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So who the heck actually ends up in the real Good Place?

posted 8 years ago by cheribella
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If someone like Chidi - whose only flaw was excessive indecisiveness - can end up in the same level Bad Place as someone like Jason...what exactly are the standards for people getting into the Good Place? I know they stressed in the beginning of the show that only a very small percentage of people actually make it in, but it hardly seems reasonable that again, someone like Chidi could end up with a damned soil for all of eternity because of some minor personality flaws.

Also, the main elements of torture that were being implemented were dependent upon them having goodness in them (ie, being able to feel guilt about Michael retiring, or Chidi wanting to help Eleanor be a better person). I understand Michael's project was experimental, but it just seems so riddled with flaws and contingencies and messing with people that weren't necessarily bad.

[–] TheMountainThatRides23 8 years ago

Chidi wasn't a good person. He just....existed.

"The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."

[–] jberning 8 years ago

As you stated they said only a very small percentage go to the Good Place. And while Chidi had good intentions in his life he never really did anything good and his simple personality flaws actually hurt a lot of people. So to us it seems harsh but if only the best of the best get to teh Good Place then it makes sense that he wouldn't be there.

[–] edgar1975 8 years ago

Maybe there isn't a Good Place after all.

[–] mddwbsst 8 years ago

Well Michael told Shawn that he stole Janet from the actual Good Place, so there probably is.

[–] doktorf 8 years ago

Seeing as it was all a setup to screw with them, any information that was dispensed to them is likely as as not disinfomation. Everything we think we know about the afterlife has to be taken with an extra large grain of salt.Every "fact" from Doug Forcett on probably isn't. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the devil turns out to be Doug Forcett.

[–] thesnowleopard 8 years ago

Seeing as it was all a setup to screw with them, any information that was dispensed to them is likely as as not disinfomation.

There's no reason to believe that the part about Janet is disinformation, since that was a conversation between Michael and his boss.

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[–] doktorf 8 years ago

True, but that was not information given to Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani or Jason.

[–] thesnowleopard 8 years ago

The question was whether Michael confirmed for the audience that there is a Good Place, not whether or not he told Eleanor and Co. If anything, the fact that it came out as information all present knew during a meeting with his boss and coworkers confirms it unequivocally, whereas if it had only been something he had told Eleanor and Co., it could have been just another lie. Michael had no reason to lie about the existence of the Good Place during his office presentation.

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