it's funny you bring this all up cause something I've been postulating a lot lately is that the Good Place is actually quite similar to a certain space gem animated show you have strong opinions about
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @saintwalker98
I like The Good Place a lot but it doesn't really hold the weight people want to put on it (it certainly doesn't actually have any answers to serious moral dilemmas)
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Like the space rock show it's theoretically about a lot of very serious grownup things that, by virtue it the genre it put itself in, it can't address, which is necessary for what it's trying to do but will always be this limitation it can't get past
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One of their obvious sources of inspiration was CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce and Lewis, being genuinely devoutly religious, Went There to a degree Shur can't Like TGD has a guy who was murdered in Hell with his murderer in Heaven
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It's the kind of thing that logically should come up in TGP but never does, there's no real acknowledgment of "serious" sins Even the fact that Eleanor has contributed to ruining countless lives (like Moist von Lipwig having aggregately murdered 8.3 people) is only really a joke
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Anyway it's interesting contrasting TGP's extremely feel good ending with Bojack's ending that came out at exactly the same time, and had a very similar theme from exactly the opposite point of view
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I reckon if they had to tackle legit, serious, sins you'd have to perform some amazing feats of creativity gymnastics to reconcile that with M.S.'s brand of sentimentality and humour. Which, natch, has always been the limit. Which is why in, say, The Office, someone-
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
-like Dwight Schrute who irl would be ideal alt.right fodder–the kind of person who harasses women online, writes racist manifestos on Reddit or channeboards,etc––is ultimately treated as just some harmless goof with a hidden heart of gold.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
Or Leslie Knope as a well-meaning politician who never meaningfully has to struggle with systematic bigotry, despite the fact that––as Penelope noted––she would *precisely* be the kind of well-educated liberal white woman who'd throw queer people under the bus.
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The fact that small towns in Indiana like that are built on Native genocide and are incredibly fucking racist today is played as a JOKE on P&R
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That always bugged me. It's part of that "soft-comedy-with-the-occasional-edge" thing I was referring to, seemingly written from this **desperate** desire to believe we already live in a postracial society and we can make jokes like this willy nilly.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
See also: literally everything in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Tina Fey's public exasperation whenever online audiences give her racial humour a chilly reception. "Why can't it be okay to make jokes about a black man in yellow face?" Tina cries, wiping at her tears with-
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