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That timing man Ugh the wait till next week is gonna be.... torture
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Pinwiz11 posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Nov 8, 2019 03:31
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We've (seemingly) at least conclusively proven that you can't just trick shmucks into thinking they're in the Good Place to make them be good, you need the incentive to change and introspect with the threat of the Bad Place. e: not the Bad Place specifically, mind, because the front half of Season 3 was about the attempt to be good on Earth without knowing about the Bad Place.
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Nov 8, 2019 03:32
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Regy Rusty posted:That timing man 
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Nov 8, 2019 03:49
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Goddammit, how many episodes left? This show’s gonna keep exploding the entire plot all the way to the end and I can’t take it. Also I hope the humans win and all, go Team Human, but... Brent deserves the Bad Place. gently caress him.
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Nov 8, 2019 04:42
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*reent-rurnt*
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Nov 8, 2019 04:49
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CapnAndy posted:Goddammit, how many episodes left? This show’s gonna keep exploding the entire plot all the way to the end and I can’t take it. We're at ep 7 so right around halfway. Does Brent really deserve eternal torture though? (hint: no, because no one does)
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Nov 8, 2019 04:50
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Of course that presupposes that eternal existence would not in itself be a form of torture
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Nov 8, 2019 04:53
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howe_sam posted:Man, I agree with Jason about prevent defenses. We're going back to Fire Joe Morgan!
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Nov 8, 2019 05:52
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JFC, this show is a mass so large and dense that it explodes outward forming a universe only to collapse back in on itself billions of Bearimys later only to explode and repeat again every few episodes.
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Nov 8, 2019 06:29
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Nov 8, 2019 10:29
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The moment Simone pronounced it 'day-tah' instead of 'dah-tah' any suspension of belief that she could be remotely Australian fell apart.
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Nov 8, 2019 11:10
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What a brutal cliffhanger!
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Nov 8, 2019 12:10
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ApplesandOranges posted:The moment Simone pronounced it 'day-tah' instead of 'dah-tah' any suspension of belief that she could be remotely Australian fell apart. I’m Australian and I hear the former considerably more often than the later.
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Nov 8, 2019 12:58
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The Lord Bude posted:I’m Australian and I hear the former considerably more often than the later. the only time i've ever heard say "day-tah" instead of "da-ta" up here in QLD was from someone who lived in SA. maybe some from VIC say it too
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Nov 8, 2019 14:23
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goku i won't do what u tell me
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i think "dah-tah" is probably more likely to be broad australian and "day-tuh more likely to be standard australian but thats entirely just based off the fact that i've heard both and lets face it, most people use a mix
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Nov 8, 2019 14:45
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Their contention is that structural forces have made it impossible to be good, so they should see improvement just from removing them from the system. Like they're still not doing good things, but they aren't doing bad things and also contributing to child slavery in the third world while doing them. You look at the results in the end and go "hey they lost 1,000 points this year, but they were losing 10,000 points a year on Earth, so this is a big improvement."
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Nov 8, 2019 14:56
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Oh man I never got to see Mindy v Brent.
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Nov 8, 2019 16:35
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Agronox posted:Disappointed to not see dangling wind chimes There is a joke early on in God Emperor of Dune about the God-worm emperor idly wondering what would happen if he attached a tiny dildo somewhere on himself and someone noticed and I can't help but think of that and wind chimes now
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Nov 8, 2019 16:48
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Man, this show does twists like no other. I love that the whole thing has been blown up by Episode 7 and I really have no idea what comes next. There is no other comedy sitcom that compares.
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Nov 8, 2019 16:59
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Blowing it up in episode 7 is pretty slow. The experiment re-do in season 2 was blown up in, what, the second episode?
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Nov 8, 2019 17:01
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Of course the experiment was going to end with the double laugh. I never saw it coming, tho.
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Nov 8, 2019 17:13
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Mr. Powers posted:Blowing it up in episode 7 is pretty slow. The experiment re-do in season 2 was blown up in, what, the second episode? Episode 2 was Trevor's episode. And the experiment re-do was blown up by the end of episode 3. So, yeah, by those standards, seven episodes is glacial. e: Misunderstood! You're spot on: Double length episode 1 was the first re-do. Episode 2 was the all the other re-dos and Michael comes clean at the end. Some Strange Flea fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 8, 2019 17:16
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It was pretty low of Simone and John to leave while Brent was in the pit. It would be funny if he actually managed to improve as a person more than them.
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Nov 8, 2019 17:19
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Mr. Powers posted:Blowing it up in episode 7 is pretty slow. The experiment re-do in season 2 was blown up in, what, the second episode? I mean, after the end-of-season-1 twist, they really could have only milked the premise of a re-do for maybe another few episodes before it got super redundant. Just watching them do essentially the same stuff but being in on the joke this time wouldn't really be sustainable, you'd just be waiting around for the humans to figure it out again and for the series to have some sort of forward momentum. This new scenario could have been the premise for the entire season with them having ups and downs and exploring the expanded cast more, leaving the last 2 or 3 episodes of the series for wrap up. I feel like most sitcoms would have done it like that, so reaching that point halfway through the season I think is pretty notable.
