#gos2 ending

[yowlthinks]

The Final 15: Aziraphale's decision matrix in a no-choice situation

I have been thinking and reading about what happened since season 2 came out, and I think I have finally been able to put it all down into a logical sequence. This meta is the result of both countless posts I have read on tumblr and my own thoughts.

But let us start from the beginning, which is essentially Metatron's offer:

Notice how Aziraphale consistently declines the honour, as Metatron keeps pressing. When he says that Aziraphale is the perfect choice he also mentions that Aziraphale "is a leader, is honest and doesn't just tell people what they want to hear", which is of course a lie and they both know it. Initially, Aziraphale can't deny it because he can't just go "well, actually, I have been doing exactly that, stretching the truth in my reports and on a few notable occasions outright lying to my superiors and even God Herself". So he deflects to "where will I get my coffee?", preferring to highlight his attachment to Earth. In response to that Metatron makes his final move: he knows about Aziraphale's partnership with Crowley, and that means he knows about the lies.

This threat to Crowley gets Aziraphale to the following decision matrix:

Telling Crowley about the threat is useless. Aziraphale knows he will suggest running away together, and that puts them both in danger. Similarly, running away alone / hiding Aziraphale will not be a good move either because Metatron will not hesitate to harm Crowley and use him as a bait for Aziraphale.

So this means that Aziraphale's best option is not telling Crowley about the threat and persuading him to come with Aziraphale, his second best being going alone. Both of these offer best safety guarantees for Crowley, and this is something Aziraphale would not compromise on.

So our angel launches into this entire speech about making a difference. These are the only arguments he can come up with on the fly regarding why he took the position (the position he does not want! At a place he does not want to go back to!). And he is terrified that Metatron will come back and he won't be able to finish this conversation, won't be able to persuade Crowley. Add to this the fact that Crowley is clearly trying to have an important conversation with him too. A conversation they would like to have in private, but which Aziraphale knows can be interrupted at any moment. That's why he tries to stop Crowley, that's why he is constantly glancing out of the window.

Aziraphale is angry and frustrated, but this is mostly anger at Metatron who put him into this position, at the unfairness of it all, at himself for not being able to get Crowley to agree. It is the despair that just when Crowley confesses his love, instead of being able to say "I love you" back, he has to swallow it down again. Aziraphale's "I forgive you" is "I forgive you for not trusting me to make the best choice for us both", "I forgive you for not agreeing to go with me, I understand why you declined". And this aligns neatly with the theory about the Nightingale song in the car being a message from Aziraphale: it is his way of saying "I love you, I chose you, I chose our side, and that’s why I had to go".

And you know what? Crowley is a clever noodle and he knows Aziraphale well, so he will figure it out, he will spot this out of character, under-duress-only style of decision-making and start untangling that mystery.

We all know how it ends, and I can't wait to see it!

UPD: to put the above in perspective, see this meta with graphs!

#good omens #gos2 #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #good omens 2 #gos2 spoilers #justice for crowley #gos2 meta #good omens meta #gos2 ending #final 15 #gos3 theories

[ineffably-poetic]

yk what sucks is that the reason aziraphale is struggling so much is being he’s bad at change. every time there’s a huge change, he freaks out. especially with the change in him and crowley’s relationship after the kiss? yeah he’s scared :(

this made sense in my brain hopefully it makes sense here

#good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #gos2spoilers #gos2 ending #good omens spoilers #spoilers #also if he was holding in feelings for awhile he would be even more distressed

[apologydanceenthusiast]

You guys know how Crowley's eyes are tearing up at the end before he puts on his sunglasses and walks out the bookshop but the tears never fall?

Yes? Cool.

Ik this knowledge has been in the fandom for ages and this might as well has been pointed out already and i just haven't seen, but jfc--

#go2 spoilers #go2 #good omens spoilers #gos2 #good omens season two #gos2 spoilers #crowley #good omens #gos2 ending

[suavissimapenna]

My main takeaway from my first watch of Good Omens season 2 is how determined Neil is to make Season 3. It’s the day after the premiere and I don’t want to spoil anyone, so I’m putting a break here.

Neil has been pretty clear that S2 is the bridge between S1 and S3. Very important here is that S3 is the sequel he and Terry plotted, while S2 is what he wrote to make the connection from where we left Aziraphale and Crowley at the end of S1 (and the book) and where we find them at the beginning of S3.

So, all of S2, even the ending, ESPECIALLY the ending, is about getting to make what he and Terry decided would be the end of the story. I keep seeing people call Neil a liar or whatever for saying S2 is “quiet, gentle and romantic” but it IS. We spend 6 episodes building up relationships, and especially Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship. We see how much more comfortable they are with one another, how they work together to solve problems and mysteries, and lots of little moments between them. And we see that they still have some work to do on themselves. And the thing about the end of S2 is that all those enormous feelings we feel there are because Neil and Douglas and Michael and David and everyone else are working at the top of their game to capture our hearts with the story and make us feel things. If you have BIG FEELINGS about how s2 ended, and where it ended, that’s working as intended. This is a GOOD story. And it’s not over.

