Good Omens fans react to season 2’s ending

After a comparatively cozy and oddly comfortable season, Good Omens broke everybody’s hearts — however in the easiest way 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 — primarily based on the 1990 fantasy guide by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett — ends with an enormous rattling kiss. Besides, as a substitute of being a cheerful 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 reduce him off with another information. Aziraphale accepted the Metatron’s supply to be a frontrunner in heaven, and he hopes to rebuild heaven with Crowley by his facet. 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 would have been an enormous disappointment for followers who’ve waited literal a long time for these two characters to romantically get collectively.

As a substitute, 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 Loss of life, the Priest and Fleabag’s breakup, and (funnily sufficient) the 10th Physician and Rose’s untimely parting of how. Good Omens has the heartache and craving that resonates with essentially the most bittersweet and touching of romances, with the added oomph of being a queer love story. In spite of everything, sluggish burn romances and angst are simply as interesting to fanfic writers as fluffy domesticity.

Probably the most standard comparability factors is Supernatural — which isn’t shocking given simply how a lot lasting energy the sleeping large 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 companion. However there’s a key distinction between Supernatural from these different examples. Our Flag Means Loss of life, Fleabag, and Physician Who had been unhappy, positive, however Supernatural’s abrupt awkward love confession (and subsequent quick dying) was a supply of anger and frustration (and one million memes because of the ridiculous timing of the episode, however that’s one other story).

Supernatural’s bizarre one-sided love confession lives on in infamy. Though the parallels are there, the whole lot about Good Omens’ tragic love confession is definitely an instance of the way 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 three can be the “final act” of the story, even when that hypothetical season hasn’t but been introduced by Amazon (and due to 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 habits, fueled queerbaiting accusations from followers. So, the tragic and out of left subject ending — a love confession which instantly resulted in a dying — understandably soured followers. After an angel professes like to him, Dean dies an unrelated dying within the precise remaining episode, and reunites along with his automobile (and brother) as a substitute 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 rather a lot to study, 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 study 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 cheerful ending.

However what’s a cheerful ending with out 100Ok of slow-burn angst earlier than it? Until that hypothetical season three 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.