This Post Said It Would Like To Spark Some Critical Discussion And That Opinions Are Welcome. While

This post said it would like to spark some critical discussion and that opinions are welcome. While my last English teacher would agree that I'm awful at critical discussions, I would like to share my opinions if that is alright. I get everyone feels differently about things, and I'm not trying to start anything.

I can definitely see where you are coming from when you say that this season didn't have as much momentum. There was no REAL world ending stakes like the last season. This seasons story was more about solving a mystery and exploring personal relationships among all of the characters.

There isn't a lot I can say about Nina and Maggie. I agree that they weren't really fleshed out characters. They were more like little side projects for Crowley an Aziraphale to use to deflect their own feelings. However, they might be fleshed out more if we ever get a season 3. Or they might not.

I also don't feel like their story is suppose to show the power of love. They aren't fully together in the end. I think their story was more meant as love endures or is always present. It's not always the right time for true love.

And since this season is all about love, I don't really see a problem for Beelzubub and Gabriel. They fell for each other, and it was the right time for them to be together. It's meant to be sweet and show what Crowley and Aziraphale can have when the time is right.

As for the soap opera thing, well, to each their own. I totally get it, but I personally love a little 💫drama💫. Makes the reconciling all the more touching. I'm not familiar with many soap operas, but as long as a secret twin and comas don't come into season 3, I'll take as many emotional scenes as they want to spoon feed me.

I'm not smart enough to say anything about the themes you want to see more of, so moving on from that part please and thank you.

Lastly, I would like to say that I think I might have preferred this season to the last one. I feel like a heretic for saying that since reading the original Good Omens is what introduced me to both Gaiman and Pratchett writings. However, this story (until the very end at least) was cozy. It was meant to be comfortable and enjoyable. What's better than love? Than finding at least one person who can be on your side and take away the loneliness? And, it was original. It transformed something preexisting in a way a simple adaptation, no matter how great the source material was, could do on it's own.

Good Omens 2 Criticism

Real talk: I’m glad this sequel exists, but let’s not pretend it’s as good as the first series/season.

Hoping to spark some critical discussion - opinions welcome!

The plot itself lacked momentum. Sometimes the Gabriel plot line, which ostensibly is the MAIN plot, felt like a distraction to the getting Nina/Maggie together plot, which really is a side quest.

The Nina and Maggie characters are shallow, and their whole thing was unconvincing. Before the first ep, there’s no evidence to suggest that the two had ever even talked! How in the world am I supposed to believe that within the course of days these two are supposed to wind up together?

Gabriel…. So the idea of an amnesiac Gabriel is intriguing, but the resolution felt rushed and out of left field. That Beelzebub and he are…. in love(??), after just a few one-on-one meetings, strains belief. I don’t see it. I’m not a shipper, I watched the first season and they barely interacted. So we need an infodump/retcon in order to make it even remotely plausible.

Overall the season felt smaller, the stakes were lower, the themes less grand and less cohesive. If the first season was about trusting humanity with their own future (BIG IDEA), season 2 is about… getting two randos to fall in love, which is supposed to show the power of love?? Ierno that’s kinda thin to me.

Aziraphale and Crowley. These are the two I’m actually invested in. I ship them, like everyone else. I am sad about the ending, like everyone else. And I do think the scenes between them (both in the minisodes in the past, and in the present day) are the best parts of the series.

But I don’t want to reduce their love affair to a soap opera. There are some big concepts in the original Good Omens. Stuff like free will vs design, good vs evil, whether good is possible no matter the circumstance, whether one can find/create meaning in a world without meaning.

I want to see those themes played out in Aziraphale and Crowley. I want those discussions about dolphins and eternity and God. The Job episode delivered some of that, and it’s my favorite because of it. But overall I don’t think this season cared too much about big ideas.

And that’s sad to me. That may be fanservice and enjoyable for what it is but it’s not good.