So let's discuss The Good Place

[Gingerbread Demon]

It was someone here mentioned this show and now I'm hooked........ Shame it was so short.... I'm already at season 3.

So did anyone here watch this and like it? So far I found it fun and I liked its take on the afterlife, pretty much how I had my own fantasies about the life after and that it's an actual world with things going on. I'm at the start of season 3 and so far have had fun.

The only character that annoys me is Chidi because I know people like that who can't make a decision or do something spur of the moment, or random. They overthink everything. Tahani and Eleanor, and Michael are currently my favourite characters.

 

[Christopher]

Amazing show. I lost interest in sitcoms a long time ago since the styles of humor didn't appeal to me anymore, but The Good Place was like a throwback to my favorite era of sitcoms, the Sixties, when they could be experimental and get into fantasy or science fiction or surrealism. It's a very imaginative show, very funny, and also remarkably deep and thoughtful. It fascinates me how it's simultaneously incredibly cynical and dark in its portrayal of the nature of the afterlife and incredibly optimistic and life-affirming in the story it tells.

 

[tomalak301]

The Good Place was such a unique sitcom. It was funny but delved into some serious topics of philosophy and the meaning of life. Yeah Chidi started out kind of annoying but he became a great character as the series went on. My favorite character thought was Janet. She had so much development in this series.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Amazing show. I lost interest in sitcoms a long time ago since the styles of humor didn't appeal to me anymore, but The Good Place was like a throwback to my favorite era of sitcoms, the Sixties, when they could be experimental and get into fantasy or science fiction or surrealism. It's a very imaginative show, very funny, and also remarkably deep and thoughtful. It fascinates me how it's simultaneously incredibly cynical and dark in its portrayal of the nature of the afterlife and incredibly optimistic and life-affirming in the story it tells.

It seems to embody most of all those things. I never used to think Ted Danson was that funny in other shows but he makes me laugh lots in this. I'm at the third episode of season 3 and I did wonder does the big G guy get mentioned ever or just the demons and stuff?

The Good Place was such a unique sitcom. It was funny but delved into some serious topics of philosophy and the meaning of life. Yeah Chidi started out kind of annoying but he became a great character as the series went on. My favorite character thought was Janet. She had so much development in this series.

Oh yeah Janet which also brought a lot of the laughs and Mindi, in her "medium place"

 

[DonIago]

I loved The Good Place! Not really sure what else to say, but I think I actually choked up a little bit in the episode where Michael revealed his solution to the trolley problem.

 

[Ovation]

Outstanding show. Loved every minute of it.

 

[John Clark]

Loved it too, and I have a rewatch scheduled for the near future.

 

[SithHappens]

I really enjoyed it too. Plus we get Ted Danson doing a 'Sam' moment too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I finished the last three episodes today and that finale, all 55 minutes of it was brilliant. I got a bit choked up at the ending.

This was a really good show and surprisingly they pulled off their story well without storytelling complications. I did note they never mentioned God in any of the running of the Good Place or the Bad Place which was wise I think. It would have complicated the story they were trying to tell.

 

[DonIago]

I thought it was patently obvious that Janet was God...or by the end, perhaps Derek! ;p

But yeah, the show had a great ending, and it made it way too easy to go back to the beginning to watch it all over again.

 

[Christopher]

I thought it was patently obvious that Janet was God...

Janet started out as a nonsentient AI. At most, she was analogous to maybe a lesser angel. But she was more like Voyager's EMH, a programmed entity that was given the opportunity to learn and evolve into a fully realized being.

 

[tomalak301]

I finished the last three episodes today and that finale, all 55 minutes of it was brilliant. I got a bit choked up at the ending.

I go back and watch the finale ending from time to time on Youtube, and it's one of the reasons I really liked Janet. She goes from this comic relief robot to helping each of the characters crossover, and she's still funny doing it. I actually get emotional during the last scene with Elenor and Janet. Michael getting to have a life on earth was a nice bonus.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I go back and watch the finale ending from time to time on Youtube, and it's one of the reasons I really liked Janet. She goes from this comic relief robot to helping each of the characters crossover, and she's still funny doing it. I actually get emotional during the last scene with Elenor and Janet. Michael getting to have a life on earth was a nice bonus.

Yes Michael Realman. I mean the name was a total crack up. But I like he too got a good ending.

 

[JD]

I loved The Good Place, it's the best fantasy sitcom in a very long time. I love how they managed to approach philosophy and ethics in such a fun way.

I finished the last three episodes today and that finale, all 55 minutes of it was brilliant. I got a bit choked up at the ending.

This was a really good show and surprisingly they pulled off their story well without storytelling complications. I did note they never mentioned God in any of the running of the Good Place or the Bad Place which was wise I think. It would have complicated the story they were trying to tell.

For a show that was basically about Heaven and Hell it was surprising secular. It's been a while but I don't think they really had anything in it that was overtly taken one specific religion.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I loved The Good Place, it's the best fantasy sitcom in a very long time. I love how they managed to approach philosophy and ethics in such a fun way.

For a show that was basically about Heaven and Hell it was surprising secular. It's been a while but I don't think they really had anything in it that was overtly taken one specific religion.

I think what they did was a very wise choice and that's what made it all so much fun.

There is another series like this called Upload but not sure if it is as much fun.

 

[DonIago]

Janet started out as a nonsentient AI. At most, she was analogous to maybe a lesser angel. But she was more like Voyager's EMH, a programmed entity that was given the opportunity to learn and evolve into a fully realized being.

Sorry, my comment about Janet and Derek was said with tongue firmly in cheek.

...although, if God is a nonlinear entity (think The Prophets from DS9), then in theory one could argue that what we witnessed here was the birth of God. Tongue still firmly in cheek.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Sorry, my comment about Janet and Derek was said with tongue firmly in cheek.

...although, if God is a nonlinear entity (think The Prophets from DS9), then in theory one could argue that what we witnessed here was the birth of God. Tongue still firmly in cheek.

I like that....... So we didn't kill god but we gave birth to God in the afterlife. It's all backwards which I love.

 

[Christopher]

...although, if God is a nonlinear entity (think The Prophets from DS9), then in theory one could argue that what we witnessed here was the birth of God. Tongue still firmly in cheek.

I've often thought the idea of a god creating the universe was backward. If the universe evolves toward greater emergent complexity and organization, producing planets and life and then intelligence and then civilization, etc., it follows that something like a god would be the end of that process, a higher level of consciousness that emerges from the interaction of consciousnesses.

Or, as Willard Decker put it, "We all create God in our own image."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've often thought the idea of a god creating the universe was backward. If the universe evolves toward greater emergent complexity and organization, producing planets and life and then intelligence and then civilization, etc., it follows that something like a god would be the end of that process, a higher level of consciousness that emerges from the interaction of consciousnesses.

Or, as Willard Decker put it, "We all create God in our own image."

I like this too, but it raises the question for the first humans, where did that god idea come from?

Did they look up at the sky and grunt and think "there must be a god" the whole concept had to come from somewhere some hardwired instinct or emotion.

 

[DonIago]

The cynical answer would be that God was made up by people who wanted to create organized religion as a way of having power over other people...

The alternative answer is that God was made up to explain what was, to ancient peoples, the unexplainable. Essentially, "a wizard did it!"