Good Omens 3: Diversity Win! We cast a queer Palestinian man to play Jesus, so you can watch him mourn that he never got a true shot at life before being obliterated into dust on-screen. We also cast a Black woman to play God when the script made her an actively cruel deity who uses the (alleged) last moments of her existence to call Aziraphale fat and lazy and clarify that she did, in fact, want to blow up the Earth after 6,000 years. But don’t worry, she fujo’d out about the demon and angel right before killing them. Woke!
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so essentially Crowley was presented with the universe’s most fucked up version of a trolley problem and told to pick option A (bring it all back exactly the same) or B (don’t and i guess he could just chill with Aziraphale for eternity). but he decided to multitrack drift it by proposing an option C that ensured all the humans stayed dead AND that he and Aziraphale died too. which was an option that was not even on the table originally, so apparently he could’ve asked for whatever yet still chose to keep 8+ billion people dead. but you see, this mass murder at a cosmic scale is okay, actually, because Crowley did it for some abstract idealization of a potential future humanity! never mind the actually existent, flesh-and-blood humans that just got obliterated! you just don’t get it, its humanist! you’re just mad they didn’t kiss!
So, a rapist edgelord butchers the legacy of a deceased, beloved fantasy author and people get all teary-eyed and say that the carnage is exactly what the beloved author would have wanted? Okay, then.
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How convenient that they decided not to show how a frightened mother with her child disappears. A group of teenagers. A family of cats. A couple walking in the park. An old lady selling flowers. The main thing is to sprinkle it all with glittery “self-sacrifice for the good of humanity,” while not showing how no one actually asked that same humanity, and how its fate ended up in the hands of two supernatural beings (again). Great.
Just imagine how terrified Adam must have been when he realized that his act of courage and free will had all been for nothing. Imagine how scared he was when his family disappeared. Or think about Warlock, who never got the chance to live a life free from his father’s control. Or Anathema. Or Newt. Or Mr. Shadwell and Madame Tracy. Imagine them all disappearing, and how terrified they must have been in those moments.
Good Omens has always treated every life as equally valuable. There are no lives that matter more or less than others. It has always shown how even the smallest decisions matter, the smallest details, the seemingly insignificant people (like Elspeth and little Morag). It has always shifted the focus away from something vast and abstract onto something small, personal, and yet no less precious or beautiful.
I just feel like...if the only way you found to end the story was to undo the story entirely, then maybe you never understood the story you were telling...and maybe you just aren't a good storyteller.
It's been over a month since that finale happened and I'm still grieving just as deeply as at the very beginning.
I can't listen to 'Time After Time' anymore (obvious reasons).
Can't listen to 'The Winner Takes It All', 'The One That Got Away' (too many edits and the lyrics work too well), or 'Glimpse of Us' (lyrics fit too well). Do not even try to play 'Purple Rain' around me (edits, plus I AM A STRANGER THINGS FAN TOO).
I'm still angry and disappointed. I counted on this finale to give me comfort and peace during a pretty messed up time in my life, and it only made it worse. I can barely watch a single edit without tearing up. I read fics, but they're only a temporary fix, because try as I might, I can't make my brain forget what happened on my screen on May 13th 2026.
People who like the finale keep saying "their love created our universe", but the thing is, THEIR universe already felt like OUR universe. Besides the Bible bits made real, it had all important historical events of our timeline included. The World Wars, the pandemic, the French Revolution. It used OUR locations - France, London, St. James' Park, Edinburgh. That's why they felt so close to us. Because we could imagine them everywhere at any time. We could imagine them being in South Downs right now, looking over us. We could visit their bench and feel like they sit there when we're not watching. It was easy to create when any setting could work. We could see a minor inconvenience and casually say that Crowley made that happen. We could see something nice and smile, thinking that Aziraphale did something good again. We were comfortable with angst because we knew that they would always be fine at the end of the day.
All of that was taken from us. The world feels empty now, because we still have the history of both World Wars, the pandemic, the French Revolution; we still have France, London, St. James' Park, Edinburgh and even South Downs. But we don't have THEM. We've never had them. Everything's exactly as it was but without the comfort of our guardians looking out for us.
All of that makes their 'sacrifice' worthless. Because we don't see ANY difference between both universes. There's never been one. Except that now the magic is gone.
I can imagine and fool myself as much as I want to, but my brain, my subconscious, KNOWS. And it hurts more than anything ever has.
There are some bits I like about the finale. I'm forever grateful that Rachel agreed to direct it, that the cast came back and got involved again. But looking at the mess the writing has created, I can't help but wish it never aired.
