Everyone always says that Crowley and Aziraphale did nothing to stop the apocalypse and were absolutely useless in the end.

But then I thought about who did actually save the day and the answer bugs me. We have Anathema with instructions from her prophetic ancestor, a guy who magically destroys computers by touching them and Adam, who warps reality to his will. Because none of them actually did anything due to a plan of their own. There was little intention. Almost everything happened accidentally.

To me, Good Omens acts as the antithesis for the Final Destination horror films. In which Death, maybe even the same Death as Good Omens, is unhappy when a premonition saves people who were supposed to die. It upsets the balance and so Death distorts reality in small ways to ensure it’s fixed.

What if the opposite also happens. Death upsets the balance on his side by trying to take people who weren’t meant to die yet and Life is the one to warp reality in increasingly obvious ways to ensure the balance. And we know Life’s favourite trick from the Final Destination films. It’s Premonition. ie. Agnes Nutter. Who also allowed herself to die because she for one was NOT having death coming after her. No sir.