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The Good Place S2 |OT| Well, We Forking Here Now - Thursdays 8:30/7:30c
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No, winking is bad. You should not be winking. Or saying the word wink!
You know, the more I see them together, the more I wonder if they're heading in some direction where Michael/Shawn offers to make Eleanor into a demon apprentice.
I'd love to see a S3 where Eleanor has to run her own torture simulation
Whoa, that was a rush of memories... Derek's jumpsuit is the exact style my grandpa used to always wear, just different colors. Down to the damned belt buckle. He died 35 years ago, I had no idea they were still made.
I was expecting a return in February or March at the worst so this is really great.
So, do you guys think that the soul mates are real in that universe? I mean, not the suggested couples, just the concept of it in the real good place. The logistics are a bit weird. How come both arrive at the good place at the same time? The first one to die has his/hers soul frozen in time?
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I figured the after life technology and powers would be able to legitimately find soul mates if they want to
We don't know how the actual heaven works
Frozen until the time is right sounds like a good guess. Mindy St. Claire says she was "sleeping" until they decided upon sending her to the Medium Place, so it wouldn't be surprising that other souls would go through the same thing in regards to waiting for soul mates.
But yeah, like caliph95 said we don't know enough.
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It could also be that things work so differently in the afterlife that our concept of time simply doesn't apply to it. Maybe the beings native to it can look at our universe and see everything that ever has happened or ever will happen at once and simply pluck souls out of it any time they want. For a while now I've been wanting someone to ask about how things are going back on Earth, because that would tell us a lot about how things work in the afterlife. The interview said all the iterations took 200-250 years, so would one of them looking at Earth see our future, or would they just see things as they were not long after they died?
I've definitely got looots of questions related to time scale, lol.
The biggest question in my mind: the next episode might clear this up a bit, but the fact that Michael's experiment was left to run for 200-250 years seemingly completely unnoticed by Shawn tells us that the demons, or whatever they'd like to call themselves, operate on absurdly long time scales relative to how long humans normally live. Humanity, as a race, however, hasn't really been around all that long - quick Googling tells me we only know of human societies (as opposed to more animalistic nomads) dating back 30,000 years. If 250 years is a drop in the bucket, then certainly they weren't torturing intelligent humans all this time...?
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that whatever they're in doesn't actually have time that flows the same way it does on Earth - what the characters perceived as 250 years of time isn't actually the amount of time that has passed on Earth since they died. But maybe we can work this out with a few more data points. Like: did Mindy ever state approximately how long she had been around as of the very first time she was paid a visit?
The biggest question in my mind: the next episode might clear this up a bit, but the fact that Michael's experiment was left to run for 200-250 years seemingly completely unnoticed by Shawn tells us that the demons, or whatever they'd like to call themselves, operate on absurdly long time scales relative to how long humans normally live. Humanity, as a race, however, hasn't really been around all that long - quick Googling tells me we only know of human societies (as opposed to more animalistic nomads) dating back 30,000 years. If 250 years is a drop in the bucket, then certainly they weren't torturing intelligent humans all this time...?
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that whatever they're in doesn't actually have time that flows the same way it does on Earth - what the characters perceived as 250 years of time isn't actually the amount of time that has passed on Earth since they died. But maybe we can work this out with a few more data points. Like: did Mindy ever state approximately how long she had been around as of the very first time she was paid a visit?
Around 30 years since she woke up dead and started living in the Medium Place, unless she had visitors before (which seems unlikely). This is what she says about her time there:
—Sorry about before. One of the perks of living alone is that I get to just walk around naked.
—My kind of gal. And I gotta say, you keep it tight.
—Oh, that is the nicest and only thing anyone has said to me in 30 years.
(...)
—So I was a hotshot corporate lawyer in the 1980s. I only cared about making money and doing cocaine.
(...)
—Oh, so the question was, did you get credit for all those good person points or not?
—Exactly. I don't know how long my case was pending or whatever, but when I woke up, the two sides had been fighting about me for a long time. Like a stripper over that last bump of coke at the party, if you know what I mean.
So, most of what we know about the overall Bad Place/Good Place and the people who staff it comes from Michael, and since most of it's from the first season we should probably be taking it with a pretty mountainous grain of salt. Clearly, they work on long time scales, but not incredibly long - Michael's proposal that he could get humans to torture each other for a thousand years was treated as fairly impressive, which does seem to bely his claim of being literally timeless, since by the universe's standards that's fuckin' nothing. "A thousand years? Great, what about the next 14 billion?" So they probably haven't been doing this since literally forever.
I would be curious to hear whether or not there's other sentient species in The Good Place's universe, though I'd assume there are.
January 4th is what it says above. I have noticed a few shows having mid-season breaks.
It has been explained several times, but the Thanksgiving holiday in the US is soon. It always falls on a Thursday, and there is football in the weeks leading up to it (because America) so all the shows airing on Thursday go to bed for a bit.
New episodes start in January.
Okay, thanks everyone! I get taking a break for thanksgiving but staying gone until January?! What is on American TV for all of December? jfkgoblu suggests it's football, but surely there can't be football all the time?
Football, the occasional midseason replacement, "gap shows" like Agent Carter, etc.
Lots of things. Most of them not very good.
More than likely they are also still filming/post production as we speak so the break serves to allow more production time/airing without more sporadic breaks.
It literally is 8 weeks of Thursday Night Football. So in December it is just football on Thursday nights.
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So I see we are on a break now? That's alright, I have to catch up. Are we 7 episodes into the season so far?
I'm currently on episode 3 and is having a good time. I like it showed us all these attempts at making the plan work but her always figuring it out, and that Michael's boss thinks he's still on the second try.
Also, fork yes at a third season.
I'm currently on episode 3 and is having a good time. I like it showed us all these attempts at making the plan work but her always figuring it out, and that Michael's boss thinks he's still on the second try.
Also, fork yes at a third season.
This show reminds me of Future Man, another awesome comedy I just binge watched. We are swimming in awesome comedies these days.