the-ice-castle:

this has been said before but truly, one of the best things about good omens is how goddamn useless the main characters essentially are to the plot. you read the premise of ‘a demon and an angel come together to stop the apocalypse’ and you, logically, assume they’re going to do Cool and Important shit in order to achieve that, but then nearly everything actually directly related to the apocalypse that happens has next to nothing to do with them, by design. literally, their original brilliant masterplan to stop the apocalypse was for them to act as godfathers to the antichrist so he would turn out to be a regular kid, and that does happen, but entirely unrelated to them since the absolute idiots spend 11 years giving shitty advice to a different child who had nothing to do with it (and who didn’t turn out so nice). it’s all basically

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