Good Omens fans react to season 2’s ending

After a comparatively cozy and oddly completely satisfied season, Good Omens broke everybody’s hearts — however in the easiest way doable.

[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 a giant rattling kiss. Except, as a substitute of being a contented climax to a love confession, it’s a tearful goodbye. Demon Crowley (David Tennant) was nearly to confess his love to angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), however the angel lower him off with another information. Aziraphale accepted the Metatron’s provide to be a pacesetter in heaven, and he hopes to rebuild heaven with Crowley by his aspect. But Crowley doesn’t need 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 fans who’ve waited literal many years for these two characters to romantically get collectively.

Instead, although, the consensus appears to be that this heartbreaking ending hurts so good.

Fans are providing each other consolation, evaluating this ending to different devastating romantic moments in TV, like the primary season finale of Our Flag Means Death, the Priest and Fleabag’s breakup, and (funnily sufficient) the tenth Doctor 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. After all, gradual burn romances and angst are simply as interesting to fanfic writers as fluffy domesticity.

One of the preferred comparability factors is Supernatural — which isn’t shocking given simply how a lot lasting energy the sleeping large fandom has. In this case, it takes on a very humorous parallel, contemplating the heaven and hell of all of it. Both Good Omens and Supernatural finish with a love confession that separates an angelic being from their romantic associate. But there’s a key distinction between Supernatural from these different examples. Our Flag Means Death, Fleabag, and Doctor 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 thanks to the ridiculous timing of the episode, however that’s one other story).

Supernatural’s bizarre one-sided love confession lives on in infamy. Even although the parallels are there, the whole lot about Good Omens’ tragic love confession is definitely an instance of how to do it proper. For one, this isn’t the ultimate, definitive ending of Good Omens — a minimum of, not but. Neil Gaiman mentioned on Tumblr {that a} hypothetical season 3 can be the “last act” of the story, even when that hypothetical season hasn’t but been introduced by Amazon (and thanks to the writers and actors’ strikes, may not be introduced for a bit).

But whereas the creatives behind Supernatural at all times joked about the potential for 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 fans. So, the tragic and out of left area ending — a love confession which instantly led to a dying — understandably soured fans. After an angel professes love to him, Dean dies an unrelated dying within the precise last episode, and reunites along with his automotive (and brother) as a substitute of Castiel.

Meanwhile, the storytelling selections in Good Omens season 2 — in addition to the opposite examples of this devastating heartbreak canon — make sense. Of course, Crowley would need to reject the institution and run away with Aziraphale. And after all Aziraphale nonetheless has so much 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 is time to be taught and develop, which fans appear to acknowledge, and extra importantly, there’s the potential for a 3rd season to actually tie issues collectively and provides everybody a contented ending.

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

Good Omens season 2 is out on Prime Video now.