So...THAT happened.

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if terry were here the ending wouldn't have felt so disappointing. because he would've built up the world and the importance of humanity up in a way that would've deserved aziracrow's sacrifice. he would've NEVER let aziraphale or crowley become the main characters so fundamental to the story that humanity took a backseat, because remember, in the book they were never the main characters. it would've been satisfying to see it end, more worth it. instead we got derailed to a fanservice romance between an angel and a demon and spent so much time on their relationship while letting the human core of it become a setting for their romance.

which is fine but you can't do that and try to steer back to the original idea behind the ending as if you haven't neglected the worldbuilding and the development of humanity in general. why should I care about jesus and him reconnecting with humans? why should I care about the human philosophy? why spend 90% of your story on the romance which terry would have never let become so integral to the plot only to disregard it for the humanity you never explored to begin with?

I shall jump straight to the point: people online did NOT seem pleased with Aziraphale and Crowley's last kiss. However, unlike them, i believe this was a deeply meaningful, touching and romantic moment for us to see and i thought I'd give my two cents about it too.

For starters: this was an APOLOGY kiss. That's right people, not a simple "I love you" or "I like you back" kiss but a PROPER apology kiss. Aziraphale reaches for it first, it's the first thing that comes to his mind when he realizes this might actually just be the last time they ever get to see each other. He wants to start over, do it better, and in order to do that he needs Crowley's forgiveness for everything that has happened in the past few years for things to finally be RIGHT.

He also touches his lips the same way he did when he first got kissed by Crowley at the end of season 2, except this time he does it to "give it back". It simbolizes Crowley's feelings being reciprocated, a tender act of apology for not kissing him back the first time but finally doing it right this time. He no longer thinks of that touch to his lips with sorrow or hatred or confusion, but rather as an answer, as something beautiful, as the love he's always felt but could never find the courage to openly reciprocate until now.

As for a possible additional meaning, here in Europe a kiss given by the fingertips can symbolize many things. One of them is "farewell" (and given the context of this scene i might add this kiss was the perfect choice), it's a sign of respect and profound admiration, it's a tender act to say goodbye in a polite and innocent way: it's pure, just like them.

Additionally, in my country, a kiss by the fingertips is most commonly known as a religious act, a sign of devotion and adoration done to the feet of sacred statues and holy sculptures; it symbolizes complete submission to our deepest love for the holy and to surrender to the greatness of the saint we behold, to give them our complete and undoubted faith.

it's loyal, It's devoted and faithful, It's endlessly filled with love and respect, it's playful and innocent but also clever and bold: it represents Aziraphale PERFECTLY. ❤️

i believe we were very lucky to be able to see the different ways these two characters express their love for one another, we get to see how Crowley expresses his love through a kiss and we get to see how Aziraphale does it in his own way. They both come straight from the heart, both dripping with need and affection and love, but each in their own, unique ways.

season 1 and 2 kept hammering the idea that individual lives matter. not replaceable copies. not "close enough." actual people, with continuity and memory and history. Crowley and Aziraphale repeatedly chose imperfect, messy existence over grand cosmic plans. so ending with "the universe gets reset and everyone is replaced by alternate versions" isn't just horribly depressing. it's philosophically backwards. like the story literally abandoned its own argument in the final act.

the Job parallel especially points that out pretty cleanly. The whole emotional weight there was: replacement children are not the same children. new children (even if they had, by some chance, looked and acted Exactly The Same) doesn't fix the tragedy of losing the original children. that mattered to them. so yea, this ending feels less like "hopeful transcendence to tear down The System" and more like “congrats on your happy ending! everyone is dead, but the cottage is cute!" bold creative choice ig. like serving tea with eccles cakes after detonating reality.

my frustration is basically: the story spent years arguing that personhood matters — memory matters, continuity matters, these exact souls matter. and then solved the finale with a cosmic reset that wipes out the very identities the narrative taught us to care about. very much like the nuclear apocalypse they were trying so hard to prevent. it goes against the very thing Crowley was staunchly opposed to during The Flood. against everything they did in the Job minisode. against literally the entire Jim/Gabriel narrative, about Jim not really being Gabriel without his memories. and also, to quote Crowley, "the angel you knew is NOT me."

"but they found each other again! we got them back at the end!" no we didn't. that is NOT them. and to say that they are is kind of insulting tbh. they LOOK similar and maybe have some of the same interests, but just bc a blonde and a red head are into books and astrophysics doesn't make them THEM. their memories, their history, everything they went through together and fought for, the experiences that shaped their characters, those 6000+ years — that's all GONE.

Also. people keep saying stuff like "it was the only right choice" as if there were only two horrible choices? if the story introduces negotiation and moral choice, we'll naturally start imagining alternatives. once “God offers options” enters the chat, people will obviously ask, “wait. why was this the chosen solution?” when they could've gone for idk, literally anything else. God literally offered to put things back as they were. they could've chosen to have THAT universe, THAT world —THEIR world— put back into place and then added their own conditions to tear down Heaven and Hell. they could've chosen to keep their memories. they could've chosen to make everyone human from then on if that's what the writers were so hellbent on. they could've chosen to make God erase her own memory for all i care idfk. but this ending feels like a bad consolation prize.

after EVERYTHING they did, and everything they went through, they deserved SO much better than this. THE WHOLE WORLD did.

