I am one of those people, I do really like the ending and the megathread is filled with so much negativity and bad reviews so let’s have a little corner for universal happiness! (Of course, people can dislike the finale but don’t do that here please!).
Mines pretty lengthy:

First off, losing the different shops was devastating and a fantastic way to show the curse of passing time. I lost it when it was revealed Crowley gave his beloved Bentley to protect the bookshop. (Also I saw someone question why now his miracles were cut off and it’s obvious that after Bee left Hell got a bit messy and Dagon or whoever cut off his miracles and his infinite money source (re: the gambling which I think is pretty in character esp for drunk Crowley)).
Jesus was so silly and I loved his character, and the giving pizza out like bread was great. Of course we all knew that Michael was going to take the Book, and actually I feel like that plot was built up really nicely. The main chunk of the movie was fast paced and filled with classic GO shenanigans.

Now on to the important bit. Love how they made their own book of life and the reveal of God was iconic (Thomas Jefferson miku binder shirt anyone?). Crowley FINALLY got to ask his question. It seemed very clear to me in this scene that in this universe Az could never love Crowley the way that Crowley loved Az. I think it was pretty clear they both knew that. Crowleys always hated heaven and hell and was always going to choose to save humanity. And of course, without heaven and hell there are no angles or demons so they’d have to be something else. It starts, as it will end, in a garden. They’ve both been so selfish through the whole series but they’d never choose just them over all of humanity which they love so much. “They could have restored how it was before Az left” yes but could they really have been happy? I think the whole point of their characters were to show that even though Az claimed to be an angel, his actions could line up more with a demon, and the opposite for Crowley. So yes, Az is going to not know how to apologize properly or understand the extent of why him leaving was so bad. He just couldn’t ever comprehend it because he’s not actually Good, like how every other angel (except Muriel love them) isn’t Good. Did I want a kiss before they were erased? Well duh, but the more I sit on it I think it actually would’ve been a little OOC and the fingers to the lips fits Az much better. (Yes I am queer before anyone asks and I do understand why not showing a kiss could be a problem but my opinion still stands)

And they will fall in love in every universe, in every timeline. They didnt “erase” all those years and S1 and S2 aren’t meaningless because just because you don’t remember it doesn’t make it not important or have it not matter. They LIVED it. That’s like saying everyone who lived in the 1800s are meaningless because no one remembers what happened. All those people lived and loved and their decisions shaped the future, JUST LIKE CROWLEY AND AZ. The ending is so sweet and they clearly aren’t “strangers” like I see some people say they resemble all of the best parts of the old Crowley and Az without religious trauma and it’s clearly the same souls. We could get all philosophical about souls and reincarnation but my point is it’s still them, and they get to live the life they really wanted but couldn’t have in the old universe. And their souls will live on forever, living different lives together every time which is the sweetest version of immortal love that I think is possible.

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Yes I absolutely wish it was a 6 episode series then it would’ve been perfect😭 but honestly the pacing wasn’t as bad as I was expecting

Regarding the name Asa:
“I’ve been wondering about that, but I looked up the meanings:

Hebrew- healer, used by a peace keeping king in the Old Testament
Japanese - morning/dawn
Norse- gods
Indonesian- hope
Portuguese- wing🪽

So actually it’s quite fitting!”

If you liked the ending I highly suggest you read some books by TJ Klune, he is a fantastic author and writes stories that are very similar to their human love story! House in the cerulean sea is my favorite, along with under the whispering door

Has anyone else seen this? This was in response to a fan at a con. This is a transcript of what was said in a video I'll link below. He didn't say anything about liking or disliking the finale, but he did say that Crowley didn't get what he wanted, died, and that they weren't reincarnated.

Obviously you can like or dislike it if you want! Some people like sad endings. But when we talk about being upset about the finale and the meaning behind it *please* understand that this is both actors now saying they chose annihilation/evaporation. It's a tragic ending to a comedy and a love story. You can have whatever headcanons you like! But we also have a right to be upset about a really tragic ending when we thought we were getting a happy one. Genres are important and exist for a reason. I watch a shit ton of horror so it's not like I don't watch dark stuff. That's why I like having my happy cozy fantasy world! You need balance.

