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12 hours ago, owenthurman said:
I think that's where the story is going.
I think Elliot's letter to Quentin will change the history, and Quentin will survive.... I'm guessing he becomes the Dark King, and is responsible for the Takers.
I highly doubt that. I'm not spoiled at all, but it doesn't seem like the actor is signed on for this season. Otherwise we probably would have seen him as the flesh golem.
The best we can hope for is him coming back in the final episode of the season and being back in the next. But even that seems improbable.
The writers basically bashed us over the head with "he's gone and not coming back, move on guys" this episode. That is what I meant with what the writers are selling and I'm not buying.
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Guess I was wrong, the tape did come with the car.
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Calling two things. First, the tape didn't come with the car, her almost fiance gave it to her. Second, he didn't simply die by an IED on accident, he was murdered. dun dun dun.
On 9/26/2019 at 5:15 AM, stealinghome said:Cobie Smulders isn’t the most talented or technical of actresses
I was pleasently surprised, actually. I think her acting here was the best I've ever seen her. I mean it's not omg-amazing, but it's solid.
On 9/26/2019 at 6:09 AM, Danielg342 said:I still think it's tiring for Hollywood to constantly trot out badass female characters who have "male" names (or gender neutral names). Just once can we have a woman who kicks ass who's name is Alice or Helena?
Sarah Connor, Ellen Louise Ripley? Badass female action stars have had female names from the very beginning.
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I know what the writers are trying to sell here but I'm not buying. Quentin's and Elliot's story was not over. I want to see it develop further. They have brought back people from the dead before. They can do it again.
Loved the Margo and Elliot story though, as always.
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3 hours ago, possibilities said:
I think she's also assuming his advice was bad. I wonder how she'd handle it if she actually knew what he'd told people, and especially if she knew about the ways Otis (and Maeve) did help sometimes.
Now that you bring up the quality of his advice. It's curious how the writers made him worse at it this season. The asexual girl seems like something he shouldn't have missed. I figured that one out early on and I'm not a sex-guru.
I'm wondering if they made him worse to give Jean something to do and have her have a point when she is berating him in this episode, or if it was to show that he is off his game without Maeve being there... maybe a bit of both.
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On 1/20/2020 at 9:36 PM, ahisma said:
Jean giving anal sex advice in class gave me life, too, Eric. Me, too.
But it wasn't really great advice. It wasn't completely wrong, but it was incomplete.
Yes, oil/fat based lubricants will decompose the latex condoms are made out of, so you shouldn't use them, correct. But her advise that "you should always use water based lubricants" is just wrong. Silicon based lubes are also compatible with condoms, usually lubricate better and last longer than water based lubes. Things that are especially important in anal sex (which she was recommending the lube for). You don't want too much chaving. First it isn't exactly pleasurable, second it makes the condom much more likely to break.
Of course silicon based lubes have the downside that they will decompose toys made from silicon, but that was not part of the question
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On 12/9/2019 at 7:16 AM, chocolatine said:
I didn't mind the ending, even though the premise of an AI that taught itself how to break every encryption algorithm and remotely drive a car is preposterous. A traditional happy ending wouldn't have worked for this show. I just wish they had told us why Laurie Bream was in prison.
Yeah, that bothered me, but less than I was expecting. I guess I swallowed so much bullshit over te course of this show, that this was just a blip on the radar.
Still, it's dumb. With enough computing power I guess it's realistic that the system cracked one key in a few days or weeks, but not crack the entiry encryption standard.
Also even though nobody really knows how or why AIs do things, you can tell them specific things not to do. That's not that hard. In this case it would have been "don't touch encryption".
Also also, the dot being missing is not proof that encryption was broken, so they probably should have only noticed after launch. The piper software is running on the phones, which means it can edit the message before it is encrypted.
On 12/9/2019 at 3:06 PM, qtpye said:For five seconds I thought they were going to reveal that Gilfoyle and Dinesh were a romantic couple.
Well, they basically are an old married couple. Including the not having sex with each other.
