Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing
Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing
剧评：《好兆头》大结局（基本）圆满收官
It’s been a three-year wait, but Prime Video finally released the series finale for Good Omens: a 90-minute single episode that sought to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. Verdict: Truncating the final season so drastically definitely hurts the first half of the series finale, which feels chaotic and rushed. But once that stupendous on-screen chemistry between co-stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen kicks back in, the old magic shines through, strong as ever, giving us a fitting end to this beloved comic saga. (Spoilers below for all seasons.)
在经历了三年的等待后，Prime Video 终于发布了《好兆头》的系列大结局：一集 90 分钟的特辑，试图将所有剧情圆满收尾。结论是：将最终季大幅压缩确实伤害了大结局的前半部分，使其显得混乱且仓促。但一旦主演大卫·田纳特（David Tennant）和迈克尔·辛（Michael Sheen）之间那种惊人的银幕化学反应回归，往日的魔力便再次闪耀，一如既往地强大，为这部备受喜爱的喜剧传奇画上了一个恰如其分的句号。（下文包含全季剧透。）
Here’s a brief recap, since it’s been a minute since the S2 finale. The series is based on the original 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett. Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon. Season 2 found Aziraphale and Crowley getting back to normal, when the archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) turned up unexpectedly at the door of Aziraphale’s bookshop with no memory of who he was or how he got there. The duo had to evade the combined forces of Heaven and Hell to solve the mystery of what happened to Gabriel and why.
由于第二季大结局已经过去了一段时间，这里做一个简要回顾。该剧改编自尼尔·盖曼（Neil Gaiman）和已故的特里·普拉切特（Terry Pratchett）于 1990 年创作的同名小说。《好兆头》讲述了天使亚茨拉斐尔（迈克尔·辛饰）和恶魔克劳利（大卫·田纳特饰）的故事，他们在数千年的相处中逐渐成为朋友，并联手阻止世界末日。第二季中，亚茨拉斐尔和克劳利刚恢复平静生活，大天使加百列（乔·哈姆饰）便意外出现在亚茨拉斐尔的书店门口，且失去了关于自己身份和来历的所有记忆。两人不得不躲避天堂和地狱的联合势力，去解开加百列身上究竟发生了什么的谜团。
In the S2 finale, the pair discovered that Gabriel had defied Heaven and refused to support a second attempt to bring about Armageddon. He hid his own memories from himself to evade detection. Oh, and he and Beelzebub (Shelley Conn) had fallen in love. They ran off together, and the Metatron (Derek Jacobi) offered Aziraphale Gabriel’s old job. That’s when Crowley professed his own love for the angel and asked him to leave Heaven and Hell behind, too. Aziraphale wanted Crowley to join him in Heaven instead. So Crowley kissed him, and they parted. Once Aziraphale got to Heaven, he learned his task was to revive the stalled plans to bring about the Second Coming, i.e., the End Times.
在第二季大结局中，两人发现加百列违抗了天堂的命令，拒绝支持第二次世界末日计划。为了躲避追查，他抹去了自己的记忆。哦，还有，他和别西卜（雪莉·康恩饰）相爱了。他们私奔了，而梅塔特隆（德里克·雅各比饰）则邀请亚茨拉斐尔接替加百列的职位。就在那时，克劳利向天使表白，并请求他抛弃天堂和地狱。亚茨拉斐尔却希望克劳利能和他一起去天堂。于是克劳利吻了他，两人分道扬镳。亚茨拉斐尔到达天堂后，得知他的任务是重启停滞的“第二次降临”计划，即世界末日。
The original plan for the third and final season called for six episodes, but production was delayed first by the 2023 writer’s strike and then by multiple allegations of sexual assault against Gaiman. (Gaiman has vehemently denied allegations of any nonconsensual sex or abuse, but admitted to being selfish and “careless with people’s hearts and feelings” in a January 2025 blog post.) The fallout led to Gaiman withdrawing from the project and Prime Video opting for a 90-minute finale rather than a full season. And here we are.
