#good omens season two finale

[my-hyperfixations]

I am still VERY unwell from this finale

[appalamutte]

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT !!!!!!!!!

[jonimitchellangelo]

No you don't understand, he could have driven away in agony listening to whatever sad ass break up song there is at full volume (we all know it would be "love of my life" by queen) but he didn't. Even after being rejected MULTIPLE times by aziraphale he still stands there, hoping so desperately that the angel might have changed his mind. He's not willing to give up just yet. I'M SOBBING

[goodomensbutwrong]

Aziraphale: Nothing lasts forever. Change is inedible.

Crowley, holding back tears: Don’t….Don’t you mean it’s inevitable?

Aziraphale, who has been using this entire conversation as a setup for the world’s worst magic trick: *spits out coins* no I do not.

[rat-a-toot]

the sadness in Aziraphale's eyes when Crowley puts his glasses back on AND the small smile at the end when Crowley finally looks back up at him in hopes that he would follow him up to heaven

[twilightcitysky]

Hypothesis: Aziraphale HATES that Crowley is living in his car.

Supporting evidence:

The very first thing we see him do in the present is stop Maggie from moving out and making sure she feels welcome to stay as long as she likes.

He clearly knows Crowley’s unhappy before anything happens in the plot: “Does it calm you down?”. And also clearly feels helpless about it. Enter the conspicuous Eccles cakes: Aziraphale’s offer, which is rejected.

Crowley’s obviously, for all his hedging, spending a lot of time at the bookshop— so much that he has his own glasses perch and feels immediately comfortable removing them. See also: “Technically my bookshop but we both get plenty of use out of it”, “Why don’t you wait inside? You like waiting inside”.

It’s Crowley who immediately shoves the box of plants into Aziraphale’s arms after Aziraphale returns from Scotland.

Speaking of Scotland, why wouldn’t Aziraphale take the train? Why insist on driving the Bentley? Is it perhaps because he wants to get Crowley and his plants into the shop, and thinks if he creates a situation where Crowley has to stay there, maybe he won’t immediately leave again?

He’s got an empty bedroom and an apparently pathological need to make the person staying there very comfortable, creating cute little customized souvenirs like he’s an Air B&B host (displacement!).

He immediately jumps to having Gabriel stay with him— he didn’t have to. Arguably, both Gabriel and Aziraphale would be safer if Gabe stayed elsewhere.

That’s what I’ve got for now but I’m sure there’s more. Throughout the show, watch what Aziraphale gives to others and does for others, and it’ll tell you what he wants to do for Crowley. He’s living so deeply in displacement in makes him come across as manic and brittle.

(What probably happened is Aziraphale offered the spare bedroom and Crowley, who unconsciously didn’t want to be his roommate or sleep in a single bed with Aziraphale right downstairs because how could the poor lovesick boy cope with that, told him he wasn’t a “good deed” for Aziraphale to do and stormed off.)

Conclusion: Aziraphale asked Crowley to stay at his place, immediately and probably repeatedly. They had a row about it, and Crowley refused, and to this day Aziraphale doesn’t understand why.

And it hurts him.

[actual-changeling]

i LOVE crazy meta posts and wild speculations, i write unhinged interpretations myself, and fandom is first and foremost about having fun.

but i am very, very tired of seeing serious theories that constantly call the final fifteen fake/a conspiracy/a magic trick/etc. retconning that scene would take away the ENTIRE emotional weight and the importance it has for both their character archs.

[legbird]

heeeheeeeheheee!! Wow um that finale really um made me feel super happy and good!!! Yep!!! Anyways i noticed at the beginning they were watching the Pillars of Creation being formed so like what if they went back to visit

[vroomvroomwee]

[shroomwar]

It’s become readily apparent that things are no longer tickety boo

[my-hyperfixations]

This scene:

[twink-gods-and-olive-oil]

Crowley and Mobius have one thing in common now - they both pray to someone who hears them, but cannot answer.

[brainwormcity]

No matter how many times I watch the final fifteen... I feel wrecked all over again. The way Aziraphale just barely wraps an arm around him with his left hand and the fingers of his right flutter over Crowley's shoulder, fighting the urge to hold him against him. His eyes falling shut and the almost imperceptible way he moves and lets Crowley pull him closer. The way his right hand hovers, the next time we see it, just above Crowley's back before he pulls away...

Meanwhile, Crowley with a white knuckle grip on his lapels and sweat on his brow. You can see him shaking. There's so much desperation and this air of futility, like one last ditch effort towards thwarting the apocalypse all over again.

