The Good Place

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Tarrant

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Man I work, son! By the time I get home, eat and showered it’s midnight. I watch as much as I can before my mind wanders to porn hub and then I pass out.

I’m not a machine!

Oh and last night I also watched better call Saul.
 
Lanx

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good start, i hope trevor is actually good this season, i think fire golem todd has more personality.
 
Cybsled

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Good episode.

I figured The Judge would find out, but not so quick. So I guess we have "human" Michael and Janet for now, but it looks like they also have the only key to Earth so presumably no one can follow them for now
 
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Pretty good episode, will be interesting to see how Michael and Janet fit in going forward.

Also...I want Janet to marry me.
 
spronk

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Binged the first three episodes, I liked it enough but it isn't hitting the amazing heights of season 1 for me. A show about a bunch of people on earth doing their shit isn't that interesting to me. What WAS totally different and fascinating was a show about people in the afterlife coping with a complete different reality to what our day to day lives are. Lose that and to me this show loses a lot of its charm and is really just coasting on the chemistry between the actors.

I guess they also did answer the question at the end of episode 3, the 4 are alive "for real" and its not a simulation or whatever, but it kinda loses its setup when the judge just hand waves away the ripple effects of them not dying.
 
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Cybsled

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Well, this gives the writers a chance to do a few new things:

1) Michael and Janet dealing with being powerless. Janet especially will have a hard time lol
2) Pretty clear the writers will be setting up Chidi with the ultimate choice down the line: Simone or Eleanor.
3) Try to construct an explanation as to why everyone won't end up in The Bad Place eventually

My guess is they neutralize enough points to maybe get a medium place? Or maybe their actions sway the Judge enough to make some sort of compromise/allowance?
 
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The big choice was hinted at in the opening part of the third season : alternate timelines. Them not dying has radically changed the timeline of Earth in a super butterfly-effect sort of way. When they become fully aware of what happened they will have to decide if they should live as better people now or go back to being dead and fix things.

The eventual end game has to be setting up a much larger Medium Place for people who aren't saints but also aren't terrible with Eleanor as its main person welcoming new people with an "Everyting is okay" sign in a very neutral color.
 
Qhue

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They are certainly keeping things moving forward. There was really no significant plot eleme take that could arise from the Brainy Bunch going down the philosophical path we already treaded so they just skip forward 6 months and move the needle again into Terra incognita.

As fun as the Michael and Janet show is, they really did need to reconnect them with the others and them revealing what and who they are is the natural extension to that as well as effectively completing this 'reboot'.

Poor Larry Hemsworth. "Only 6'4" and barely an 8 pack"
 
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Janet blowing the minds of retail employees made me lol as well

But ya, this show keeps you guessing. First you think it will be a season of trying to fool the judge, then a season of trying to become better people in the class...now who the hell knows where it is going.
 
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spronk

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yeah really liked that ending, no clue what happens now

i was disappointed to learn there is no 4th hemsworth brother :(
 
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I saw a theory that seems very credible. Simone, who has been around for many episodes now, is not human.

It makes sense that the Good Place would have noticed that some shennaigans are going on and might have sent someone down to keep an eye on things.
 
Cybsled

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Could be plausible. Thus far the only agent we've seen from the Good Place, if you don't count Janet, is the videotape from the Medium Place.
 
Lanx

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Qhue said:
I saw a theory that seems very credible. Simone, who has been around for many episodes now, is not human.

It makes sense that the Good Place would have noticed that some shennaigans are going on and might have sent someone down to keep an eye on things.
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that would be kinda racially unsettling

that would mean the "real" good place sent a black? ethnic for chidi to hook up w/, basically what would be his soul mate in the "real" good place

and previously

the bad place sent pakistani ethnic fake elenor for chidi to hook up w/

hope this theory is wrong and simone is just a really good person and seemingly a "real" good place candidate.
 
Cybsled

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Ya, a good person could just be a good person. Not sure how the door reveal will play out, though. If they all go through the door "alive", then Simone being from the Good Place could be a way to avoid the Bad Place, although they would have to work around the whole pissed off Judge thing lol
 
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