第三季（最终季）最初计划拍摄六集，但制作过程先是受到 2023 年编剧罢工的影响，随后又因针对盖曼的多项性侵指控而延误。（盖曼强烈否认了任何非自愿性行为或虐待的指控，但在 2025 年 1 月的一篇博客文章中承认自己曾表现得自私，且“对他人的心和感受不够在意”。）这一风波导致盖曼退出了该项目，Prime Video 也决定以 90 分钟的大结局取代完整的一季。于是，我们看到了现在的版本。
The Second Coming hits a snag
“第二次降临”遭遇阻碍
The finale picks up a few years after the S2 cliffhanger. Aziraphale is now Supreme Archangel, with plans for the Second Coming well underway—except he’s tweaked them to be a bit more upbeat, bringing peace on Earth and universal happiness rather than the rampant death and destruction of Armageddon. This doesn’t go down well with some of his fellow angels, who prefer the original plan. A heartbroken Crowley, meanwhile, is spending his time drinking heavily and passing out in a Soho alley, having lost his sense of purpose when Aziraphale refused him.
大结局的故事发生在第二季悬念结尾的几年后。亚茨拉斐尔现在已是最高大天使，“第二次降临”计划正在顺利进行——但他对计划做了些调整，使其变得更积极向上，旨在为地球带来和平与普遍幸福，而非世界末日那般肆虐的死亡与毁灭。这让一些倾向于原计划的天使同僚感到不满。与此同时，心碎的克劳利终日酗酒，醉倒在苏活区的小巷里，在被亚茨拉斐尔拒绝后，他失去了生活的意义。
The Second Coming rollout soon hits a snag. First, the Metatron mysteriously vanishes, removed completely from reality by someone who has stolen the Book of Life. In the ensuing panic, Jesus (Bilal Hasna) wanders off down to Earth and is befriended by a former street hustler named Harry the Fish (Mark Addy). The Archangel Michael (Doon Mackichan) and plucky assistant Muriel (Quelin Sepulveda) focus on solving the Metatron’s murder, while Aziraphale heads down to Earth to hunt for the missing Jesus, lest the demons of Hell find him first. He enlists a reluctant Crowley’s help.
“第二次降临”的推进很快遇到了阻碍。首先，梅塔特隆神秘失踪了，被偷走“生命之书”的人从现实中彻底抹除。随之而来的恐慌中，耶稣（比拉尔·哈斯纳饰）游荡到了地球，并与一位名叫“鱼儿哈里”（马克·阿蒂饰）的前街头混混成为了朋友。大天使米迦勒（杜恩·麦基琴饰）和勇敢的助手穆里尔（奎琳·塞普尔维达饰）专注于调查梅塔特隆的“谋杀案”，而亚茨拉斐尔则前往地球寻找失踪的耶稣，以免被地狱的恶魔抢先一步。他寻求了克劳利的帮助，尽管后者并不情愿。
Good Omens has always embraced the colorfully comic side quest; it’s part of what makes this such a rich fictional universe. But you need time to flesh it all out for those subplots to really work, and time is what the finale just doesn’t have. Hell and its demons, in particular, seem little more than an afterthought here; they’re not even particularly effective as comic relief. The beats just don’t quite land.
《好兆头》一直以来都乐于采用丰富多彩的喜剧支线任务；这也是使其虚构世界如此饱满的原因之一。但要让这些支线剧情真正发挥作用，需要时间来铺陈，而这正是大结局所缺乏的。尤其是地狱及其恶魔，在这里似乎只是事后的补充；它们甚至没能起到有效的喜剧调节作用。剧情节奏显得有些脱节。
That said, the sequence where Aziraphale helps Crowley (who can no longer perform miracles since quitting Hell) win back his classic Bentley from local gangster Brian Cameron (Sean Pertwee) is quite amusing: Aziraphale challenges Brian to a cryptic crossword contest, which the angel wins handily. That subplot also introduces the metaphor of three-card monte that runs throughout the episode. And Jesus re-creating the miracle of the loaves and fishes in Soho’s streets with a magical pizza box that always replenishes is a nice touch. But there’s just no time to really delve into his burgeoning friendship…
话虽如此，亚茨拉斐尔帮助克劳利（自离开地狱后已无法施展奇迹）从当地黑帮布莱恩·卡梅伦（肖恩·帕特维饰）手中赢回经典宾利车的那段戏非常有趣：亚茨拉斐尔向布莱恩发起了填字游戏挑战，并轻松获胜。这一支线还引入了贯穿全集的“三张牌赌局”隐喻。此外，耶稣在苏活区街头用一个永远吃不完的魔法披萨盒重现“五饼二鱼”奇迹，也是一个不错的点缀。但遗憾的是，剧集没有足够的时间去深入挖掘他那段萌芽中的友谊……