running wild

Basically I'm grieving SO hard that didn't know it was possible for fictional characters

Yes I'm fucking GRIEVING but it's not normal to feel the sharp feeling of loneliness, injustice, betrayal, to feel as if a dagger was thrusted into your heart to rip it apart in small little pieces with the force of a nuclear bomb. It's not normal about a fictional character I mean.

Don't get me wrong, we know what we are buying if we are going to see a greek tragedy, a thriller, or a tragic sad love story. We know we will experience catharsis, fear and adrenaline, we will cry over a lost love.

So why am I grieving over GO3?

Because it was not expected! I was expecting a comedy not a tragedy, not a gloomy one of Shakespeare! I was expecting it to be a silly, fun comedy where my two silliest not-at-all-heroes finally get to have their happy ending. I sought HOPE and JOY.

And don't go down on the road where "characters don't get what they want but they get what they need"!

Don't tell me Crowley's story arc is going from "look at you! You're beautiful!" "Not the children, you can't kill children" "you'll go along with Heaven as long a you can" to "we can't change anything" "the game is rigged","there is no free will" (WTF???) "ok let's start fresh new". Is that the right arc? Is this even the same story?

And don't tell me that Aziraphael's arc was from "I wonder if I did the right thing" "they quite like the old children" "there is hope in human kind" "it's ineffable" to "nope, I agree world is rigged" "ineffable not an option anymore because God is a bitch" "we were just characters on her book" (WTF are you talking about? You're pratically denying your 6k+ thousand years of inner grow) "I only want Crowley" (yes we do know you always wanted Crowley, but that's not the point, the point is you both gave up HOPE for your universe and for you two together!)

And again you look me in the eyes and you tell me that he was really meaning what he was saying in the last 15 about Heaven "is the place of light, of good" basically throwing out of the window all the journey he spiritually had from the very beginning.

They were defeated from the very first frame on the screen. They were tired, depressed, incapable of thinking straight.

As if something inside them both broke with that quarrel and that kiss. The kiss was suppose to fuel their love, a promise of an US, it was not meant to break their very core!

This story was GLOOMY and guess who is a gloomy author? Our Sandman man. The-one-we-shall-not-name: NG!

I read Sandman; it's a poetic, epic, gothic, noir, angsty, wonderful, meaninful graphic story. And I absolutely love it (I can't blame the children for the father's sin, can I?).

I came to realize that GO3 is Sandman all over again!

Parallels between GO3 and Sandman from now on, so if you don't wanna read spoilers about Sandman skip it to the VIOLET toward the end.

Morpheus (Sandman) asked for Death (her sister) to take him because he couldn't bear the reality he was living in, he couldn't bear the thing that he did.

He had to do something forbidden in that reality and the Kindly Ones asked him to pay the price.

Who are the Kindly Ones? They are sisters goddess and they persecuted oath-breakers, patricides, matricides, and other violators of divine law.

Beside the obvious different story, are you starting to see a path here?

* Asking for Death

* Breaking the divine law (= act of rebellion, pride or disobedience against the order commanded by God)

* Doing something forbidden

I'll move forward:

The Kindly ones are the Furies. Their attack on Sandman was so severe, that Morpheus was left with only one option in order to save his realm: his own destruction.

And the moment he died another Sandman, Daniel, took his place because the Land of Dreamings cannot disappear without consequences for the entire universe.

And you will think, yes but the Land of Dreamings was still there. Nope. It was reshaped too by the new Sandman. The old world disappeared with Morpheus. Only the archetypes came to life again.

Again, are you seeing a path?

* God asks a price

* Forced choice for the character

* Erasing of the old world

* Creation of a new world

* Archetypes stays (Remember the graffiti walls behind Asa and Anthony?... Yup)

* Character still there but he's a new person

Am I delusional?

The story shifted from a TP universe to a NG universe.

GO3 feels to me a NG's work.

What is now bringing me peace is that I consider GO3 as a fanfic written by a famous guy who got the luck to win the lottery and have it on screen. But it's as valid as any other one of the amazing writers in ao3 because nobody really knows what TP would have written! That book will never exist! We have only one book (and S1, and possibly some bits of S2) that is Canon!

And as bonus point

Whales! Dolphins! Where are my silly babies in this finale? There is no -let's try this thing-but it's a stupid thing-but we'll try it anyway-and that didn't really work out but -whoa! did we accidentally buy enough time for others to make the trick and -yahyyyy-what happened-we won really???-well actually they won-I'm famished let's go eat something- crepes- maybe in a picnic, yes?-you know I love you right?- and ducks need peas... you what?- I love you mostly in the entire universe...and books

From the article "Good Omens Finale Revels in Heartbreak: Whose Happy Ending Is It, Anyway?" by Sarah Nathan - read below

Aziraphale says "you must have had records" and Nina, hypnotized, responds "yes, we were very good at keeping records". Keeping. What does Maggie's record shop notoriously not do? Sell records. She is the record-keeper.

The nuns' records at Tadfield were destroyed in a (hell-made) fire. When the world is remade to Adam's preference at the end of S1, he restores the records and puts them back. He just puts them back .. slightly differently. It's an 11 yo child's understanding of records, tucked back into reality safely, placed right back into a space that had been destroyed by a fire.

Aziraphale's bookshop.

Nina not having a job at the nunnery except to provide refreshments-- carries over too.

Anyway.

Plus it has legs. In the end of the book when it’s wrapping Warlock and Greasy Johnson’s stories it does mention “you never forget the first friends you ever made”.

The fic A. Z. Fell & Co: the Yelp Chronicles actually has a subplot that sort of addresses this in a humorous way? When Crowley has to team up with all his human allies to rescue Aziraphale, they use Madame Tracy's curious resemblance to Shax to fool a legion of demons and it's soooo fucking funny!

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

Then he said, "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out."

they scrapped all of [redacted]'s original script and started over

it was light and humorous all the way through

az was not treated as dumb or naïve for taking that place in heaven

az and crowley made up in the beginning of the film and were a team trying to stop the end times for the rest of the finale

the message would have been "we need to fix what is broken, not burn it to the ground"

Az and Crowley would show some form of affection towards each other, like a hug or maybe a kiss

Az and Crowley decided they didn't need god anymore, nor follow her rules

the metatron would have been dealt with properly

what would have been a PERFECT ending:

Az gave Crowley hope by explaining that they just need to fix what's broken, not start over, and Crowley admitted Az had a good reason for going to heaven in the first place

Az and Crowley say "I love you"

Az and Crowley being pretty much "useless", while jesus and the humans are doing the important bits by "being fundamentally people"

the plot was solved when heaven and hell teamed up against humanity (including Az and Crowley who's now explicitly on "their own side: humanity's side.") and Team Earth convinced Team Celestial how stupid this whole charade had always been

god had NOT been controlling everything this whole time and had always been more like a narrator of the universe, rather than one affecting the story