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Nov 8, 2019 17:20
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Oasx posted:It was pretty low of Simone and John to leave while Brent was in the pit. It would be funny if he actually managed to improve as a person more than them. Yeah, this was pretty hosed up. Abandoning anyone to die in a pit, even if they are an rear end in a top hat, is a horrible thing to do. I would assume the majority of people would help someone in that circumstance.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:22
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Oasx posted:It was pretty low of Simone and John to leave while Brent was in the pit. It would be funny if he actually managed to improve as a person more than them. I kept expecting a twist where they like crash through the wall in Brent's Escalade screaming "We figured out we're in the bad place. You have to come with us now"
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Nov 8, 2019 18:30
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Oasx posted:It was pretty low of Simone and John to leave while Brent was in the pit. It would be funny if he actually managed to improve as a person more than them.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:33
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I have no feel whatsoever on how they're going to wrap this up. Which is pretty cool.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:33
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Am I the only one disappointed that we didn't get to see Janet devouring her babies at the stroke of midnight, as promised? Maybe next week.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:34
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Robot Hobo posted:Am I the only one disappointed that we didn't get to see Janet devouring her babies at the stroke of midnight, as promised? She did ask us not to watch.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:49
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Robot Hobo posted:Am I the only one disappointed that we didn't get to see Janet devouring her babies at the stroke of midnight, as promised? Like Goya’s Saturn
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Nov 8, 2019 18:52
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Peachfart posted:Yeah, this was pretty hosed up. Abandoning anyone to die in a pit, even if they are an rear end in a top hat, is a horrible thing to do. I would assume the majority of people would help someone in that circumstance. I dunno. I think I would have stayed and helped, but it's not like you're hiking and your friend falls off a cliff. They've been with this irremediable prick for a year and he is STILL being an irremediable prick as he's begging for help hanging in a pit and there's a giant clock in the sky counting down and you have reason to believe you're being screwed with in some weird experiment where you don't know what is going on. I think it's human nature to decide to bail. It's fight or flight. When that clock hits zero they probably didn't want to be near the hellmouth. Only Chidi had the moral fortitude to do it. Remember, Eleanor initially bailed too.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:54
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1glitch0 posted:I dunno. I think I would have stayed and helped, but it's not like you're hiking and your friend falls off a cliff. They've been with this irremediable prick for a year and he is STILL being an irremediable prick as he's begging for help hanging in a pit and there's a giant clock in the sky counting down and you have reason to believe you're being screwed with in some weird experiment where you don't know what is going on. I think it's human nature to decide to bail. It's fight or flight. When that clock hits zero they probably didn't want to be near the hellmouth. Only Chidi had the moral fortitude to do it. I feel like it would have come off better if they were just too freaked out about the countdown and in a panic, or even referenced the fact that Tahani and Jason were on their way back with a rope and would be able to handle it better than they could with limited supplies. There's a pretty big difference between "I don't know how to save this person and am in immediate fear for my own safety standing here" and "this person is just really too awful to be worth me trying to save them" and Simone's point seemed to be uncomfortably closer to the latter.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:21
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Also if I've been told I was in the Good Place and there's this huge racist rear end in a top hat that's shown me repeatedly how he's a huge racist rear end in a top hat who will never change, and then he gets sucked into a fiery pit? I might just assume that's the Good Place correcting itself and sending him to the Bad Place.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:34
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That doesn't really work if your entire thesis is that this ISN'T the Good Place, and this person who admittedly sucks is also being manipulated by whatever shady forces and is in the same boat as you.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:38
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Guy A. Person posted:I feel like it would have come off better if they were just too freaked out about the countdown and in a panic, or even referenced the fact that Tahani and Jason were on their way back with a rope and would be able to handle it better than they could with limited supplies. They had just found the board with only the four of them's pictures -- Tahani and Jason were threats to them at that point
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Nov 8, 2019 19:50
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Guy A. Person posted:I feel like it would have come off better if they were just too freaked out about the countdown and in a panic, or even referenced the fact that Tahani and Jason were on their way back with a rope and would be able to handle it better than they could with limited supplies. Simone does mention she really doesn't want to be there when the clock hits zero. And they seemed pretty panicked. It's not the altruistic choice, but... Side note: Elenaor was even more of a smokeshow than usual in that black dress.
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I think Eleanor's comment that the group split in half is the key here. Chidi made a hard decision to help Brent and Brent finally started to see he was a shitlord. Simone and John bailed. That's 50/50. To use a Jason analogy: Tie game. Overtime, baby.
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