Forget my own head next

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I really enjoyed "Good Omens" :) I thought it was a very good adaption. I haven't read the books in years but I was surprised how much I could remember.

About the ending addition, I actually wondered if Aziraphale and Crowley switched places but then thought "nah, angels and demons don't even usually have bodies so there's no way Heaven and Hell would be fooled by something as simple as switching appearances." (Also I didn't expect them to be so good at acting.) But apparently they are. Ah well, it might not make that much sense but it was fun, and it neatly explains why they will be left alone.

I didn't like the ugly=evil thing with the demons, with Crowley the exception but he's also less evil than the others. (At least the Horsemen are attractive as well, but still.)

I was also briefly uncomfortable with Anathema sleeping with Newton, a dude she's met for the first time half an hour ago, because of a prophecy - yeah they both apparently enjoyed it but would she have done it if not for Agnes? (He almost certainly would have.) Prophecies are hard.
I totally get her decision not to want to live her life by Agnes' prophecies anymore, but I couldn't help but think that the book might be very useful one day, so maybe something not quite as final? Though then she'd always be tempted, this way it's a clean break. Anyway Agnes must have foreseen her burning it, right?
I remember not being interested in Anathema when reading the book, and I still don't love her as a character but the situation of Agnes and her descendants is fascinating. I should check if there's fic.

(I had more thoughts but all very vague and I'm really tired, and when I tell myself that I'll post about something later I tend not to do it.)

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Anyway Agnes must have foreseen her burning it, right?

She must have, given how accurate the rest of her prophecies are. I won't be surprised if there's another version floating around somewhere that will be delivered to Anathema's children.

I remember not being interested in Anathema when reading the book

I liked her more in the show than in the book, to be honest. Although it also made me realise I mentally pronounce Anathema wrong (I've always put the emphasis on anaTHEma, but it's not a word I've ever heard before now).

Ah well, it might not make that much sense but it was fun, and it neatly explains why they will be left alone.

I liked it, and I especially liked being surprised by something that wasn't in the books yet makes a lot of in-world sense. I did wonder how it was so easy to fool the demons and angels -- but then again, they've got away with the Arrangement for centuries, so the demons and angels either aren't all that bright or don't pay a lot of attention to minor underlings like Aziraphale and Crowley.

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True, the angels and demons aren't that smart in general. And maybe Aziraphale and Crowley did come up with a way to disguise their auras, nobody would ever have tried that before.

I'm so curious how Agnes' abilities worked. She couldn't just see the future, she could also significantly influence it, and she did it a lot. Did she see possibilities? Did she see the future, write a prophecy, see the new future, and then decide whether to keep the prophecy or change it, until she found a good option? Are there "fixed points" she can't mess with, otherwise why let herself be burned?, or where the alternatives simply worse?, or was she okay with dying?

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Did she see the future, write a prophecy, see the new future, and then decide whether to keep the prophecy or change it, until she found a good option?

I don't think she did. Usually, I'm all about free choice in general, but in the GO universe, I feel like there was one future -- part of god's Ineffable Plan -- and that's what Agnes saw. (Of course, some of those things only ended up happening because Agnes saw them and wrote the prophecies down, but it still feels like part of one big huge plan.)

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So Agnes had to guess which prophecies to write - or knew which ones she would write - to get to the future she saw? Also tricky!