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Harrow posted:The only way I could see a twist like that working is if it's because the Good Place recognizes that the rules are massively stacked against humans and that they need to intervene or nobody will get in. Like it turns out what Michael and Janet are doing is what the Good Place folks have been doing all along, because if they didn't, almost nobody would actually make it into the Good Place at all. I was actually just kind of pondering that maybe it's the case that the Good Place actively is empty because nobody can get in with the way it's set up but the Good Place "angels" have never known how, or at least, never dared to try and change it. Maybe the Brainy Bunch finally make it to the Good Place, only for a shocked agent to fall all over him or herself to greet their first ever guests and they have to transfer from "how do we improve ourselves" to "how do we improve the system/others".
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Arist posted:The problem with the "The Good Place is empty" theory is that it basically implies that Mindy St. Clair is the literal greatest human being to ever live. I mean, the only reason she was even considered for the Good Place is because she died immediately after deciding to do something that basically netted her a fuckton of points so that she didn't have the time to do enough bad poo poo to put her back in the red. Which, it's pretty obvious she'd have done given a few more years given her lifestyle. If I recall, a lot of the points accrued after she died but technically had to be alotted to her since she set the idea up and never distanced herself from it in some way and because she technically could have turned her life around but never had the chance to demonstrate if she would or not it left her in a bit of a limbo. tsob fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:If we broadly define bad things as things that hurt other people, and you’re in a place where people can’t really be hurt or deprived or made to do anything they don’t want to do, can you actually do bad? I imagine it's like griefing in an MMO; just because you can't lose anything of substance doesn't mean you're not annoying someone and ruining whatever they were doing at the time.
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Listening to The Good Place podcast, I realize there must be some people in the Good Place for at least one more reason than those previously stated, since Michael comments that the most popular podcast there is Mozart and Jimmy Hendrix discussing music. Though frankly, the most popular one in the Bad Place, Stalin discussing The Bachelor sounds better and I've never even seen The Bachelor.
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