It doesn't seem to be panning out in more ways than one.
Like, we've spent a lot of time talking about Brent's and John's shittiness. We know what Chidi's is. But we haven't gotten anything about why Simone is a bad person and what she needs to do to improve.
Yes, there was that bit about her not acknowledging the Good Place as real, but that wasn't her being a bad person in life. All of that nonsense was strictly a reaction to being here in the first place.
Simone seemed like a sparkling gem of a human being in season three. So far, nothing we've seen of her in season four has really contradicted that. She's in the Bad Place because everyone goes to the Bad Place, but so far as "equivalent levels of badness" goes, she really does not fit the Jason/Eleanor/Tahani mold. What are they actually supposed to be rehabilitating in Simone?
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 3rd 2019 at 10:56:11 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub."Same general level of badness" only really ever seemed to mean that they can't have held institutional power or murdered someone or something. Like, Brent is worse than the Soul Squad, but he's nowhere near Mussolini or Andrew Jackson.
It seems like from this past episode we're supposed to see Simone at someone who makes snap judgments and relies heavily on first impressions, which I guess can be gleamed from her insistence the Good Place isn't real, but hasn't really come up much otherwise.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I find Brent particularly amusing because he's playing baaaaaaasically the same character he played in How I Met Your Mother except that in that, we were randomly supposed to start liking him once he started putting in the absolute most basic level of not being a shitheel.
Seriously. The audience was supposed to go "oh wow, you know what, he's pretty great" when he decided "I am going to put in the minimum amount of effort at this news anchor job that my female co-anchor cares about. I will even put on pants while we're on the air."
I feel like whoever did the casting saw that and thought "yes, that level of entitlement and being annoying. Except we're not going to pretend it's a sad gut punch when he breaks up with someone to move away for a job that she turned down for him."
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.This, in a nutshell, aptly describes white male characters throughout the complete history of media.
"Meet Bob. He's a total shitlord who sucks at everything. It's okay that you're revolted by him because you're SUPPOSED to be. I mean, he's a protagonist, but you're SUPPOSED to think he's a gross and disgusting asshole who—BOOM! RIGHT THERE. He DID NOT wipe his ass on a colleague's desk. He could have BUT HE DIDN'T. Changed man! Now he's a good guy and you need to love him."
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 4th 2019 at 8:39:00 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think what made it particularly bad is that he wasn't the protagonist. He was the guy of the week. And he spends an episode just shitting on the (female) protagonist and mansplaining how her hopes and dreams are stupid but at the end of the episode "OH SHIT. He's wearing pants. At work." Next episode, he's the dreamiest dreamboat that ever boated.
It's... genuinely fascinating. HIMYM can fuck up in truly interesting ways.
Edited by Larkmarn on Nov 4th 2019 at 1:55:13 PM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I knew the actor was familiar.
Gosh, I hated his character on HIMYM. The Character Shilling for him was the worst I ever saw and I actually stopped watching after him and Robin got together. He was so awful I couldn't bear it.
I checked his imdb and I also saw Masters of Sex, where he played a very decent guy, if I remember correctly.
I think Benjamin Koldyke sells Brent and portrays him really well. His rant about how he's a good guy who earned his place in the good place was spot-on.
God, I cannot stress how much I loved that rant. I've been saying since the season began that Eleanor f*cked up by making these people all think that their actions in life won them eternal paradise. That she's missing that crucial element of "You are a garbage human being who will be damned forever as soon as they learn you're a fraud," and that without that element, there's no motivation for Brent to change.
That speech was my vindication.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 4th 2019 at 12:45:31 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yep, it's fun!
Though I'm more used to how cartoon episodes are "scheduled" which is a different beast altogether, so I'm more just getting used to the idea of being able to even expect episodes airing regularly every week. As opposed to say, getting a bunch of episodes for a week and then having no clue at all when the next one will air!
God, I hate cartoon scheduling.
I remember the months long wait for each individual episode of Gravity Falls's series finale. That was torture.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think the worst part about it is that we never get a return date until a few weeks before. I'd be more okay with long waits if I knew how long I would have to wait, but nope, we never get that! Instead we're just left wondering for months. I think the only cartoon that I've watched that I could reasonably expect weekly episodes for is MLP. And now that's over. All of my cartoons are on an indefinite hiatus, so that's great.
Oh, except the Netflix ones I guess. She-Ra season 4 is dropping tomorrow so that's exciting.
Aw, man, yeah, I remember waiting for Gravity Falls episodes. That was rough. Disney sure was hellbent on extending that show as long as possible with as many hiatuses as possible.
Edited by DeathsApprentice on Nov 4th 2019 at 4:54:27 AM
When we're done, there won't be anything left.I was never that big of a fan of TV shows. Usually I'd watch the first couple episodes and then just stop watching due to not wanting to put that much commitment into one show(I've done this with MLP, Cheers, Friends, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine for starters.) The few shows I've managed to watch fully are Game of Thrones, Phineas and Ferb, and Black Mirror.
I'm gonna put it in folder because it's a different series.
It's also important to know the context and some previous episodes.
So Robin is a bit of a career oriented ice queen who works for a rather horrible TV station as an anchor and she takes it super seriously and professionally, hoping to land a better job. Don becomes her co-anchor and he's shitty constantly, embarrassing both on air, showing up late, wearing no pants etc. The joke is that almost no one watches their news anyway so it doesn't matter.
Then all of the sudden, her best friends, two of whom are her ex-boyfriends, start shilling this guy like crazy, and they play a matchmaker for them. He's shitty to her because he likes her, and he's so awesome and she should date him because... I actually don't remember the shilling because their praise made zero sense. And, he was kinda too old for her. She looks like a supermodel and he's... I guess a good-looking but creepy middle-aged guy. At least that's how my younger self interpreted the possible relationship.
Her closest friends keep singing a lame ear-worm song about Barney, her ex, banging other chicks to Robin's face. They keep implying she's hopelessly single and she should bang the Don guy because he's the best she could have. Then Robin's very best friend reveals to their gang she knows Robin is miserable because of her and Barney's recent breakup, but she couldn't resist singing the bang-bang song to her face too.
Meanwhile, Ted presents his idea for a super date, which IMO was only super lame. The self-help book author also explains that saying no is the only way for women to get steady relationships.
I just couldn't take the series anymore. My roommate still watched it, so I saw some episodes later, although my investment was gone. Supposedly, Robin fell for the guy really hard, although previously she was the one more casual and distant in relationships. She refused a really good job in another city for him because it was twue wuw. And then the shitty Don got the offer too and he took the job, because for him it was not that much of a twue wuw.
I loved the first two seasons of HIMYM. Then it was okay. And after this disaster I stopped watching. And came back for the final season because I wanted to see the reveal. It was painful to be honest. The mother was about the only thing I liked about it.
Edited by XFllo on Nov 5th 2019 at 1:51:30 PM
Yeah, Gravity Falls is a pretty great series. It's basically PG-13 Lovecraft mixed with a dash of non-stop funny.
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I figured that the levels of badness were meant to match each original inhabitant of the neighborhood. That doesn't seem to be panning out.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.