tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post972088032410149585..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Good Place (Netflix TV) finale - analysis and reviewBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59491585944240166522020-02-04T21:11:36.453+00:002020-02-04T21:11:36.453+00:00I started watching this show at your recommendatio...I started watching this show at your recommendation some time ago and thoroughly enjoyed it... but then my interest tailed-off, at more or less the same season you seem to have noticed a drop in quality. I got bored, not enough forward momentum for me to remain engaged, felt like treading water with 'canned laughter' and an acute case of couch-potatitis. Nevertheless you seem to have persevered, whereas I threw in the towel at that point. Still, it's good to hear what happened at the end without bothering to watch it myself. I may skip directly to the last episode, time permitting.<br /><br />On a serious point though, your observation about the lack of children in the good place paradise, or even the desire for them, fits with what I see in many of my peers. Yes they have more exciting lives with free time, varied and interesting hobbies, travel, disposable income...I can't comment on their sex lives...but I have two young beautiful children, no money, sleepless nights, no opportunity to pursue interesting hobbies...and I can't comment on my sex life...So, I am truly blessed and love them both more than life itself...Sorry, I forgot my original point... Something about having Children being heavenly I think, perhaps it will come back to me and will post a mature, spiritually insightful comment at a later time when inspiration strikes.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76288690557918595032020-02-04T06:40:54.815+00:002020-02-04T06:40:54.815+00:00E - Well, no. As I said, they dissolve back into T...E - Well, no. As I said, they dissolve back into The Universe, lose all self and will. Your idea may well have tempted them as a joke resolution that would appeal to many mainstream young people, but if so, they did not yield. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-72555472260594546152020-02-04T04:16:55.497+00:002020-02-04T04:16:55.497+00:00After they get bored with the Good Place, do they ...After they get bored with the Good Place, do they go to the Bad Place to drown themselves in the oblivion of sadism and depravity? I kinda suspect that's what happens in real life...<br /><br />Epimetheusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10664404536873947942020-02-03T17:45:06.075+00:002020-02-03T17:45:06.075+00:00@c matt - You didn't stay long enough for the ...@c matt - You didn't stay long enough for the wholesale deconstruction!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66966078772530223572020-02-03T16:09:46.897+00:002020-02-03T16:09:46.897+00:00I watched the first episode or two, and while comi...I watched the first episode or two, and while comical enough and well acted within its parameters, the show's idea of "the good place" did strike me as rather vapid. I kept wondering what was the point of this "heaven"? Just a more pleasant version of earthly life is all I could figure out. Could not get past that to watch any more of it.c mattnoreply@blogger.com