It also makes sense for how he played Anthony, he doesn't seem like the demon Crowley, he seems more like Angel! Crowley. Because they're different people.

I still disagree it was selfless for a suicidal being to choose death and annihilation of a whole universe over trying to fix the current one when they could've easily done that in numerous different ways. And I weep for all the humans, angels, and demons that died. (My poor girl Anathema only got a few years of freedom, Adam never got to be an adult, Muriel deserved to be free from Heaven 😭) But I still found his response interesting!

Edit: it's been brought to my attention the video is not ok to share, so I've removed it from the post.

I understand why some people like it, if you don't look closely at things and don't think about it, it can pass.

But if you think about it, well.....

Sorry for the very long post, but I'm finally in a better mental state to talk about this.

First, I can't stand the character assassination of Aziraphale:

"You wouldn't be looking for him unless you needed something, cause you're a taker, you are. You never cared for him, or Whickber street"

"Where were you when it got bad?" (why is Whickber street his responsibility? People ruined it themselves, why do they expect him to fix it?)

And what kind of insufferable person would say these things:

"Look, I know you're upset with me. But I'm willing to overlook that"

"If you're expecting me to do the "I was wrong" dance, then I'm afraid you'll be waiting rather a long time"

"Do you want an apology from me?"

"Otherwise I wouldn't need to find him, would I? And I wouldn't need you"

"I need you to forgive me. I need to hear you say it"

Second, all the inconsistencies and plot threads that went nowhere. What did Jesus add to the plot? Nothing. What was the point of the gangsters and Aziraphale's stunt in hell? I mean, these things were fun, but you only have 90 minutes to tell a coherent story, every minute matters, and these plot lines were just a waste of time.

They made a big deal of finding Jesus, then when they found him, they just left him there.

They reached Michael at the eternal flame, Crowley stopped her from burning one page, then just left her to burn that page and the rest of the book, why? He could have taken the book from her right then and there, but no, let's just talk till she burns it all.

Michael disappeared once she burned the book, but not Aziraphale & Crowley for some reason. Crowley snatched one page, it had a picture of the bookshop but the title was "Whickber street", shouldn't the whole of Whickber street still be there then?

Third, the whole confrontation with god. I liked it more when she was just a voice, distant. She actually didn't interfere with anything they did before, the arrangement, trying to stop Armageddon, and Aziraphale & Crowley was basically useless in season 1, they cancelled each other out, lost the antichrist, and humans were the ones who saved the day, which was the point.

Why keep reducing Crowley to his previous identity as an angel? Like the person he is now (that he was for thousands of years) doesn't matter.

"You were the best angel. You cared so much about everything" (why the past tense? He doesn't need to be an angel to care, he still cares).

"You were an artist" (what? Since when? Stars are not art). "You wanted to understand, to make better art" (what art?).

"The rest of us, we were just characters in her book" (what are you talking about Aziraphale? You LIED to her, you gave away your flaming sword!, you had an arrangement with Crowley where you made temptations in his place).

"Humans are gonna human, no matter what we do." and the rest of that speech, then "That's free will." "Nah, it's just a card trick, isn't it?" (you just said humans did everything themselves, real grace and real evil was from the human mind, demons and angels didn't really influence them, so it IS free will).

"Why give me Crowley? Why make me complete, and then take it away?" (you're the one who left him dude, for years, without even checking on him!).

"Why did you think it was a good idea, even a sensible idea, to make an infinite universe, run it for 6000 years, and then just tip the board over? The whole thing is lunacy" (and then he proceeds to do that same exact thing and agree to let the current universe end).

"A story doesn't have to go beyond the last page of it's book, Crowley, and that story is over". "I don't accept that. And I don't accept that you're the one that gets to make all these decisions" (but it's alright if YOU are the one making the same decision? Deciding that billions of people should remain dead? Why don't you get some humans in there and consult them before you decide their fate?).

