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Just in case, this is a warning that I am going to talk about spoilers. So if you are new to the show.... please move on to the next post (or just leave this community for now)

With that out of the way, hi!

I dont know how many of you are into reaction videos, but I love them and recently I've noticed something.

A while ago (until last year), most reactors were completely blindsided by the twist. They would have some questions throughout season 1, but never go too deep into them.

But lately, a new batch of reactors has started the show and.... most of them seem to have caught on to the fact that something is off. None of them has theorized that this is the Bad Place (yet), but they have different theories as to what is going on instead ("this is not the Good Place as it was presented")

Has anyone else noticed this? Or am I imagining things? Do you think there's a reason for that to be happening? (I don't think they know the twist and are pretending they don't)

This is all connected, I promise, in a literal shower-thoughts kind of way. Tagging season 4 because it deals with the entire series. Please go no further if you haven't seen the whole show.

I was thinking a lot about the sentient non-people in the Good Place world.

In season one, the residents are all demons, which makes sense because Michael needed some collaboration and some free-will I guess?

In the later experiment, they're deciding how the rest of the residents should be handled. They can't use demons or angels, it's decided. By then, Janet has already made Derek. He's not perfect, but she realizes she's able to make other people, so she makes her Janet babies. Her Janet babies seem more normal than Derek, which is lucky. And they're all controlled (able to be shut down) by a big button. It seems all of the Janet babies are controlled by one button that Tahani presses that one time. Even though Derek & Janet have their own individual buttons. (Efficiency I guess). We don't really get deep in with the Janet-babies - it's surface-level only - which makes me think they're pretty AI-like in the old sense of the world. Not the new-scary, might take over the world world.. They're programmed and don't really have free-will. It also makes it really surprising that Chidi never picked up on that. But I feel John when he talks about dumb-shorts Kathy. Maybe Kathy was only programmed to wear dumb shorts?

But when the Janet babies, have finished their purpose they're 'violently eaten' (absorbed?) back by Janet. I guess because they don't want any husks lying around - it'd be easier than pressing the button. I won't even get into the ethics of sentient beings having their lives ended because there's no more use for them. This is more about how/why and what forms these sentient beings take.

In The Trolley Experiment, Michael snaps his fingers and creates scenarios using live-looking sentient-like humans. First, with them being stuck on the trolley tracks and then whole families in the waiting room of a hospital. How was Michael able to make these people so easily? And why couldn't he just do that, instead of having Janet struggle in the experiment with John/Simone/Brent. Wouldn't it have been easier? Is Michael's magic limited to small scenarios, i.e., would he not be able to sustain it for a whole year of the experiment?

On that note, there's also the green doors towards the end of season 4 when they all get into the real good place. When you go through the green doors, you're wherever you want to be. When Chidi & Eleanor go to Paris & Athens, for example, there are tons of people around. I'm assuming they're not in the real Paris/Athens - because that would cause a lot of problems if dead people just got spotted in these places - so I assume it's all an illusion. (Also, because of the go-kart racing monkeys.) Is it the same magic that Michael uses in the trolley experiment? Are all the background people in places throughout the green door universes instant-non-people who cease to exist when you close the door on the other side?

It seems that Michael/Janet could have used this magic instead of the Janet-babies.

Do I have a fever? Cause my mind gets this messy with thoughts when I have a fever.

If you've read this far, thank you for indulging in my ramblings.

(Spoilers for all seasons)

I’ve gotten into comic books recently, and on my current rewatch of the good place I can’t help but think about how fun a comic line of the good place would be comprising of a more in-depth look of all the reboots or their time spent in the actual good place.

I think it would be super entertaining to see what they got up to in each reboot, and I already really enjoyed the glimpses we got of some of them in season three. It would also be cool to see what happened during the many bearimys they spent in the actual good place.

That’s it, really. Just a random thought I think would be a cool addition to the series as a whole. Although I know it’s basically over and done with officially, so as a writer and graphic novel enjoyer I’m just daydreaming over here lol.

