OK let's talk thematics.

Because one of the reasons Good Omens resonated with so many of us is that Crowley and Aziraphale were like us, people who've been traumatized by oppressive systems that forced us into corners and destroyed our sense of self, ability to love, our free will, everything about us.

Good Omens taught us that we can find healing and bravery to overcome that trauma by bonding with other traumatized souls and DEFYING those systems of oppression.

Adam in GO1 wanted to destroy the world to remake it better, but that's not an option for us, is it? We can't eliminate homophobia or transphobia, we can't eliminate the abusers in our lives, we can't eliminate corporations that pollute our environment and we can't eliminate religious institutions or political corruption or fascism or racism and every other awful thing out there.

But we CAN take their power away from controlling us, by banding together and declaring NO. YOU will not define me. That is what Aziraphale and Crowley represent.

As angels and demons, they represent revolting against the systems that birthed them and telling those systems that they REJECT the identity foisted upon them.

That is why Good Omens 3 doesn't make sense thematically. Because it takes this metaphor and says instead that the only solution is to eliminate the entire system and start again. Something that is virtually impossible to do without mass destruction on a global scale (for example, an extinction event that takes us back to before civilization and the patriarchy began). This is exactly what Adam thought:

Adam: “We'll get rid of everything stupid and start all over again.”

But Good Omens 1 tells us that this thinking is wrong. It is wrong to nuke the world to forge a better one, because individual lives matter and we can try to fix it.

Brian: “You're going to burn all this away. Why? Because some adults mucked things up? That's a reason to fix it, not destroy it.”

Good Omens was always optimistic about how, despite the fact that humans can destroy the world, we can also make it better.

Everyone in Good Omens 1 made choices, created their own free will, by defying god. Not eliminating god. Defying god. Adam, by rejecting his birth and parentage. Anathema, by rejecting her inherited role. Crowley and Aziraphale, by choosing to love one another (and what a queer metaphor that is, to choose to love as your form of rebellion 🏳️‍🌈).

This works beautifully as a metaphor because we in the real world can also choose to make our own free will, despite the oppressive systems we live under. Even if it's difficult, even if maybe we need therapy and support to do so, we can choose to reject the abusive systems in our lives and forge our own identities outside of them.

So when Good Omens 3 comes along saying the only solution is to remake the world entirely because apparently there is no hope under ANY oppressive system?? It's basically a pessimistic outlook. It's saying, no matter how much support and love we find, we will never have freedom from those abusive systems. (and maybe that's true on a social level, but on an individual level?)

Saying the only solution is to remake the world entirely removes the power WE have to do something within the broken systems we live under.

I get how Good Omens 3 works (sorta) from an atheistic perspective, and I fully believe it's the ending Terry would have wanted, but it just does not work from a Good Omens (or a realistic) perspective.

About the atheistic POV, just to say briefly: Does removing god actually fix all the problems in the world? Well, Good Omens already told us that humans are the primary drivers of evil. So god wasn't even responsible for that. And plus, it is humans who created god, and what we imagine god wants, and why we fight religious wars.

It's not god's existence that ruins society, it's the idea of god, and that's all humanity's creation.

So, no, eliminating god does not create a perfect world.

But!! Having free will to defy the oppressive systems that will invariably plague humanity is how you find freedom. Not a perfect world but free will, and the ability to act on it, is still how you define Who you are, that is how you defeat everything society wants you to be, how you CHOOSE who YOU want to be.

That is why Good Omens is so inspiring, because it speaks to all of us who feel oppressed and traumatized. It tells us there is hope despite what happened (and is happening) to us.

Daisy is strong, independent, and single-minded. She will stop at nothing to do what she thinks is right. Daniel shares this quality with her, but Daisy is more of an action hero, whereas Daniel is a more of a martyr(Daisy sacrificing herself in 7x13 vs Daniel dying in the original SHIELD timeline). Someone like Daisy needs someone who they can depend on when the fight is over, when their turn to be the hero is over. Daniel is wired to do exactly this: he’s chivalrous, loyal, and steadfast. Daniel can be Daisy’s “someone” that she comes home to and who can not only tend to her, but empathize with her cause. He won’t see her “running at brick walls” as futile or wayward, he gets why she fights and he feels the same passion she does for doing what’s right.

But Daisy and Daniel also work because Daisy is someone Daniel can depend on.

Daniel is also an independent, somewhat lonely character. In Agent Carter the narrative is that Daniel is not lonely by choice, but because he is ostracized due to his disability. This much is true, but Daniel is also emotionally distant from even Peggy at times. He sees his feelings for Peggy as a dead end, so he pours himself into his work, hoping to squash his true desire.