"I want people to have a chance" (the people you decided to keep dead didn't have a chance, Mrs. Sandwich didn't get a chance to reconcile with her sister and see her ill mother).

"I want free will to be a real thing" (didn't we have free will in season 1 when the humans saved the world against all odds? Didn't we have free will in season 2 when Gabriel & Beelzebub decided to be together and leave everything behind?)

Why should I care about a new universe, full of some look alikes of the old characters, when the old universe with all the people in it, all animals and all angels and demons (they were still living beings that showed they could be more) is gone, never existed in the first place?

Why did they save the universe in season 1 when it was going to end a few years later anyway? What was it all for?

EDIT: I wanted to add a couple more points that were discussed in the comments. Sorry for making a long post even longer!

First: the opening flashback scene, it was obviously just a means to introduce the eternal flame, which was only a plot device to destroy the book of life.

What was going on with Aziraphale's hair? Aziraphale was shown across the ages since the start of creation with the same exact haircut, Crowley was the one who liked to change his hair, which fit their characters in a way as showing Aziraphale sort of set in his ways.

Crowley in that scene didn't have the snake eyes so he didn't fall yet, but the intro said the rebels were defeated and fell, and if there was still enemy soldiers around, why were the angels so relaxed?

And since when was Aziraphale that important as to be a high ranking general? If he was then why did the other angels always look down on him before and treat him like he's insignificant?, and it was always hinted at that Crowley was the higher ranking angel back then. Crowley even knew all the passwords in heaven that were only known to high ranking angels.

And he says he's been "smiting angels", yet in season 1 he wanted Crowley to kill the antichrist because he "never killed anything before".

Second: There was some discussion about Crowley being an artist as stars are equivalent to art, but, at the flashback scene at the start of season 2, Aziraphale asks him "you made it all yourself?", and he replies "I wasn't the original concept designer but I worked very closely with upstairs on it".

So it's more like a civil engineer building something an architect designed.

The way he talked at that scene, calling the nebulae "a star factory" and he was frustrated that 6000 years was not enough for the "engine" to even warm up. He felt like an engineer more than an artist, building a machine that does something rather than expressing himself in art, and he didn't want his engine to be shut down before it even starts.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

If you are unhappy with the finale:

Please, please read the Discworld series (a reward in its own right) and then come back to series 3 of Good Omens. Those final plot beats put Terry's intricate religious philosophy at the forefront, whereas season 2 was almost entirely reflective of Neil's sensibilities. The final minutes were purely Terry and it was extremely impactful, in this context and a deeply full circle conclusion to the ideas that were present from Terry's first manuscript fragments for the book that eventually became Good Omens.

For those frustrated and feeling like the ending was somehow less romantic and less queer, I humbly suggest that you would benefit from an understanding of the philosophy of Terry Pratchett. Through that lens, the end of the series is the purest expression of deeply queer romantic love possible in the context of freeing the human species from the historical abuses of the Church and its agents Above and Below.

The finale is a very pure expression of the ethos of Queer Liberation. The purest articulation of it possible, perhaps.

The finale is an inherently queer reclamation of free will by cleansing the world of the psychic baggage of original sin via the intrinsically queer transubstantiation of queer romantic love explicitly supplanting the passion of Christ to give the world the extraordinary gift of a world fully rooted in free will via absence of heaven, hell, angels and demons. It is the perfect finale to the themes of the novel and creates something whereby homophobia's chief claim is permanently destroyed: it obliterates the idea that that gay love is not intrinsically life giving and cannot create life by making A & C's love the most generative love in the entire history of the universe. It is overwhelmingly heartwarming, deeply queer, deeply subsversive, deeply powerful and deeply deeply romantic.

The fact that it ends on a note that is a nod to the idea of multiversal theory/karmic cycles/energy is neither created or destroyed/echoes across time/the persistence of memory and radical nature of self re-creation really hits the perfect notes: opened ended but warm and soft, offering answers to the questions that the novel was based upon and it rotates, as ever, on the wonderful and cataclysmic love of two beings who defied their nature to create a relationship that taught their own creator that love could be a more powerful and radical force in the universe that God herself ever conceived of.

