that's not music...that's EDM!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
jetskis, dance crew, djs, drugs, jetskis... imo Jason's life had it all
― mh, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
also his friend Pillboy, who is DOPE
― akm, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
I lol every time he talks about Pillboy
― mh, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
also: wings
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
I want to order wings now.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
wings are dope
― mh, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
It was a good call.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
i don't know about chidi, making him senegalese (?) but coming up with an in-world excuse for playing him as a culturally unmarked american (or i guess, culturally highbrow = cosmopolitan, conventional social identity left behind) plays exactly on the nose for his portrayal of a philosophy professor (seriously, pitch-perfect), but it also sets them up to not have any need to address black identity.
― j., Wednesday, 4 October 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
everyone is equal in death
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
- thomas hobbes
― j., Wednesday, 4 October 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
Chidi should speak French in the flashbacks. Where was he supposed to live? It's hard to tell because you get his grown friend, the Australian professor, the English-speaking girlfriend in bed...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
we binged the first season in like 2 days - i like it a lot
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
i think he moved around a lot doing post-docs and shit
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
I demand more expository rigor from my NBC sitcoms.
― this is ridcolus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
yeah, i don't really care. SOME of the animals on earth on Z Nation turn into zombies. but apparently most don't.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
Not that it's a life and death matter but I wondered that too about where Chidi was supposed to have actually lived and taught. It makes sense that it would be in an English-speaking First World country but then he could have just given that as his reason for speaking English in ep 1.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
I mean, idk, maybe it was at a Senegalese uni where an Australian guy moved to teach and they just translated the flashbacks.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
everyone can understand everyone else, in death
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
like, it's an american TV show so it's finna be in english regardless of where the characters are actually supposed to be from. plus, y'know, they're all dead. so it would make some sort of sense that souls would be able to understand each other in the fantasy, imaginary universe of this afterlife.
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
idk sounds like a cop-out to avoid addressing the armenian genocide
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
if they r souls why do they not float thru doors and how do they drink chowder from chowder fountains and are the clams ghosts also, damn this shit is sloppy
― this is ridcolus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
That part makes sense and was explicitly stated in the first episode, as far as the afterlife scenes go. It's Chidi's flashbacks (to his Earthbound lifetime) that are more confusing.2xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
And part of the point was that they did feel the need to explain in ep 1 that Chidi was speaking French but was being translated since it was the afterlife, after Eleanor said "you speak excellent English". If, on Earth, his English was good enough to have lectured on advanced topics, he could have just given that reason. Again, it's little stuff, just thoughts that come up when we're posting on the Internet about a TV show.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
How do lava demons even fit into human-sized skin suits, ffs. If they don't address this outrage immediately, I'm out.
― this is ridcolus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
so you just want the earthbound parts of show w chidi in french to keep it honest then
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I did crack up at the demons out of character in the alleyway hanging out, with one of them in his normal form just chilling
― mh, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
I mean, I was just going off something scott was saying in the first place, but, now that I feel like I need to explain, I just think it's confusing where it was that he was supposed to have been a professor. Around 2:45 into s1e7, you see him on campus talking to his Australian-accented colleague about his boots. Most aspects of the setting of the scene - the somewhat diverse but predominantly white student body, their clothes, the vegetation - make me think of a university campus somewhere in the West. They look like what I see every day, not like any of these pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=senegal+university+campus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyxfHuwtfWAhVEyoMKHa69DMIQ_AUICigB&biw=1173&bih=671
It may well be something that they will explain. A lot of the things that seemed confusing in s1 did end up making sense when the twist came around.
xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
And, like, this wouldn't even be that weird:
Master of None did this with flashbacks to India, for example.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
I feel like there was a throwaway line that explained where he was teaching, but maybe not?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
<3 sund4r
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Master of None was a Netflix series, the rules are going to be different on a network sitcom. The most subtitles on a network show this year probably came in the first Star Trek episode.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Doesn't Chidi run through the whole locations of Universities etc thing when he first meets Eleanor in one of the very early episodes but she fails to listen to anything he says or at least remember it.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
I, too, failed to listen
― mh, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
guys this is all covered fully in my fanfic
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, "my work took me all over the place: Australia, Hong Kong, Paris." So Eleanor was just being dumb when she commented on his excellent English but I've got that lots of times too.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
you misspelled racist :)
― mh, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
i feel like they made jason TOO dumb in the last episode even for him. he was like a dog trapped in a human body. that whole episode was pretty much in one room.
tahani's death was a little too dumb too! disguised as a waiter? really? i kinda hope this show doesn't get too dumb. guess it depends on who is writing the episode.
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
I kept thinking the most glaring question not asked by characters was 'are there kids in the good place?' or indeed figuring out the real deal based on their absence. Schur's understandable explanation tho - http://www.ibtimes.com/good-place-creator-explains-why-there-are-no-children-elderly-people-shows-afterlife-2477423
― nashwan, Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
I’m only not quite done with this latest episode but... someone just remembered the cocaine. This bodes well.
― mh, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Oh, never mind
― mh, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/the-good-place-janet-on-the-twist-and-the-audition.html
― maura, Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
mindy and janet rule school
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
So, as hinted, will Season 3 be their attempts to fit into the good Good Place, but finding they brought their hell with them?
― prelude to abjection (Sanpaku), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
otm about the varying quality having to do with writing; the cast always brings it and the concept holds my attention but there are times when the writing feels WAY off
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
saw that gr80’s buddy (I’m remembering that correctly, right) cord was a story editor on this new one
― mh, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
someone opined that janet is god
i don't think that's quite right, but she's obviously something key
also it'd be funnier if mindy were god
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
i give this week's episode 12 out of 13
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 October 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
Michael’s slow motion home alone-style freakout
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
felt like this week (and last week to a degree) were a bit of a dip in quality but I can't tell if that's because I'm watching it week to week ratehr than the entire season in one marathon which is what I did in season 1. maybe season 1 felt that way too if you didn't watch it all at once.
― akm, Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link