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

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SixFigureSandwich: Oct 30, 2004; Exciting Lemon

silvergoose posted:

https://twitter.com/nbcthegoodplace/status/1222262589855424512

Chidi's should be chili :colbert:

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Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

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Chidi's should be chili

These are very obviously the actors since Tahani's would never in a million years be "farts" but Jameela is loving rad like that

# ? Jan 30, 2020 21:14

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

For what it's worth I'm an Episcopalian, so I do believe in an afterlife. To me, I think part of it has always been "heaven" or its equivalent would come with some kind of raised consciousness, you'd be much wiser than you are now and so it wouldn't be just about filling all your smallest desires until there's nothing left to do. Like maybe you could for a while, no point not enjoying the cocktail shrimp dispenser, but ideas of Heaven can be interpreted as some kind of transcendent state of being, and stuff about streets of gold and whatever are just images. Analogies.

But again, the whole point of the show has never really been about theology, it's more about philosophy and human nature. (And I'd hate for it to come down on some explicit "The very idea of an afterlife is stupid, take that theists" note.) The Good Place's metaphysics clearly derive some of their structure from the Christian idea that there's a Heaven and Hell (though even this has a lot of after-the-fact theology on it, Jesus doesn't talk a lot about the afterlife), but of course they don't include ideas like salvation-through-faith or even the existence of an authoritative God. Schur isn't critiquing a specific religious idea about the universe or morality, the show handwaves that in the first episode with "Well, all the religions got a little bit right and most of it wrong, also there's this guy named Doug."

So like I don't think the end of the show is setting up the ideal system for the afterlife. It's gonna be about our ongoing moral/ethical obligations. Even the "fixing the Good Place" bit can be read as the Gang getting a new moral problem to solve and finding an ethical solution (giving people the choice of whether they want eternity or not.)

Again at least that's what I hope.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 21:35

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

I wanted it to be explicitly against capitalism and it feels like it's dropped that.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 21:46

tsob: Sep 26, 2006; Chalalala~

Taear posted:

I wanted it to be explicitly against capitalism and it feels like it's dropped that.

It never picked it up in the first place. It wasn't capitalism that was loving up people and stopping them getting in to the good place, it was the increasing interconnectedness of society. In a society where you can reasonably expect your actions to affect or interact with someone on the other side of the world, even if only by degrees of contact, then every action you take affects them regardless of political, economic, religious or philosophical systems.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 22:43

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Despite most cast members making the talk show circuit this week, all clips shown were from prior episodes. And this is the official episode summary:

Vagueposting until the bitter end :allears:

# ? Jan 30, 2020 22:43

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

For those of you who can watch it live on NBC, there's going to be a live interview of the cast after the episode

(This is Mike Schur's Twitter account:)
https://twitter.com/kentremendous/status/1222925377682792448?s=21

# ? Jan 30, 2020 22:56

boo_radley: Dec 30, 2005; Politeness costs nothing

Neutral Janet strikes again!

# ? Jan 30, 2020 22:57

silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

Lutha Mahtin posted:

For those of you who can watch it live on NBC, there's going to be a live interview of the cast after the episode

(This is Mike Schur's Twitter account:)
https://twitter.com/kentremendous/status/1222925377682792448?s=21

That's going to be on Hulu next day too right?

# ? Jan 30, 2020 23:00

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

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

silvergoose posted:

That's going to be on Hulu next day too right?

I don't know if the interview will be on Hulu. I would guess that it will show up somewhere for people who can't watch it live, though.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 23:09

Pinwiz11: Jan 26, 2009; I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.

I'M NOT READY

# ? Jan 30, 2020 23:14

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Timings for tonight�s broadcast

Thought people watching live might find this handy for knowing how long the breaks will be. Also note that the show ends at 67 minutes, not 53. Assuming that the live post show starts immediately after the sixth break, the running time of the finale, without commercials, is 47:58.

pwn fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 31, 2020

# ? Jan 31, 2020 00:25

Eat This Glob: Jan 14, 2008; God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

Lutha Mahtin posted:

For those of you who can watch it live on NBC, there's going to be a live interview of the cast after the episode

(This is Mike Schur's Twitter account:)
https://twitter.com/kentremendous/status/1222925377682792448?s=21

Thanks for this! My cable says there's a new SVU on at 9, so i set that up to record too. I'm glad my wife is out and about tonight cuz crying at a sitcom is something I've never done that I can recall at least

# ? Jan 31, 2020 00:32