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Escobarbarian posted:This show is fuckin great Yeah it's just pure enjoyment.
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Sep 24, 2016 11:53
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That was a great ending. I'm excited for this.
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Sep 24, 2016 14:24
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This surprised me. End of the third episode is starting to confirm my suspicion that NONE of the people are supposed to be there. They are all just playing the part. Now this doesn't seem to be part of Michael's design, so either it's part of Michael's boss's system and he's not in on it, or it's going to turn out that some guy in a different department has been fudging numbers to meet quotas. Which is what I'm really hoping. Janet is the best.
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Sep 24, 2016 17:51
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The twist is that nobody there belongs, even chidi. The good place is an experiment to see if actually awful people can be made better when told that they're good.
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Sep 24, 2016 18:47
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Snak posted:This surprised me. Some of the people have to think they belong otherwise when Eleanor came out to Chidi he would have gone "Really? Me too!" But it may be a situation where those people just think they're good enough and have big enough egos to not question it.
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Sep 24, 2016 19:03
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*extremely Chidi voice* this just goes to the Wikipedia page
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Sep 24, 2016 20:54
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I like this show a lot but I'm worried because every other show I like with Ted Danson always gets...but this show is really good so I hope not.
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Sep 24, 2016 20:57
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Random Stranger posted:Some of the people have to think they belong otherwise when Eleanor came out to Chidi he would have gone "Really? Me too!" But it may be a situation where those people just think they're good enough and have big enough egos to not question it. That's a good point. I guess I don't think that everyone has a case of mistaken identity like Eleanor or Jianyu. But it definitely seems like Tahani gamed the system somehow, because like someone else said, she comes off as a pathological liar. Chidi's an interesting case. He seems nice enough, but at the same time, he's a professor of ethics who isn't even sure that you can teach people to become good. Which means what, he spent his life educating people without trying to turn them into good people? His life's work is a book that was never published and, according to Michael, is incomprehensible. So I'm not saying he's a bad person, but it seems like at the very least he's an example of how the evaluation system works in kind of a strange way. I.e. did he even help anyone during is life, if was he just a nice person who didn't do anything wrong and thus accumulated a massive number of point without ever sticking his neck out for anything. I guess it's a bit cynical to suspect that no one belongs there, but Michael himself punted a puppy into the sun because he thought it was somehow a thread to his perfect society. Surely that type of action would have a severe penalty if taken by a mortal during their life...
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Sep 24, 2016 21:17
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I don't think our kicks would reach, really.
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Sep 24, 2016 21:18
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Escobarbarian posted:I don't think our kicks would reach, really. Well right, but surely you get what I'm saying. edit: I expect the shows themes to be more about how dogmatic, objective evaluation of the goodness of people is a flawed concept and less about how everyone is actually lovely. Like I kind of wonder if Michael's boss just told him what he wanted to hear with regards things worked. Obviously that's what Michael does for his citizens (like with the dog construct). Like I can just picture the scene where Michael is questioning God about how he knows everyone is going to the right fit for his perfect neighborhood and God is just like "because there's a very complicated evaluation process, stop worrying about it and finish the darn thing". Regardless, there're a lot of possibilities, and the humor so far has been pretty great, so I look forward to seeing them explore this broken-ash afterlife. Snak fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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Sep 24, 2016 21:20
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I feel like you've never met a humanities grad student, Snak.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I feel like you've never met a humanities grad student, Snak. Why is that? Because of my comments about Chidi, or because of my comments about Tahani? edit: Oh, you mean because I said that Chidi didn't really do anything, when he would have actually gone and done plenty of good works just in the process of getting his degree? Which I think he mentioned in the pilot? Yes, I thought of that, but it seemed slightly contradicted by episode 3, where Michael said he had really only done this one thing, and it seemed like he really didn't like doing much of anything that involved working or traveling. I assumed this was simply a retcon because of how characters change from a pilot to a show. No, I haven't met a humanities grad student, I'm just going off of the show's logic. The way that things work in real-life is rarely relevant to how they work in tvland. Snak fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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Sep 24, 2016 21:26
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I think it's more that incomprehensible, convoluted nonsense is par for the course when it comes to philosophical papers. Did you ever read Kants works? To be honest I didn't either, but I skimmed through them and know a few people who did.
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Sep 25, 2016 03:17
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The first 2 episodes were fantastic but 3 puts it over the top. So many great lines. "This thing taught me what headaches are." e: Kristen Bell is terrifyingly adorable. Who wouldn't boop her nose?!
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Air is lava! posted:I think it's more that incomprehensible, convoluted nonsense is par for the course when it comes to philosophical papers. Did you ever read Kants works? To be honest I didn't either, but I skimmed through them and know a few people who did. Kant's writing is so dense and incomprehensible, Kant himself apologizes for how bad his philosophical writing is. In fact, if you read Kant's non-philosophical writings, you wouldn't even know it's the same guy. Episode 3 definitely sold me completely. Having two Schur shows to look forward to each week is such a treat. 