The bitter frustration in Crowley's voice when he says, "don't bother," probably more closed off to Aziraphale than he's ever been since they day they met. Yet, he still stands there and watches the only creature in the universe he's ever loved disappear into the grips of a fascistic bureaucracy that has not only mocked him for millennia but mere moments before was threatening to destroy him.

6,000 years. 6,000 years! He knew. He absolutely knew that Aziraphale loved him too. There was no doubt in his voice when he remarked on how they could always rely on each other and how they had denied themselves their relationship all of their existence. He just hoped that Aziraphale would have chosen their side instead and not ask him to change. It's all so goddamn heartbreaking.

[noneorother]

So were Neil and Douglas ever going to tell anyone that there were two suns at the end of episode 6…?

The ineffable detective agency has been busy lately with codes and signals, so I thought I’d just pop on and howl into the void with a few things.

Like the fact that if these two shots were supposed to be happening simultaneously for real, then SoHo’s got a little physics problem.

The southeast end of the street AND the north west end of Whickeber Street have a sun rising/setting behind them at the same time. Look at the direction of the light and shadow on the cars and the road, and how the sun is always the both of their backs. While they look towards the other. On opposite sides of the road.

I’m not saying that it’s impossible that it’s an error or an artistic choice, but with the amount of clues and hints that have been dropped by the creators about light I think it’s pretty unlikely. But it gets worse.

look at the bookshop during the angel and demon conference, and during the final 15 argument.

The sunlight starts streaming in both both sides while they’re still in the bookshop. Compare with when we see the bookshop at other times throughout the earlier episodes. It does not look like this.

So are we playing 4D chess with the sun now?

Members who want to share our confusion with the Good Omens fandom include: @bbbitchvibbbez @embracing-the-ineffable @kimberleyjean @maufungi @noneorother @theastrophysicistnextdoor @thebluestgreen

[theelastword]

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

So I’ve been seeing a lot of people talk about how big of a mistake Aziraphale made in the finale and how badly they feel for Crowley (instead of feeling bad for BOTH of them). And honestly? I don’t understand the perspective that Crowley getting his heart broken in episode 6 has to mean that Aziraphale was totally naive and wrong and that it’ll take Crowley a lot of time to forgive him, or that Aziraphale’s ending in season 2 wasn’t just as heartbreaking as Crowley’s.

Think about everything we know about Aziraphale, who has never once been power-hungry and— following season 1— no longer cares what Heaven thinks (he even told the Metratron that he didn’t want to go back to Heaven when first approached). Aziraphale only left because he sees angels like Muriel, who definitively have good in them despite everything, or even Gabriel who somehow figured out how to fall in love and find something that mattered more to him than the supposed ‘morality’ of Heaven. Aziraphale sees that spark, that potential of Heaven to be turned into what it should have always been, and he thinks that he can do it because he’s seen proof of angels who can get away from Heaven’s influence, a list that includes himself.

Not to mention THAT look he gave Metatron after he brought up the Second Coming, a look that (at least from where I’m sitting) was a definite steeling of nerves and his own way of saying “Okay, time to take this thing down from the inside”. He was NOT saying that Crowley should reform himself for Heaven, or even that they should go back because he missed Heaven. He was asking Crowley to go with him because he loves him and wants him by his side— and because he knows that Crowley has experience in being there for angels who slowly deviate from Heaven.

Aziraphale wants what he’s always wanted— to keep helping everyone he possibly can, without stopping to do what he really wants and just stay in his beloved bookshop with the love of his life. Because he never prioritizes what it is he wants when he could be helping others instead. That’s just who he is, which is what makes him so selfless and wonderful but also so sad in that he never just…lets himself be happy. And the Crowley that we all know would never hate or have lingering fury toward him for that. What Aziraphale is doing, although heartbreaking to people like me who just want the Husbands to have their little cottage in the South Downs, is actually really brave, AND just as worthy of the sympathy and heartbreak that many fans are feeling for Crowley.

EDIT: Also, as sad/problematic it may be to abandon your life and partner, it’s just as problematic to turn a blind eye to the oppression and injustice of Heaven that, by all means, you have the ability and voice to try to do something about in pursuit of prioritizing what you want. So if we’re going to be mad at Aziraphale, we have to be mad at Crowley, too (and I’ll be disappointed if hypothetical-season-3 paints the narrative that Aziraphale is the only one in the wrong here). Personally, I’m all for not being mad at anybody. I completely understand both of their choices, and I just want them to reconcile and be compassionate to what the other is going through.

[mariusslonelysoul]

Jon hamm you will hear from my therapist -they wanna send you a fruit basket