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Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#176: Jan 26th 2018 at 2:02:40 AM

Just saw the episode. I liked it, though I did find it a bit slower and less funny than the ones before it.

One thing does annoy me, though: Why did Jason fail his test? He did as he was asked. He didn't like it, and he complained a fair bit, but he did what he was asked even though he didn't really want to. How does that show poor impulse control? And he could have asked not to play, but he was never told that, and how does trying to get out of doing something you don't want to do show good impulse control? And since when can you just ask not to do an exam?

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Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#177: Jan 26th 2018 at 2:29:21 AM

That's a Secret Test of Character. Of course there are unwritten rules.

So, first, it's always good seeing Maya Rudolph. Second, I am pretty sure that there is a trick somewhere, and not because of the last second shuffle. I think there was more to their tests than what the judge eventually said, and that obviously Eleanor's is going to matter next time around.

edited 26th Jan '18 2:33:53 AM by Julep

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#178: Jan 26th 2018 at 2:45:27 AM

I liked Michael's part, though. I was actually still not sure if I trusted him up till now.

I'm hoping it turns out that choosing to fail together instead of Eleanor going on when she got the chance is the actual test.

You need blood and he's got more than enough!
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#179: Jan 26th 2018 at 5:59:17 AM

RE Jason: He also keeps interrupting the judge when she's trying to explain the test. Can't imagine that did him any favours in a test about impulse control.

Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#180: Jan 26th 2018 at 7:00:20 AM

I doubt lack of impulse control is a reason to go to the bad place, it is not "bad" in itself.

Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#181: Jan 26th 2018 at 9:01:26 AM

This is a system in which being French is an automatic sentence.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#182: Jan 26th 2018 at 10:25:22 AM

[up] i thought that was according to the Bad Place/fake Good Place.

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Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#183: Jan 26th 2018 at 11:11:37 AM

According to Michael's essay about Les Mis it actually is how it works.

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Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#184: Jan 26th 2018 at 4:45:51 PM

...

So Blake Bortles is a real person.

What the fork.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#185: Jan 26th 2018 at 5:16:26 PM

The Good Place/Bad Place functions according to Celestial Bureaucracy/Chinese rules which is that it's mostly arbitrary, corrupt, and incompetent.

Which would explain a lot in the real world.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#186: Jan 26th 2018 at 6:05:52 PM

I'm getting increasingly convinced that they'll eventually reform the system, as it's becoming more and more obvious how much of a mess it all is.

edited 26th Jan '18 6:06:11 PM by Murataku

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#187: Jan 26th 2018 at 11:55:06 PM

I'm predicting they'll be resurrected on Earth, or put into a neighborhood that (almost) perfectly mimics Earth, as some sort of final test of their character.

Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#188: Jan 27th 2018 at 2:50:23 AM

They might be in a purgatory, and that whole experience is designed to see where they deserve to go, up or down.

edited 27th Jan '18 11:13:19 AM by Julep

DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
The Ultimate Lifeform
#189: Jan 27th 2018 at 10:51:56 AM

I'm leaning towards the resurrection thing too, but I don't know. Maybe the choosing to fail together is indeed the real test.

When we're done, there won't be anything left.
Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#190: Jan 27th 2018 at 11:21:14 AM

"Maybe the real test is the friends we made along the way."

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#191: Jan 28th 2018 at 7:03:13 AM

There’s one thing I noticed. In the Bad Place, there was only one portal, but in the...Neutral Place I guess? There were two. When Janet and Michael showed up, the four humans were in front of the other portal.

Unless the portals can be set or something and one’s just in and the other out.

FawfulCrump Since: Dec, 2010
#192: Jan 28th 2018 at 1:29:47 PM

I feel like Eleanor didn't actually pass her test. It was supposed to test her selflessness, but she "passed" by being clever enough to see through the fake Chidi rather than risking losing paradise for the sake of Jason and Tahani.

Count me in as a believer in the theory that the real test hasn't happened yet.

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#193: Jan 28th 2018 at 1:55:16 PM

I'm still hoping that's the case. As I said before, I don't like how some of the tests we saw worked.

Then again I tend not to like the Secret Test of Character trope in general.

You need blood and he's got more than enough!
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#194: Jan 28th 2018 at 6:46:42 PM

[up][up] Considering the show starts with her being so self absorbed she can't even remember basic information about Chidi's life, figuring out the fake might have actually been the selfishness test - whether she's paying enough attention to another person to realize something's off.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#195: Jan 28th 2018 at 10:03:49 PM

Resurrection is a good end but I am hoping they'll get sent to the Good Place...and it's even more annoying.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#196: Jan 28th 2018 at 10:38:55 PM

In all probability people like Kamilah are in the Good Place.

wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#197: Jan 28th 2018 at 11:01:46 PM

Nah, not Kamilah. Everything was too self-centered.

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#198: Jan 28th 2018 at 11:56:32 PM

Yeah, we know intent matters here, after all. Also, treating your sister like crap can't get you many good points either.

You need blood and he's got more than enough!
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#199: Jan 28th 2018 at 11:58:07 PM

I dunno, the fun of the Good Place is the point system is stupid.

It'd be hilarious if Tahani's parents are in the Good Place despite the fact they treated their daughter like crap.

"You did raise a terrible daughter in Tahani but DID raise an awesome one in her sister."

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#200: Jan 29th 2018 at 12:04:02 AM

Heh, don't knock it, by that logic Chidi has a solid argument for getting himself in.

"My classes taught a demon to sacrifice himself for others!"

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