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author_by_nightOkay, now that I'm done rage!posting, let's talk about the most recent episode of The Good Place. This reaction post is brief, but pretty spoilerific, and I imagine the comments will contain even more spoilers.
Crossposted from the TGP community on DW.
While I liked the arc very much, I honestly don't know how I feel about 4.9 as an episode.
"The Answer" was very good in terms of giving us a lot of backstory on Chidi, as well as showing us just how he would be able to wake up. It's not just a magical "oh, I'm awake and I REMEMBER EEEEVERYTHING," which is what I was expecting. Subversion is always great in my book. I loved seeing all of the connecting threads, as well as some things from his POV. Poor young Chidi! Oof, he's bad at romance pre-Eleanor, too. And I grinned madly at the end, because I was thinking the paper was going to say "Chidi, find Eleanor," except it was an entirely new take on the former method.
Oh, and "have I really been that annoying for 300 years?" was the perfect line.
The one thing that threw me off wasn't Chidi being inspired by trying to prevent his parents' divorce, but that apparently all of the characters knew it. At least Eleanor. (And Michael, but he knows everything about their lives, so...) Yet we never heard about it, which made it apparent to me that the writers tacked it on. My gripe here is probably most a nitpick from one writer to another, as well as expecting so much from this particular show. Still, it stood out a little bit to me.
Mostly, I find it hard to truly judge because it really was setting up the rest of the show/series. When the next episode airs in January (or February?), I'll rewatch this one as well and see what my take is then. :)
Crossposted from the TGP community on DW.
While I liked the arc very much, I honestly don't know how I feel about 4.9 as an episode.
"The Answer" was very good in terms of giving us a lot of backstory on Chidi, as well as showing us just how he would be able to wake up. It's not just a magical "oh, I'm awake and I REMEMBER EEEEVERYTHING," which is what I was expecting. Subversion is always great in my book. I loved seeing all of the connecting threads, as well as some things from his POV. Poor young Chidi! Oof, he's bad at romance pre-Eleanor, too. And I grinned madly at the end, because I was thinking the paper was going to say "Chidi, find Eleanor," except it was an entirely new take on the former method.
Oh, and "have I really been that annoying for 300 years?" was the perfect line.
The one thing that threw me off wasn't Chidi being inspired by trying to prevent his parents' divorce, but that apparently all of the characters knew it. At least Eleanor. (And Michael, but he knows everything about their lives, so...) Yet we never heard about it, which made it apparent to me that the writers tacked it on. My gripe here is probably most a nitpick from one writer to another, as well as expecting so much from this particular show. Still, it stood out a little bit to me.
Mostly, I find it hard to truly judge because it really was setting up the rest of the show/series. When the next episode airs in January (or February?), I'll rewatch this one as well and see what my take is then. :)
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