On 12/10/2019 at 4:37 AM, tennisgurl said:T.J. Miller...just such a cautionary tale about getting ridiculous amounts of money, fame, and success in such a short amount of time, and then crashing and burning almost immediately. Yeah, I dont blame them for not wanting to give him a call.
Don't forget the brain damage. The brain damage probably helped. Which makes it kinda sad, honestly.
On 12/10/2019 at 4:58 PM, MaggieG said:Was Bighead always this clueless? I feel like he was somewhat smarter in the first few seasons. I laughed at the docu people explaining the reason his nickname was Bighead was because of his last name, not his actual big head. His face was priceless.
Jared hinted that Bighead might have early onset dementia, which would make sense...
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I'm wondering if and how they'll adress the supply situation. If they planned for an 8 week trip, there is no way they have nearly enough for 3 years.
On 1/20/2020 at 4:59 AM, kay1864 said:But really, we’re supposed to accept it’s a spaceship without any propulsion?
Propulsion will help you only so much in space. There is nothing to slow you down, afterall. They mentioned they missed their slingshot point, so that seems believeable.
What seems rather less believable is that they need like 3 rounds around the sun to get back to earth. You should be able to correct your flight path so that one max is enough.
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On 1/19/2020 at 11:54 PM, DoctorAtomic said:
Yeah, but it's not like Otis isn't going to say 'did you get my message' next time he sees her anyway. I don't get the point of this. Plus, with people literally never talking on the phone much anymore, especially younger people, seeing a voice mail, you're going to check it sooner than later.
Yeah, the writers totally aren't going to drag this out over at least half the season, probably longer. Nuh, uh. No, sir. That's why they spent so much energy constructing this contrived scenario, because they are not going to capitalize on it. I repeat, they are not going to do it!
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I just love this show too much. I binged it in one night and now I'm overtired and sad, sad that I have to wait another year to get more of it.
The sex- Romeo and Juliett musical was amazing. I would totally go see the whole thing.
So glad that Adam plucked up the courage to hold Eric's hand in front of everybody. I hope we can build on that next season and don't have some contrived bullshit to split them up again.
Speaking of contrived bullshit that is there to keep characters apart. The part at the end. I mean come on. I'm not saying that wheelchair-asshole wouldn't do something like that, it seems completely in his chharacter, but the rest?
So Maeve comes over and he says "make me a sandwich!" and she's all "okay, I guess I have nothing better to do in my grief", okay maybe I buy this part. But then he has really nothing to eat in the fridge... curious his brother seems to run a pretty good ship, but okay, fridges are empty sometimes... But then Maeve also doesn't seem to have anything in her fridge she can get to make, so instead of saying "ah well screw it, it was more of a disctraction-thing anyway and none of us is really hungry" she decides to walk to the store, that is god knows where, certainly not close to the trailer park, at night.
But before she does so, she leaves her phone on the table. Thing is, she has it in her hand for no fucking reason. We see her hugging a pillow in her trailer and next scene she is knocking on assholes trailer with the phone in her hand. Why would she have it in her hand? She clearly didn't check her messages. The othher trailer is across the way from her and stuff is brightly lit. So it wasn't the flashlight either. Speaking of the flashlight, How would she not notice that she is missing it, once she walks away from thhe trailers, over that ridge, where she would need the flashlight to see.
And of course then Otis comes by and basically tells asshole to delete the message. You know I might have felt this was more believeable if that interaction hadn't happened and asshole just decided out of his pure assholishness to snoop in the phone of the girl he likes.
But the worst part: Do you seriously expect me to believe that Maeve doesn't lock her phone? At least with face recognition or finger print? The smartes girl around with MASSIVE trust issues? She doesn't lock her phone? Suuuuure, writers, suuuure.
I mean there is contrived and then there is this bullshit. They better retcon this asap next season.
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Gillian Anderson is a damn good actress.
Really liked the comradery among the girls.
Even Eric's mom sees that that boy is just not right for him. Hopeffully Adam can get his shit together and get over that self-hatred, so he deserves him.
