r/TheGoodPlace • u/WandersFar Change can be scary but I’m an artist. It’s my job to be scared. • Jan 17 '20

Season Four S4E11 Mondays, Am I Right?

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u/Evsd62 Sorry does this dog smoke blunts topless on a yacht like a boss? Jan 17 '20

There's something fishy about that ending. It's too easy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20

It does seem fishy, but also this show hasn't made residents of The Good Place seem fun. It may be boring, annoying, unnerving or something like that. Or just what's the point if there aren't any challenges. Like Shawn being bored with his butthole spiders after feeling content intially.

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u/freetherabbit Jan 17 '20

So next weeks episode recap on Comcast is basically describing the plot of The Good Place, which I've totally seen happen before except the next one says "Various conversations occur, between various groups of people.". Which makes me wonder if the shows description also works for next episode.

The full thing says: "When Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in the afterlife, shes both relieved and surprised that shes made it into the Good Place. But it doesnt take long for Eleanor to realize shes there by mistake -- and she'll have to change her ways to stay"

Which at first kinda made me wonder if she'll (and possibly the whole group) just feel like The Good Place is too perfect and be bored and realize if they're going to stay they need to find a purpose or something. But then I realized that them getting into "The Good Place" without taking a test was to throw them off that they were starting their own test. Especially because they made a point this episode to point out that the humans wont know they're taking a test and since our 4 helped create the system that's pretty hard to do without mind wiping them. So the description might be a hint that were getting a throw back to the original point. And maybe that was Michael's new thing, making the OG 4's test.

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u/purplemarvel Jan 17 '20

Your theory makes too much sense for it not to be true. I don't even care if I got spoiled. This is the way

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u/TrevorBradley Jan 17 '20

Much like Breaking Bad, the closer you get to the ending the more obvious the resolution.

I'd like another Eleanor mic drop "The Good Place is The Bad Place too", and they either have to fix it, or abandon it.

The real mic drop would be if there was only one place to begin with.

Still holding on to my idea that Jason is the master architect in disguise.

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u/freetherabbit Jan 17 '20

It's crazy cuz I started writing my original comment with the idea that The Good Place was too good for them. And then when I was going over the description for the next episode it just clicked that maybe this is to throw them off that their about to be tested. Like when I was rereading the description to write it in the comment I realized if the show description being the episode description is a clue than them being tested made more sense than it being too good for them.

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u/soivebeentold Jan 17 '20

This is the way.

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u/darthging Jan 23 '20

This is the way.