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My running theory is that point totals don't mean anything but telling demons they do is a way of controlling them via forcing their obsession over minutae; just by learning to want to do good for other people and then acting on that you earn a spot in The Good Place. The Brainy Bunch all learned to be better over this year but Janet and Michael don't know this for sure so Michael is just swept up in obsession and this Janet is too damaged to know the truth any more.
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Argue posted:Judge Gen said that from now on the Brainy Bunch are just going to be living their lives and earning points to get into the Good Place like anyone else on earth, so it's probably a real system which they'll end up destroying by the time the show is over (the way this show is paced, more like by season 4 episode 2). Or by the end of the next episode I mean this show takes one episode to tell a story that'd take other shows a season
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the solution is to realize nobody gives a gently caress who you think is hot and stop trying to turn it into a conversation ya fuckin doinks If you wanna have a conversation about how bad it is that men are objectified on television then be patient for 100 years of shows where women are gross idiots and men are hot and sexy and subservient to their whims to pass so that your complaints seem fuckin' valid and not based on a gross desire to be part of the persecuted and if you wanna have a conversation about who you want to stick in what or rub what against who go join fanfiction.net or quotev or wattpad ANYWAY I have no idea how this season's going to end; I was expecting it to end with a reveal that they died and Michael and Janet are from the afterlife but we already been did that.
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Oct 22, 2018 16:12
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qirex posted:I'm leaning towards "someone who shouldn't see it finds the manifesto and earth becomes completely hosed," because destroying the earth would be totally in line for this show.
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Oct 22, 2018 16:27
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Xelkelvos posted:Also on theme: All of this happening in the next episode.
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Oct 22, 2018 16:38
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Argue posted:They can just reset the timeline if that happens, but also I don't think someone would find the manifesto and automatically think it was a real thing, I guess unless the person who finds it already suspected something was supernatural about Michael.
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Oct 22, 2018 18:20
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Letterkenny is in rural Canada, and this show constantly surprises me in unexpected ways, so I'm calling that instead of going to see Doug, they're bouncing to Modines and meeting up with Dery because why not at this point
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BioEnchanted posted:Hilariously it never occurred to me to split it up - Pan = All. Then Demon. The word literally means "All the demons are gathered here" or "COME GET YER DEMONS AT DISCOUNT PRICES!" No just all the demons named Ium
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Nov 13, 2018 15:14
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Doug never got it 100% right, he just came closest, so of course he's loving up Also nobody new gets into the good place because the accountants got tired of the paperwork and hosed the qualifications to make their jobs easier. There's people there, just nobody new for a while.
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Nov 17, 2018 19:58
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Kanine posted:honestly it would be pretty on the nose making capitalism the thing that's loving over humanity
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Dec 9, 2018 19:27
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grill all fruit imo
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enki42 posted:For sure, but it's painfully obvious that the writers meant Earth years, because in any other context it's a completely meaningless statement with no dramatic effect whatsoever. "It's been 521 arbitrary units that are unfathomable and not linear anyway" isn't a great mid-series cliffhanger. "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
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Dec 14, 2018 00:21
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Can't wait for when Michael inadvertently makes being in the Good Place super stressful for everyone by making it possible to go from Good to Bad Place
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Dec 18, 2018 18:01
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mortal posted:There's also something weird about an action's points being decided the first time it's done. We see a caveman giving someone their rock and earning 10,000 points, but a modern human giving someone a rock can't be worth 10,000 points, and there must be way an action's points value is adjusted over time that we haven't seen...or the secret to getting into the good place is giving people rocks. Doug Forcett could have just given ~50 rocks away and gotten the same point total.
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tarlibone posted:Oh, I don't know... except for maybe people who are offering a gift to a woman in contemplation of marriage....
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Dec 18, 2018 19:43
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maybe lincoln... bad?
