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Phenotype
Jul 24, 2007

You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.



I don't have strong feelings on the issue, it just seems like such a weird thing to argue about when three pages of discussion about how great Janet looked without her shirt would be obviously pushing it.

Does it make any difference if Janet is technically an object?

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OctaviusBeaver
Apr 30, 2009

Say what now?
If you're mad that women are objectified (and I am too) then the solution is to stop objectifying women. It's not to start also objectifying men.

21 Muns
Dec 10, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

OctaviusBeaver posted:

If you're mad that women are objectified (and I am too) then the solution is to stop objectifying women. It's not to start also objectifying men.

No, it's to start exclusively objectifying men, HTH

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
Yeah, gotta tip the scales way the other way until the scorecard evens out.

Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

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.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Whalley posted:

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.
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.

Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

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.
You're right, Michael inadvertently causing the apocalypse is super on theme with everything else we've seen.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Whalley posted:

You're right, Michael inadvertently causing the apocalypse is super on theme with everything else we've seen.

Also on theme: All of this happening in the next episode.

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Me reading this thread rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb7D_QWYOyo&t=56s

Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

Xelkelvos posted:

Also on theme: All of this happening in the next episode.
Season ends with Janet restarting the universe with our four heroes as god figures

CryingCypress71
Oct 15, 2018

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.

Season 4 is Michael and Janet trying to rebuild the world after Shawn destroy’s it?

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
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.

I think endgame will be something along the lines of "the real Good Place is the one we make for ourselves".

Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


Season 4 sees the six of them in charge of running the rehab Good Places as a proof-of-concept that the Good Place should lay claim to every possible redeemable soul.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Someone who is actually in the journalism department is gonna find it and publish it with Janet's extremely thorough data included and it probably has verifiable and corroborating bits of info in it that no one else would know

Klungar
Feb 12, 2008

Klungo make bessst ever video game, 'Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World.'

Argue posted:

I think endgame will be something along the lines of "the real Good Place is the one we make for ourselves".

Have you been sneaking magnets again?

Robot Hobo
May 18, 2002

robothobo.com
I'm thinking that at some point the four humans will be let into the Good Place, positions fully earned, no strings attached.

And it turns out that the Good Place also sucks. So they're still not done.

CrimsonAuthor
Nov 14, 2006

Robot Hobo posted:

I'm thinking that at some point the four humans will be let into the Good Place, positions fully earned, no strings attached.

And it turns out that the Good Place also sucks. So they're still not done.

I can totally see cliques/classes based on their final scores.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

CrimsonAuthor posted:

I can totally see cliques/classes based on their final scores.

Same, but also porn habits

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌

Robot Hobo posted:

I'm thinking that at some point the four humans will be let into the Good Place, positions fully earned, no strings attached.

And it turns out that the Good Place also sucks. So they're still not done.

I can see them getting up to the Good Place and having it be boring or full of lovely people, then they contribute a season to fixing the Good Place or the system, whatever.

Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

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.
It's going to become the next Harry Potter, leading a monstrously large amount of the population to be "right" about the afterlife just because they are into the fic. This means when the world ends, way more people go to the good place than planned, causing the good place angels to get retribution on Michael this is Decided

ApplesandOranges
Jun 22, 2012

Thankee kindly.
My only guess is that Simone finds the manifesto. I'm really interested in where her character goes next. They're dealing with Tahani's ties, so I imagine they'll deal with Simone and Pillboy soon.

I also hope we see more cross-cast interactions now. It's almost been pretty much Eleanor-Chidi and Tahani-Jason this season, which is fine, but let's mix it up again. Hearing Eleanor refer to Tahani by name near the end was weird since it feels like forever since she's done that.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!
E: n/m

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Robot Hobo posted:

And it turns out that the Good Place also sucks.

"Welcome to the Good Place...welcome to Florida!"

Xealot
Nov 25, 2002

Showdown in the Galaxy Era.

Doltos posted:

I can see them getting up to the Good Place and having it be boring or full of lovely people, then they contribute a season to fixing the Good Place or the system, whatever.

I'm pretty convinced they'll get there eventually. "The Good Place" isn't all that great, because Hell is Other People and whatnot.

tarlibone
Aug 1, 2014
Fun Shoe

RBA Starblade posted:

"Welcome to the Good Place...welcome to Florida!"

This reminds me of a road trip my family took to Florida a couple years ago. We drove through Alabama and entered Florida on US 231. I always try to take a quick picture of the first big Welcome To _____ sign I see if I'm the passenger in the car. So, I see the one for Florida, and below the main sign is another sign that says that there's a replica of that sign just inside the Welcome Center. So, naturally, we went to the welcome center, and that's where we had our picture taken. I thought it was thoughtful, convenient, safe, and good.

As we pulled away, I looked, and there was a family of idiots pulled just barely off the road, taking pictures next to the sign that had a nice, safe replica away from the main road. One of them was even pointing, and the sign they were pointing to was the one that told them about the replica sign inside the nearby center. I'm sure they didn't notice this because, again, they were idiots.