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Sep 25, 2016 22:17
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B99 has never really felt like a Schur show to me, especially since season 2. It's cool as heck though
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Sep 25, 2016 22:23
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B99 has always been Goor's baby more than Schur's.
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Sep 25, 2016 22:53
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Yeah, I always got the sense Schur was essentially the mentor on that one - the Greg Daniels to Goor's him. Plus he was running Parks when they were on at the same time. This show, though.....even if it didn't have a sole creator credit it would so obviously be his baby. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for Infinite Jest references.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I like this show a lot but I'm worried because every other show I like with Ted Danson always gets...but this show is really good so I hope not. Bored To Death is one of the greatest TV shows ever.
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Thwomp posted:The third episode should really be Pilot pt 3 because the ending of it really cemented this show for me. Ammanas posted:The twist is that nobody there belongs, even chidi. Random Stranger posted:Some of the people have to think they belong otherwise when Eleanor came out to Chidi he would have gone "Really? Me too!" But it may be a situation where those people just think they're good enough and have big enough egos to not question it. York_M_Chan posted:Bored To Death is one of the greatest TV shows ever.
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Is this show airing things out of order? Because no one in the thread seems to have mentioned seeing Episode 4, but the next one to air is listed as Episode 5. I might not have been paying attention last night, but I don't think I missed Episode 4?
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Sep 29, 2016 00:09
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It's weird you'd think literally everyone else has it wrong rather than your TV guide or whatever is showing the wrong episode Tomorrow's episode is 4
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Sep 29, 2016 00:11
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That'a dope prank. Edit: "The Good Plates." muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Sep 30, 2016 01:34
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As someone who lives in Jacksonville, this is pretty funny. Edit: Did Jason just yell "Bortles"? Lol Jax-Guy1 fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Sep 30, 2016 01:47
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I've been solidly enjoying this show but the conversation between Jason and Acidcat was the first bit that had me cackling "I just got an offer to DJ Scott Disick's afterparty for the amateur porn awards in Reno." "Whoa! Congrats bro, that's the dream!" "That's your dream, man; it's my Tuesday." xbilkis fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Sep 30, 2016 02:09
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Let me show you me budhole.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:29
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I am here to learn about ethnics.
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From the trailers, I thought this show looked incredibly stupid. My wife was determined to watch this show, though, so we gave it a chance, and I have to say, it seems to work. Usually, the disparity between trailers and the actual show works the other way around. But not here. This show is pretty funny. I bet $3.29 that nobody is supposed to be there, and that they are, in fact, being surreptitiously rehabilitated into good people so they can go to the real good place.
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tarlibone posted:I bet $3.29 that nobody is supposed to be there, and that they are, in fact, being surreptitiously rehabilitated into good people so they can go to the real good place. The chef actually seems like a good person. "The more the merrier."
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Sep 30, 2016 08:21
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Zaggitz posted:I am here to learn about ethnics.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:43
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cant cook creole bream posted:The chef actually seems like a good person. Yeah, I'm not buying the theory that *everyone* is there incorrectly.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:47
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That was my first thought too, but it doesn't fully fit after the last couple episodes. My guess would be more that there isn't really a "Good Place" and "Bad Place" but rather a series of similar neighborhoods, and whoever is in charge above Danson is trying to sell the idea that this is the only good afterlife
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Sep 30, 2016 14:08
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Has anyone gone back to see if you can actually make out the story the soup guy was telling?
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Sep 30, 2016 14:11
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I didn't like this episode as much for some reason. I think part of the problem is that Ted Danson's character and Tahani are both annoying as hell and were alone in a scene together. Never do that again. Kristin Bell and/or Jason Mendoza must be in every scene!  This episode's writing felt clunky, with occasional moments of brilliance.Tahani's schtick needs to take a turn, pronto. Hopefully her seedy underbelly is revealed soon, and hopefully there's another side to Ted Danson's character too beyond "golly gee willikers".
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Sep 30, 2016 16:53
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I'm loath to buy into the aliens/future cyrotechs theories, but drat were Michael and Janet acting particularly like aliens that episode (or to be more accurate, an alien and his AI that does all the actual work).
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Sep 30, 2016 18:12
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"I think we might be in an alien zoo or a prank show" is probably a more logical guess than afterlife run by middle management.
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Where the gently caress did Elinor get that leather jacket? There must be some deleted scene there because it comes out of nowhere.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Where the gently caress did Elinor get that leather jacket? There must be some deleted scene there because it comes out of nowhere. From the 'Anticipated Needs' store?
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Test Pattern posted:I'm loath to buy into the aliens/future cyrotechs theories, but drat were Michael and Janet acting particularly like aliens that episode (or to be more accurate, an alien and his AI that does all the actual work). Michael mentioned in a previous episode that before the current neighborhood started he didn't have a body.
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