1) How did she expect to get his from Janet after her own memory was wiped? Suppose the rebooted Janet gave it to Michael or wasn't rebooted with it.
2) Why only write "find Chidi"? A better message would be about how where she is is in fact the bad place and Michael's messing with her.
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I would have written in the note:
Not the good place or Not Penny's boat
Let's not assume that's what she actually wrote. I kinda suspect Michael knew about the note and switched it out with something different. Remember how he said he needed to tweak things so that they were further apart, but he still selected them to be the perfect set of people to torture each other endlessly.
So, now he has introduced a hot body to distract Eleanor from Chidi, but still given her a reason to seek Chidi out in order to torture him with the moral consequences of her presence, without the possibility of them bonding.
No, I don't think so. Why risk ruining his plan for a second time? Plus, as you said, her new soul mate is designed to distract her.
shareI get what you are saying, but Michael's whole plan is for them to torture each other, not for them to never interact in the new environment. So, even though he is placing them further apart and distracting them, he still needs them to be motivated to interact with each other.
In any case, I watched on Hulu and was not aware it was the season finale. Now I am bummed because I have to wait for months for season 2. Great twist.
That's clever but I don't think Michael would risk failing a second time. It sounded like his whole career was riding on this succeeding, so I don't think he knew about the note. Yes, he wants Chidi and Eleanor to interact but so they can torture each other. Remember Chidi's classes were the only thing that saved Eleanor. I assume Michael underestimated her ability to change, so he doesn't want them paired together anymore. He doesn't want a friendship, hence the new soulmate
-Who is it?
-It's Grandpa. And it sounds like he's gotten into the horseradish again.
Without Chidi teaching her, Eleanor will just go back to her old self. She can't give herself too much info as it may screw everything up and have Michael find out the neighborhood still isn't working right. She not only needs to become good to throw a wrench into Michael's plans but also because she truly wants to be good.
shareThat's how I saw it too. She needs Chidi to help her. I think he knows she can't do it by herself so instead of solving the puzzle she enlisted Chidi
shareUnlike Chidi, Eleanor can act and think straight under pressure.
So, she had a short interval of time, and she made her own Xanatos Gambit about Janet being stolen as true, and as such uninfluenced by demons. The second part of her gambit was banking on her own selfish personality. If she only writes Find Chidi, she won't know if it's a cheese, a flower or a person, but gradually she will find out.
If you've watched Dark Matters or any show/movie with mind wipe, then it's a given trope, that either your current or your former self could betray you. Writing a more extended note in her "factory settings" state only plays into Michael's hands.
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That is why ideally I would have written Not the good place. If I know Michael might see the note, I would have written Not Penny's boat. The latter assumed Michael in Hell did not watch every human show.
shareSure, but can you trust your old, conniving self? To find the things you lost, you have to find the person who guides you to them.
It's the same with Jacob, he could have told everyone he touched before boarding Oceanic 815 to just straight up go to the cave, see your names, go to the lighthouse, watch how I spied on you, avoid the smoke monster and come to the foot of the statue but then there wouldn't have been 6 seasons.
I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Escher.
> How did she expect to get his from Janet after her own memory was wiped? Suppose the rebooted Janet gave it to Michael or wasn't rebooted with it.
She couldn't be positive that her note would get through or even that her future self would make any good use of it. But, she only had about twenty seconds to do something and this was the best she could think of.
> Why only write ? A better message would be about how where she is is in fact the bad place and Michael's messing with her.
As it turns out, the worst thing she could do was to spill the beans to herself like that. If, on day one, she declares this to be the bad place and Michael to be a fraud, he'll just wipe her and start over, only losing about 24 hours.
Inadvertently, she picked a subtle enough message that she won't blow it early, but will slowly figure it all out.
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