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Rappaport posted:The first thing Eleanor does is confess, so this would have lead to Tahani having a major moral holier-than-thou moment and it would've gone off the rails almost instantly. Is that supposed to make me want to see it less?
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Rappaport posted:The first thing Eleanor does is confess, so this would have lead to Tahani having a major moral holier-than-thou moment and it would've gone off the rails almost instantly. This is most likely how it happened, but deep down I want to believe they had a fling in at least one of those 400-ish iterations 
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Is it just me, or is Eleanor the only person where Janet always appears behind them when summoned?
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clockworx posted:Is it just me, or is Eleanor the only person where Janet always appears behind them when summoned? At first it was a coincidence but she did say she learns a little every time she gets reset so at some point she probably figured out that it's really funny. Speaking of, I wonder what unforeseen consequences there will be for resetting Janet 400+ times...
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Sep 29, 2017 19:00
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Amazing. This happened in s1 also, but I love how every episode seems to address all the crazy speculation I post about prior to it. They thought of everything, and did it better than everyone. This show is great. Nothing else quite like it.
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I have a feeling this is all going to be an allegory for prison reform and how rehabilitation is way more effective than punishment. In each iteration Eleanor has begun to realize the errors of her ways, and I think that by dealing with these supposedly "evil" people, Michael will realize that humans are not evil like the demons who live for making others miserable, and can change. I think by the end the bad place will focus on making everyone's hell an experience that makes them reflect upon themselves to make inner change.
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I love how Chidi keeps going back to the almond milk.
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Sep 29, 2017 19:46
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Sometimes I walk in you while I'm masturbating.
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Sep 29, 2017 20:15
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Your soulmate is this golden retriever I've now watched this episode 4 times in 12 hours, send help
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Sep 29, 2017 21:06
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The one where Michael is fat and unshaven and drunk and ranting and then it pans over to show that Eleanor has been there the whole time is priceless. But really, all of it is amazing.
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PantsBandit posted:At first it was a coincidence but she did say she learns a little every time she gets reset so at some point she probably figured out that it's really funny. The way she falls down when they "kill" her never stops being funny no matter how many times I see it.
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raditts posted:The way she falls down when they "kill" her never stops being funny no matter how many times I see it. Must suck for D'arcy Carden/her stuntwoman though.
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My favorite version of the Good Place was the "Jason figures it out" iteration. Janet had a wonderful expression that said, "this is different."Mechanical Ape posted:EDIT: Although I wonder what Eleanor's plan was going to be before Michael proposed the alliance. It sounded to me that she was going to propose something similar. I'm not sure Eleanor would characterize it as an alliance, but "we hold all the power" and "we always find out your plan" sounds like the opening argument to a team-up. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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I'm wondering if we'll ever get a reveal about how long they've been stuck there, seeing as its been over 800 resets and some of them lasted over 100 days.
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muscles like this! posted:I'm wondering if we'll ever get a reveal about how long they've been stuck there, seeing as its been over 800 resets and some of them lasted over 100 days. That single episode had to encompass decades if not centuries.
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Sep 30, 2017 01:08
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I feel like they sort of covered this when the woman from the medium place was like "no, you've known each other for a long time". But yeah, did not expect this timescale at all.
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Sep 30, 2017 01:22
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One fun little detail on a rewatch of season 1? When Michael shows Eleanor 'her' memories of doing relief work in the pilot? The hands we see from the POV shot are a white woman, which should be a dead giveaway when the 'real' Eleanor was played by Tiya Sircar.
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blue squares posted:drat you called it a week in advance!
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A list of their escape plans based on screengrab: “Physically attack Michael” “Stab with small knife” “Find Michael’s boss, blackmail, drug him” “Seduce Michael” “Throw Tahani under the bus” “Stab with large knife” “Make Michael think he’s the one in [The Bad Place]” “Indecent Proposal him” “Shawshank our way out” “Try to stuff Michael back into his magic lamp”: “Find Ray Donovan, but an angel” “Catch that magic panda, use her powers” “Eleanor [illegible] in” “Find Doug Forcett”
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muscles like this! posted:“Find Doug Forcett” I swear to Bob he is actually going to be in the show eventually. And it will be great.
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Sep 30, 2017 01:58
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Just started up season two. Loved the first, very happy to see that the quality of the writing has only gotten better. "I've only ever said I love you to two guys: Stone Cold Steve Austin, and a guy in a dark club who I thought was Stone Cold Steve Austin."
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Me yesterday: "It would be really hilarious if episode 4 was a montage of Elanor figuring out they're in the Bad Place over and over again." Me today: "One early!  "I really figured they'd do another episode showing us how it fails even when there isn't a note, but I guess if you're going to go nuts with the concept there isn't a need. I guess Elanor is the one sneaky and deceitful enough to make the leap to realizing it's actually the bad place. Well, most of the time. 