Speaking of Adam, that is why I would always jiggle a door like that. I don't even know how you couldn't. It's just instinct. But wouldn't a store like that at least have a rudimentary alarm system, for the insurance alone, and wouldn't that have triggered the moment the door swung open? Or was Adam not taught how to activate it? If so that seems like the owners fault... there are some holes in this story, is what I'm saying.
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I'm really sad for Adam, that he's still too scared to show who he really is. I mean what has he got to lose at this point. It's not even like his father can kick him out of the house anymore and it doesn't seem like his mom would. Of course that's no excuse to treat othher people badly, but it doesn't seem like he's doing that anymore. Now he just treats himself badly.
I mean Oti's speach was a bit dickish but it wasn't far off, except for calling Maeve a selfish person.
Also am I just ignorant or did wheelchair asshole still lie about how he came to be in said wheelchair? Usually when your spinal cord gets severed high enough you lose the use of your arms and your hands, not either or. Also if the injury was that high, he should be strapped to the wheelchair, as he wouldn't be able to sit upright otherwise, but I couldn't see anything like that. In general it looks much more like he has a degenerative disease. So was he lying, am I just ignorant or could the show runners actually not find an actor who would fit their story? (but then why wouldn't they change it?)
When you think Groff couldn't be a bigger asshole (and not the good kind) he proofs you wrong. I mean copying private therapy notes and probably revealing them to the whole school, because your wife left you, on account of you being a massive prick and not even giving her your prick once in a while, that's suuuuuuper low.
But I think Jean is partly to blame here. She shouldn't be so careless with sensitive information. If you leave your shit lying around, at least don't use real names. Good god, woman.
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Eric is in quite a pickle there. Of course I'm hard team Adam, even though new kid might be a more stable choice...
But mainly I like that it's not just the straight characters who are in these realtionship dramas, while the gay characters don't hhave anything to do but be the best friend, somewheree on the outsides (shows specifically catering to gays are an exception to this rule, of course, but I'm glad it can be the case in more mainstream shows now)
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Aw, poor Adam. Man the writers really chose the most ironic way to get him expelled. I mean I wanted him back home, but not like this. And it seems so avoidable had he just said a little more than "I won't tell anyone".
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11 hours ago, eliot90000 said:
Not the same kinds of complaints and not nearly the same thing.
How very specific! What exactly are all the super sexist complaints that are completely new?
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You know I learned something about myself today. I'm still salty that the writers brought Q and Alice back together instead of exploring the far more interesting relationship between Q and Elliot.
But I guess at least there is hope that she might bring him back. I'm totally unspoiled so I really hope it's not a fakeout, though I fear it is.
Looooooooooooved Elliot and Margo sitting under a tree, sipping from their champagne glasses, just bantering. Could have watched that for the whole 45 minutes. I hope them being seperated won't last long. We had far too much of that the last few seasons.
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14 hours ago, Lady Calypso said:
I didn't love how Carly immediately decided to confront Shaun on why he didn't text her back...but I also understand why she had to. The biggest struggle in their relationship is complete honesty and communication, so I can see why that was one of Carly's first questions.
I think when your partner's father dies, you can let that shit slide.
Maybe once he dies a third time and this happens again, you can say somethting... wait what do you mean with "somebody can only die once and thus this is an extraordinary circumstance that will never happen again"?
21 hours ago, PinkRibbons said:Morgan bluntly listing the reasons why not felt like a hat-tip to a lot of the fandom
Oh god, I loved that part so much. How is it that Morgan is usually the only voice of reason in these episodes? At least now the writers seem to actually intend her to be. Seems like earlier she was meant to come off as a bitch and it was coincidental that she was always right.
10 hours ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said:Also didn't get the patient with the fractured leg's objection for anesthesia. If you want to scream through pain, fine. I am not watching it. I signed up for entertainment, this isn't it
Me neither. She wouldn't even take an epidural, which is a local nerve block with local anesthesia that isn't an opiod.
