sillyobession

Yelena: How'd you manage that?

I wanted to like the ending of Good Omens 3. I really did. It ends — as it began — in a garden, there was a nightingale, there was a cottage in the South Downs, and before the universe got rebooted, Aziraphale praised Crowley as “the best of us” to God’s face. I could go into issues of pacing, seeing the seeds of storylines that could have flourished given a whole season, and other factors at play.

But at the end of the day, the fact remains that Crowley and Aziraphale *died*. Without having time to fully reconcile, heal, and have joy together afterward. We are meant to take Asa Fell and Professor Anthony Crowley as the two characters we’ve loved — with all their shared history, memories, arguments, romance, sacrifice, silliness, and yearning — as these two humans who found each other later in life and got a happy ending. And don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Asa and Anthony, but that’s not Aziraphale and Crowley. You know why?

Because it feels the same as this conversation about Job’s children:

Michael: Those ones will be dead.

Aziraphale: We’re not… bringing the old ones back?