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kingstoken) wrote2023-07-30 02:46 pm
kingstoken) wrote2023-07-30 02:46 pm
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Good Omens 2
So, I've watched the second season of Good Omens, twice actually since the its release on Friday, and I loved it! First off, I will say that season 1 is the better season of the two, it's has a better plot and is more tightly paced. But, if you love Ineffable Husbands at all I recommend you watch it. A few professional reviews have said it feels very much like watching fanfiction, and I think that is a very apt description. We get more of Aziraphale and Crowley and their journeys and shenanigans throughout history. We get outsider POV on Aziraphale and Crowley from Aziraphale's neighbours. We get to see Crowley before the Fall! We get affectionate looks, little touches, and dancing! So many little story ideas and head canons I've seen floating around the past four years show up in this season.
That being said there is still issues between the two of them that have not been resolved, and I could see many fans being disappointed that the two of them haven't made more progress. Also, a warning for a lot of angst right at the very end of the season, and the angst is not resolved. The main issue of the season does get resolved, but they are obviously setting things up for a season three. I have had a couple mutuals decide to skip the last fifteen minutes, so they can be happy and then they said they will watch the last fifteen minutes just before season 3 eventually comes out. I don't think I could do that, but to each their own.
Anyways, you could just watch season 1 and be happy with that as the ending, but if you love Ineffable Husbands and are okay with an angsty ending then give it a watch.
That being said there is still issues between the two of them that have not been resolved, and I could see many fans being disappointed that the two of them haven't made more progress. Also, a warning for a lot of angst right at the very end of the season, and the angst is not resolved. The main issue of the season does get resolved, but they are obviously setting things up for a season three. I have had a couple mutuals decide to skip the last fifteen minutes, so they can be happy and then they said they will watch the last fifteen minutes just before season 3 eventually comes out. I don't think I could do that, but to each their own.
Anyways, you could just watch season 1 and be happy with that as the ending, but if you love Ineffable Husbands and are okay with an angsty ending then give it a watch.
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Also, I love your icon.
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Yeah, I'm feeling jinxed this week. I wasn't prepared for Good Omens 2 to end on a cliffhanger setting up season 3. Then a few days later, my roommate wanted to watch Across the Spider-Verse which also ends on a cliffhanger. I absolutely enjoyed both, but yikes that's too many cliffhangers for me this week.
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And they were both good and I enjoyed both of them, but I really wish I had known going in that they weren't resolved. (Managing expectations helps a lot.)
And I'm sort of flashing back to when I had so many favorite shows canceled on cliffhangers. There was a trend for a while that everything had to end on a dramatic cliffhanger and, of course, not every show gets renewed so that means several ended in really bad places. And then when streaming series were new and shiny, we briefly had a period with a handful of short series with satisfying endings and I naively thought we had turned a corner and gotten away from the needless cliffhangers.
I feel like they've missed the point of cliffhangers as well. Cliffhangers should have very short gaps between cliffhanger and resolution. "Tune in next week!" I already object to having to wait over a hiatus, but with cinematic cliffhangers and series that take multiple years to produce ... ugh. It makes me grumpy.
I shouldn't complain. My list of things I've been meaning to watch never seems to get any shorter as we really have been blessed with a lot of amazing media over the last few years. (I'm worried the actor & writer strikes are going to drag out specifically because there is such a backlog of media out there that studios won't feel the pain for a while.)
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One good thing about Good Omens is that Neil Gaimain has come out and said that he will not leave the story unfinished, if the worst happens he will write a book if need be. Either way it will be a long wait, he's said if the writers and actors strike finishes soon the soonest that they could get started filming would be 2024, and the soonest they could expect it to premiere would be 2026, because supposedly these productions require quite a bit of post production to make.
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