Sansophia

She said she initiated a Ride or Die protocol. Ride or Die definitely being a concept Jason told her about. It means to be with someone through whatever comes your way.

The more I hear about Ron Swanson, more I think I really missed something in not watching Parks and Recreation. I think I would have figured the offness of the Good Place wasn't sloppy and tone-deaf writing. Even so about frozen Yogurt, and I don't like Yogurt, I really want to taste full cell phone battery.

It just occurred to me that the last episode's title, 'Michael's Gambit' is as intentionally misleading as everything else on the show. Consider the following: After the reveal, Michael is still pretty damn pleasant for an exposed demon. He's nowhere near as bad as the "Bad Place" crew. Michael is always fastidious and polite in the office flashback and only talks badly about people in his presentation, where he's trying to get Shaun to sign off on it. Michael also never unjustly criticizes the cast: Chidi's work IS garbage, Tahani IS insensitive, Jason SHOULD be locked up for the safety of society, and he really did seem to enjoy Elanor's company when she was his assistant. He didn't have to enjoy Karaoke that much. He did not need for one second to add all those exotic yogurt flavors. And he could have made the damage done to the neighborhood last a lot longer to guilt trip Elanor, or tempted her a lot more to where Chidi would have an actual breakdown because he thought the Elanor would destabilize the neighborhood into total collapse. This would not have been hard at all. And yet he didn't. Most importantly, Shaun was with him when Elanor dropped the ball. I'm not saying Michael isn't a demon, but he doesn't have the stomach cold-blooded torture, and he's not nearly as petty as knocking over the cactus indicates. He's so low in the hierarchy because he's seen as a sensitive weenie and has to act like an asshole to be taken seriously. And considering these are flawed, medium people he selected for his neighborhood, I think that was a deliberate choice. He's saving them from a fire and brimstone hell they don't deserve. He might have fun pushing their buttons, but he never goes out of his way to make them feel truly miserable. Even the swinger's couple ultimately relieved tension instead of making it worse. I think therefore, Michael's Gambit pretending to be truly evil in from of his boss, and erasing everyone's memories was how he was keeping them from being reassigned to someplace much worse. It's not completely altruistic, as he does enjoy prodding these people, but he does have genuine concern for them after coming to know them and their potential. To acknowledge this however, would cause the entire project to be shut down.

Why are any of you surprised? Good people would be appalled at the selection criteria, good people would mourn the lost. Despite all the calamity Elanor brought to the neighborhood, if they were actually good people, they would do anything they could to shield her from going to the bad place. I'll admit I was surprised that this was actually a Bad Place, but only because I thought the creators were going for 'The afterlife isn't remotely just anywhere.' So I thought this was a "Good Place" place for self-centered prigs the Celestial Bureaucracy decided were worthy. But it kills me that Michael is a fake. That's a body blow. And while I would rather Micheal being conned instead of part of the con, I love it. How are they going to pull this off? Because it's either reset season after season or it becomes a prison break with a clear arc. By the ay, what WAS supposed to happen is that black human rights guy was supposed to get them off on a technicality. He almost did before Elanor shut him down.