#AND BEEZ AND GABRIEL-

[an-unraveling-unknown]

As to refer to the second season of Good Omens;

NO. NONONONO THAT FUDGING ENDING DID NOT JUST HAPPEN.

THATS NOT HOW THIS SHOULD WORK

THIS SHOW IS TEARING ME APART FROM THE INSIDE, AZIRAPHALE WHY WHY

WHY

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO DEVASTATED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, GOOD JOB ACTORS AND WRITER THAT WAS HEARTBREAKING AND FANTASTIC BUT CROWLEY LOOKED SO UPSET AND AZIRAPHALE MUSTVE BEEN DYING SOFTLY ON THE INSIDE AND-

AHAJDHKAKDHJDKDDJ

ON MY KNEES FOR A SEASON THREE, *PLEASE*

STAB ME, IT WOULD HURT LESS

[tampire]

♪ Everyday, it's a-getting closer ♪

♪ Going faster than a rollercoaster ♪

♪ Love like yours will ♪

♪ Surely come my way ♪

♪ A-hey, a-hey-hey ♪

Gabriel and Beelzebub eventually survive the consequences of The Metatron and Satan

Bonus:

[yache-berries]

Average Buddy Holly Enjoyers

[dysfunctionalcreature]

Ok but hear me out Aziraphale and Beelzebub with their respective partners are literally the definition of "the hero that would forsake their lover in order to protect the world, versus, the villain who would burn the world to protect their lover"

[miumiumandoodz]

no genitals

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

memes are how i cope ok

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[gayfertilitygoddess]

Crowley: why do you want to find Gabriel so badly?

Beelzebub, shoving a box of strap-ons under a chair: no reason…

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

"I don't know who you are." "Come on, it's me. Beelzebub. Lord of the Flies. Watch."

GABRIEL & BEELZEBUB | GOOD OMENS SEASON 2: EVERY DAY

[vivenecii]

I had some fun with the basic Studio Pen brush, therefore the linear is bolder than usual

[cynical-canidae]

Ideal date = walking (flying?) your child (who happens to be a giant fly).

[sing-you-fools]

did this website collectively forget about England only having ten actors? why am I seeing so much confusion over some actors returning in different roles in GO2? what else are they supposed to do? make new ones? hate to break it to you but that takes a while

[brotpqueen]

So I’m trying to do some important stuff so the next chapter of Camp Armagetalong may take a little longer. Hopefully tomorrow or the next day. In the meantime have more dumb PicCollage content. Features the MCs and the other councillors.

[ghosty-schnibibit]

alright, so, now that i am not an incandescent ball of fury:

i was extremely disappointed with go2 and downright angry about the way it concluded. i've already read some excellent posts by other lovely people that articulate some of my grievances really well (which sadly i can't link here or the site will eat this post entirely) but i want to add my own to the pile. if you enjoyed the season then more power to you, but i very much did not.

after this post i won't be complaining about s2 again or really posting anything about it at all, positive or negative, and will probably just block the tag entirely. like i said in my much shorter vent post last night, i just want to get all of my negativity out in one go and then pretend it doesn't exist. with that out of the way:

the pacing was terrible. the plot went in circles around itself and the mystery was handled so poorly that it somehow managed to be too convoluted and too simple at the same time. we spent five entire episodes wondering what was going on only to have it resolved by an exposition dump of about five minutes. the mini-sodes ground multiple episodes to a halt and squandered the majority of the season's runtime on pointless fanservice that cheapened some of the previous season's most emotional moments, runtime that could have been better spent setting up the gabriel mystery or developing literally any of the new characters introduced. speaking of which,

the new characters were pointless. nina and maggie were given no characterization beyond being pale expies of az and crowley, and the fact that a substantial part of the b-plot revolved around them makes this even more apparent. i do not remember the name of the angel pretending to be a constable and i don't care enough about them to look it up, they had literally no plot significance whatsoever. same goes for the processing demon from the third episode. the flip with jax from being a somewhat neutral character to a big bad in a party city wig felt like a failed attempt to recapture some of what made hastur and ligur work in the previous series.

gabriel and beelzabub. their relationship was unbelievable and clashed so heavily with their previous characterizations. i called it from the first episode and dreaded its conclusion right up to the finale. they feel like an ill-thought parody of ineffable husbands pulled out of an enemies-to-lovers crackfic. every romantic moment in the last episode was insipid and cloying, and them getting a consequence free happy ending retroactively cheapened the stakes of the previous season. it honestly felt like the writers just wanted to mash their dolls together.

aziraphale's character was assassinated and crowley was basically just there to play the hits. both of them were flanderized to the moon and back, but poor aziraphale got the worst of it. all of his character development from the previous season was thrown out the window in order to give us the big angsty conclusion set-up for a third season. they were both utterly flattened and i feel so bad for michael and david, they were clearly doing the best with what they were given but what they were given was just plain bad.

most of the humor and warmth from the book and the previous season were just… gone. no narrator, only one or two comedic asides from the title cards, a total of maybe three minutes of queen music across the whole thing (and most of that a piano cover), and a whole lot of little stylistic touches that went by the wayside and left the world feeling a bit hollow. also the comedy in this season was much more reliant on a "hey, aren't the characters acting so silly right now? aren't they failing at looking/acting normal? isn't that funny?" style of humor than on the wit and subtle satire of the first.

it was nothing but set up for a third season. learning this after finishing the season did not make me feel better about any of it, but it does explain a bit why it felt like all set up and no pay off. i have zero confidence about the ship being righted in a potential s3 that we likely will not see for many years (if at all, i'm already hearing murmurs about the show getting axed).

so that's basically it. i'll reiterate that if you enjoyed this season then i have no beef with you; your opinions are your own and, while i have no desire to have a dialogue about them, i respect them. but the original good omens book was very personally meaningful to me, as was its adaptation in s1, and this poorly thought out continuation has disappointed and saddened me to the point that i feel like i don't want to engage with the fandom in its wake.

[whoareyoueventhough]

Prompt 3: confession

I didn't want to do the classic love confession for no good reason really, just didn't feel like it :/

He's heartbroken. Betrayed. Shattered. Inconsolable. Well, maybe a little consolable.

[magnetic-rose]

ahhh ineffable bureaucracy… obsessed with their rancid vibes…