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holy poo poo this again jesus loving It's been a bunch of time units that are familiar to the audience not to people who live in a system where tuesdays and july exist in a closed loop outside of a squiggly loving signature because you're not watching a show based on David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself e: Someone on Reddit pointed out that Antonio Manetti, an architect who drew illustrations of the circles in hell for Dante's Inferno (which were later put into future publications of the Divine Comedy) died 521 years ago, and he was born on a Tuesday in July. It's a weird coincidence but it might mean something so argue about that instead of if we know what years means Wungus fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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silvergoose posted:The best translation of the inferno I ever read maintained the triple verse rhyme thing and it was so amazing, yeah let's talk about dante.
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clown shoes posted:Nobody remembers Becker. More people probably remember that time he did blackface at the roast of Whoopi.
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Jan 6, 2019 15:32
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clown shoes posted:Weren't they dating at the time?
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Jan 6, 2019 18:04
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please can this very good show stop talking about lengths of time this thread is taking years off my life (real 525,600 minute earth years) with this loving terrible conversation
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Taear posted:I think the person who said that Michael will reboot it all and become "God" and this is the first time around and we're the second is a pretty good shout.
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Jan 14, 2019 20:50
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Mr. Powers posted:I don't think the Time-Knife is a thing. I think Chidi is seeing something else Time-related, and -Knife is an intersection because he is suddenly stabbed. I bet the episode starts and Chidi loses his vision and near the end he gets it back, and then they realize how much of the episode has been devoted to this, and throw in a last second twist, and just like how you think the grammar's off I also think it should be "Chidi Sees! The time? KNIFE!" And this goes on for 500 years but it's never said if they're real years or bearimy years and I jump straight down a loving well
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Arist posted:still really surprised nothing ever came of the manifesto or janet and the mri machine tbh Simone died after being slaughtered by religious extremists for publishing this manifesto proving all faiths are wrong
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curiousCat posted:Question --
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Jan 25, 2019 22:51
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Y'all keep talking as if she sounds like an inhuman proto-australian monster; she has the exact same accent as my mother, who moved to Australia from England when she was 8. My mum ain't no monster 
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Jan 31, 2019 03:28
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silvergoose posted:Is it better to watch the end of the season and decide whether I want to watch it, or not watch it at all? Live whatever life you want, experience content however, but the way you choose to watch tv sounds fuckin' stupid and unfun and if you want suggestions on how to experience a narrative everybody's going to tell you "in narrative fuckin' order"
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Feb 19, 2019 17:39
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King of Foolians posted:I think the main problem with Jason as a character is that the show hasn't done anything to show that he has developed beyond his "initial sin". At the end of season 2 The Judge gives each character a test designed to test their main flaw. For Eleanor, it was selfishness. For Chidi, it was indecisiveness. For Tahani, it was caring too much what people (especially her family) think about her. For Jason we are specifically told that his main "sin" is poor impulse control. For his test he was more excited to play Madden than to even finish listening to the rules.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I never noticed before, but Elanor and Chidi's dynamic is really really cute. that's like that's like a full one third of the show  "Just started my rewatch of The Good Place, never noticed before but Ted Danson is acting like, twice, in this televisions."
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cant cook creole bream posted:Upon rewatch, I realized that this is actually a comedy.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:41
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If you haven't watched Santa Clarita Diet what the hell is wrong with you. It's made by the Better Off Ted showrunner and has the same comedy skeleton, albeit darker, and has almost all the BOT actors make at least cameos. I've yet to find someone who likes The Good Place and doesn't also like Santa Clarita Diet.
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Zebulon posted:Shame it only got three seasons, but they're three drat good seasons.
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thexerox123 posted:Wellington Paranormal is also a great What We Do in the Shadows spinoff!
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swickles posted:They missed it by not having Megan Amram name every menu item with a pun.
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Straight White Shark posted:Really? I know a lot of people soured on Glee but at the time it seemed like the audience was all for making it a full on musical. I hated the bait-and-switch and thought I was in the minority. "We're totally reinventing the musical, j/k we really wanted to do a bog standard musical all along."
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