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I rewound and watched 'touche' like five times.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:13
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Jet Jaguar posted:I didn't think they could top Derek drinking a martini made of a whole onion, garnished with an olive. I preferred the rainbow sprinkles.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:48
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SardonicTyrant posted:Michael specifically mentions in the first episode that points are calculated based on how much good or bad you add to the universe. The problem is the world gets increasingly complicated so it's impossible for a person to truly know how much good or bad an action is. Yea so if Tahani gives 1,000,000 to charity and that heals 40 people of malaria that gives you +300 points but then the one million was given for a bad reason so it deducts 300 points. Like in theory you could have a bad reason to do something but that something still gives you net more points - like with Mindy - but that doesn't make up for all the other stuff that removes your points. I don't expect we'll ever get an explanation for why the points work as they do or who came up with it though. I think that it makes sense that it's made for a society that existed a few thousand years ago and it doesn't apply to modern life though. I guess they're making fun of the US Government system with that one.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:55
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Wait, when did Michael give Tahani her after life memories back?
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Oct 25, 2019 14:06
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Taear posted:Like in theory you could have a bad reason to do something but that something still gives you net more points - like with Mindy - but that doesn't make up for all the other stuff that removes your points. Mindy didn't have a bad reason. She was high as a kite when she came up with it, but it was a genuine impulse to help.
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Oct 25, 2019 14:21
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from reddit: Click for huge
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Oct 25, 2019 14:40
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Evil Mastermind posted:from reddit: Oh god. Ultimate frisbee? It really is the Bad Place
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Oct 25, 2019 14:59
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I honestly can't even get over how perfect MEJ's stance and expression are on that poster. He really looks like he's going to teach me a hip, fun way to sell homeowner's insurance
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Oct 25, 2019 15:02
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Evil Mastermind posted:from reddit: It took me at least three times to read exorcisms not exercises.
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Oct 25, 2019 15:18
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I gotta say, them just saying 'oh I gave Elenor and Tahani their full memories back' kinda felt really skipped-over. Like, we've never seen them with more than a single version of memories, even eleanor only got a few glimpses in season 3, and now they got the full three hundred years back offscreen? I was expecting that to be a big deal, them remembering themselves doing things over and over and over and assimilating all the versions. You'd think it'd have a huge effect on their behavior and who they are.
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Oct 25, 2019 15:31
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Jet Jaguar posted:I didn't think they could top Derek drinking a martini made of a whole onion, garnished with an olive. Not to be pedantic (OK, yes, to be pedantic), but that martini was made of a white Christmas tree ornament, not an onion. When he took a bite out of it, it shattered/crunched. The AV Club reviewer made the same mistake!
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Oct 25, 2019 18:00
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MikeJF posted:I gotta say, them just saying 'oh I gave Elenor and Tahani their full memories back' kinda felt really skipped-over. Like, we've never seen them with more than a single version of memories, even eleanor only got a few glimpses in season 3, and now they got the full three hundred years back offscreen? I was expecting that to be a big deal, them remembering themselves doing things over and over and over and assimilating all the versions. You'd think it'd have a huge effect on their behavior and who they are. My gut feeling is that that was thrown in there so Chidi can recover his memories in the finale without it slowing down the plot.
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Oct 25, 2019 18:36
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Assless Chaps posted:Not to be pedantic (OK, yes, to be pedantic), but that martini was made of a white Christmas tree ornament, not an onion. When he took a bite out of it, it shattered/crunched. The AV Club reviewer made the same mistake! Didn't he take a bite out of the glass itself, not the object in it?
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Oct 25, 2019 19:00
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Assless Chaps posted:Not to be pedantic (OK, yes, to be pedantic), but that martini was made of a white Christmas tree ornament, not an onion. When he took a bite out of it, it shattered/crunched. The AV Club reviewer made the same mistake!
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Oct 25, 2019 19:03
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Next week, on the good place: they scale up the Demon Exploderer a hundred times and solve all their problems forever, human-style.  MikeJF fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 19:15
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It occurs to me that the fact that Bad Janet was neither marbleized nor returned to the Bad Place means that she probably still has some role to play in the story. Some people speculated her hooking up with Derek last week, and that seems possible, but it might instead be a Good Janet / Bad Janet power showdown at some point. Which would rule.pwn posted:I thought he was biting the martini glass I believe they mentioned on the podcast that your interpretation was correct. MikeJF posted:Next week, on the good place: they scale up the Demon Exploderer a hundred times and solve all their problems forever, human-style. Then again, now that Shawn knows that a demon-exploder is possible, he'll probably start mass-producing them...
