‘Good Omens’: What Did You Think of Aziraphale & Crowley’s Ending? (POLL)
Well, on the one hand, at least David Tennant and Michael Sheen‘s characters end up together at the end of Good Omens finale? But fans are sure to be divided on how they feel about exactly how that happens. Warning: Spoilers for the Good Omens finale ahead!
In order to give humanity the chance they deserve, former demon Crowley (Tennant) and angel Aziraphale (Sheen) decide to sacrifice themselves so God (Tanya Moodie) creates a world without angels, demons, God, or Satan. And that means they cease to exist. Their goodbye is short and sweet — Aziraphale kisses his fingers and puts them to Crowley’s lip, and Crowley kisses them — and then that’s it … for those versions of the actors’ characters.
But David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s new characters, Professor Anthony Crowley and bookseller Asa, meet in the new world. Their meet-cute leads to a date and then, 20 years later, a happily ever after, married, together, living in a cottage in the South Downs.
But this does mean that Aziraphale and Crowley don’t get a happily ever after. The versions of their characters who are human don’t have the long history that the angel and former demon did. They had to sacrifice being together to give humanity free will. And in these new lives, they’ll have limited time together because humans die, whereas as an angel and former demon, they would’ve kept living.
But, as director Rachel Talalay told TV Insider, it does show that “love conquers all, and any place in any universe, it’s not about the humanity as much as the feeling that they would, if it’s ineffable, find that kind of love, they would find each other no matter what.”
She added that the finale was about “the greatness of that eternity of love … and that no matter what universe they will find each other and they will always be together, whether it’s limited in this universe or parallel universes, or they will always — that kind of love endures is the point of it.”
What did you think of the Good Omens finale? Let us know in the poll and comments section below.
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I am grateful to all the people who worked on the show, and that we even got a third season. Respectfully, Crowley and Aziraphale's whole love story, the point and message of the show, was erased along with any beautiful meaning it had. I don't get it. I certainly don't like it. Love did not conquer all; they died. Asa and Anthony are not Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley and Aziraphale never really told one another what they meant to each other. They didn't resolve their issues. No one in that show got a happy ending. It's just such a cheap way to end something that could have been wonderful. It's the equivalent of "It was all a dream" ending. Also, a second kiss or even a hug would have absolutely added something, full circle, an opportunity for contrast and development. Its suprizing and sad to me that they completely ignored and dismissed that potential.
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There is no poll (sad, I wanted to vote) but I will comment instead. They are dead. Love didn't conquer anything. Everything we loved was erased. They can say how it was supposed to be the opposite, that love is eternal, but that's just gaslighting. I don't want new children (Job). "This is where you were keeping all your you. You're perfect" (Beelzebub to the fly containing Gabriel's memories). If the writing were just bad, I could forgive that. This was worse, this was like actively destroying the entirety of the Good Omens universe and everything it stood for and meant and then telling us we are being overly emotional for not enjoying the hole in the chest they just inflicted on us.
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I liked it! I don't think every story needs a happy ending, and I don't think a bittersweet ending means a bad story. It was in character, it was devastating, it wasn't perfect, but it was a wonderful ending.
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