(His desire to help others is commendable, but sometimes it feels suffocating to Peggy’s character, because she needs more of a partner in crime(action) and less of a partner in ideals(what drives one to fight and why they fight for what they do). While I think peggysous may have been a good ship, I don’t know if I ultimately saw Daniel and Peggy ending up together. There is absolutely a timeline where Daniel is Peggy’s husband, but we’re gonna leave a pin in that one and return to why Daisy is so good for Daniel).

Daisy can give Daniel emotional stability. By season 7, Daisy has a very clear idea of what she wants. Family, a meaningful relationship(her “own Fitz”) and stability in general are on Daisy’s radar. Daniel in season 2 of Agent Carter is completely the opposite of this: proposing to one woman while being in love with another, anyone? By the time we see Daniel again in AOS season 7, it’s been 6 years for him, plenty of time to mature and find out what he really wants. But it’s clear in season 7 that he hasn’t found this. He’s single, entrenched in his work, and even at work, he’s the lonely head of his branch. His desire to be with someone he loves and cares about has not disappeared, but has been put on the back burner.

Then in comes Daisy, who’s attracted to him, forward and shares his desire for stability and romance. I think even despite the scene where Mack says that Daisy might not know herself that she’s interested in Daniel, Daisy gives Daniel clear hints, and she shows sympathy for his and care for his situation that the other team members gloss over. She genuinely feels for him, and tells him as much, that he’s missed out on saying goodbye to his loved ones, that he’s been ripped from his life and brought somewhere completely unfamiliar.

While Daniel and Daisy were, in actuality, a shoe-horned final season last ditch attempt at romance for the lead of AOS, they don’t feel that way. Besides Enver and Chloe’s clear chemistry, the characters work together, in an improbable, underdeveloped way that makes it feel real. Real life romance takes trial and error over and over, figuring out what you want and what you don’t. By this point in their respective arcs, Daisy and Daniel feel like characters who know what they want, and they find it in each other. This allows the audience to feel like their relationship is fated to last, and their ending scene in 7x13 to feel like a satisfying conclusion for both characters.

I ended yesterday my re-reading of AGOT. This time a take notes and put more of effort in the details which I was reading. The red door is more than Dany’s longing for a home and the childhood with the happy memories. It symbolizes Dany’s heart: home, love, life, passion, sex, strength. All the warm feelings that a we can find in our heart. 

The fact that I was played so many times in that episode. (Don’t get me wrong that was a brilliant episode and Iain and Elizabeth (and Chloe) were incredible which is what makes all this so much worse - it was a high quality episode).

AIDA is hesitant to show Jemma to Fitz but she does because he won’t trust her if she doesn’t. Fitz sees the picture, looks like he has some sort of idea but decides to go along with AIDA’s plan while he sorts shit out. Goes along with the plan and authorizes lethal force against Jemma. (1st time my hopes are dashed).

Then he secretly looks into Jemma’s history and questions AIDA and gets the “other side” explanation from AIDA and oh look my hope is back because he’s questioning and there’s the stutter and the shaking hand and god she’s so manipulative but he still looks hesitant and torn (esp because he stares at Jemma on the screen and looks very confused). BUT then he goes and points a gun at Agnes (and look there goes my hopes again but then he says “then convince me” and I have a sliver of hope again).

Then of course AIDA wants to leave before Radcliffe can talk but they don’t and everything comes out. He looks like he’s fighting with himself and looking for answers and oops I have hope again. AND THEN HE ASKS ABOUT SIMMONS. “You two were in love. Unbreakable.” The eyebrow twitch and the clenched jaw - “I know exactly who I am.” paired with a shaking breath and strained forehead and so much effort and oh man I swore he was gonna shoot AIDA, or at least not shoot Agnes  (esp after Jemma just explained to Ward how she knows him and that he’s a good man). And there goes my hope again.

BUT THEN THEY SEE EACH OTHER. Look at his face, look at his eyes and his forehead and his posture and don’t you dare tell me that he didn’t feel something, didn’t get even the tiniest sliver of realization in that moment - even if only subconsciously (and lord help me my hopes are back).

Only to be crushed all but entirely by the tag. My only solace is that maybe he’ll have a dream or something and things will start to clink in to place in next week’s episode. I don’t know.

Fitz goes by Leo because his father never walked out on them

Daisy still goes by Skye (not by choice but because it’s not her world they’re living in)

Jemma isn’t actually dead

November 5th is important - she faked her death or the Framework!Jemma did die but Real!Jemma is okay having just been inserted into the world

Fitzsimons have never met in this universe

Huntingbird will be recruited to help save the day (the lone agents of SHIELD who remain) - also they’re still married

May went to HYDRA because she didn’t have Coulson to keep her in SHIELD

The hand that Fitz is helping out of the car is AIDA who has inserted herself into the world remotely

Simmons is gonna get her heart broken seeing Fitz with someone else but she’ll be even more determined to save him

Daisy and Simmons find Huntingbird (the #resistance) and recruit Trip and maybe Lincoln to help and they save the day