She seems to be too dumb to take care of a child, tbh. Somebody with an IQ of 60 should understand this.
8 hours ago, Calibabydolly said:Also, remember Michael Jackson died from an overdose of Propofol. It was used under the care of a real doctor so he could go to sleep!
"A real doctor". You can never forget the quotation marks there. Micheal Jackson went through a bunch of doctors who wouldn't give him the drug, because using Propofol for sleeplesness is like nuking a city to get rid of a single rat, until he found one unethical enough to give it to him.
3 hours ago, meatball77 said:I couldn't figure out why they couldn't just give that woman a spinal or an epidural.
They had a throwaway line that she refused it. Which makes her the dumbest person on earth... probably could have let her get declared mentally incompetent on that one alone...
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21 minutes ago, Eulipian 5k said:
Every "we're on a ship!" show on TV has always required a captain (the Doctor) and at least 4 to 5 crew members,(companions). All were 1 hour with commercials. All these shows from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" to "Star Trek" were built on a monster of the week character. None of them were Shakespeare, but we survived, and iconic characters were created; (all white, except for the green guy from Vulcan).
But they always stayed in more or less the same setting.
21 minutes ago, Eulipian 5k said:Now that we have openly LGBTQ persons (men) in the writer's/show runner's room, inevitably more of their experience is being represented. I don't see how more representation cannot help any show to better examine the human condition, esp. for a show dealing with aliens. "The old order changeth, making way for the new". Allons Y, Dr Who, we're not all there yet.
How did gay people come into this?
56 minutes ago, Llywela said:I think it could be done, but they'd have to approach their storytelling a little differently, and there doesn't seem to be the will to do that - a particular formula was established in 2005 that has pretty much stuck ever since. But that formula isn't the only way of telling a story.
Yeah, I think it would be easily doable if they did more multi parters and had better writers. I think we agree there. But it might not be possible with the current format and certainly isn't with the current writers.
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10 minutes ago, Llywela said:
Now this is an argument I've never been able to get behind. TV is full of shows with full ensemble casts and only 45 minutes per episode to tell a story, and most of them manage to flesh out and develop their characters just fine. It's all about how you use the characters and where you place the emphasis in your storytelling.
Yes, but those shows usually don't have episodes of the week, where they have to establish a completely new alien planet and evil menace most of the time. There is just not enough time left after that.
Or I'm wrong and the writers just aren't good enough to do so. I mean we know they aren't good enough to write a coherent narrative, so it would make sense...
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15 hours ago, AudienceofOne said:
The Doctor travelling with one female companion was actually only a small chunk of the original show; mostly he travelled with a much larger entourage.
But back then stories were often 6+ episodes long. There is no time for a gaggle of companions in the currents shows structure. None of them are fleshed out, after more than a full season and it hurts the show.
I think in the modern structure there is space for one companion at a time to be introduced. Even with my favorite companions from NuWho, Amy and Rory, you had Amy alone for a season to properly introduce her.
13 hours ago, eliot90000 said:I agree with you entirely. And, it’s just so obvious.
Yes, it's so obvious! Nobody ever complained about RTD or Moffat, while they were actually churning out way better stories than these abominations. Must be sexism!
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1 hour ago, Bruinsfan said:
I believe it's been a plot point of note when one of her past versions wasn't able to automatically understand some form of communication.
It has, but because the Tardis can translate pretty much anything, not because the Doctor herself can speak all the languages.
10 minutes ago, AudienceofOne said:Also the Doctor doesn't rely on the TARDIS, the Doctor actually speaks English and, as far as I'm aware, all Earth languages. She doesn't need the TARDIS for that kind of translation; it's more for her companions and for situations where she's on an unknown planet or comes into contact with a completely unknown species.
Was it ever actually stated anywhere that the Doctor speaks english and most earth languages or is that just your head canon?
