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Gaz-L posted:The next step is Michael going down full-time, right? The Judge makes is a competition where Trevor and Michael try and pull the group to their side, maybe with Janet as a referee? I'm hesitant to try and guess what's going to happen, because at best I'm wasting my time and worst-case I actually get it right, but I figure they'll want to keep up the rapid pace of plot development, and still have one impossible thing happen every episode, which doesn't work well with being set in the real world. So I reckon the Judge will find out in the next episode (how did Trevor get approval to visit?), and the Good Place will get involved because Bad Place people interfering freely on Earth has to be breaking all kinds of rules, keeping Michael busy up there, plus as a demon who is doing clearly good things, where does he belong now? Maybe Janet will go to be with Jason and even if she can't create things on Earth she'd presumably still have all her knowledge. And they'll probably realise at some point that they've all been helped by Michael, because despite hiding for the rescues he spoke with all of them face-to-face like, maybe a week ago. 
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Robot Hobo posted:With this show's ability to turn even mundane things into gold, I kind of want an episode explaining how Michael managed to do everything he did on Earth. He's a somewhat-evil demon, so I'm going to go with... 
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The Lord Bude posted:I'm a little disappointed though that they went to the trouble of using actual Australian currency for the scene in the bar with the wallet but then they couldn't be bothered making at least a small effort to make that supermarket look like it belongs in Australia. I don't know whether it was actually off-model or something, but I swear our currency looked almost like fake money most of the time it showed up, especially when Jason was handing it out. Randomly-coloured notes with a big number in one corner? Don't be ridiculous. Also either I've got used to the accents or they were hiring more actual Australians, I'm sure I recognised one or two of them. (fake edit: not who I thought he was but yep)
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BioEnchanted posted:A clever thing the show does is the only tortures it actually describes are fairly cartoonish in how extreme they are, like wasps in nostrils and just ripping people in half - however there are other things that are implied but aren't described because it would conflict with the shows tone. Like the Museum, where Michael warns them to stay in the foyer, because beyond there there are rooms full of poo poo that they would never be able to unsee. I like how it toes that line. It allows hell to be funny-hellish, and the demons to have some humour with them, without letting the viewer forget that "Yeah, this is literal hell. it's only funny til your in it." You needed examples and picked ripping people in half over the penis flatteners or butthole spiders?? Janet's audio clip from the first episode maybe fits into the other category though, apart from the bear with two mouths. The museum episode has one of my favourite lines which your phrase at the end reminded me of: quote:Chidi: I don’t think I can change what I believe just like that. While I'm being positive, instead of futilely trying to guess where the plot is going, I also love the bit of background music that plays for suspenseful scenes, like the end of The Snowplow. Wish I could find a clear version. Edit: Actually lots of those little tunes are great, one of them isn't but I can't remember which off the top of my head
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pwn posted:It’s either that, and/or, 1497 was simply the year that The Bad Place started hacking the gibson. Do we know if that's true, or is it just what Michael thinks? Points for an action apparently never change, perhaps a few things that got assigned negative points the first time they happened centuries ago are super common now. Maybe the first person to sleep alone on a mattress got penalised because they didn't want to share it and gave somebody else an uncomfortable night, or... I can't think of any good examples. Oh hey, "The most recent resident of The Good Place arrives." is on the year's Wiki page, I wonder how long that will stay.
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Can't wait for next week's episode!  Okay, thoughtful post - they probably aren't returning to real Earth any time soon, and in hindsight I still feel like the show really slowed down there. Two episodes of seeing into character's personal lives isn't really a bad thing, but the plot barely advanced for weeks, and then we had the series' version of a clip show!
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Whalley posted:"Nobody has gotten into the Good Place in 521 beariblebs, which is the exact equivalent of 521 years on Earth, being that one bearibleb comes out to exactly 365 Earth days" - scriptwriting if it was handled by some people in this thread 521x365 days is more like 520.7 years That little video was neat, though I couldn't stop picturing the animated character as Karl Pilkington. I'm an episode or two behind on the podcast again, is that on a break too?
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It's live, but I feel like it's just looping video of nothing happening, which is kind of a joke but not exactly thrilling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0z-Lf7EkfU
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Even if it's not, that's still 1400+ more years of torture for every human who's died in the last 500 years (and for the ones before that, but at least some of them deserved it, so...) I can see why it might never happen, it'd be impossible to film a version we couldn't a flaw in, but I hope that's not as close as we get to the real Good Place. Though I also hope the rest of the GP employees aren't quite as naïve because that would wear thin faaast.
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Ah, what the hell, I may as well make some wrong guesses too:
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The episode was a little underwhelming for me, I'd led myself to expect something bigger from the title perhaps. I kind of hope the Bad Place got Simone killed somehow since an accident feels cheap plot-wise and depressing in general, though I am also glad that she will be back on the show. Whereas that other guy? I know it's the point but he better not hang around long.
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It's strange, I enjoyed it when Fringe kept destroying the main characters' relationship through timeline resets and other hijinks, and the one here is probably written better, but Fringe at least had some variety with their methods. I feel like this was the weakest season in general, and when you keep resorting to what is effectively one thing, wiping memories, it's less exciting. Plus the show is a lot more complicated than it used to be. IIRC the first two seasons had specific stakes throughout (to avoid being discovered and tortured forever, basically) whereas this one meandered on Earth for a while, and then introduced much bigger stakes with "the system is broken" that seems like it can't be resolved until the show ends for good.
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