A message to Prime, from a fan who loves Good Omens (From all of us!*)
(*Not really. Just a late-night, emotional rant, wishing I could somehow storm the barricades for us all.)
To Prime:
We'll never know what deals were made behind closed doors, what NDA's had to be signed. To you, this show was just another business arrangement. How many subscriptions will it bring in? How many products will it sell? What will your profit margins be? And when there was trouble because of one author, you cancelled Good Omens. And yes, what he was accused of was all terrible, truly. Deserved to be shut out. Sounded real noble of you to do it.
Except, it punished everyone. Cast, production team, everyone. Fans too. But you? You could claim you kept your nose clean. For the moral good of it all, yeh?
So then the people who loved Good Omens and its other author, Sir Terry Pratchett, fought for it. Rob Wilkins, Rhianna Pratchett, and others behind the scenes. The fans promoted it, campaigned for it, spread your name everywhere. We even bought your Good Omens merch specifically so that we could speak your profit-language to prove to you it was "worth" renewing. Money talks, right?
You gave us 90 minutes. A begrudging "compromise." And, terrified worried though we were about what could go wrong, we even thanked you for it. Grateful for whatever we got, us.
That's how much we love and value this show. That's how much Crowley and Aziraphale mean to us.
To all of us, the fans and the people who fought for it, Good Omens and its beautiful characters are more than a show. It's a message of Hope in a troubled world. A light in the darkness.
Many of us found Good Omens when we needed it most. These 0h-so-relatable goofy wonderful brave characters showed us so much about Survival and Love and Hope... How trauma and pain and anxiety can be overcome. How courage and conviction can change your "Fate." How you can overcome the judgments and condemnation of others, to be who you choose to be. How you are always worthy of forgiveness, and Always deserving of Love.
But you don't really understand any of that, do you? You didn't care.
You counted on us to forget. To forget that there was a storm of anti-trans political rhetoric swirling in both the US and the UK at the time you cancelled it. To forget those hate-fueled fires stoked by "important" people with "important" connections. You figured we wouldn't connect the dots that David Tennant himself was fighting for Light and Good in the middle of it all. You assumed we'd lose track of how many shows with LGBTQIA protagonists were disappearing from streaming platforms that bowed to political (aka financial) pressures, no matter how good the view counts were. Selling out.
Oh, but not you. You were clever. You looked like the good guy, you saved this show about an angel and a demon who typically visually presented as male and happened to be in love. Have a gold star.
I can't help but wonder, Prime, if that had anything to do with the missing follow-up to The Kiss. Personally, I think they created a beautifully tender, aching moment between Aziraphale and Crowley anyway. But the F15 Kiss wasn't even discussed. Our Ineffable Husbands were oddly emotionally crowbarred apart for nearly all of that meager 90 minutes.
I'm, um, curious as to why the director and others involved were told a Kiss was completely off the table. "It had already been done"? Did you or your horror-genre writers even watch the Final Fifteen? (Do you even know that's what we lovingly call it??) Or was a gentle, properly good Kiss too risky for you?
So, Prime... Were you actively trying to sabatoge Good Omens? Or did you just not give a damn anymore? Not worth it to you, was it...?
What did you put in those NDA's, Prime? Why did you sign on two new writers who write horror and dark fantasy, and actively hide that fact from us until a month before the premiere? Why did you promote Good Omens as if it was still a "Comedy Drama Fantasy", full of hope and promise?
We loved Good Omens precisely because it wasn't another grimdark or gothic fantasy about fated fallen angels and cruelly destructive gods where no one was safe. Remember that light-in-the-darkness thing I mentioned? That was what we loved.
But it turned out that You were the deceptive dealer pulling a con with Three Card Monte -- concealing and shifting bits of information around over time until we weren't sure which bits still mattered. News about replacements and rewrites all sold to us in the prettiest packaging.
How tight did you make the budget and production time? Few returning characters besides the main protagonists, only a few sparse lines for the incredibly iconic Derek Jacobi (who was set up for a proper villain arc!), not even the briefest cameo from actors who appeared in both seasons! The tiniest handful of extras in SoHo, and only 4 angels in a scene set just after the final moments of a war encompassing all of the heavens!
Plus, no follow through on any of the plot points and mysteries set up in S2, no true continuation of character arcs or relationship development, and so much unloving and out of character behavior it made our heads spin! A total deconsturction of all that came before. And nothing but secrecy as to how it all got to that point...
I'd say we feel betrayed by you, but we didn't have much reason to trust you in the first place. The people we do trust obviously did all that they could to salvage this train wreck you created, and we love them for it!
Well, Prime, did you get you wanted? You nearly broke our fandom in two, as people tried to cope with the sudden fated-tragedy cruel-god meaningless-Jesus ending your nihilistic writers sprung on us without warning. That struggle has kept Good Omens trending on multiple social media platforms for nearly a week so far. The Finale itself is still trending as we watch and rewatch, trying to make it make sense, and as new viewers come to see what all the fuss is about.
Feel good about that, do you?
Me, though? You'll make a bit more of your precious moolah off me so I can purchase Good Omens for myself, I admit it. (As much as I'd like to tell you where you can stick it, I won't give you the power to make me abandon this show that I love!) After that, I'm gone. No Amazon merch, no Prime subscription. I'm done with you.
But I refuse to be done with Good Omens. With Crowley and Aziraphale. These beautiful characters live in my heart, in all of our hearts. We know them far better than you and your nonsensical "dark fantasy" death-is-inevitable writers do. We carry Aziraphale and Crowley's real stories. They inspire us to Grow Better.
Bollocks to you and your Great Plan, Prime.
Good Omens is OUR WORLD. We're taking it back, and keeping it safe for ourselves. We'll fix it for Our Beloved Ineffables as we see fit. We need them and love them a whole lot more than you do...!
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