That's how I know that Florida is a Bad Place masquerading as a Good Place. At least, that was my first clue. The rest of the clues were the interior of Florida, minus the NASA tour. The beach was nice, though.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Phenotype posted:

It's very simple, I think. How would you react if one of the actresses had a scene where she took her top off and walked around shirtless for a while, and tons of people started posting about how turned on they were? I think that would be pretty obviously gross. It shouldn't be any less gross just because it's a man that did it.
This position assumes men and women are treated equally. They aren't. It's less gross to admire a man's body to a television subforum because men aren't told from childhood that their looks are the only important thing about them.

OctaviusBeaver posted:

If you're mad that women are objectified (and I am too) then the solution is to stop objectifying women. It's not to start also objectifying men.
Agreed, but again, to objectify somebody is to reduce them to an object. You can admire somebody's looks without objectifying them.

There's a huge chasm of difference between "that woman is very attractive" and "I'd hit that." Between "holy poo poo, Chidi is JACKED," and doing some of the gross fetishizing of black bodies a lot of white people tend to do.

Kaedric
Sep 5, 2000

Did Chidi's actor used to be a fat guy? He's got the saggy nipples that fat dudes get.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Kaedric posted:

Did Chidi's actor used to be a fat guy? He's got the saggy nipples that fat dudes get.
Yeah, and to this day he doesn't like to ever be shirtless so this was a big deal for him.

Supercar Gautier
Jun 10, 2006

I would say there is a contextual distinction in that Janet's sexy waitress outfit carries connotations of fetishized servility (the extreme endpoint of this trope being Hooters or maid cafes), whereas the delight at shirtless Chidi is mostly coupled with praise of how well he/Harper takes care of himself.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Chidi is capable of any physicality which virtue might demand. He is truly committed to the philosophical life.

Phenotype
Jul 24, 2007

You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.



LividLiquid posted:

This position assumes men and women are treated equally. They aren't. It's less gross to admire a man's body to a television subforum because men aren't told from childhood that their looks are the only important thing about them.

Hm, that's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered, and I think I have to agree. Less gross because it's not reinforcing stereotypes and piling on.

Supercar Gautier posted:

I would say there is a contextual distinction in that Janet's sexy waitress outfit carries connotations of fetishized servility (the extreme endpoint of this trope being Hooters or maid cafes), whereas the delight at shirtless Chidi is mostly coupled with praise of how well he/Harper takes care of himself.

I think this is overthinking it heavily, though. I definitely liked seeing Janet in the sexy waitress outfit, but "fetishized servility" wasn't anywhere on my mind, it was just "pretty lady showing off her curves." Sometimes jean shorts are just jean shorts.

pwn
May 27, 2004

This Christmas get "Shoes"









:pwn: :pwn: :pwn: :pwn: :pwn:
I think it’s pretty obvious that

GreyjoyBastard posted:

please do not make the thread creepy thank you
was overreacting to

Davros1 posted:

So ... who do we petition to keep Janet in that waitress' uniform?
based on the criteria that

Davros1 posted:

So ... who do we petition to keep Janet in that waitress' uniform?
is simply admiring Carden’s appearance, and not getting gross about it

The Fuzzy Hulk
Nov 22, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT CROSSING THE STREAMS


I’m guessing the final scene of the entire series will be an old Elanore dying and then a close up of her young eyes opening and seeing the “Everything is fine” wall.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

The Fuzzy Hulk posted:

I’m guessing the final scene of the entire series will be an old Elanore dying and then a close up of her young eyes opening and seeing the “Everything is fine” wall.

Nah, that'll be the end of this season or something. The series will end with Michael taking his last breath and then waking up and seeing the "Everything is Fine" wall.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
The season will end with the gang killing God and declaring themselves rulers of a fateless cosmos.

Pigasus
Dec 26, 2009

Too fat to wear pink.

1stGear posted:

The season will end with the gang killing God and declaring themselves rulers of a fateless cosmos.

And the first rule is that everyone forking curses!

PizzaProwler
Nov 4, 2009

Or you can see me at The Riviera. Tuesday nights.
Pillowfights with Dominican mothers.

Pigasus posted:

And the first rule is that everyone forking curses!

This reminds me, I've started to find that my inner voice has started replacing "loving" with "forking" fairly regularly these days. Is this happening to anyone else?

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Only if I binge the show, and even then, only temporarily.

Binge-watching Deadwood has some disastrous side-effects for a week or so that you super need to keep in check. :stare:

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



So I heard this show was pretty good and I started it last weekend.
I'm caught up now and holymoly, what a ride.

I love this show now, and the latest episode settled all my concerns for S3. :3:

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tsob
Sep 26, 2006

Chalalala~
Listening to The Good Place podcast, I realize there must be some people in the Good Place for at least one more reason than those previously stated, since Michael comments that the most popular podcast there is Mozart and Jimmy Hendrix discussing music. Though frankly, the most popular one in the Bad Place, Stalin discussing The Bachelor sounds better and I've never even seen The Bachelor.

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