@Lady_Fel@DallianceKay@BerylStapleton Seriously that - subverting audience expectations here didn't make the ending meaningful, it just cut out the hope and joy with a "maybe next life" tacked on. Literally the most un-humanist message they could have possibly done.
@DallianceKay@BerylStapleton@Lady_Fel We disagree about how much impact Aziraphale actually had on the timeline.
But the waste is that the ending wasted any potential by having them miserable and apart, then sacrifice themselves without resolution for a hard reset on the universe anyway.
@DallianceKay@BerylStapleton@Lady_Fel Jesus wasn't ready any sooner so no one was doing anything with a Second Coming before him
Given Jesus was as far as they knew the keystone piece to kicking peace or war off
(And the eternal happiness plan because Jesus gives a talk at the UN was shit, I'm sorry)
@DallianceKay@BerylStapleton@Lady_Fel I rather think Jesus going missing and Michael erasing things from the Book of Life did a lot more to derail any plans of the Second Coming, given Archangels were still pushing about smiting at the discussion of plans.
@DallianceKay@BerylStapleton@Lady_Fel They were both separated and unhappy and ultimately achieved nothing for the world they both wanted to save
I'm gonna call that a waste - unfortunate as it is for what Aziraphale hoped to do.
@Pixiesnix@goodbyevanny@notwithhaste__ Don't you know meaningful conversations about emotions and any kind of intimate touch are unnecessary to a love as profound as theirs? 🫠
@Pixiesnix@notwithhaste__ It just completely fails to understand humanism and the humanist themes of the original story
But we know all that was Terry's 70-80% of the writing in the original book, not NG's contribution