The journey from “god was wrong to cast out Crowley” to “god was wrong to cast out anyone” to “god can’t be wrong or right because wrong and right don’t come from god, they come from us” to “we were wrong to just accept the Fall of our brethren without questioning or challenging it” to “we can make it all anew, make it right, together”
(to maybe what god wanted all along was for us to question and to challenge)(but that isn’t for us to know and it never will be)(to all we can do in the face of divine ineffability is define our own Purpose, who we are and what we value, and hold to it and to each other as tightly as we can)
This reminds me of a really excellent meta:
One of the reasons that Crowley is such a sympathetic character is that he asks the same questions that any person who has both faith and compassion would ask. (The idea that a demon is the moral center of the story is a think for another post.) If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, why is there so much suffering in the world? Is God actively causing the suffering? Why? Does she just not care? Why doesn’t she make it stop? Ah, you say, but God has a plan! All these things are happening for a reason; we just don’t know why. But here’s the thing. A God with a secret plan, a vindictive God who wants us to suffer, and no God at all…they’re all functionally indistinguishable from down here on Earth. The result is the same. We suffer and we don’t know why. By definition, we cannot know why, if there is a reason at all. […] While the narrative of Good Omens leaves itself open to the “actually God planned it this way all along” interpretation, I don’t, personally, think it’s the most interesting one. I think the more interesting questions are along the lines of: What kind of life would you lead if you believed God had forsaken you? (Not if you didn’t think God was there, but if you knew God would not help you or clarify anything for you.) What then becomes important? What sort of person do you decide to be, when you don’t have any choice but to be on your own side? And who do you want on that side with you?
I highly recommend reading the full meta post, but I think this gets at some core themes of Good Omens that will be very important in S3, and I think you summed it up perfectly. “(to all we can do in the face of divine ineffability is define our own Purpose, who we are and what we value, and hold to it and to each other as tightly as we can)” What God wants, whatever Ineffable Plan She has… we (and the characters) can’t know it– and so it doesn’t matter. The core theme of Good Omens S1/the book is about the freedom to be who you are, not who you are told you are supposed to be. I think we’re going to see that again in S3 on an even broader scale, extending to Heaven and Hell, and dismantling the Sides entirely. Angels and Demons deserve the freedom to decide their own Purpose.