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mistressofmuses) wrote2023-07-30 11:26 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2023-07-30 11:26 pm
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Hahaha, ouch! :)
Yeah, the end of the second Good Omens season did, in fact, hurt.
Alex's thought: "So... I guess there's supposed to be a Season 3 then? That would be an awkward place to leave it."
I *had* been spoiled for all three of the biggest bits of the ending, turns out. But it's fine, I still enjoyed watching it play out!
I enjoyed the season as a whole. I understand that the... mmm, smaller scale wasn't liked by everyone, but it feels reasonable to me? (Especially with this season intended to bridge the first story and the never-made sequel that we hopefully get in a third season.)
There's also already lots of meta out there, talking about Big Theories about what went on in this season, and spots where it feels like a plot thread was dropped or poorly resolved, and ways in which that could be intentionally pointing towards something bigger working in the background.
(I am definitely in the Metatron Is Absolutely The Big Bad camp, but that's not really a "theory" so much as "I watched the damn thing."
I AM fond of the theory that the whole season has been victim to Metatron editing events in The Book of Life, explaining some of the weirdness/missed opportunity feelings in certain scenes [Specifically invoking Lazarus... and a setup involving a person they want to heal dying... and not doing anything with that. Ways in which things were set up, like Maggie and Nina, only to be sort of averted in the end.]
Lost memory is a pretty big theme throughout the season, most obviously with Gabriel, but also repeatedly with Crowley. The idea of past events and memories being deliberately edited, making the whole season into an unreliable narration in a sense is interesting!
Alternately, a fun theory I read is that the kiss resulted in another bodyswap. I don't think I *agree* with this theory as canon, but it's fun to consider!
I think the "Metatron has been subtly fucking with Aziraphale's memories and perceptions all season" is a more likely explanation, particularly for the sudden weirdness of Az's character at the end. You avert the apocalypse because you don't want to be trapped with celestial harmonies in heaven forever, because you DO love life on earth with food and wine and music and books and Crowley and humans... and suddenly you're ALL IN on the idea of throwing all that aside to go do quite a lot of work in heaven? That's what an angel SHOULD want... not what Aziraphale wants or has wanted for thousands of years now!)
So I DO understand why there are some people who really hated the season ending, and feel like it was a betrayal of the characters and everything that happened in the book/Season 1. That this is a huge backslide from the understanding that Aziraphale has reached regarding heaven, the "our side" that was solidified post-non-apocalypse.
Buuuut that isn't the intended ending to the story - there IS supposed to be a Season 3, and this season was written completely with the intention of bridging to that part of the story, not as something self-contained the way the book/season 1 were. I'm willing to trust that "hey, that's fucking weird for this character we love to suddenly do that!" is... actually the character doing something weird because Something Is Wrong. Sometimes the writing is trying to imply something for you to draw conclusions about! Sometimes things are done on purpose!
Then again, I could well be buying in to my own version of the "secret sherlock season 4" conspiracy here.
But boy are some people being fucking assholes about it. Lots of "anyone who was EVER a fan of the book HATES this season and knows it's trash; if you don't utterly loathe it and anyone who liked it, you clearly never read the book and are a Fake Fan." Plenty of "ugh, this was clearly made to appeal to fans, and that's bad I guess." Several "Wow, I hope they never ever get to make another season and everyone who liked the show at all is stuck with that being the ending forever."
Whatever. No one has to like it, and sorry if they feel like it's inescapable or whatnot, but... eh, fuck off, lol.
Alex's thought: "So... I guess there's supposed to be a Season 3 then? That would be an awkward place to leave it."
I *had* been spoiled for all three of the biggest bits of the ending, turns out. But it's fine, I still enjoyed watching it play out!
I enjoyed the season as a whole. I understand that the... mmm, smaller scale wasn't liked by everyone, but it feels reasonable to me? (Especially with this season intended to bridge the first story and the never-made sequel that we hopefully get in a third season.)
There's also already lots of meta out there, talking about Big Theories about what went on in this season, and spots where it feels like a plot thread was dropped or poorly resolved, and ways in which that could be intentionally pointing towards something bigger working in the background.
(I am definitely in the Metatron Is Absolutely The Big Bad camp, but that's not really a "theory" so much as "I watched the damn thing."
I AM fond of the theory that the whole season has been victim to Metatron editing events in The Book of Life, explaining some of the weirdness/missed opportunity feelings in certain scenes [Specifically invoking Lazarus... and a setup involving a person they want to heal dying... and not doing anything with that. Ways in which things were set up, like Maggie and Nina, only to be sort of averted in the end.]
Lost memory is a pretty big theme throughout the season, most obviously with Gabriel, but also repeatedly with Crowley. The idea of past events and memories being deliberately edited, making the whole season into an unreliable narration in a sense is interesting!
Alternately, a fun theory I read is that the kiss resulted in another bodyswap. I don't think I *agree* with this theory as canon, but it's fun to consider!
I think the "Metatron has been subtly fucking with Aziraphale's memories and perceptions all season" is a more likely explanation, particularly for the sudden weirdness of Az's character at the end. You avert the apocalypse because you don't want to be trapped with celestial harmonies in heaven forever, because you DO love life on earth with food and wine and music and books and Crowley and humans... and suddenly you're ALL IN on the idea of throwing all that aside to go do quite a lot of work in heaven? That's what an angel SHOULD want... not what Aziraphale wants or has wanted for thousands of years now!)
So I DO understand why there are some people who really hated the season ending, and feel like it was a betrayal of the characters and everything that happened in the book/Season 1. That this is a huge backslide from the understanding that Aziraphale has reached regarding heaven, the "our side" that was solidified post-non-apocalypse.
Buuuut that isn't the intended ending to the story - there IS supposed to be a Season 3, and this season was written completely with the intention of bridging to that part of the story, not as something self-contained the way the book/season 1 were. I'm willing to trust that "hey, that's fucking weird for this character we love to suddenly do that!" is... actually the character doing something weird because Something Is Wrong. Sometimes the writing is trying to imply something for you to draw conclusions about! Sometimes things are done on purpose!
But boy are some people being fucking assholes about it. Lots of "anyone who was EVER a fan of the book HATES this season and knows it's trash; if you don't utterly loathe it and anyone who liked it, you clearly never read the book and are a Fake Fan." Plenty of "ugh, this was clearly made to appeal to fans, and that's bad I guess." Several "Wow, I hope they never ever get to make another season and everyone who liked the show at all is stuck with that being the ending forever."
Whatever. No one has to like it, and sorry if they feel like it's inescapable or whatnot, but... eh, fuck off, lol.