The goal was so simple. They could've just made up something ridiculous to get out of the Second Coming. They could've made them talk, made them retire, and that would've been it. We never would've asked for more. We would've accepted it and then taken it from there ourselves. We would've never begged for another season or movie, we would've showered what we have with so much love it would've made everyone feel sick. All they had to do was give them the happy ending that was PROMISED, to them and to us. We would've been off their hair. If they wanted to close the story so badly, if they wanted to finish it so much and never return to it again, THAT would've been a way to do it. They didn't have to erase them to achieve that.
I can't tell anyone what to like or not like, but as far as the season 3 "finale" being something Sir Terry would have written or endorsed -- a position I've actually seen expressed more than once -- I offer the last paragraphs of Good Omens, The Book.
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human...
Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield.
...for ever.
I submit humbly that that ending is not the voice of a writer (the interview in the illustrated tie-in edition specifies that "the kids mostly originated with Terry") who would ultimately be down with annihilation as the Only Solution To The Problems Of The World.
Bonus reminder: I'm betting this passage is Terry's ("vanload of hippies on a blotterful of Owsley's Old Original" has that ring to it). I ask you, does it describe a character who would only a few years later in story time -- after sixty centuries of ups and downs -- (1) wallow indefinitely in a drunken sulk, and then (2) tell God to finish erasing the world, including himself and his best friend, and start over?
Because, underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times -- he thought briefly of the fourteenth century -- then it was utter surety that he would come out on top; that the universe would look after him.
Okay, so Hell was down on him. So the world was ending. So the Cold War was over and the Great War was starting for real. So the odds against him were higher than a vanload of hippies on a blotterful of Owsley's Old Original. There was still a chance.
And these last paragraphs are a direct reference to George Orwell’s “1984”.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
So nope, I don’t think Sir Terry intended to end the sequel with the "God was actually evil, and you lived in a dystopia you had to destroy by commiting murder-suicide" twist.
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I'm quite tired, when I explain why I didn't enjoy Good Omens 3, of being yelled at by people who did like it. And all your explanations do not fix the following:
It was poorly written, the characters were badly characterized, plot points from S2 were simply abandoned and in their place poor substitutions were hackneyed in (looking at you Eternal Flame!) Yes let's let Michael - who apparently DOESN'T have free will? - destroy the Book. Let's have Crowley grab her arm but then let go almost immediately so she can continue destroying the Book. Great!
Meanwhile entirely useless side quests were forced in. Like the end of the War, not even the whole War or the Fall, just the end of the War where our heroes aren't even given original dialogue. Just more call backs to remind us all that they can't be together.
Look. I like Slorch the Vile as much as anybody but we did not NEED that. It was a fun thing for Michael Sheen to do, bless him, but it didn't add any relevance at all. The same with Crowley losing his powers, the Bentley, and the bookshop. Brian Cameron plot why? Why was so much time spent on this idiot gangster? Where is my optimistic, imaginative demon?? Why is he rolling (sluttishly) in a dirty alley!?
Hey? What happened to Gabe and Beez? Obviously they couldn't get those actors but we had zero in story explanation either! Sloppy!
God, the reason and driving force of all of it; the Creation, angels and demons, the temptation of humanity, then BAM destruction. Humanity learned nothing evidently, and had no importance other than to be part of a plan that only God knew and apparently didn't care about.
Why do this? Why show Aziraphale and Crowley pining and yearning and finding ways to be together anyway and loving each other anyway.....and it all meant nothing. This is a comedy!
Season two was stuffed chock full of Clues and references to secret knowledge and side quests and plans that meant NOTHING! Something besides hiding Gabriel was going on and several people have written extensive metas on it.
I'm very very tired of being handed half ass endings. Asa and Anthony are ADORABLE. Of course they were. But they DO NOT have the Ineffable Husbands memories. If you wiped most of my mind and sent me off to live a new life, is that really me? No.
I know a lot of the same things have been said. So here's more of that I guess. 🥂
Rail at me in the comments if you like. I might even answer. I'm just so tired. Too many of my beloved stories end like this (Looking at you Game of Thrones, The X - Files, and Sleepy Hollow!)
Welp, it's been about a month, and I finally have the energy to try to convey my thoughts on the Good Omens finale. Yeah, I know, old news at this point, but what's the point of Tumblr other than talking to myself about my feelings?
Anyways, this is coming from someone who isn't a massive, longterm GO fan. I did not wait years for this finale. I am not heavily bound to these characters (though I have developed my usual maternal feelings towards Crowley pretty quickly, so there's that). I didn't go through the emotional upheaval surrounding the news that the writer is a vile sexual predator. Essentially: I don't go here. I'm not an appreciable part of this fandom.
