emgeejay posted:Yeah, this is my guess because it ties into the show's soft metafiction. They'll try to give the newbies a Good Place free of "all the variables that make life on Earth hard," and they'll be shocked to discover the new characters don't grow or change. Without Michael's sitcom torture scenarios, these new dirtbags will run amok with the Janet babies, leading to oh... you know I keep wondering whether we'll end up with a meta-good place, where they have to convince the new inhabitants that they're in a similar situation to what our main characters used to be in
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ashpanash posted:That was Chidi.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 05:25 |
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ashpanash posted:That was Chidi. And I hope it's an unmentioned running gag for the rest of the series, just the occasional tiny Chidi flying past in the background
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 05:32 |
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I liked the nuclear colored syrup jars in the IHOP - glow in the dark yellow and pink. Also Jason Mantzoukas' comments about his classy martini and his mostly functional penis in the podcast are amazing.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 06:29 |
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Azhais posted:And I hope it's an unmentioned running gag for the rest of the series, just the occasional tiny Chidi flying past in the background I feel like it's more likely to be a Bearimy-influenced brick joke: later on, we return to the IHOP, and Chidi ends up getting flung through space, at which point we see that scene distantly in the background.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I feel like it's more likely to be a Bearimy-influenced brick joke: later on, we return to the IHOP, and Chidi ends up getting flung through space, at which point we see that scene distantly in the background.
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pwn posted:
Now I’m wondering who’s on the blimp.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 11:59 |
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pwn posted:
Can someone circle it? It's all just...dark to me, I don't see anything.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 12:59 |
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Taear posted:Can someone circle it? It's all just...dark to me, I don't see anything. here you go
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E.J.Olmos posted:here you go Thank you!
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 14:53 |
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I think it's trevor. Here's a screencap of Trevor's last sighting: it's not conclusive either way, but it looks more like Trevor than tiny chidi imo?
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 15:03 |
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Trevor's wearing a jacket with dark sleeves in that picture
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 17:50 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:Oh poo poo. Stone Cold Steve Austin cameo incoming. I would be disappointed if some demons didn't get stunnered.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 22:42 |
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emgeejay posted:Trevor's wearing a jacket with dark sleeves in that picture But Chidi doesn't have sleves.
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 23:08 |
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It's different coloured clothes than he's wearing at the later point in the episode. Don't think it's him.
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# ? Jan 21, 2019 00:00 |
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https://twitter.com/MarcEvanJackson/status/1087150333699051520
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# ? Jan 21, 2019 02:02 |
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If only “I acquit” was settled this quickly.
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# ? Jan 21, 2019 02:36 |
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Something I'd love to see would be Shawn hating having to visit the Medium Place to check on the neighborhood because Mindy is constantly horny and won't stop asking him if he's down to gently caress. She makes him uncomfortable in the same way Trevor made Eleanor uncomfortable.
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# ? Jan 21, 2019 21:18 |
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Is Thursday the season finale?
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 05:30 |
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Your Taint posted:Is Thursday the season finale? Yes. I'm devastated.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 05:56 |
The Lord Bude posted:Yes. I'm devastated. Ah, human insults.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 13:46 |
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I really don’t care if this is a thing or not since this show is too good but is Mindy St Clair a plot hole now? Wasn’t her thing that she was the only person to ever have a completely neutral score? But now we see that every other person is in the negatives due to capitalism, so is Mindy St Clair actually the best person because she is the closest anyone has gotten in 500 years to being in positive numbers?
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 17:58 |
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Abisteen posted:I really don’t care if this is a thing or not since this show is too good but is Mindy St Clair a plot hole now? Wasn’t her thing that she was the only person to ever have a completely neutral score? But now we see that every other person is in the negatives due to capitalism, so is Mindy St Clair actually the best person because she is the closest anyone has gotten in 500 years to being in positive numbers? It was a really good coke idea
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 18:01 |
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Abisteen posted:I really don’t care if this is a thing or not since this show is too good but is Mindy St Clair a plot hole now? Wasn’t her thing that she was the only person to ever have a completely neutral score? But now we see that every other person is in the negatives due to capitalism, so is Mindy St Clair actually the best person because she is the closest anyone has gotten in 500 years to being in positive numbers? The general idea is that the entire concept of the point system is hosed up and arbitrary. People used to get in more not because the system was at any point ever good or fair or consistent but despite the system. Because the system's so inflexible and dumb on every level it's not letting anyone in at all. Mindy's case was special, why was it special? Because of the arbitrary point values given to so many acts. She just managed to button-mash her life and half-press A in the right pattern to map-glitch into a medium place.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 18:08 |
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I think it's also important that she never actually followed through with the plan so she was given all the positive points for the gesture without incurring the negative points from the side effects of implementation
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 18:49 |
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yorkinshire posted:I think it's also important that she never actually followed through with the plan so she was given all the positive points for the gesture without incurring the negative points from the side effects of implementation
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 19:26 |
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Shawn is an rear end, but I don't blame him for it - if he accepts that Humans are better than he thinks they are, that's a inroad to something potentially very dangerous for him - empathy. A demon who suddenly empathises with his victims isn't going to be as effective at his only job - Michael was only able to cope because he changed his job himself by rebelling against the system. I think his current behaviour trying to psyche out Michael is partially motivated by fear. If the experiment succeeds, his entire worldview is neutered. Trillions of years of torture called into question because what if?
