The Good Place Season 3 - You put the peeps in the chili and you renew for s4

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Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Elanor was surprised to realize she was into Tahani, which was easy to read at the time as an entirely straight history but can also be seen as just a reflection on how much she didn't like her early on.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 23:02

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2025 16:29

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

I'm just going to put out there that doing whatever the local sociopath kid asks is earning Doug bad place points rather than good ones.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 17:40

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

pwn posted:

I always assumed the podcast bookends weren’t canon, but yeah, confirmed

Lincoln was in the show, from Michael. The pilot?

Hendrix and Mozart were podcast ones.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 09:34

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Chidi and Tahani were supposed to go on thinking they belonged in the good place for many years in Michael's original plan.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 06:03

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

I don't see any non-corrupt way you can have Forcett and St Clair coming even close without admitting a few people, Dan West or Norman Borlaug, say, if global impact is the main thing.

(Maybe if the system has decided humans are a net negative, so saving/raising lives start eating the points they earned after a few years; so Mindy was an accounting glitch and helping animals is a better route to go by...)

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 22:54

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Well, someone fought to keep Mindy St. Claire out of the bad place, so completely abandoned seems off the table.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 22:30

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Someday someone is going to do that joke with Bored To Death or CSI and make the original tweeter feel as old as we do now. (Ted Danson, of course, being immortal.)

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:09

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Azhais posted:

All their food is grown in soil tainted by the blood of previous conflict

As true before the 1400s as it is now.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 10:52

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

The weird thing is that Michael thinks he has a case. If it is all about the pervasive moral rot of Capitalism, the afterlife isn't going to do a thing about it, it's just the stabbing fad of 198000 BC all over again.

So I've got to think that it's a problems with the system systematically undercounting indirect good effects. 2018 Doug didn't get credit for the libraries and firehouses his sales tax helped keep running, or for helping the dozens or hundreds of people employed along the global supply chain employed, or for contributing to, you know, civil society in general.

Some of that flows from the lopsided intent rules, where bad effects get the same treatment if done for deliberately malign reasons, carelessly, or even well-intentioned but good effects don't count without deliberate good intentions. But that can't cover the whole problem, since we still have to answer why people who live good lives while being aware of and believers in the value of community and government-your Leslie Knopes, in other words- aren't getting enough points. So maybe there's a rounding error thing going on too/instead.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 17:24

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

It's not entirely impossible that the good, bad,and medium places are all exclusively for the non-religious, and anyone in any spiritual tradition is handled otherwise. Odd that it wouldn't have come up, but we've met nor heard the fate of any believer in anything. That could fill the late isolated communities hole, and maybe some of the famous exclusions as well.

If so, some of the problem could be in scaling up and modernizing a system that only had a trickle of souls going through between caveman days and the modern age...

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 23:37

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

You have to have pure altruistic intent to get good points, but get bad points whether you're being deliberately bad/spiteful/selfish or acting carelessly. Probably even if you had good intentions that went wrong.

This is a big meta-ethical failure in the system whether or not it's the one the writers are going for.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 01:12

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

1glitch0 posted:

Also, is there a quality tv review site out there? AV Club has become pretty lovely.

I don't know of any good compehensive sites right now, but Alan Sepinwall (currently at Rolling Stone) does good reviews of the sort of shows he likes, including this one.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2019 22:38

Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Scheduling b99 to start after Halloween is a war crime though.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 01:54

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Thranguy: Apr 21, 2010; Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.

Oasx posted:

And even if they make plenty of money, can a tv writer live off of just doing a single 12 episode show?

Wasn't this one of the major issues in the last Writer's Guild strikes?

Iirc it did not go well for them overall, but I don't know about that issue's resolution (no exclusive contracts for short seasons)

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 08:34

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