The Good Place S02E01-E04
Oct. 7th, 2017 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kate_nepveu(The first week was two episodes back-to-back, which is why we're up to episode four.)
I love this show very, very much. Also, Chad hasn't seen S1, but we watched the first four episodes of S2 together and he enjoyed it too, so while you definitely should watch S1—I think the characterizations work better that way—you can totally jump in at S2. (I did pause it once, to explain Mindy, but that was it.)
If you haven't seen it yet: go, see it! You'll almost certainly like it! And my goodness does it burn through plot at an extraordinarily high rate of speed, wow. This is really good, really funny, really thoughtful speculative fiction, and it makes me incredibly happy.
I am entirely incapable of predicting where this show might go but I can't help but toss out a few guns on the mantelpiece.
Janet: when Eleanor was talking about how they can't trust Michael and need someone on their side, I wanted to jump up and down and point to Janet. Admittedly I am primed to think this thanks to a lifetime of speculative fiction, but still: I feel like #freeJanet ought to be a big part of both the moral and the plot landscape of the show. And I think her comment about being the most advanced Janet, and directed only toward the happiness of humans, are definitely signposting that direction.
(I miss Jason/Janet. Also all of them, I'm glad that we ought to get at least a little non-reboot time where they (re)build their friendships and grow? I particularly want to see more Eleanor (&|/) Tahani, which really got short shrift because of the reboots.)
I realize we don't actually know anything [*], but I am inclined to say that for purposes of dramatic fairness, we are probably supposed to accept Mindy and the Medium Place as real? Which . . . I still think that the primacy of intention in the moral calculus ought to be questioned, and I do trust that it will be, but it's possible that it might not be soon. Then again, who knows, see, burning through plot. (They fast-forwarded through a whole season in two episodes! And then 800 of them in one!)
[*] I also think that while Michael would undoubtedly throw them under the bus (a bigger bus, even) if the opportunity arose, that his offer does not have any hidden catches beyond that. From what we've seen of his POV, he's honestly just . . . not that smart.
I love the adding of the workplace aspect to it. I wonder if Ask a Manager watches it? (Resists urge to make up fake question from Michael's POV and send it in.)
. . . probably there is more, but I need to make computers bend to my will tonight.
(random thought: there was a lot of purple on the outfits at the opening party, does that mean anything to anyone?)
Spoilers are ok in comments--please do, in fact!
I love this show very, very much. Also, Chad hasn't seen S1, but we watched the first four episodes of S2 together and he enjoyed it too, so while you definitely should watch S1—I think the characterizations work better that way—you can totally jump in at S2. (I did pause it once, to explain Mindy, but that was it.)
If you haven't seen it yet: go, see it! You'll almost certainly like it! And my goodness does it burn through plot at an extraordinarily high rate of speed, wow. This is really good, really funny, really thoughtful speculative fiction, and it makes me incredibly happy.
I am entirely incapable of predicting where this show might go but I can't help but toss out a few guns on the mantelpiece.
Janet: when Eleanor was talking about how they can't trust Michael and need someone on their side, I wanted to jump up and down and point to Janet. Admittedly I am primed to think this thanks to a lifetime of speculative fiction, but still: I feel like #freeJanet ought to be a big part of both the moral and the plot landscape of the show. And I think her comment about being the most advanced Janet, and directed only toward the happiness of humans, are definitely signposting that direction.
(I miss Jason/Janet. Also all of them, I'm glad that we ought to get at least a little non-reboot time where they (re)build their friendships and grow? I particularly want to see more Eleanor (&|/) Tahani, which really got short shrift because of the reboots.)
I realize we don't actually know anything [*], but I am inclined to say that for purposes of dramatic fairness, we are probably supposed to accept Mindy and the Medium Place as real? Which . . . I still think that the primacy of intention in the moral calculus ought to be questioned, and I do trust that it will be, but it's possible that it might not be soon. Then again, who knows, see, burning through plot. (They fast-forwarded through a whole season in two episodes! And then 800 of them in one!)
[*] I also think that while Michael would undoubtedly throw them under the bus (a bigger bus, even) if the opportunity arose, that his offer does not have any hidden catches beyond that. From what we've seen of his POV, he's honestly just . . . not that smart.
I love the adding of the workplace aspect to it. I wonder if Ask a Manager watches it? (Resists urge to make up fake question from Michael's POV and send it in.)
. . . probably there is more, but I need to make computers bend to my will tonight.
(random thought: there was a lot of purple on the outfits at the opening party, does that mean anything to anyone?)
Spoilers are ok in comments--please do, in fact!