So I feel like it means something kind of negative when the finale had even me - all but an outsider - kind of grimacing at her screen.
Again: I don't have an extensive history with this series. I watched S1 years ago, liked it fine, and promptly forgot about it. Fast forward a few years later, and it's February 2026. I get the sudden urge to rewatch the David Tennant era of Doctor Who from my college days, but I am also cognizant of the fact that I am an emotionally delicate little cupcake and don't really want to sob on my couch for multiple hours. So! For some silly reason, I decide that watching Good Omens will provide me with some Tennant enjoyment without the emotional commitment.
...this was a mistake, obviously. Y'all can see that coming, but I did not at the time. So I went ahead and fired up S1, enjoyed it again, and followed it with S2. S2 was... well. That last bit, eh? What do y'all call it... the Final Fifteen? Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, that was upsetting.
But! Fear not, sad little me, for S3 is just around the corner! I managed to get into this right before the conclusion, escaping years of doubt and longing and potential disappointment.
Aaaaaand then I watched it.
I watched it like... a week or two after it came out. After watching the general reception and just kind of steeling myself for it. I'd become attached to Crowley. I enjoyed Aziraphale as well, and their relationship had grown on me significantly in just a few months. I'd read bits and pieces of the original book, and I enjoyed them there, too. So I was trying to prep myself for the emotional disappointment, y'know?
But when I finally watched it, I was less disappointed and more just... weirded out? I think that's the best way of putting it? Like, the whole thing felt so disjointed, so strange, so thematically removed from the S1 and book that I enjoyed, that my normally canon-focused brain just kind of rejected it. I wasn't sad simply because the whole thing just didn't feel like an actual, in-character, thematic conclusion to the story.
The whole conflict surrounding free will: S1 and the book made it pretty clear that free will existed? I think? Like, that was part of the comedy: Heaven and Hell go through all of these motions to influence things, but at the end of the day, humans are just like "meh, we'll do what we want, thanks." Like, that was funny! Crowley doing dumb, annoying things to try to foment evil while simultaneously sabotaging himself and also never coming up with the level of evil humans came up with was funny! Angels kind of being bureaucratic assholes was funny!
It was funny, and it was wholesome. An angel and a demon forging a longterm bond simply because they felt more understood by one another than by their "sides" was wholesome. The Antichrist telling Satan to fuck off so he could go live a normal kid life with his newly-liberated hellhound was wholesome.
And now, as of S3, those things didn't matter? None of it happened? What? Why? What in the world was the point of *gestures* All Of That? Why even bother?
The whole concept of fighting for your current world, of striving to survive and repair things the best you can, of valuing the people and creatures around you for what they are... all of it is just gone. Everyone is gone. None of it ever happened? What. Why would you write it that way. Why would you essentially destroy the entire everything of the actual, canonical book that had established themes and a satisfying conclusion? Why would you rewrite it as "nah, this whole mess is too far gone, so we have to let it die and also destroy ourselves in the process; give the audience a bunch of body doubles living happily afterwards in a world that means nothing to them"?
And S2! Like, S2 on its own seemed less organized and realized than S1, but I figured that that was because it was to be paired with S3 in completing its arcs and developing its themes. Instead, literally everything that happens in S2 is just... pointless?
Like, what the hell was the point of Gabriel and Beelzebub? Why in the world did we spend six episodes chasing Gabriel's memories around and learning of his relationship with the Duke of Hell only for it to not matter in the slightest?
Then there was the Job flashback: a whole plot making it very clear that killing everyone and replacing them with new versions was not the same. Both Azi and Crowley knew this. It was emphasized heavily. And then S3 comes along and we just... ???
God was changed from a creature I actually kind of liked in S1 (passive, kind of eldritch and unknowable, not actually malicious) to the sort of asshole I interpret (and hate) the actual Christian god being. Callous and vaguely entertained by the trials and sufferings of what were essentially her own children whom she was supposed to love. Her detached amusement over Crowley and Aziraphale's entire relationship was actually infuriating to me. Her children were in such distress, and the way she treated them was repulsive to me. The idea that Azi spent his whole life trying to live up to the expectations of this narcissistic twit was... ugh.
The fact that no human characters even knew anything was going on, let alone were able to have agency in their world's fate felt so, so contrary to the vibes of the original work. And that's coming from someone who generally doesn't care for human characters: I was bothered by their omission because it upset the themes the story had so championed.
Gosh, what else... I feel like this is all so disjointed, but I have issues with basically all of it...
Jesus was pointless. Could have been removed from the plot, and nothing would have changed.
My sweet baby Muriel never had a chance to leave their sheltered existence.