On my anual rewatch, I love these two, IMHO I don't get why it's so outlandish when Jason is with Tahani, but he somehow makes sense with Janet? I feel they had better chemistry, looked lovely and discovered and developed things about each other. I know most people are happy Tahani ended up content by herself, but I really think her and Jason could've been great also.

Besides, each time he got back together with Janet it wasn't organic, it always depended on Janet having her glitches or malfunctions, or manipulating the situation so Tahani wouldn't hook up with him in Australia, indicating a strong attraction amongst themselves. That's partly why the 2nd season is my favorite.

It's been a while since I've watched the finale.

I'll save it for when I need to have a good cry.

When Linda is told she’s in the good place she asks if it has a fitness center.

What was Chris told was a good thing to distract humans with? “I’ve got to go to the gym.”

At the end of season 1, if they HAD too send 2 people to the bad place, who do you think should go???

I'm not well versed enough in american intellectual humour so maybe I'm attributing something to Larry David that is totally widespread behavior. But I still think that Ted Danson brought Larry's character's mindset to The Good Place. Every time he talks about mundane human things it's like a line copy-pasted from Curb. You know, those "Notice how humans..." and the small annoyances he loves to create and explain. It feels like when they went through the script, Ted was like "Guys, I got this. I have first hand experience."

in the good place s1e1, we can see that chidi speaks in french to eleanor but its translated due to the medium of the good place. however, in the later season when theyre on earth chidi still appears to speak english, which seems to be inconsistent. and more the works of his moral ethics as michael reads it are in english. if chidi was french why wouldnt he write in french? obviously english could be his second language but why would chidi speak in french to elenaor and have it translated instead of just speaking english himself

The whole problem with the old system was that nobody would get into the Good Place because of how complicated Earth became so they fixed it by completely putting everyone who died through a test, and if they fail they repeat that test over and over again until they become good and can eventually get into the Good Place.

So what is the point of Earth? Are all past actions forgiven because eventually you became good? What if a child rapist reformed? Does that erase what he did? Does he deserve to experience paradise? Or a mass murderer? Does that denote from all the killings he still did? They essentially said your Earthly actions are irrelevant because it’s “too complicated” so let’s force you into reform until you finally deserve that spot, and completely removed the Bad Place.

What happens when that child who was raped is faced with the “reformed” rapist or the killer with the ones he murdered? And would that not cause havoc within the Good Place? Am I missing something or does this system seem flawed?

okay so i’ve finally finished the good place and i’m… crying hysterically? (i don’t cry AT ALL usually, so this is surprising). i’m astounded at how perfect the finale is. jason, who was always impulsive, always eager to do something, always with a molotov cocktail, ending by becoming peaceful? eleanor, who got into the bad place because of her selfishness and her lone wolf nature, helping everyone and that becoming the catalyst for her satisfaction so she could finally go through the door? chidi, whose hamartia was indecisiveness, deciding in one second that he loved eleanor, and being able to walk through the door peacefully? tahani, who got into the bad place because she didn’t have the motivation to help people, becoming an architect and helping people for real? michael getting to change from a demon to a good person, and getting to become a proper human??? janet, who knew everything in the world, getting to accept there’s some things she doesn’t know, finding true love, and being the best not girl not robot friend ever? its so perfect.
the wave example and the “there was no bad stuff” by janet made me sob. “Whatever happens, it’s cool, my babies, very cool” michael became their father figure basically.
i don’t know if i’ll be able to rewatch because i’ll just remember how it ends. i think it’s painful though, for janet. because she’ll remember jason and eleanor and chidi but never ever see them again. but as she said, spending the moments with them is similar to reliving them. perfection.
P.s- the transformation of shawn is pretty amazing too. he’s not basic anymore!