10 minutes ago, AudienceofOne said:But, honestly, despite being guilty of it myself, getting angry at Doctor Who for going against its own mythology and canon is like yelling at the wind for changing direction. The show has lasted so long by not caring about its own mythology. And, yes, that's bad writing but that ship sailed when they decided the 6th Doctor actually knew Rassillon or possibly was Rassillon idk, it was stupid and it broke their canon and that was in the 80s.
Yeah, but nowadays we expect a bit better from TV than back then.
But honestly, I would have no problem overlooking it, if it was in service of a better story. But as it is, it's annoying as all hell that they would break continutiy for such dreck.
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18 hours ago, DanaK said:
I suspect the Russian didn’t get translated, nor the Dregs’s speech, because the Tardis wasn’t there. The team was teleported away from it. Or does it work regardless of the distance?
It works regardless of distance. Also think about it, it must have been in effect. There is no way that these humans from the far future (if they even were humans) speak present day english.
Plus the doctor speaks Gallifreyen. She might know english, but I think they would have made a point, had she had to use it.
17 hours ago, CatWarmer said:I wondered about that too but maybe it’s because that’s where the Dregs hibernated and they exhaled oxygen in their sleep?
There was no Oxygen in the tunnel. The doctors Oxygen was running low and the canisters refill themselves in environments with Oxygen. Only possible conclusion: magic fire!
15 hours ago, futurechemist said:As long as we have global leaders who refuse to acknowledge the mere existence of climate change, I will not fault a TV show for being "too preachy".
Yes, I'm sure Doctor Who will change their minds...
15 hours ago, futurechemist said:The show also missed an opportunity to compare the companions seeing a destroyed Earth with the Doctor seeing a destroyed Gallifrey last episode. A pet peeve of mine is shows where the main characters keep secrets from each other despite how close they are to each other purely for dramatic contrivance rather than an sort of characterization.
I thought that's where the whole thing was going as well. Instead we got the stupid sermon in the Tardis at the end. They had a golden opportunity and they squandared it in the worst way. These really are the worst writers on television.
6 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:So anyone complaining about the global warming and war causing an orphan planet....it’s science fiction telling a possible end to earth. That’s what science fiction does.
I don't tink anybody is complaining about that part. I am complaining about the part where it doesn't fit with what we've seen of earth's future. You could have done it on any alien planet out there and if written well (and I suspect here lies the problem) it wouldn't have lost any of its impact.
The speach at the end was just unecessary, bad, and prevented a better story from being told. All in the name of preaching to the choir.
2 hours ago, Eulipian 5k said:After last season's Kerblam delivery, the Kassavans last week, and now the Tranquility teleporting coupons, the TARDIS doesn't seem to be a safe haven as it once was; any body can just barge in. Maybe this Doctor needs to go to the Siege Mode TARDIS.
Just raising the shields might help... Usually they should always be raised, but I guess this doctor just forgot... (or these writers don't know shit about DW)
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Do I really need to get lectured about global warming by writers who don't even understand that splitting CO2 into carbon and oxygen needs a boatload of energy and that plants don't use the sun and remain stationary for shits and giggles?
Also fuck off with your multiple timelines. That's not how it works in DW. The show has previously established what will happen to earth across mutliple episodes and it wasn't teeth-monsters. The only wiggle room is that (some but not all) time can be rewritten, but that requires active involvement of a time traveler. So if you told me the master made earth this way, fine. But that's not the message they tried to cram down our throats, was it?
Maybe somebody should tell these writers that the Tardis translates most languages........ which includes russian!!!
I guess it's okay to be a mass murderer if one of the Tardis crew really wants to shag you... What a disgrace.
3 hours ago, GSManiac said:This episode was poorly produced/directed/edited.
Like all episodes from this and the last season. I guess that's what happens if you exclusively hire soap opera director, writers and producers...
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Was I the only one who hoped it would turn out that Jaskier might also like the men and not just the women? Well, maybe we'll still get to that. He did make 1-2 remarks that could be interpreted in that direction. Might be a prolem if the author of the books has too much say, though.
