Spoilers The Good Place Season 4

[Tallguy]

That was the one thing the episode touched on that was interesting. How long eternity is. Hypatia of Alexandria has "only" been in The Good Place for ~2500 years, right? That's only a blip on even a geological scale.

Michael says that humans can't take in the enormity of The Good Place or it will melt their brains (that was close, right?). And then we find out the Good Place is just feeling swell all the time. That's not terribly enormous.

I'm still wondering why oblivion is preferable to "just feeling good all the time". I suppose I'm wondering what the functional difference is.

 

[Takeru]

So have people change jobs every so often, build totally new skills. It might not make it last forever but still longer.

Maybe to keep things thrilling make it like a video game, if you die you go back to the respawn point. Or make it so you can fine tune up and down your experience of pain so you can still have consequences for failure. It might not please the real adrenaline junkies but it’d at least make paradise last longer.

None of these are perfect solutions, but I think adding real consequences and real responsibilities that other people depend on would extend the enjoyabolity of paradise.

And there’s probably avenues of development you can’t even explore in a human body. Say you get your hardware updated so you can fully imagine a 4D space. Imagine the new boundaries of art, gaming. That alone would add another millennium of hobbies.

Sure, you can do all that but even if it keeps you entertained for a billion years you still have eternity left.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Yeah, no matter what you’d eventually teach a state of boredom, but approaches like this could extend the period for a much longer time.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

They go through the door and find out Brent is actually God, and he was testing them.

That's so horrible that I almost love it!

 

[tomalak301]

That's so horrible that I almost love it!

It feels like a very good place thing to do.

 

[Jayson1]

So have people change jobs every so often, build totally new skills. It might not make it last forever but still longer.

Maybe to keep things thrilling make it like a video game, if you die you go back to the respawn point. Or make it so you can fine tune up and down your experience of pain so you can still have consequences for failure. It might not please the real adrenaline junkies but it’d at least make paradise last longer.

None of these are perfect solutions, but I think adding real consequences and real responsibilities that other people depend on would extend the enjoyabolity of paradise.

And there’s probably avenues of development you can’t even explore in a human body. Say you get your hardware updated so you can fully imagine a 4D space. Imagine the new boundaries of art, gaming. That alone would add another millennium of hobbies.

I think this would work and keep people happy for a very long time but immortality is so long that eventually you would run out of new jobs and new challenges. Not to mention at some point you would undergo so many experiences and live so long you would stop being who you were when you first came to the afterlife. Basically you have to stop being human to endure. Which kind of defeats the point of living forever.


Jason

 

[JD]

The series finale is tonight, and I'm very, very curious if things are going to play out the way a lot of us seem to be expecting or if they're going to throw some kind of final twist at us before the end.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

One final twist: Shawn was secretly running The Good Place this whole time!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Was that supposed to be Nick Offerman the actor or Ron Swanson the character? Both would help Tanahi make a chair.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

(Tears up)

Tahani’s parents arrive in the Good Place and immediately embrace their children as equal.

I wonder how many tries it took Brent.

 

[Awesome Possum]

That was so beautiful.

 

[Snaploud]

Great ending. I love this show.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Was that supposed to be Nick Offerman the actor or Ron Swanson the character? Both would help Tanahi make a chair.

The credits listed him as Nick Offerman.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

"Honestly, when I found out Carrie Coon was never nominated, I almost erased two percent of humanity."

Such a beautiful, perfect ending. Each of the six core cast members moved on in such an eloquent way that fit just right for each of them. However, the sweetest, most touching moment was when Eleanor showed just how much she had learned and grown by letting Chidi go on his own terms, without her.

I loved how just about every important character throughout the series returned, with the two exceptions of Donna Shellstrop and Trevor. Bonus points for the perfect cameos for Nick Offerman as eitehr himself or Ron Swanson (why not both?) and Mary Steenburgen as Michael's guitar teacher.

"The Final Chapter" now ranks among some of the finest series finales, including but certainly not limited to "START," "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," "-30-," "Sleeping in Light," "All Good Things...," "Felina," "Meanwhile," "The Book of Nora," and "The End."

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The credits listed him as Nick Offerman.

I might have liked the implication that all Schur shows are in the same universe more.

Who is Trevor again? Was it Chidi’s friend from the trolley?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Who is Trevor again? Was it Chidi’s friend from the trolley?

No, he was the demon played by Adam Scott.

 

[tomalak301]

Just finished watching it. The bar on how I judge series finales is TNG’s all good things...

The Good Place tied that bar. This was beautiful and the way the cast went was so amazing and emotional. To see the journey of these characters end this way was almost the perfect ending.

 

[Captain Crow]

Yay! Magic Panda!

with the two exceptions of Donna Shellstrop and Trevor.

Trevor is in it.

Pay close attention to the background the first time with Jeff. He zips past screaming still suffering from the Judge's flicking in the 3rd episode of season 3. He zips past in a similar fashion in the 12th episode of season 3 when the the group are walking to the IHOP door.

 

[StarMan]

"The Final Chapter" now ranks among some of the finest series finales, including but certainly not limited to "START," "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," "-30-," "Sleeping in Light," "All Good Things...," "Felina," "Meanwhile," "The Book of Nora," and "The End."

"Sleeping in Light" flickered across my mind when Chidi and Eleanor were sitting outside at sunset and she asked him to go before she woke up.

Perfect finale. I think adding the unknown back into their existence with The Door really gave their moving on poignancy. Just a beautiful, touching ending.

 

[Kirk Prime]

It was an interesting finale. It makes you think a lot. Sure, eternity is a long time, but even boredom seems better than oblivion. I think Tehani made the most sense. She continuously looked for new challenges, and when she found no more, she managed to find something new--something that would get her to help others reach where she reached. It was a good enough idea that it gave her purpose.

Ultimately, if there is a divine being out there, I would think that there would always be a purpose. Yes, eternity is a long time, but if there is something beyond life, then one must think it would evolve enough that you can always have challenges.

I guess where it gets interesting is figuring out what happens when you go through the door. It seemed like Eleanor just becomes an idea, and then oblivion.

If that's it, then the afterlife is just an extension, however long, of life.

And why would they always end up on Earth around the time they died? Time may not be linear after death, but you would think curiosity would have people checking in on Earth and seeing all the latest progress and inventions.

You could literally explore the entire universe, see if there really IS life on other planets. So much is out there, so many new people to meet.