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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:well if you really want to torture people, all of the restaurants would be applebees "We're testing a new neighborhood out. We're calling it The Even Worse Place."
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What if the points system is only used by the bad place to figure out what tier of bad place you belong to, while the real good place doesn't use points and selects people fairly (or as fairly as you can possibly get in a system that relies on eternal punishment)
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precision posted:(other than as a joke). Ding ding we have a winner The points system is a guideline that only exists to show that good deeds equal good people and vice versa in the show's universe, and any weird values like "French are automatically bad" exist because the writers come up with a good joke. Got a bunch of Chidis up in this thread trying to figure out a deep mystery behind the TwoPair fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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I honestly think where they are all going with this is an allegory of the prison system and rehabilitation vs punishment. The people sent to the bad place accidentally become good people and when this is discovered by those in charge of EVERYTHING the whole system is entirely thrown for a loop. In the end, Michael accidentally created rehabilitation, and he himself will be made human given the opportunity to go through rehabilitation as a reward.
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Nov 2, 2017 06:24
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Better. The give Michael the opportunity to design a real Good Place neighborhood, because he's so good at making situations that continue to benefit people. This goes off the rails when it turns out that a bunch of people in the good place just had really cushy lives and never had to deal with much adversity, so they start acting like assholes as soon as Michael's good place has some inconveniences. This leads the the creation of a single place for both good and bad people, designed to have good people help bad people become good. Which is already what's happening.
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Snak are you a writer for the show or what because drat
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We had an assistant named Snak. One day last summer he walked into our office and said, 'You know that guy (Doug Forcett) who figured out the afterlife system? 'Yeah?' 'Well,' said Snak, 'doesn't it make sense that he'd die eventually and end up in the Good Place? Where else is he going to go?' 'You're right,' we said. 'That does make sense.' 'And what if they were so impressed with his ideas that they put him in charge of designing a morality framework, and he's the one who came up with the point system?' This year, Snak is a writer on the show.
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Everyone moves to the Medium Place, Mindy St. Claire is placed in charge of all humanity.
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Klungar posted:Everyone moves to the Medium Place, Mindy St. Claire is placed in charge of all humanity. but is there cocaine?
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TwoPair posted:Ding ding we have a winner Nah. The point of the joke is that it illustrates the system is unfair. It works to advance the plot because Michael's saying "I don't have to think about the ethics of Les Miz because I know they're all going to hell anyway", and using such an arbitrary example makes you think the assumptions of the good place/bad place system should be questioned. Like it's not really a mystery, but it's also not just a joke. The joke is funnier in the context of the plot, and the plot's point is sharper because it's got jokes. Writing.
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Also, it's not like we haven't had the rug pulled out from under us before. A lot of stuff seemed throwaway in s1 but was actually foreshadowing for the twist.
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we had explicit author comments that there's no big twist planned for season 2. Of course, they would say that 
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https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/926102312078131201 https://twitter.com/cordjefferson/status/926113529303670784 The writers are not pulling their punches about the mid season split. edit: Ken Tremendous = Michael Schur.
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double nine posted:we had explicit author comments that there's no big twist planned for season 2. That just means they're not paying anything off this season; they could be planning a twist for next season that they're just planting seeds for now. This show makes me kind of paranoid.
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Nov 2, 2017 22:56
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gently caress And that's the end until next year!
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Nov 3, 2017 02:00
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We have to wait two months whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 
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Harrow posted:We have to wait two months whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy No fair 
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"What if the reason you want to murder someone is to make your life easier?"  Micheal was hilarious tonight. *wink*
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I hate cliffhangers but love this show. Averages out to, "hmmmm."
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Nov 3, 2017 02:48
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gently caress THIS GODDAMN CLIFFHANGER  Holy poo poo I need to see the next episode right now
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Nov 3, 2017 03:18
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Of course Eleanor's idea of a perfect mate is "Stone Cold Steve Austin's head on Tahani's body" or the reverse of that.
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Lucania posted:Of course Eleanor's idea of a perfect mate is "Stone Cold Steve Austin's head on Tahani's body" or the reverse of that.  Would  That's the stuff.
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Nov 3, 2017 04:12
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:gently caress THIS GODDAMN CLIFFHANGER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9U4C2j9d6c
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Tahani's version of Jason's version of croquet killed me.
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"Sometimes it's candles!" Cracked me up way more than it should have.
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https://twitter.com/jenstatsky/status/926329841888108544
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Gaz-L posted:They really should try and get him. Failing that, they should get any other wrestler just to further cement that this is the Bad Place. Eleanor can hang out with the whole WWE, but never the man of her dreams. Nevvy Z posted:
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Superrodan posted:I honestly think where they are all going with this is an allegory of the prison system and rehabilitation vs punishment. The people sent to the bad place accidentally become good people and when this is discovered by those in charge of EVERYTHING the whole system is entirely thrown for a loop. In the end, Michael accidentally created rehabilitation, and he himself will be made human given the opportunity to go through rehabilitation as a reward. Guys it was purgatory the whole time! 
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If they go trans, they get a pass. Then the academy can feel better about giving awards to women
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Goddamn it that was the best episode of the season, I hate football  Jason's vows were the best. "Don't eat everything that smells good, because sometimes it's candles." precision fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Rocksicles posted:If they go trans, they get a pass. Then the academy can feel better about giving awards to women 
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Rocksicles posted:If they go trans, they get a pass. Then the academy can feel better about giving awards to women uhhhh 
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i want to get offended but i can't even follow that chain of logic its like you wanted to mention three topics and just threw a sentence together that string them together
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I think it was just a poorly constructed joke. Rocksicles smokes more weed than I do, I think.
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Snooze Cruise posted:i can't even follow that chain of logic
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Wink.
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People were sharing tweets from the crew of The Good Place, one of which joked that, by the time The Good Place resumes airing two months from now, there will be six men left in hollywood, presumably due to all the sex no-nos which are taking down said hollywood men. That is what that comment even had to do with anything
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That was a great finale, but possibly the tamest cliffhanger possible. Not that that's a bad thing, but just... the least unexpected thing possible.
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