Neil spent 30 years making sure that any adaptation of Good Omens was going to be amazing. And then Terry passed and left Neil with the charge to bring their vision (unseen and unknown to most of us) to life. From everything I’ve seen, Neil’s goal with every season of the show is to do right by Terry. And therefore he needs to make S3.

My heart is on the floor. I’m still in shock. I have a LOT of feelings that I’m swimming around in about this season. Most of all though, I’m now filled with a bottomless, desperate need for S3. I think that’s the goal here. How we get it is watching s2. So I will be watching it again, feeling my feels, good and bad and ugly (crying), and I hope you will join me in appreciating the miraculous power stories have over us that they can give us so much.

#good omens #gos2 #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #GOS2spoilers #GOs2 ending

[youidiotwecouldbeenus]

Pov: Your hereditary enemy who's also your best friend who's also your crush confessed their love to you but at the wrong time so there's been a huge misunderstanding so to clear everything up he kissed you but you now that you saw it clear you didn't know how to react but it was too late for you to say "I love you" back so you separate and you feel super bad because you tried to do the right thing which is basically to make your crush happy and make the world a better place for the humans because it's clear that heaven n hell are toxic and the system is broken but you know that you and your crush rae strong together and can change everything for the best but surprise! while the Metatron offered you that you can be together with your crush and make the world a better place (he was manipulating and lying to you but you are a religiously traumatised angel so you trust him BUT ONLY AFTER YOUR CRUSH'S HAPPINESS WAS IN THE DEAL BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM WITH ALL YOUR EVERYTHING AND YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM) the cute couple who are probably just a metaphor to mirror your actions because Neil Gaiman is amazing came up to your crush to tell him for the third time this series that HALLO YOU TWO CAN'T MAKE US WHO ARE BASICALLY YOU FALL IN LOVE AND GET TOGETHER WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN TELL YOUR TRUE FEELINGS TO EACH OTHER (btw you set a whole ball for your crush because you weren't sure if he loves you so you thought dancing with him like in the Jane Austen books will make him fall in love. Btw your crush doesn't read books and he fell in love with you probably when you were in the rain in the beginning because he said making humans wet and stare into each others eyes will make them vavoom fall in love so you basically try to make the other fall in love with you while you are clearly in love but quoting your crush's mirrored human variant "Other people's love lifes always seem so much more straightforward than ours" so you don't really see it and because you're not human you don't really know what you really feel) So your crush got convinced and decides to tell you but he's so nervous he says that if he doesn't say it now he won't be able to talk again (talk about what he truly feels) but you are excited that you can make him happy again so you pause him. Anddd these two topics are a bit against each other. So when he confesses you don't really understand and when you say Nothing lasts forever you don't mean your relationship you mean that if we don't do anything now that we got a chance I will lose you and that would be the worst thing to ever happen to me. BUT because it w as said at the wrong time your crush thinks you rejected him so yeah you are now fallen apart. THIS IS SICK

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable divorce #ineffable husbands #give us season 3 #gos2 ending

[princip1914]

Can’t stop thinking about how all of S2, Aziraphale is throwing himself at Crowley physically (the hand on his chest in the bar, the dance, the hand on his shoulder when Gabe and Beez say being together is more important than sides) waiting for Crowley to make the next move, while Crowley is throwing himself at Aziraphale emotionally (trying to make the humans fall in love by engineering a rainstorm, letting Aziraphale drive his car, recommending Alpha Centauri as a place for Gabe and Beez to go). And how in the final 15, they finally get closer to giving the other what they have been asking for all season, but it’s twisted and miscommunicated: “come with me” Aziraphale says and all Crowley hears is “to heaven”; “I need you” Aziraphale says, and all Crowley hears is “to change for me”; Crowley grabs Aziraphale and kisses him the way Aziraphale has wanted all season and Aziraphale, thinking it’s a temptation away from Heaven, forgives him instead of kissing him back.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale/crowley #gos2 #gos2 spoilers #I’m unwell #in the soup now folks #speaking completely different love languages until the end when they speak the same language but speak past eachother #help

[koiisure]

A lot can happen in 10 minutes

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #im still not over it god damn #im sitting at work in a corner w a blank face thinking about the ending #gos2 spoilers #gos2 #good omens s2 #good omens s2 spoilers

[beaulesbian]

It's nice to tell someone about the good things you've done, now that I'm not reporting to Heaven.