Nina and Maggie are just gone? Anathema and Newt and The Them are gone? None of these people, who witnessed and were involved in supernatural affairs, had any sort of involvement with an attempted second apocalypse? Really?
The relationship between Azi and Crowley was just so sad in the end? Like they realized that there was no point in fighting for their own lives and their own relationship and just... gave up. After spending the whole S3 plot angry and upset and afraid and so unhappy with one another. None of it resolved before they both decide to die.
But CF, you may say, what did you expect to happen?
Jeez, I don't know. I'm not a writer. I'm not even a legit GO fan. I don't even go here. But from the way S1 was written, and the was S2 happened, I had some vague ideas of what would make sense.
I thought that Jesus would be a sort of parallel to Adam. In S1, Hell tried to initiate the End Times by sending their child to Earth. Said child took his free will and said "fuck off." Now in S3, it would have made sense to me if Jesus played a similar role: Heaven's child sent to end the world, only to take charge of his own destiny and tell his mother to fuck off. Would have been poetic for the two of them to come together somehow, y'know? Hell's child and Heaven's child coming together to say no and to save their world. A parallel to one of Hell's demons and Heaven's angels doing the same thing.
I thought that Gabriel and Beelzebub would have some bearing on things. Their love and their own, personal choice to leave and pursue their own freedom would act as proof that Crowley and Aziraphale aren't just weird outliers; all angels and demons have the capacity for free will. All have the capacity for love. All can decide to reject The Establishment and pursue their own happiness.
Oh, and the 25 Lazarii miracle! Dang, I thought it would mean something, that an angel and demon working together could achieve such a feat. I thought... I dunno... if the writers wanted to turn God antagonistic, perhaps it would involve some sort of reveal that the sides of Heaven and Hell were purposely being kept apart so that the angels and demons didn't realize the sort of power they had if they worked together. Power that could defeat their creator.
It may just be years of JRPGs and the enjoyment of His Dark Materials in my youth, but I was expecting them to kill God. Or something similar. Christ and Antichrist, aware humans, angels and demons coming together to wrest control of their freedom and their lives from the capricious asshole who created them. All of the people - mortal and immortal - who were oppressed and controlled and contained by this deity and their supposed plan waking up and realizing that they have the ability to free themselves from it.
I guess that's what I ultimately wanted: for all of these people to just be able to live their own lives. Peacefully. Without the fear of their masters hanging over their heads. The humans. Animals. The angels and the demons. Michael and Muriel and Beelzebub and the Erics. And especially Aziraphale and Crowley. Gosh but I wanted Azi and Crowley to just be able to live as themselves, share their lives with one another, without constantly worrying and fearing that they'd be found out and destroyed. I wanted them to have their cottage and their garden and their peace after millenia of doubt and fear. I wanted Azi to be able to enjoy food without guilt. I wanted Crowley to be able to do something kind without getting all defensive about it. I wanted peace for them, the poor dears.
And that's just after thinking about these characters for a few months. I can't even imagine the pain visited upon people who are Bound to this story and these characters. I am so, so sad for people who waited years and had their hearts broken.
There's more I could say. More plot details that are weird, character details that don't work for me. A lot more, but I think I've reached the limit of my coherence for now. Maybe I'll post more later, if I can organize my thoughts again.
*sigh* The only saving grace for me personally is that it all feels so contrary to the established themes. Even to the general vibe of the characters and story... so much so that I can actually reject it in my brain's understanding of canon. Which is normally incredibly difficult for me to do. I'm normally such a canon purist, but this... this feels so off. To the point that the rejection of it doesn't even feel like coping to me; it just feels like a logical conclusion.
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Post-canon not fix-it but AU, I guess, where God's just fricked off and Aziraphale and Crowley are still angel and demon.
A quiet London evening, a rainy bookshop backroom, and a flawlessly caramelized tarte Tatin. Crowley cannot stop staring. Specifically, he cannot stop staring at the soft, rounded, pleasantly stuffed evidence of Aziraphale enjoying said pastry. When Aziraphale boldly calls him out on a millennium-spanning kink, Crowley’s cool-demon facade utterly shatters into panic.
Or: In which a demon learns that shame is a middle-management emotion, and an angel discovers the absolute joy of being intensely perceived.
CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY: Aziraphale finishes his decadent dessert under Crowley's single-minded, transfixed gaze, but the real indulgence begins after the spoon is set down. Granted permission to help the angel out of his awfully tight clothes, Crowley completely loses his legendary restraint. A soft, breathless exploration of soft skin, shimmering heavenly marks, and sweet dimples leads to an intense, overwhelming release for them both.