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Oct 25, 2019 19:25
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Bobulus posted:It occurs to me that the fact that Bad Janet was neither marbleized nor returned to the Bad Place means that she probably still has some role to play in the story. Some people speculated her hooking up with Derek last week, and that seems possible, but it might instead be a Good Janet / Bad Janet power showdown at some point. Which would rule. Letting Derek and Bad Janet link up would help remove Derek as an antagonist to Jason. So it makes sense.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:27
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Is "getting arrested to protest climate change" positive or negative Good Place points? https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1187784134887796737?s=19
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Oct 25, 2019 20:25
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Is "getting arrested to protest climate change" positive or negative Good Place points? According to the ideal system, or what's currently in place? Because he required the use of plastic handcuffs, he took up someone's time with unpleasant work, and he required the use of paper. If it were up to me, it'd be a lot of points.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:34
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"you all stay and enjoy the full sized sandwiches" was a nice follow up by Tahani. E: the fact that this show has no swag is a loving crime! Where's my"dead eyes, eat hearts, can't lose" poster ? boo_radley fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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Oct 26, 2019 00:59
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boo_radley posted:"you all stay and enjoy the full sized sandwiches" was a nice follow up by Tahani. I saw somebody walking around with a Jeremy Bearimy t-shirt a while back and I regret not asking where he got it.
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Oct 26, 2019 02:11
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There were some good jokes this ep but man it looked like poo poo. What’s with all the weird green screened shots and that wide shot with E&T?
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Oct 26, 2019 05:58
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boo_radley posted:"you all stay and enjoy the full sized sandwiches" was a nice follow up by Tahani. She had some great lines in this episode, not just the "Please, I would never serve finger-sandwiches at a lakehouse." but also that great exchange (although misquoted by me :P): "I wouldn't know whether the salad fork goes next to the... whatever spoon..." "Actually the Whatever spoon is only used in very specific social situations..."
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Oct 26, 2019 05:58
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Something I hope the show addresses is what Simone's "fatal flaw" is. All the original four humans had at least one fatal flaw which got them sent to the Bad Place. What's Simone's? The experiment is supposed to show all four humans improving after their death, but for improvement to happen, they need to change their behaviors. Just "life is too complicated" is too nebulous a thing to qualify as a flaw in need of improvement. Simone's flaw needs to be identified and Team Cockroach needs to help encouraging her to fix it.
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Oct 26, 2019 14:39
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Her fatal flaw is that she is too awesome.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:32
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withak posted:Her fatal flaw is that she is too awesome. 
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Oct 26, 2019 15:41
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It makes practical sense that if the point rules were so badly broken, there’d be a lot of good people who could just start piling up points once you removed the complications of life on earth. And if Simone was just selected to mess with Chidi then she wouldn’t necessarily have a fatal flaw. From a storytelling perspective that would be super boring tho.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:41
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withak posted:Her fatal flaw is that she is Australian.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:43
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It seems that Simone's major flaw was a failure to admit when she's wrong, although Chidi has her thinking in a more positive way by "Just imagine that this was real, just in case you aren't right about it being a dream, and try to enjoy it." She probably still thinks that it's all neurone's misfiring in her head but she's being less awful about it and is just letting the "dream" play out.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:43
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CPColin posted:Her fatal flaw is that she is Australian. You know, accent doesn't bother me, an Australian, because I genuinely just hear it as a bad cockney or other English accent, it's so far from being Aussie. To me, she's English.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:45
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MikeJF posted:You know, accent doesn't bother me, an Australian, because I genuinely just hear it as a bad cockney or other English accent, it's so far from being Aussie. You're going down down UNDAH
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Oct 26, 2019 15:46
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She wasn't chosen because she has a fatal flaw, she was chosen to mess with Chidi who is the lynchpin of the whole operation.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:59
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swickles posted:She wasn't chosen because she has a fatal flaw, she was chosen to mess with Chidi who is the lynchpin of the whole operation. I like to think Shawn thought that, saw her behaviour when the experiment started like knocking over the cake and just went "Oh, cool. Hehehehehe..... I did not expect this but I love it..."
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Oct 26, 2019 16:02
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swickles posted:She wasn't chosen because she has a fatal flaw, she was chosen to mess with Chidi who is the lynchpin of the whole operation. Also, the system is so broken right now that otherwise good people are stacking up in the bad place because they technically contribute to every worst aspect of modern society no matter what they do. Also, she isn't necessarily "approximately as bad" as the main four since we know Shawn cheated hard when selecting the four new subjects. All that being said, she might still have some yet-unknown issue that will reveal itself over the coming episodes.
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Oct 26, 2019 16:21
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silvergoose posted:You're going down... Fixed that for ya.
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Oct 26, 2019 16:24
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MikeJF posted:You know, accent doesn't bother me, an Australian, because I genuinely just hear it as a bad cockney or other English accent, it's so far from being Aussie. To me, she's English.
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Oct 26, 2019 16:38
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Turns out Simone's fatal flaw is that she's a huge New Kids on the Block fan.
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Oct 26, 2019 16:39
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She was otherwise doing very well, but she bought a NKOTB bodypillow and Shawn just exclaimed "GOT HER!"
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Counterpoint: Humans are terrible. New Kids on the Block. Slavery. The prosecution rests.
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