly happy ending before dashing subverting our expectations. (What he thought would happen with his Adoring Parasocial Fanclub after that, though, I have no idea. Maybe he wanted to be the calm soothing voice of wisdom? Shudder.)

I believe there were statements that were made that were against shipping the Ineffable Couple (though if that was going to be a problem maybe they shouldn’t have held hands and been referred to as a “couple” in the book), though I don’t know what they were, exactly, and I’m not gonna look for them. Since I strongly believe he was going for the universe reset ending from the time he decided to do an S2, the question in my mind is, was it made worse or more brutal as a punishment to an “unfaithful” fandom?

It is entirely possible. The careful reactions we’ve seen from the actors (who knew the projected ending from the start) suggest to me that it was, somehow, altered to be more hopeless—but that may also be an artifact of the clumsy editing from 6 episodes to one.

At any rate, in the end, I too believe S1 was the real thing and everything following was fanfiction. And you’re right: there may be legal rights to those characters, but the entire human history of myth and legend says they’re OURS. They broke the bonds of fiction and have the sort of autonomy that great characters like Sherlock Holmes and Fionn mac Cumhaill andThor have achieved—they are greater than the stories their authors originally told and can live beyond the time and means of their invention.

Valentine’s Day and the Good Omens 3 teaser. A toast to those who choose to stay. 🍷

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