"'The Good Place Season 4 - "It's okay to be sad"

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CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I 100% assumed a Michael switch when the premiere went out of its way to show us the Michael-suit in the previouslies and then the plot conspicuously had Michael go off alone with the demon whose insertion in the Test Place was not only useless, it was actually counterproductive because it put Chidi back on the scoreboard, so my operating theory is still that that's Michael in the cloak.

But if it is, they're gonna really need to explain what the gently caress fake Michael's been doing, because he's been nothing but emotionally supportive and full of good, workable advice. For Judge Gen's sake, Eleanor was tipping over into straight-up Bad Place torture and he talked her down from it!

# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 06:26

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# ¿ Mar 18, 2025 13:57

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

But... the Bad Place sent one of their stupider demons, who's known for blowing plots, and he accomplished dick-all and not only did he score Team Human a big win by getting Chidi onto the scoreboard, it's a huge self-inflicted wound for the Bad Place, who willingly gave up one of their four slots/opportunities to psychologically attack Team Human. We can all agree that that's stupid beyond any reasonable explanation, and that the Bad Place would absolutely not do something so manifestly boneheaded, and that therefore they were accomplishing something insidious with it, right?

# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 06:33

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Hello, I am here to take my lumps for believing Michael got swapped in the train and specifically writing off the possibility that it was Janet instead.

Though, in my own defense, I only believed that because the show quite firmly established that Bad Janets can't pretend to be Good Janets without melting and I took that as an unbreakable rule even though they've also been establishing that constant reboots cause Janets and Janet-adjacent Derek to expand well beyond their original programming. Stupid annoying show, being cleverer than me again.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 19:02

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

ApplesandOranges posted:

So if Michael is still really Michael, then what's with Eleanor's very valid suspicion that he still wanted them to have a slumber party instead of working?

There's a limit to how useful anyone can be without downtime to recover, no matter how hard they work. In fact, the harder you push yourself past the limit, the worse it gets, until your productivity dives right down into the negative. (This is why crunch time is such a bullshirt Bad Place invention.) When you're red-lining and approaching burnout, the best thing you really can do is to stop working for a bit, relax, and stop thinking about it. You recover and give your subconcious some time to work the problem. So Michael's advice was good and caring, but in a way that if you look at it from a suspicious point of view, could also just be an attempt to sabotage the team by distracting them when they're just about to make a breakthrough. Because this show is well written.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 19:15

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

nooneofconsequence posted:

I actually said "not a girl" out-loud to myself and still didn't pick up that it was Bad Janet. I'm slow.

Getting beat to the punch by Jason... yeah, that one hurts.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 06:23

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Goddammit, how many episodes left? This show�s gonna keep exploding the entire plot all the way to the end and I can�t take it.

Also I hope the humans win and all, go Team Human, but... Brent deserves the Bad Place. gently caress him.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2019 04:42

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Making war on heaven to overthrow an unjust regime is and has always been the logical endpoint of this series and I am so loving down for it

# ¿ Nov 15, 2019 08:46

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Guy A. Person posted:

In all honesty the real downfall of the original Bad Place experiment was probably that they put 4 ridiculously hot people together supervised by a hot not-a-girl not-a-robot. Of course they're all going to fall for each other, good lord.

In the sitcom-tropes-as-Hell/"these shows only work if it's not funny to the characters" framework of the original Bad Place, that's a feature, not a bug. You want them to generate entertaining interpersonal drama by pining helplessly, hooking up and then breaking up over minor misunderstandings, and causing greivances they can torment each other with for years to come.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2019 17:32

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I have to admit to a bit of disappointment that the big swing Team Cockroach came up with at the end was to... invent Purgatory.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 19:22

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# ¿ Mar 18, 2025 13:57

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

They're all going to go through the last door tonight and it is going to loving wreck me.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 23:01

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