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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Yeah the eventual afterlife in TGP isn't actually that different from Mormonism
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