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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > "'The Good Place Season 4 - "It's okay to be sad"
 
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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Bored posted:

So this is why I have Hulu. I'm too lazy to read the thread, but the poorly drawn childhood horse looked like something straight from 2008 somethingawful. Are there any goons working on the show?

I have no idea, but on the podcast they say Mike Schur gave the writers sketch pads and asked them to draw a horse and picked the worse one, which was drawn by Josh Siegel (Glen).

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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Idle speculation based on a philosopher and philosophical concept that got name dropped during interviews with Schur: Rawls' Veil of Ignorance

Expanded below:
One of the things Rawls is known for is a philosophical concept known as the "Veil of Ignorance". It asks a decision-maker to make a choice about a social or moral issue and assumes that they have enough information to know the consequences of their possible decisions for everyone but would not know, or would not take into account, which person they are. The theory contends that not knowing one's ultimate position in society would lead to the creation of a just system, as the decision-maker would not want to make decisions which benefit a certain group at the expense of another, because the decision-maker could theoretically end up in either group. They are going to have to set up a new system, but they can't know where they are going to end up. They could get split up.
Not sure if I should spoil that, but I'll err on the side of caution since it's based on outside info.

* # ¿ Nov 15, 2019 17:05
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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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double nine posted:

One thing I didn't see is why jason suddenly spilled his drink? Nobody pushed him as far as I can see, and he wasn't even doing anything weird with the drink.



Was the drink sapient and suicidal?

He slipped on a marblized Janet.

* # ¿ Nov 24, 2019 21:54
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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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jumba posted:

What I mainly got out of the finale is that it is better to choose oblivion than to read anything by Dan Brown.

The implications of the finale are that the Good Place will eventually be empty after the sun swallows the earth to end any more human creation, and after awhile all humans in the Good Place lose their purpose (I'm sorry, I mean "feel fully fulfilled") and go through the door. And there's only so many demons you need in the Bad Place to keep testing Brent, and the Judge will eventually run out of podcasts to listen to -- because there's no more humans to make them. I supposed it is for the best due to the eventual heat death of the universe, but it was a bit heavy for my poor human brain to comprehend.

I re-read Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" after the Good Place finale and thought how fun it would be if after the credits the universe is dark and Janet is the last being that hasn't left. She finds the Judge's reset button and says, "Let's get some light in here." *Click*

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