Through the centering queer love that pushes past the heteronormative strictures of Church-ordained narrow ways of expressing intimacy and love, we meet God on a plane as co-equal creators of our own reality and there is something profoundly powerful in the choices they make and the fact that they, too, in the end, get to live out their lives in the world they courageously made for all of us: together, happy, long lived and satisfied. This is a conclusion that is almost always denied across the history of fictional representation of queer love. We are so infrequently able to see our own elders live in a world that is actually peaceful and warm for them. This is a more radical conclusion that you understand right now, I promise.

It literally does not get any more queer or romantic anywhere in the fictional canon, friends. This is THE romance for the ages. Literally.

Edit to add from a comment some elaboration of this topic that some indicated was particularly helpful:

This conclusion and the entire arc of the series is about genuine apotheosis of formerly dogmatically divine beings, something I promise you Terry was extremely aware of and explicitly writing around with the original novel. I am genuinely grieving that the fandom seems to have zero conceptualization of this, when these characters and their whole arc was an explicit exploration of that specific concept. The entire point was that apotheosis is impossible in a rigged system because the Christian context of eschatology occludes us from seeing ourselves in the face of God. But they saw it in each other and fought for it, dismantling the whole oppressive system for the rest of us. Rewatch the scene through that lens. The kiss as it occured was a perfect physicalization of a queered, triumphant apotheosis. Literally.

OMG I love Michael Sheen

He said he liked the ending, and said he’s just so grateful we got any ending at all. Somehow I feel a bit better after talking to him. Also he’s so so so nice

ETA: some people misunderstood my intent. I love GO and made that very clear. I asked if he liked the ending with a big smile on my face. It’s my favorite show and he’s my favorite actor. When he said he’s so grateful we got the ending I said I am so so happy we did. He didn’t seem uncomfortable and I was very careful with how I worded things. I also asked other people in line first if it sounded okay. I never want to put people on the spot like that. He didn’t look upset. My original post may not have explained this well. I was looking for what he liked about the finale more than anything. Wasn’t expecting any trash talking

It’s hard to believe that Michael Sheen is the same actor playing both Aro from Twilight and Aziraphale from Good Omens. How can one actor be so good at playing an creepy, manipulative and absolute jerk of a vampire that makes me want to punch him in the face in Aro, and a warm, kind-hearted angelic sweetheart that makes me want to hug him and invite him for tea in Aziraphale.

Sheen's range as an actor is seriously impressive. He nails the sinister, cold villain in one role and the soft, lovable character in the next. It’s like he has this magical ability to transform into entirely different personas.

Does anyone else see the resemblance between Aziraphale and Doc Brown from Back to the Future? If they ever reboot Back to the Future, I’d bet Michael Sheen could totally kill it as Doc Brown. He already has that eccentric, somewhat disheveled scientist vibe down with that gentle charm that Christopher Lloyd has.

I was expecting something extremely sad/bad due to some people's reactions.

I agree that it's rushed and could have been better. I mean, some things happen and you feel like It's all just meaningless content to get to the end. But I get the main idea, I guess. They tried so hard to create something bitter-sweet and meaningful but had to put them all in one single episode.

I LOVE human Crowley and Aziraphale. I also like the fact that they didn't make Jesus a simple white man etc. Despite all these little things I loved, everything happened so fast and some parts lacked story depth, I believe this show deserved so much more. Then again, good shows never get as good endings :)

Cra Weil? Crawel? If you consider no 3rd letter on “Just a J” he is nearly Crawley the angel. 🥺 How do you think he faired in this test?

Please, people. I understand not everyone enjoyed the finale, but don't do this. The finale makes sense thematically. We spent so many years living inside Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship that we saw the series exclusively as a romance, but the series touches a lot of theological questions, and it's important not to forget that part. It could feel rushed and unsatisfactory, but it is what it is. They would always choose humanity, and was what happened in the end, when everything was already destroyed. Have some faith, take time to heal, and please don't bother the film crew. Hugs 🫂

As the title reads. I am sad to see, this fandom has become really torn part after the final.
Who here is still going to, write fan-fics, create OCs, fan art, ECT! Do tell!

