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Spoilers The Good Place - Season 1

Cyrus said:
It was OK. Not sure if I keep watching. I think the "other place" will turn out to be a better place, less boring, probably like Vegas.
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I don't think they'll go that way with it. Rather than the whole Good Place/Bad Place thing being an outright lie, I think we'll just see a reevaluation of how you get into each place. I could maybe see a bit of grey getting put into the Good Place and maybe a bit of light into The Bad Place, but I doubt the Bad Place will be better.
 
My reaction to the end was "Yes, I was right! Oh shit, what?" I did not see that coming with Jianyu, and it definitely adds an interesting new layer to everything.
I loved Juliette's attempts at different different personalities, although it does seem like I might have been wrong, and she really is not much more than a computer in human form.
 
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I saw the first three episodes of The Good Place tonight. What a weird but funny show that was. Not as good as Parks and Recreation yet but it's still early. I do wonder how they can make this a 5 year series though. Also, who is Elenore's boyfriend when she was alive?
 
JD said:
My reaction to the end was "Yes, I was right! Oh shit, what?" I did not see that coming with Jianyu, and it definitely adds an interesting new layer to everything.
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It will be interesting to learn more about Jianyu and why he feels that he does not belong in the Good Place.

I loved Juliette's attempts at different different personalities, although it does seem like I might have been wrong, and she really is not much more than a computer in human form.
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I thought that was one of the funniest parts of the episode.
 
Jianyu definitely didn't talk like a Buddhist monk, so I'm thinking that was a lie, but I don't know if that would be enough to get you a low enough score not to get into The Good Place.
It's not the other place, they specifically call it The Bad Place.
 
The third episode definitely showed some promise of interesting stuff to come. I originally assumed that any characters 'there by mistake' are not actually meeting their soul-mates, but that may depend upon my meaning to the term soul-mate. In this context, it could just mean an individual who happens to provide a moral balance to his/her 'mate.' For instance, Kristen Bell's character seems to have gone through life without being taught basic morality, and her soul-mate is a teacher who has been so stuck thinking about morality that he never had to put those moral theories into practice. Perhaps each of the pairs are meant to learn from each other.
 
They were very clear about how a soul mate is like all that #### from a love story.

They think Eleanor is someone else who wants to live in that toy sized house.

The same wrong data they used to figure that El wanted that house, is the same wrong data, that they used to figure out who her soulmate is.
 
They defined what a soulmate is.

That's different from whether or not anyone in this show is being given their soulmate, or if it's all misdirection and psy-ops.
 
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Let's put aside the definition of soul-mate. In this case, I'm merely saying that somebody may be using (or subverting, depending upon your perspective) the soul-mate-pairing-system to act as a teaching mechanism.
 
That would imply that the good place is not a final reward for a good life, and that everyone on-staff is in on the trick, whatever that trick may turn out to be.

What I find bizarre, is that you still may need psychologically disturbing porn (Janet offered to generate porn in the pilot) despite being in the local of your soulmate.
 
Guy Gardener said:
That would imply that the good place is not a final reward for a good life,
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Correct. It might only be that way for this Good Place community, though. We don't know if this is a 'normal' or unique situation. Somebody (possibly behind the scenes) could be changing the rules because he/she/it disagrees with the way the afterlife is being managed.

and that everyone on-staff is in on the trick, whatever that trick may turn out to be.
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Not necessarily. We don't know how any of this really works, so we don't know who would have to be 'in on the trick' to make it work.
 
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