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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > The Good Place Season 3 - You put the peeps in the chili and you renew for s4
 
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YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

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MikeJF posted:

I mean yeah a little bit.

I do genuinely think though when watching the show that there's no good reason that the state of existence of the good place should be treated as an afterlife, instead of just the next stage of the human lifecycle. It made sense back when they thought that humans in the good place couldn't change and grow, but now we know they can it should be a grand civilization instead of a forced retirement village. This whole current concept seems like it's been been very artificially enforced on it by the various beings with power.

Ah well, at the rate Janet's going she'll be probably be able to rebuild the whole thing from the ground up by the end of it, so let's see where it goes.

The "eternal punishment for temporary sins" problem is an aspect of the broader paradox that, going by the literal understanding of an eternal afterlife, you have a finite life which represents an insigificant part of your infinite existence, and so the weight your mortal life should have on your afterlife risks falling into either:

-The disproportionate payoff presented on the show, where finite action = infinitely long consequences, your life casting this impossibly huge shadow over the rest of your "true" existence,
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-The perspective Michael's advocating for, where there's always an eternally valid opportunity to grow and change, which raises the question of what meaningful distinction there is between life and afterlife to begin with. You could even come to the perverse conclusion that :matters: as far as the morality of your present life is concerned since, hey, you'll always have time to redeem yourself later, right?

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YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

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The realization that everyone falls short of the standards of the true Good Place will prompt them to send a sinless being to be punished in everyone's stead and give everyone the opportunity to get redeemed by believing in him.

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > The Good Place Season 3 - You put the peeps in the chili and you renew for s4