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Strom Cuzewon posted:I really hope they don't lean into the love triangle stuff with Chidi - Eleanor and Simone were adorable together in the MRI both, and it's really nice just to see people being friends without any baggage In the podcast they talk about intentionally avoiding that angle, so I think we're good.
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The lady in Mindy's orientation video is the only actual Good Place being we've seen, right?
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Piell posted:What if the Good Place is just really nice? Then there's probably no point in showing it, and probably no way to show much of it without it being a letdown anyway. I think this is a big part of why it seems like fiction often features detailed descriptions of Hell while leaving Heaven rather vague or mysterious. Edit: watch the gang wind up in the Good Place by act two next week just to make this post look dumb.
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double nine posted:teenage pregnancies are a thing, and maybe eleanor is Eleanor is two years younger than Kristen Bell.
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The question isn't "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used in everyday speech," it's "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used by Milton, i.e. the name of a city of demons." The answers to those two questions are very different.
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Regy Rusty posted:Huh you just went and made up an etymology that's a neat trick I hear folk do that 
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Selachian posted:I think the only mention of Chidi's family has been when he was served his mom's maafe in The Good Plates, back in S1. We also know that at some point his mom had back surgery, which he wasn't there for because he had promised to help his landlord's nephew figure out his new phone. Edit: fork, beaten
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Supercar Gautier posted:Janet can't have lied about the people that got in Who has Janet identified as going to the Good Place? It was Michael who mentioned Abraham Lincoln in the pilot, and otherwise they've mostly named people who went to the Bad Place. In the podcast intro she says the most popular podcast in the Good Place is Mozart and Jimi Hendrix talking about music, but it's a bit of a stretch to count that as part of the show. Besides, it could just mean that the Good Place has a podcast that simulates those two, not that they are themselves in the Good Place.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Remember once the four people knew how the afterworld worked, all their good works were now tainted because they knew what was up. The episode's writer says no. Doug does not know how the system works; he merely has beliefs that happen to be pretty close.
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He's also against soup in general, I think. Mike Schur is full of weird bad food opinions.
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Taear posted:We know that the threshold of points goes up as you get older as well, which is why Doug is hosed. We don't know that at all. Another possibility (and the way I interpreted the joke) is that there's some fixed point goal, and 500k sounded good until he realized how little time Doug has left to hit the goal.
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enki42 posted:Based on this episode though, Michael would have no idea how many points people like Tahani earned - he didn't know how many Doug earned and he didn't know whether that was particularly high or low when he was told how many points he had. Per "The Trolley Problem," he does know (/claims to know/believes he knows) how many points a given action is worth. That's not much use without knowing how many points someone needs, but I guess the point target was never really his problem before.
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Propaganda Machine posted:So, even people in the bad place are shielded from the embarassing ways in which they died. There's a certain strange kindness there. I think that was just Michael doling out the torture incrementally.
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Yeah it was Mother Teresa. Christopher Hitchens' The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is maybe the most well-known critical examinations of her, for whoever's interested.
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Small White Dragon posted:Just watched all three seasons so I'm new here. Kristen Bell's contract caps them at 13 episodes per season, and since we opened the season with an hour-long episode, there should be five episodes left.
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pwn posted:There have been 10 aired, three remain poo poo, sorry, I don't know why I thought we were eight in. Gaz-L posted:And actually, her contract caps them at 16 (she mentioned they can ask her to do more, but no more than 16 on an ep of the podcast). They just have been doing 13 because that's what NBC orders. Welp, I guess I'm just off by a few on everything today. That's what I get for shooting from the hip.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Edit: Doubly so if you've watched Westworld Wait, what's this referring to? I guess stick it in a spoiler tag to be safe.
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LividLiquid posted:It has Kirsten Bell and Ted Danson and it's made by one of the Parks and Rec guys. Yeah, much like NBC itself, I was hooked by "Mike Schur wants to do another show."
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Jerusalem posted:That's weird, I understand every individual word of this sentence and yet put together in that order they make no sense at all I have a friend who hasn't watched past the pilot for similar reasons. Her main exposure to Bell was Party Down and Deadwood, so she would've preferred more of an Always Sunny type of situation, where a bad person constantly fails and learns nothing, over one where we're supposed to root for Eleanor to learn and grow.
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Cerebral Mayhem posted:If there are unintended bad consequences for good actions, wouldn't there also be good consequences arising from bad actions for the same reasons? Maybe, but that doesn't mean they balance out.
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Sloth Life posted:I'm listening to the good place podcast and it seemed like the host just did not like Manny Jacinto at ALL. Weirdly snarky especially after the glowing Jameela episode. Just me? Which episode? I don't recall getting that impression.
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Sloth Life posted:It was chapter 4. Manny comes off as pretty humble and chill. There was a bit where he was singing Ted dansons praises and it felt like the host cut him off really abruptly with "done that already". I dunno it seemed off. I don't normally have great social cues so ymmv I can see what you mean about that moment, but it didn't read that way for me. It sounded like Marc was laughing along with the others, etc, so I took it as just sort of an awkward way of saying "we all love Ted" rather than an attempt to cut Manny off.
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That reminds me: last month The Nod did an episode about The Good Place, focusing on Chidi: https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-nod/chidi-and-the-good-place
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MikeJF posted:Jason lovingly teaching Chidi how to chill out and relax, I could see it. It's basically an extended version of them playing Jacksonville pool.
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