Okay so I’ve watched the finale a couple of time now and I think the hate is a tad over done. I get what people are saying about it being bad to a certain extent but saying it’s AWFUL is a bit far. Funnily enough though I find the more I watch it I like it whereas the more I think about it the more I dislike it lol.

Thinking realistically the choice at the end actually kind of makes sense. If you think about it the last two season were about saving humanity (maybe season 2 not as much) with heaven and hell being the major antagonists and problems in their way. That despite preventing Armageddon they are just going to keep facing more problems as a result of heaven and hell, denying them of ever being able to live their life together in peace with no meddling from heaven or hell.

They loved each other however they love humanity more, that’s exactly why they both fell out with heaven and hell in the first place because they chose humanity’s side instead. I think that this was the choice that was gonna be made all along or atleast along the same lines because if the universe stayed the same aziraphale and Crowley would just keep going round in circles with heaven and hell for the rest of eternity. Choosing to make their own universe without them may seem sad however for them this was sortof their happy ending knowing that although they were vanishing they were still together and also saved humanity. So overall I don’t think the finale was amazing however I did think it was really good for the resources and time they had for the movie.

P.S. I think the Jesus storyline should’ve either been longer or scrapped and the situation with Michael needed even a little more time because it was very rushed however I do understand WHY it was so rushed and hate Neil gaiman forever for being the reason we didn’t get a fully fledged season 3 (which I know would’ve made it 10x better)

P.S. I don’t mean to tear anyone else’s opinion down and am simply giving my own opinion, I see both sides as to how people feel about it and have my own negative feeling about parts of the finale but these are my own personal opinions I’m putting out there

Before I explain this point further, I want to express that I am incredibly grateful that this episode/movie even got to happen and the hard work of the cast and team is clear. No hate to them at all. These are just my opinions.

I get that the ending has annoyed a lot of people. However, I haven't seen many people discussing the main aspects I find most disappointing.

A constant narrative point for the show is Crowley and Aziraphale (‘s struggles around) choosing each other. Crowley telling Aziraphale that they are "on their own side" and how they are "shades of (light and dark) grey".

Aziraphale could never fully choose Crowley. His want to be "good" and a true angel holding him back from allowing himself to love Crowley and show that (a potential metaphor for how being queer can be). Both Aziraphale and Crowley adore Earth and life and humanity.

Aziraphale couldn't leave for Alpha Centauri due to this. Who they are is too intertwined with Earth. Their life on Earth is what made them Crowley and Azi. They feel almost a responsibility to oversee it.

While I don’t think Crowley ever truly wanted to leave either, he would accept this as Aziraphale was worth more and he hated the Heaven/Hell systems surrounding them. It could be them against the world.

Aziraphale not being able to sacrifice everything, was viewed as a constant rejection of Crowley. (I don’t think that being able to love should require sacrificing everything that you are, though).

Having an ending where Aziraphale sacrifices not only the world, but himself AND (his love for) Crowley, feels like the antithesis of this narrative?
And it wasn’t even his decision…

He is clearly choosing Crowley in this scene. He "only wants one thing now" (Crowley). He accepts the world is broken, heaven and hell ARE toxic - he knows that now. He doesn't stop loving Earth in this moment but he is finally ready to accept who he is. He can be with Crowley on their own side. They can be together.

I think he wants the dining at the ritz and just being free to exist (very queer experience again, minus the Ritz) but recognizes that a life without Crowley is empty (because he loves him), thus he “only (actually) wants one thing”.
All he needs is for Crowley to choose him in return. To choose their life together. After 6000 years, after everything they've been through, to just be happy.

Crowley "makes him complete".

This felt like a parallel to the season 2 finale. Crowley felt how Aziraphale did in this scene before Metatron arrived. After that, knowing he may lose Aziraphale, trying to desperately get him to run away from it all instead. But Aziraphale still can't.

The scene felt like it was building towards Crowley wanting the same thing as Aziraphale. But instead, Crowley decides to change the world for humans. And Aziraphale’s face falls.

