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None of the stuff recently brought up raises flags for me as standards violations, but I have to remind myself this is airing on ABC which is probably pound for pound one of the cleanest networks on TV right now (probably only beaten by pure kid-oriented and full-blown religious-focused channels) and which has been quick to avoid controversy or the appearance of associating with racists (as seen with black-ish and Roxanne respectively). "Dick" is going to be approved for literally any network show airing at any time, but beefers is probably just skating by because it sounds dirty but doesn't actually use any swear words, and I feel like S&P have been conditioned in general to only be sensitive to swears and offensive things related to religions and groups of people in general. Real interested to see where things go from here. I feel like the humans have to get clued in on the fact that they died and came back, and had all these rebooted lives, because if they never do that feels like two seasons of character development wasted, but if that happens that's got to be a disqualifier for making it into the good place if you know how the system works and that there's an actual afterlife reward for a good life instead of just taking it on faith.
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drat, I remain dumb as hell then! Nevermind.
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Oct 12, 2018 08:42
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I prefer a Good Place that only has a few thousand people in it to it being empty. Even if it were a few million that would get across the point that the system is way too stacked against humanity, but being told direct from the Good Place source when they get there that it's something like 3,154 (more random numbers to drive the fans crazy) keeps it at a relatably low number that the audience will immediately realize (along with the characters I'm sure) is way too low, whereas we're conditioned to think of numbers in the millions as a lot while not thinking of that being a small number when we're talking about tens of billions.
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I've really behind the idea of them trying to help others instead of improve themselves. It's fun to see this particular group of characters stop working on their various flaws because they don't matter anymore and switch to helping others and in some ways reverting to the behavior that got them sent to the bad place. I do miss the supernatural/wild effects stuff of the afterlife already, but as this episode showed they can basically do stuff very much in that vein with her VR tech. I also think there's some interesting ground to cover with Janet being able to get them out of basically any perilous situation they find themselves in, at least as long as it's just Earth-based. She could talk a police precinct or individual cops into letting people go, or whip up wild tech to accomplish whatever crazy thing is needed because she knows everything. If I had to guess, we're going to see them struggling to help more than a handful of people despite having access to Tahani's vast fortune and Janet and Michael's know-how. Then in the finale Michael gets desperate again and convinces Janet to set up a worldwide broadcast that contains proof that the Good Place and Bad Place are real, thus putting most of the planet on the same "can't get in because their motivations would be corrupt" footing as team cockroach. He'll try to force the system to change by exposing it to humanity at large. I could see that being a plan they all get behind as well, it depends on if they think there will be a particular reaction or change of events caused by it to justify risking the damnation of most of humanity. If it's not that exactly, I have to figure that the season ends with them having just pulled some kind of crazy stunt that's only possible because Janet and Michael are messing around on Earth, and whatever they're doing is causing too much of a ruckus to be ignored and the afterlife steps in to stop it in a major way.
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Oct 26, 2018 14:32
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Yeah I've known its meaning for as long as I can remember, doesn't seem obscure to me or anything.
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