#good omens #goedit #goodomensedit #gos2 #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens s2 spoilers #go s2 ep 1 #mine #gif:good omens #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley knows azira so well and yet... the ending of s2 was A LOT

[hiraeix]

still not over how the season ended 👍

#i think no one in the good omens fandom is over how the season ended yet though #good omens fanart #goodomensseason2 #good omens #digital art #crowley fanart #crowley #good omens 2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #this is technically my first post so bear with me pls #i have no idea how to use the posting function on this site despite being on it for so long aha ha #my art #art

[azfellco]

Me right now

#good omens #i love you Neil #but I'm still very sad #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #gos2 #good omens 2 #season 2 #aziracrow #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #we need a season 3 NOW #I'm still not over it #and i don't think I'll ever be #he must be a demon because he lied #he told us it will be quite and romantic #it wasn't quiet en romantic at the end #quiet and gentle my ass

[ahalliance]

crowley perhaps did the bravest thing in his 6000 years of existence and was greeted with his worst nightmare in return. i’m sooo incredibly normal

#good omens #good omens s2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #i am . devastated #that’s the closest word to it #but fuck . phenomenal season and ending for making me feel so many shrimp emotions #jay rambles #shoutout to ineffable bureaucracy . real winners in all that #nina and maggie won too because now that theyre on the same page they’ll actually be able to develop a healthy relationship #unlike SOME OTHER PEOPLE #1k

[cottoncandysprite]

What do these 3 have in common

#the answer is i started the series kinning their love interest and ended it realizing i relate to them more than i like to admit #anyway I'm gonna go find a bridge to jump off of #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #gos2 spoilers #crowley #aziracrow #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #blackbeard #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandermo #nandor the relentless

[ineffably-poetic]

crowley didn’t deserve that

#gos2 ending #gos2spoilers #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #good omens 2 #just needed to say that

[bright-omens]

Crowley: My angel is better Beelzebub: Fuck you, mine is *Aziraphale and Gabriel in the background* Aziraphale: That's really not how you're supposed to organize the books Gabriel, organizing the books by the first letter of the first sentence again: You let me do it when I was Jim Aziraphale: *Internally screaming*

#AU where ineffable husbands have a happy ending and they hang out with Gabriel and Beelzebub #Crowley and Beelzebub would gush over their angels and talk about how one is better than the other #and Gabriel would make Azi regret everything by messing with the bookshop a bit too much #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #go2 #go2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy

[starks-hero]

They'll find their way back to each other. That's one thing we know for sure. Crowley and Aziraphale are meant to be together, one doesn't exist without the other, their stories have been so intwined since not just the start of earth but the beginning of all creation that now it's impossible to figure out where one ends and the other begins; like Alpha Centauri they gravitate so close together people mistook them for a single star. Regardless of whether we get season 3 or not, know that there's not a single universe where these two don't end up at each other's side.

#they're just in their angsty break up era but they'll be fine #they're always fine in the end :') #good omens season 2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers

[cillacantstudysosheshere]

I just saw a good omens analysis that made me think. So after the confession Crowley doesn't just leave, he stays outside the bookshop and outside the Bentley to look at Aziraphale leaving because he wants to see him getting away to fully believe what is happening and to show Aziraphale what he is losing right? WRONG

You see, we have seen Crowley getting upset a bunch of times both in season 1 and 2, and what does he do when he's upset? He leaves

We can go off together scene in season 1, he gets upset with Aziraphale and he leaves

I'm getting my stuff and I'm leaving scene in season 1, he gets in his Bentley and leaves

He finds out about Gabriel, he gets very upset and leaves

At the end of season 2 he's the most upset and hurt he's ever been so it would make sense for him to leave, to run in a way, to avoid further suffering. After all Crowley has always done this, he drinks to avoid suffering for example...so why does he stand there?...but then Aziraphale turns and looks at him and suddenly it's clear. In a way yes, Crowley is there because he is, to quote the book, an optimist and some part of him wanted to believe that Aziraphale could have changed his mind at the last second but I think it goes deeper than that.

He is not there to make Aziraphale question his decision, because he already tried that...he is there to reassure him, he is there because he wants him to know that when heaven will eventually turn out to be far from good he will be there for Aziraphale. He hates to see him go, and he hates to basically see what has happened to him happening to Aziraphale...but he can't help but to love him, to be there for him and to forgive his naivety because ultimately that's also what he loves him for.

Do you really think that after denying himself Aziraphale for 6000 years he could hate him for him not wanting to run away together? Crowley knows he goes too fast for Aziraphale and most of all, even though he doesn't respect heaven, he respects Aziraphale. He would never force him to do something he doesn't want to do, he loves him too much to do that. That is why the kiss was as powerful as it was, because for the first time Crowley was, in a way, selfish. Even though they both love each other and they both want each other, the kiss clearly showed who was ready for it and who was not. Crowley did that as a last resort because he knows deep down that Aziraphale wants him as well, but he also knew it was not the right time. The man was desperate and tired of heaven taking Aziraphale away from him...but even after all of that he stands there because he will always be there for Aziraphale no matter what. That hint of doubt in Aziraphale's eyes when he turns around to look at him just before leaving is all he needs because he knows him, and has seen this happening before...and even though he's hurt, he would never leave Aziraphale. Imagine the scene without Crowley: Aziraphale looks back and he doesn't see him and probably thinks "he left me, I made the right decision"...but no, he sees Crowley, standing there, not leaving even in that moment and that is what will, ultimately, bring Aziraphale back.

How? Well, we will have to wait and see I guess

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #go season 2 #gos2 #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens spoilers #good omens ending #good omens season 3 #give us season 3 #give me season 3 or give me death #good omens analysis #good omens speculation #good omens theory