The episode has BoJack oscillate between introspective and thoughtful... and egotistically preening for media attention. Ultimately, BoJack may or may not *change* as a person at all, and he's already had all this time, all these many chances. We just have to take it on faith
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
... But it doesn't matter. *Everyone else* in his life is better off. Everyone else gets their happy ending. Even long-suffering Diane realizes that she can't live her own life if BoJack keeps dragging it down with his bullshit and cuts him off-
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
-but admits that without meeting him, she might have never grown as a person. Every other lead, even quite a few integral support characters (especially Hollyhock), are able to do what BoJack can't: make peace, grow and move on.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
I feel the show commits to an idea TGP only flirted with, lightly: not everyone has the capacity to grow as a person. BoJack struggles, and will always struggle, but for some––like Todd, Diane, even Princess Carolyn––it'll be marginally easier.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @loudpenitent and
The fact that, however many thousands of Bearimies later it is in Good Place time, Brent is still in the Bad Place and on a five-digit number of attempts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
I feel like you'd absolutely have people who just chose to stay "in the system" permanently in the Good Place's final afterlife, sorta like Mindy
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @arthur_affect and
And Tahani. Which goes to show, there's always room for improvement and helping others, even in paradise.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @saintwalker98 and
Well, no, becoming an Architect (ie a bodhisattva) and just staying in the wheel forever are different things
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
One of the things I do like bringing up is that people are wrong when they say Buddhism has no concept of "hell", there very much is such a thing, it's just not eternal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
But the difference between truly eternal and just a very very long time is academic to us mortals But it is said that the most vicious and corrupt souls descend to a level of existence of unimaginable suffering and loss and are trapped there for literal quadrillions of years
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Buddhism does teach that even someone like Hitler will, eventually, be "redeemed" in the sense that, as Chidi says, the wave breaks and the water changes shape and he's not Hitler anymore
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
But they feel free to imagine that for someone like Hitler, this purge can't happen until he's been imprisoned for longer than the age of the universe, and the process of having to change enough to no longer bear that karma feels like being burned alive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
huh that's kinda like that stupid short story I wrote
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