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So what might be the best case scenario for these 4 condemned souls?

posted 8 years ago by Lord_Protector
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I wrote this in another thread but I think it deserves its own.

So what are they supposed to achieve here?
What is their endgame ?.
THEY ARE DEAD and in HELL.
There is no way they can beat that.
It's GAME OVER.

There is no way they can go to the actual good place since the judgement is for the life they lived.

In the worst case scenario, Michael is demoted and they go to the original version of Hell, with the torturing.

[–] thesnowleopard 8 years ago

There is no way they can go to the actual good place since the judgement is for the life they lived.

Why not? There are religious cosmologies where you can work off your sins in the Afterlife.

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[–] Lord_Protector 8 years ago

Name one to look it up.

[–] CharlesTheBold 8 years ago

The Buddhist version of hell is temporary and part of the reincarnation sequence: you are "reborn" there and get released after you "die" there.

Some Christians believe that nearly all sinners get a chance to work off their sins in Purgatory; only the very worst ( like Hitler) are stuck in Hell forever.

[–] ToHelenBackAgain 8 years ago

This isn't Hell. I'm not sure whether or not Michael knows that, but it isn't. It isn't bad enough, and there's too much emphasis on personal growth. If he does know it, well, he lied. Not exactly a first! He's been lying his head off from the beginning.

Anyway, so I think the next reveal, probably at the end of Season Two, will be that this is a very gentle kind of purgatory, for people who weren't completely terrible but didn't earn a heaven either. I also suspect that Janet may be God, or part of God, so I'll be keeping an eye on her. My guess, they can go to an actual Good Place, but they have to earn it here. In what is probably the actual Medium Place.

"What are you in for?" "Everything."

[–] Lord_Protector 8 years ago

Wait a minute.
If it was that the case, some kind of purgatory to prove themselves, they already did.
Eleanor at least she improved herself vastlyn, not to mention unexpectedly.

[–] empirejeff 8 years ago

The plan was to do it for a thousand years.

The medium place might actually be real. if that is the case than they might be some kind of an escape.

Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. ...Come watch TV?

[–] mddwbsst 8 years ago

Well, we've seen it is possible to leave certain places.

So perhaps they could just sneak into the actual good place and hope no one notices.

[–] mariajoaou27 8 years ago

I'd say the best case scenario would be if Michael grew attached to them and eventually got them to the actual Good Place.

[–] resamarie 8 years ago

I think the next season will focus on them figuring out again, but faster, and that will get Michael into big trouble. At that point Michael will have to somehow team up with the four of them and Janet so that he can save himself and will help save them in return. Michael is pulling all the strings, but my guess is that he will be cast out for failing again and become as condemned as the rest.