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Guys we all know how this ends: this is all a simulation going on inside Janet's mind to upgrade her to a model with sympathy. All of this stuff is to teach her to love humans and not. NOT. kill them. She's slowly being upgraded to Janet.4 in some far off time where robots are easily available but only recently have they been able to make them like humans. All Janets, functionally blank, end up as Bad Janets. Until now! It's a total rip off of that one Futurama episode and I, for one, am ashamed they'd be so blatant. I plan to never watch this show agasin in protest.
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Alright so, my guess: the "rules" system is terrible, and pre-God. This entire world is pre-capital G "God", just "the point system" (you'll note that "Jacksonville Pool" is terrible because the point system is arbitrary) . Ultimately Janet, who is the single most evolved and powerful thing in the Universe, will sacrifice herself to make Michael God, that manifesto becomes the Bible (without a "rule book" the devote become happiness pumps), and Michael institutes a more "fair" system having learned about loss from losing Janet and other emotions from the humans and gone back to the beginning of time using Jeremy Bearemy. That's why we haven't met God yet. She  doesn't exist yet.Of course now that they've introduced the concept of going in to Janet's void they run into the Matrix problem of not being able to know if we're not already inside a void. Which, of course, brings back the possibility that this is all a Bad Place simulation. (my ultimate guess is still that this whole thing is teaching Janet something. She has a very friendly face and a pleasant voice, I like seeing her emote so it'd be fun, I like when she was just shaking her head and saying "Here we go" at Michael) I like this show, the fight scene was surprisingly well shot for a network sitcom (though there's a solid 6 second shot of Shaun's stuntman's face). I'm a little tired of the constantly changing locations, I think they can go back to a single place for a bit now, but I'm excited to see where the show goes 
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:but she didnt know doug's situation somehow It's shown Janet sometimes has to "look stuff up", she doesn't have EVERY bit of information in her head. It's also shown that "looking stuff up" takes time. So, in the time between when it became clear Janet was going to lose the ability to "look stuff up", and the time she DID lose contact, Janet only downloaded what she thought she would need. Janet downloaded Kung Fu movies for self defense (or just because she knew Jason liked them). She downloaded every first aid book she could find. And she downloaded blackmail or valuable information for some people but not ALL. Even for this show it would be hard to make the the characters who literally blackmail or emotionally manipulate their way around the world multiple times likable. We only saw them do it once but there is a scene missing about an hour before that of them telling that manager they would give him that information if he would give them jobs. How else did two people who had no evidence they even existed yesterday get those jobs in the first place? Or ANY of the jobs or things they got? But Janet didn't have time to look up Doug. He's so off the grid there was no way they'd ever interact with him. Like how Michael never knew what Eleonore was up to: he was too vain, he's still a demon, to think she'd ever catch on so he never looked up the info (and he was the only one who had access to their "Bad Place" file because he was the architect.) TL;DR: anything they get is from blackmail material we're never shown them using, and anything they don't know is them being too vain to/not having the time to look up.
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Nov 17, 2018 04:29
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The father in Krampus. 
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Russian Doll stumbles by not defining anything. There's no real goal for the show until the last few episodes. Until then it's emotional stuff without permanence, no consequences, and the main character just kind of loving around like nothing is going on. "The Good Place" has mystery and plot and goals to accomplish and things to do. It may radically alter from episode to episode but things need to happen. "Russian Doll" just kind of hangs around the apartment in its underwear. And, most importantly, I can't identify with the character that elevator crashes and kills all those people and she just lets it happen every single night. And even the gas leak is a toss in line that they sometimes remember. Even if those events only happen to her she doesn't know that. it's just hard to get excited to follow a character that's just sort of hanging out, the reset thing just kind of irritates her and has no real impact on her life for the longest loving time. She wakes up, again at the mirror, and then just shakes her head and goes to work. The extraordinary is treated as "oh yeah *shrug*. She notices the guy that was at the bodega last night isn't there, she proceeds to absolutely ignored and put it aside. As if it wasn't the single most significant thing that has happened since her ordeal began. I had no idea the thing on the bathroom door was significant and not just another decoration. But it was? Maybe give me a clue using music or dialog or cinematography? I'm not asking for whizz bang zoom a minute, lord knows TGP doesn't have that, but I need some sort of goal. Something to try and either fail or succeed. I usually had no idea where she was going or why.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Nicole Byer is incredible and should be in way more stuff
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