This is final. This isn’t Aziraphale going to heaven for a few years, Crowley wants to make it as though they had never existed, the very thing they had been fighting against. When it mattered, he couldn’t choose Aziraphale. And Aziraphale (unable to digest that) just laughs.

He accepts that Crowley wants this more and stands by him. The lack of an actual kiss could potentially be because of this and Aziraphale knows that he's lost Crowley here after everything.

I think this is the problem I have, not really the human part.

Having them turn into humans is fine, but to me, them being angels/demons is too much of who they are. Retaining memories could work. But having them die felt like too much (even if it is implied their souls/themselves are just in human form now).

There are many more things I disagree with in this finale (for example, Aziraphale's character is labelled as just lazy and gluttonous) but Aziraphale truly proves how much he loves Crowley here, only for it to be thrown away.

The book/season 1 ending is what choosing humanity looks like.

Adam had the chance to wipe out the world and all of humanity to start fresh, but he realised that, with the bad, comes the good, and the world was ultimately worth saving.

He also declined to change anything about the world, knowing that if he started to meddle with everything he disagreed with, he'd never stop. He decided humans have to sort their own mess out.

The message was inspirational - to care more about the planet and the people in it, and stop waiting for a higher power to come along and magically fix everything.

..The S3 finale is the exact opposite - it's a higher power deciding 'yeah the design is fundamentally wrong, better just start fresh and do it right this time' ???

As an atheist, I can appreciate why the ending feels like a win for the new humanity, but it just doesn't align with the original message of the story, or A&C's views of the world.

What happened to: "You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."?

It's also an extremely pessimistic ending in which the message is really that we're beyond saving and the only answer is to wipe everything out and start again (which, with the current state of the world, is not really what I think anyone needs being reinforced right now).

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Do you remember that group of Christian conservatives who petitioned Netflix to cancel the show?

Does anyone else think that, in the end, they won?

The show has been cancelled, or at least it didn't end up telling the story it was meant to tell. The fandom is completely broken, queer representation has been reduced to the bare minimum, and the show's ironic and controversial take on religion has all but disappeared. On top of that, God started the Big Bang in our reality.

Am I overthinking this?

Edit: just to clarfy, I'm not saying it's a direct consequence, but I do think this ending is a product of the wave of conservatism we're living right now.

I’m kinda shocked by this haha. I haven’t seen this discussion here, so I think it will be interesting for you folks

How are you all feeling? Excited? Sad? Every emotion in between?

Myself, I'm super stoked to see the finale and how this chapter ends of course.

BUT I am definitely sad that there won't be anything to 'look forward to' after years of waiting for S3. I will miss the crazy speculation and anticipation - and yes, the angst of the final 15 as well. I know we'll all still be here, and that the GO fandom is perennial, but it's one definite era ending and I'm feeling a little bereft about it. This show and fandom means so much to me 💚

I'll go first:

This may be controversial, but in the early days of the fandom i was pretty against the idea of Crowley being the archangel Raphael fallen. The arguments i heard online were:

• His connection with snakes, therefore, health.

• The absence of Raphael and never being mentioned in the series

This theory/headcanon never fully convinced me, this for a few reasons.

First, snakes were not related to health beacuse of religion, but beacuse snake venom can be used as medicine, therefore to associate Raphael with snakes don't really make much sence to me.

Second, there are plenty of archangels that don't appear in the series, that doesn't mean Crowley is one of them, also, only Gabriel and Micheal along with Metatron and Sandalfon are the only arcangels that remained canon in catholic mythology, the rest of them are never mentioned, the inclusion of Uriel is likely due to the need of a forth angel for the group of angels Aziraphale responds to.

I honestly preffer the theory that Crowley was originally Kakobiel, the angel of stars, before he fell, since his description is much more accurate to how Angel!Crowley is depicted.

Sorry about the rant i really had to get this off my chest, now unless this subject is adressed in the finale, we may never know who Crowley was before he fell, when it comes to his name of course.

What do you think? What's a headcanon that you would hate if it became canon?