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I can’t help thinking if the obelisk was in season 1 I totally would have believed it.
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muscles like this! posted:“Make Michael think he’s the one in [The Bad Place]” I laughed so hard at this one
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Accretionist posted:I laughed so hard at this one They can hear us 
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Pope Guilty posted:That single episode had to encompass decades if not centuries. Literally my only nitpick in an otherwise perfect episode of TV is that surely Sean would have checked up on him at some point if it took as long as it seems. Makes me feel like the "Michael is in his own Bad Place" theory could be at least partly correct.
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Fart City posted:Just started up season two. Loved the first, very happy to see that the quality of the writing has only gotten better. I want them to get Austin to do a cameo. Hell, they could have had him be Eleanor's soulmate in one cycle and she, like, faints.
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Sep 30, 2017 02:49
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Just caught up with season two. This might be the best show on TV right now. "You might even land the Jared from Subway account" good loving lord.
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Escobarbarian posted:Literally my only nitpick in an otherwise perfect episode of TV is that surely Sean would have checked up on him at some point if it took as long as it seems. Makes me feel like the "Michael is in his own Bad Place" theory could be at least partly correct. Well I think Sean only showed up the first time because the plan was already going off the rails (IIRC Michael said he wanted them to torture each other for a long time and didn't expect Eleanor to 'fess up about being the bad person messing up the Good Place). If Michael keeps lying and saying that everything's fine, then Sean will presumably never check in. And at this rate Michael's been lying for like a decade if not longer, so Sean probably thinks things are going fine and everybody's miserable according to plan.
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I would just get out ahead of this and say that I didn't spell it "Shawn" because I'm an ignorant yankee hick, but because that's how his name is spelled on IMDB. IMDB is not infallible, that's just why I used that spelling...
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Sean is probably just glad to be rid of Michael, I'm guessing.
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precision posted:I swear to Bob he is actually going to be in the show eventually. And it will be great. I'm almost thinking he's the big finale cliffhanger. Or given how season 2 is paced, episode 5's cliffhanger?
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S1 rewatch details: In s1e5, Jason impresses Chidi by describing how he framed Donkey Doug's girlfriend for stealing boogie boards and saved a 60 person dance crew from breaking up. In s2e3, Jason impressed Michael by describing how, when Donkey Doug got mad that Jason framed his girlfriend for stealing boogie boards, Jason ignored the dance challenge and went straight to slashing their tires. Also, I'm pretty sure the book that Eleanor didn't read in s2e3 is the one she read twice in s1e4, at the beginning of their first ethics class. This show rules. edit: Honestly, in general, rewatching s1 after knowing "the twist" and having seen what I have of s2 so far, is really great. Because when you first watch the show, if feels like Eleanor is maybe having really bad luck in a typical sitcom "of course that happens" kind of way. But once you know the twist, it's not luck of coincidence or irony at all, it's Michael's design. It's great. It's really funny seeing all this stuff again, and it really works with the new perspective. edit2: s1e5 again: Eleanor calls out Chidi with "ya basic", and then goes on to say how it's about to be one of those things where they yell at each other and then start making out, and then says "whatever, fine, let's just do it". Snak fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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Escobarbarian posted:Literally my only nitpick in an otherwise perfect episode of TV is that surely Sean would have checked up on him at some point if it took as long as it seems. Makes me feel like the "Michael is in his own Bad Place" theory could be at least partly correct. Also, my understanding is that it was supposed to take them like thousands of years to realize what's going on, if I got my facts straight. We're dealing with cosmic beings, a few hundred years is nothing. Or Sean hates the project so much that he's not checking in on it to avoid having to deal with it. If he doesn't see that it's broken, and Michael says everything is fine, why get your hands dirty. Speaking as someone who used to be a manager, this is fairly accurate. Or Michael could be in his own personal bad place. But how does the magic Panda play into all of this?
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Snak posted:I feel like they sort of covered this when the woman from the medium place was like "no, you've known each other for a long time". at least 802 attempts, with conservatively 50 days each attempt is over 100 years, assuming time works at the same approximate rate in the Medium Place.
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Nah a whole lot of those attempts clearly only lasted a few days or less ("Did you say I'm in the bad place?" "Wait, who are you?")
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I agree. but even if the average attempt was 2 days, we're talking about years of reliving the same few basic interactions.
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precision posted:I swear to Bob he is actually going to be in the show eventually. And it will be great. http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/07/good-place-michael-schur-season-2-spoilers/4/ quote:Does Doug Forcett — the Canadian kid who got high on mushrooms and guessed 92 percent of the Good Place — actually exist?
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Gaz-L posted:Must suck for D'arcy Carden/her stuntwoman though. She wore a different dress for each faceplant, so she had to do a wardrobe change each time too
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Snak posted:S1 rewatch details: This is just wonderful. Mike Schur should just run every show on tv.
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