(Good Place series finale spoilers) The way the show treats Jason has kind of rubbed me the wrong way a bit, but his ending was perfect For some reason the fact that he ends by actually becoming what he was pretending to be is really powerful
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Jianyu was an identity designed to torture Jason because Jason could never just silently exist in the moment, he always needed to do something to break the unbearable boredom Pop a pill, turn up some music, play a game, yell and break shit I know that feeling
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But then he's finally, after all this time, done enough Eaten enough, drunk enough, played enough, danced enough He can just be satiated and content, he can just be happy He can just be
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People reacted to the second to last episode and the introduction of the oblivion door like an unfortunate message of encouraging suicidality But we learn it isn't like that at all Jason doesn't *have* to leave, he's not desperately trying to escape something unbearable
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Quite the opposite When you're done, and there's really nothing left to hold you... Staying or going is the same He's ready to leave, because he's done everything for himself he needs to do But there's nothing wrong with staying
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He can just sit there, for centuries, in silence and solitude, watching as the world goes by Happy for the other pilgrims who come by, but not needing to intrude on their journey and step on their moment
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When you're really okay, when you're really done, there's no such thing anymore as being bored Because it means you see the world as okay, too, and you don't need the world to give you anything special to entertain you
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10,000 years becomes no trouble at all Just to do one more thing to make her smile before you go
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Idk The Jianyu thing originally came off as kind of mean and dismissive about actual Buddhist monks, in a show that really centered Western analytic philosophy to the detriment of other traditions But I think this payoff made up for it
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