Good Omens followers react to season 2’s ending

After a comparatively cozy and oddly joyful season, Good Omens broke everybody’s hearts — however in one of the best ways attainable.

[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for the ending of Good Omens season 2.]

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The second season of the Prime Video present — based mostly on the 1990 fantasy ebook by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett — ends with an enormous rattling kiss. Besides, as an alternative of being a contented climax to a love confession, it’s a tearful goodbye. Demon Crowley (David Tennant) was nearly to admit his like to angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), however the angel minimize him off with another information. Aziraphale accepted the Metatron’s supply to be a pacesetter in heaven, and he hopes to rebuild heaven with Crowley by his aspect. However Crowley doesn’t wish to be an angel once more, or play by anybody’s guidelines. So, after taking pictures his shot with a determined kiss, he turns down Aziraphale and the 2 go their separate methods because the credit roll.

It’s a second that might have been an enormous disappointment for followers who’ve waited literal many years for these two characters to romantically get collectively.

As an alternative, although, the consensus appears to be that this heartbreaking ending hurts so good.

Followers are providing each other consolation, evaluating this ending to different devastating romantic moments in TV, like the primary season finale of Our Flag Means Dying, the Priest and Fleabag’s breakup, and (funnily sufficient) the tenth Physician and Rose’s untimely parting of how. Good Omens has the heartache and craving that resonates with probably the most bittersweet and touching of romances, with the added oomph of being a queer love story. In spite of everything, gradual burn romances and angst are simply as interesting to fanfic writers as fluffy domesticity.

One of the widespread comparability factors is Supernatural — which isn’t shocking given simply how a lot lasting energy the sleeping big fandom has. On this case, it takes on a very humorous parallel, contemplating the heaven and hell of all of it. Each Good Omens and Supernatural finish with a love confession that separates an angelic being from their romantic associate. However there’s a key distinction between Supernatural from these different examples. Our Flag Means Dying, Fleabag, and Physician Who had been unhappy, positive, however Supernatural’s abrupt awkward love confession (and subsequent instant dying) was a supply of anger and frustration (and 1,000,000 memes due to the ridiculous timing of the episode, however that’s one other story).

Supernatural’s bizarre one-sided love confession lives on in infamy. Regardless that the parallels are there, every thing about Good Omens’ tragic love confession is definitely an instance of methods to do it proper. For one, this isn’t the ultimate, definitive ending of Good Omens — at the least, not but. Neil Gaiman mentioned on Tumblr {that a} hypothetical season 3 could be the “final act” of the story, even when that hypothetical season hasn’t but been introduced by Amazon (and because of the writers and actors’ strikes, won’t be introduced for a bit).

However whereas the creatives behind Supernatural at all times joked about the potential of Dean and Castiel getting collectively, it by no means translated to precise storylines within the present. That, coupled with actor Jensen Ackles’ dismissive conduct, fueled queerbaiting accusations from followers. So, the tragic and out of left area ending — a love confession which instantly led to a dying — understandably soured followers. After an angel professes like to him, Dean dies an unrelated dying within the precise ultimate episode, and reunites together with his automotive (and brother) as an alternative of Castiel.

In the meantime, the storytelling decisions in Good Omens season 2 — in addition to the opposite examples of this devastating heartbreak canon — make sense. After all, Crowley would wish to reject the institution and run away with Aziraphale. And naturally Aziraphale nonetheless has loads to be taught, and thinks that fixing heaven will get the each of them what they need. As they’re now and because the world is, a relationship wouldn’t work out. There’s time to be taught and develop, which followers appear to acknowledge, and extra importantly, there’s the potential of a 3rd season to essentially tie issues collectively and provides everybody a contented ending.

However what’s a contented ending with out 100K of slow-burn angst earlier than it? Until that hypothetical season 3 manifests, at the least there’s loads of artwork, memes, and fics to assist us cope.

Good Omens season 2 is out on Prime Video now.