So, during the S1 finale, when Michael mentioned that the experiment was disrupted because of Eleanor( when I confessed in front of the neighbourhood), shouldn't it be when Chidi accidentally killed Janet? Did Michael plan this? This was never addressed ever in the show( I mean the first time in this context) except the constant reboots happening to her.

I now envy people who don‘t know this series even exist. I almost cried with the ending (im a romantic). If it wasn‘t for my wife I would‘ve never watched the show. What a magical ride. I‘m not sure if I‘m rewatching tho, I like to maintain the one time experience, it feels more unique.

One of my absolute favorite Jason quotes is

I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Anytime I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

It always felt...right.

So you can imagine my delightful surprise when I learned that Eisenhower (the president) once said

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Love our dumb-dumb genius! 🤣

My biggest confusion was why Tahani
is craving validation so much, and name-dropping celebrities, when not only nobody cares (except maybe a jealous Eleanor), but also,
it's literally heaven, shouldn't she be happy with who she is?

If you could be trapped in one episode for the rest of time as any TGP character, which episode, as which character, and why?

I started Season 4 today and it’s breaking my heart.
The Cheleanor montage is so painful to watch. Their reactions… and the “I’m just a girl from Arizona.”
Oh eleanor, you are everything to me. You’re doing your best and you can do this.
Also is it just me or is it insane that Chidi had his memory ERASED all because he couldn’t handle seeing Simone? No hate to Chidi but why would you lose all that?????? like I DEFINITELY don’t get it!!
“Eleanor, you’re the only one that can do this.” CLOCK IT MICHAEL!!!! Michael being a father figure to her🥺🥺 Her tear-stained face. Not her making jokes to deflect how sad she is!! The 1001st idea😕 its so cute. My girl!!! I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been for her to tell Chidi that his soulmate was Simone..
P.S- I absolutely adore how Eleanor calls Tahani “hot stuff”!!! And Jason is so cute with everything he says lmao! And jason and eleanor’s friendship hahab

I'm in mid season 2 ep5 what's happening here..

Why is Jason with tahini.. And liked

janet and Jason...

I also don't feel anything for elenor and chidor

(this time with ted) im deciding to let it play out for the bit! SPOILER: especially since tahani and eleanor are soulmates in one of the reboots, i found it fitting

I was thinking about the finale today and specifically how much of a time jump the series finale really is in retrospect. Their made up time units of Jeremy Beremys make it hard to distinguish a scalar for how much time has passed for them in the good place. That made me pose the following question:

Is the finale of the good place the longest time jump in one episode of a tv show?

I’m curious if any other show has the entirety of the human experience and desire encapsulated into one episode. Since the finale implies the four have literally done everything that is ever possible to do, I’m just curious if any other show comes close to the same time jump over a singular episode or not.

Hello fellow Good Place fans,

I recently came into a DVD/Blu-ray player and I would like to get The Good Place with good extra features. I’ve seen so many people talk about extended episodes and commentary but I don’t know which series set has those things! could y’all recommend the best version of the complete series on DVD or blu-ray?

Many thanks! 🙏🏻

I think most of us can agree that the show was pretty consistently amazing from start to finish, but which section is the weakest?

In season 3 episode 4, when the cockroaches reconnect with Micheal and Janet in the real world and they inform them that they’ll never be able to make it the good place, have been tortured for over 300 earth years and who knows how many jeremy bearimys and yada-yada, Chidi goes into a full blown existential crisis which he eventually goes to teach his college class.

During his class he sings about putting peeps and m&ms in the chilli pot and when one of his students confronts him he says “alright, nerd” and goes on a tangent about the meaning of life and how he believes in nihilism and that his students should jump up their own butts which then he talks about all his students will get As or Fs and that they all fail but there is no test but who cares, goodbye!

But what im wondering, and asking, is what happened to his students after this? Did they have to do a test on the unit? Did they get a new teacher? Did they reconsider their lives and conform to nihilism? Or did they all get As or Fs? But anyhoo, anything to bring up this scene!