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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. The doorman explained that he's powerless on Earth, and only has the abilities available to any normal human. He still managed to travel all over the world, pay for travel arrangements for Jason, get costumes and props, and a bunch of other background things to make this all work. He did all of that despite presumably being dropped into one place with just the clothes on his back. What I'm saying is, nevermind Chidi, I want Michael to be my life coach.
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Hawkgirl posted:Seems to me he still gets to be his brilliant all-knowing self and simply predicts exactly what the humans need as a push in the right direction. Either way though, you're right about Jason. Michael may or may not have quasi-omniscient magical knowledge about Jason, and definitely does have decades of personal observation of his behavior, plus millennia of general experience as a demon, yet Jason still proves too dumb and/or random to be manipulated reliably. I think Jason is going to be the key to foiling whatever plan the Bad Place is trying to throw at them. No plan, mundane or diabolical, can survive Jason Mendoza being a part of it.
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So the ability to summon knowledge and items from nowhere is a 'superpower' that Janet loses when on Earth, and from what Michael said, it seems that a demon's supreme deception skills are also a 'superpower' in the same way. But Trevor... he really just is that awful, right down to the core. Being stuck with only the powers of a regular mortal didn't slow him down even a little.Noise Machine posted:Someone on reddit pointed out the misspelling and Chidi not being able to find the outside may have been allusions to Plato's Cave. But yeah, I'm totally willing to believe that here. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 16:23
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double nine posted:I don't know, Michael's inability to deceive might be because he is an fallen/ascended demon and the ethics get in the way of lying.
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Oct 5, 2018 16:41
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The Lord Bude posted:There's this new food truck near me that serves soft serve ice cream; but the cone is a donut.
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Oct 5, 2018 18:02
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Doltos posted:Jeff owns I want an entire show about Jeff
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Oct 5, 2018 19:59
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Phenotype posted:You misunderstand. Megatron was the name that he wanted Trevor to call him.
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Oct 7, 2018 03:02
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The_Doctor posted:I feel bad, but I’d eat the landfill fries on that menu. The tuna lollipops though... Those sound pretty good. I'd order that.
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Oct 7, 2018 18:28
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I'm thinking that at some point the four humans will be let into the Good Place, positions fully earned, no strings attached. And it turns out that the Good Place also sucks. So they're still not done.
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Oct 22, 2018 17:55
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I love that Pillboi is both his name and his legitimate job title.
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Oct 26, 2018 14:17
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I think the most solid sign that the whole judgement system is broken is the fact that these four people shouldn't ever have ended up in the same place to begin with. There's two basic questions at play, and each character represents one of the extreme answers. Question 1: Which matters, intent or results? Chidi has devoted his entire life, every waking moment, to the pursuit of being the most ethical person he can be, and purely because he sees it as the right thing to do... But his indecision has stopped him from doing anything useful with that. Good intent, bad result. Damned. Tahani has spent her life working with charities, raising money to help the needy, and bringing attention to social and environmental issues. She's probably actually helped millions of people in at least some way... But she did all of it for the attention, and in an effort to spite her Sister. Bad intent, good result. Damned. Question 2: Do you need to be aware of how your actions affect the world and people around you for it to count as a truly "bad" act? Jason does bad poo poo constantly, maybe even by Floridian standards, but is utterly oblivious to the very concept of consequences. He's a total sweetheart when it comes to the few personal situations that he actually comprehends, which shows that he does care. Damned. Elanor has spent her life fully aware of how much she hurts everyone she comes in contact with, and simply did not give a poo poo. She's always first to label herself as a trash-bag, no delusion to the contrary. Of the four, she's the one who doesn't even bother questioning why she's in the Bad Place. Damned. It would feel like finding a balance right in the middle of those extremes would be the only way into the Good Place, but Mindy St. Claire is our closest (and only) example of that, and she confused the system badly enough that they had to make her an entirely new place. LORD OF BOOTY posted:we are not given an indication that very many people end up in the Good Place Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Oct 28, 2018 |
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Gobbeldygook posted:No, we also saw a representative from the Good Place in Mindy St. Clair's orientation video. "Our" Janet is the wildcard here, but Janets were presumably created by someone with an agenda of some sort. Who knows if her info is all good? Michael managed to get her to go along with his own lies in season one, so it's not like what she says must always be 100% factual. navyjack posted:The existence of the Good Place Janet warehouse argues against this, not that such a minor detail is a definite argument. I tend toward the “The Good Place exists but it sucks” theory. Honestly, I'm also expecting a reveal that the Good Place exists, but isn't as great as advertised. Or is nearly empty. But the alternative seems plausible too.
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nerdman42 posted:I really wanted Michael to be gushing about a horrible airport experience. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Oct 29, 2018 05:17
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pwn posted:I like what someone said earlier: The reason Doug or anyone else isn’t getting in, is because no one does... The Medium Place could be her personal Hell, despite looking like a step-up for other people.
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Nov 17, 2018 15:14
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pwn posted:While that is a salient point, so too is the objective fact that the absence of Butthole Spiders is preferable to Butthole Spiders, owing to not having spiders coming out of your butthole. They’re enormous Sean seems pretty confident that they'll be getting Doug into the Bad Place. I feel that if good-point champ Doug doesn't have a guaranteed spot in Heaven, then Mindy sure as gently caress didn't fall just a few points short of getting herself in. Think of Mindy as maybe a pilot program for the psychological torture experiment. How horrible would it be to be told that you ALMOST made it into the Good Place, leaving you to linger forever alone in limbo, knowing every moment that any one teeny action you could have taken in your life that added even a couple good points might have tipped the scales and gotten you a ticket to eternal bliss?
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Nov 18, 2018 06:47
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BioEnchanted posted:To be fair, at least it's presented as Michael explaining it to himself rather than to the rest of the cast - it's stuff any human already figured out ... it's the audience watching (effectively) an alien figure it out.
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Jan 12, 2019 14:31
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ashpanash posted:if you don’t get into the good place, you’re tortured. Shawn invented those.
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mcbexx posted:Maybe Chidi went and left a note in a book "You were in love with Eleanor" for himself to find.
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