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 19:40 |
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The real problem isn’t that no one gets into the good place, it’s that if you don’t get into the good place, you’re tortured.
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BioEnchanted posted:Shawn is an rear end, but I don't blame him for it - if he accepts that Humans are better than he thinks they are, that's a inroad to something potentially very dangerous for him - empathy. A demon who suddenly empathises with his victims isn't going to be as effective at his only job - Michael was only able to cope because he changed his job himself by rebelling against the system. I think his current behaviour trying to psyche out Michael is partially motivated by fear. If the experiment succeeds, his entire worldview is neutered. Trillions of years of torture called into question because what if? Or Shawn could be a dick because he chooses to be. He seems to enjoy being an rear end in a top hat, not just to humans, but to the demons around him. That's how he is. Trevor seemed to be in the same boat.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 20:10 |
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ashpanash posted:if you don’t get into the good place, you’re tortured. Shawn invented those.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 20:11 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Or Shawn could be a dick because he chooses to be. He seems to enjoy being an rear end in a top hat, not just to humans, but to the demons around him. That's how he is. Trevor seemed to be in the same boat.
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Robot Hobo posted:By bees with penises. Since nearly all bees are biologically female I wonder if that's even more torture to conservatives. Post-Op Trans bees! ashpanash fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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I still can't get over that Michael is a fallen demon, i.e. an angel.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 21:39 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Or Shawn could be a dick because he chooses to be. He seems to enjoy being an rear end in a top hat, not just to humans, but to the demons around him. That's how he is. Trevor seemed to be in the same boat. yeah. all the demons are just horrible because they are, demons. michael is a demon who also happens to be fascinated with humans and by trying to be a trickster who engaged in psychological torture of humans he accidentally taught himself empathy and whoops. michael is a human weeb
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 21:53 |
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I'd guess Shawn definitely cheated on the selection but that will, like most everything else on this show, have massive unintended consequences.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:00 |
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I do think there's another shoe that will drop at some point regarding Michael. He's the only demon to develop empathy, he's named after the archangel of death, he's able to be more creative than the other demons...do we ever see him being chummy with any demons after the "holy forking shirtballs" moment, aside from telling a massive slug monster he looks like he lost weight? The fan theories are that he's either a mortal or angel going through his own purgatory, or that he's a fallen angel that's forgotten but is refinding himself. Regardless of the reason, there's something that sets him apart from the other demons.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:58 |
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Eew, no. I hope they never do that. he's a demon who was curious about humans and wanted to shake things up, make things more interesting than the same old poo poo we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. End of story. He is growing into something more on account of this journey, just like Janet. But he's a simple goddamn junior architect when this shitstorm started. If they change that the writing would undermine 3 seasons' worth of character growth and replace it with a cheap *gotcha*. Remember that this is what michael used to think was fine: and he's so much better now. So again, eeeeewwwww. double nine fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jan 23, 2019 |
# ? Jan 22, 2019 23:45 |
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Yeah, some revelation about Michael being a fallen angel with amnesia would end up confusing. It would either be a case of neither he nor anyone else knew it, in which case it hasn't had any influence on the past few seasons, or the other demon higher ups knew and didn't get any alarm bells when a fallen angel started talking about his own Good Place but it's really for torture honest.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 00:18 |
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Michael is definitely a Demon. A free thinking Demon, but a Demon nonetheless. I would like to see the Angel version of Michael though. More exploration into the weirdness that is "The Good Place" would be neat.
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They are not demons at all but rather djinni
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