#(folks calling every fan who hasn't abandoned ship yet an ��SA apologist” DNI btw; you can go hide in a hole)

[e-rated-beardo]

Yeah so another panik in the fandom was not what I hoped to wake up to this morning.

That said, the article is pretty vague and, yes, it does say "pause" and "changes", not "cancellation" or "end". And that is hopeful.

(Sidenote, and if someone reading has any insight into how these sort of productions work, please hmu - what aspects of production are there to pause right now? Filming is supposed to start after the new year, and we've been told the script is finished, iirc. I realise a production is so much more than script + filming + post production but I really don't understand enough to have a clue what exactly they might be doing rn, that's worth pausing. Recruiting background cast? Designing sets and costumes?)

Good Omens people... this is a good thing. 😊

Pause: Not a cancelation. Which they easily could have done instead. Pauses are good things. It means they want the new season and see the value in making it, rather than in just canceling it, but they are smart enough to know that what they don't want is the disgusting creep attached to it and all the baggage that comes with that.

Neither, probably, do any of its lead actors.

Neither, of course, do we.

There are ways to get rid of him and we can tell that is likely what Amazon is working on making happen, based on the article also mentioning...

"Production changes": This is a way of saying that a producer's ass is getting fired. There's exactly one person whose ass could be getting fired in this situation.

It's speculative but I think a pause for some "production changes" might indicate that they're working on getting rid of him and buying some time to make that happen. It could take some time for Amazon to extract him from the process of S3, which would explain the pause.

If they didn't think they could do it-- or if they didn't see the value in trying-- they would have just canceled S3 outright, which they have not done. They also went out of their way to emphasize the "production changes" part of it so that's a good sign.

This is the best possible news right now.