Btw. what's funny, his nickname seems to be a different flower in every language. In polish it's Jaskier (Buttercup), in english it's Dandelion and in german it's Rittersporn (larkspur). Seems like the translators of the books and games had fun there...
(the german name also directly translates to "knight's spurs", which might have een a consideration for chosing it)
My thoughts on the season: I really liked it, even though it was a bit uneven at parts.
On 12/21/2019 at 2:37 PM, Happy Harpy said:too rushed on some aspects
Yeah that was my main issue.
Hey I'm Yennifer, I'm a mistreated young girl. Uh now I'm in mage training. But I'm really bad at it. Now I'm suddenly the best at it. Now my training is done and I'm a mage. Now I'm apparently over a hundret years old and you saw nothing of it! Now I met this guy Gerald. Now we apperently met each other a bunch of times but never really got together. Now we broke up for good.
Man was her plot way too rushed.
On 12/23/2019 at 5:14 AM, Stardancer Supreme said:It took me 7 episodes to finally figure out that each episode runs on 3 different timelines.
That there are different timelines became obvious in episode three when the sister stupping king was shown as a little boy at Yennifers big sorcerer entrance party thing. And then blatently obbvious when Gerald was prancing around Cintra before Ciri was even born,
Were there any hints before episode three that one could have picked up on though?
On 12/24/2019 at 6:33 AM, thuganomics85 said:Although, we did get to find out that Geralt's mom was a mage, and abandoned him for some reason.
The interesting question is: Is she his biological mother? Because that isn't supposed to be possible for mages. There might be hope for Yen yet...
On 12/30/2019 at 1:01 AM, nodorothyparker said:Geralt just not having it when the merchant tried to offer him the Law of Surprise after saving him made me laugh. Yeah, that's what got us here, thanks.
Though I guess since his wife just adopted Ciri it would have just been her again. XD
Destiny really wants those two together.
On 1/3/2020 at 1:39 AM, Jack Shaftoe said:Also, the aerial shots showed a bridge next to the castle, yet the battle was nowhere near any bridge?
The bridge was on the other side of the castle. Still don't quite get why they didn't jjust destroy the bridge. It would have given them time to wait for the reinforcements. ut I guess it would have given Nilfgard a defensible position, which wouldn't have been good.
On 1/3/2020 at 9:12 PM, Ilovepie said:She had no problem pushing her eel friends into the water and walking away
I think that was a problem with her story being rushed and with the actress not being able to emote much in the prosthetic. From what we saw this episode it seemed like those girls actually were her friends and that the eelefication actually did hit her hard, but that she saw no other way but to play along.
On 1/5/2020 at 3:49 PM, Morrigan2575 said:I went back and looked, Jaskier says what's it been Months? Years? What is time anyway?
I'm not sure what the true timeline is, a few months or even a year would make sense for the Child Surprise to weigh on Geralt until he can't sleep. However, it might have been more, it's hard to tell
I think he was being sarcastic and it was a few days.
On 1/6/2020 at 7:22 PM, Zuleikha said:They did explain this, but not very well, IMHO. In that initial flower/rock scene, Tissaia explains that they need to take the energy from somewhere in order to have the magic. That's her whole "sometimes the best thing a flower can do for us is die" speech. The energy can come from within the mage, but then there's a cost to the mage. Fringilla had no idea what she was doing back when she floated the rock, so it's possible her hand withered because she was inefficient with her chaos rather than because it really takes that much energy from a mage to float a rock.
Mages also seem to take a lot of their energy from the eels. Hence Yen's comment that the place is "Aretuza's windmill. Enough bridled chaos to keep the curtains hung and the torches lit"
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in The Good Place [V]
I don't think you guys are really considering how long eternity is. It literally is infinite. Imagine being around forever. Everybody is going to get bored of that eventually.
That's why in a lot of religions not existing is the ultimate goal and reincarnation is a form of punishment. Most western people don't seem to know what Nirvana actually means...
Or like a wise blue alien coming from a box with a big button on it once said: EXISTENCE IS PAIN!