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

1) I really liked it actually. It was funny and existentially smart and poignant and sweet. The tone felt way more like the book and s1.

2) Sure it was a little rushed, but too much plot for too little run time is a better problem than too little plot for too much run time (looking at you s2 😬)

3) It was actually funny. I loved that it was funny. Good Omens is supposed to be a comedy!

4) I liked the end. I surprised myself by liking it as a die hard “don’t turn them into humans!” person. I thought the choice they made was in character and I thought the heavily implied meeting again and again as humans was lovely.

6) My spiciest take: if you ignore season 2 entirely, this third “season” works. But if you consider s2 as canon this season can go fuck itself.

- We never found out which angel Crowley is and why he had the powers - and access to the files - he had

- The first scene was useless apart from establishing the eternal flame - that had never been mentioned before

- Crowley clearly bitched to Mrs. Sandwich about his break up with AZ and that woman IS NOT standing for her homeless BFF to be disrespected for some MAN

- 'Everyone in the streer is gone. Where were you when things got bad?' No. False. Literally everyone is still there apart from Mr. Brown, Nina and Maggie. Good job, guys. Kill our gays after you bankrup our lesbians.

- The Bentley was changed into the ice cream truck FOR ONE GAG that wasn't even that funny. Money well spent. Good job. The normal Bentley has the ice cr3am cone decoration at the front for 1 scene. Then it vanishes. Nice.

- Australia disappear off the globe before Michael ripped and burned the page. Great consistency

- Crowley and Aziraphale drive by a pride flag when they are speaking in the Bentley. Cute

- The new characters were lowkey useless. The only thing we needed the gangster guy was cause we needed someone to have the Bentley so Aziraphale could play on his 'he likes to rescue me' thing from season 2 and rescue Crowley instead.

- The call back to Aziraphale’s gardener disguise was peak ngl

- Okay so. Crowley somehow is powerful enough to...make a mini universe where only Aziraphale, the bookshop and himself exist AFTER Michael throws the book in the fire. Are we not...gonna explain that? Nor the double miracle power from season 2? Or all the crazy shite Crowley can do like STOP TIME in season 1? No? That's it? The end? Are we supposed to think every angel/demon can do those things? Yeah? Okay. Sure. Thanks.

- My brother in Christ. You have hundreds of blank books where u can write whatever you want and it happens. WHY THE FUCK DO U NEED GOD?! YOU'RE GOD! HELLO?! I am losing my fucking mind-

- If every fallen angel had already fallen WHY THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS CROWLEY STILL UP THERE?!

- So neither Crowley nor Aziraphale remember each other from that meeting at the nebulae factory? Its just...the fallen and General Aziraphale? Yeah? Okay. Great. Another scene from season 2 turned useless. Thanks. Love those.

- So Crowley has no powers and we are just sitting here believing that...there were little to no consequences apart from the homelessness, the drunkness and the gambling?

- My man...Jesus did nothing. He did SOMETHING and 1 second later everything vanished LITERALLY. Wow. Just. Why is he here again? Just cause we hinted at it in season 2? Yeah? I guessed so.

- Their universe was destroyed. So. Gabriel and Beelzebub? The whole plot from season 2? Gone now? Useless? Great, thanks.

- Crowley and Aziraphale are dead. 6000 years gone. Asa and Anthony don't remember their past life: they literally greet each other for the first time at the bookshop. Aziraphale and Crowley are gone. All of it. Gone. Asa and Anthony and adorable and married and happy but they are not Aziraphale and Crowley. EVEN if they were: They met in their like...mid 50s, +20 years gives them 70. So. They have like. 15 more years in them? Of actually being together and married and happy? And then they die and no one will remember them because humans are ephemeral? Great.

- Notice how not ONCE was the word Ineffable said in season 3. Just. Notice.

- Satan showing up was useless.

- General Aziraphale is just mingling with Michael and Uriel at the Heaven War? Okay.

- God was useless.

- Crowley was salty af about Aziraphale leaving him and I respect that

- Crowley and Jesus's interacting could have been so good, instead we got 1 good and 1 eh. And then poof.

- Eric and Muriel <3

- Are you telling me the big final boss of the finale was...Michael? Because she wasn't appreciated? My guy, let me tell you about my workplace-

- Yes. They fucked the ending. I clearly don't like Aziraphale and Crowley becoming humans. However. The fact that they made Crowley be the one pulling the trigger to that ending? Just pull a trigger straight through my skull why don't you

- Paraphrasing: 'Why did you make me complete and take it all away? Why did you give me Crowley?' Peak quote. I want that tattooed on my forehead.

- 'Your sister is too prideful to apologize and your mother is sick' <- my girl had no chance to get back home. Why did you do this to Mrs. Sandwich, in particular

"I don't accept that."