Exactly, that’s a great way of putting it. Taking responsibility is all well and good, but taking responsibility for something you didn’t actually, really, cause?

I really like the thematic idea of this ending, that Rebecca is finally, wholeheartedly willing to take responsibility, to recognize her mental illness yet not use it as an excuse.

Oh man, I’m really excited for a potential Petra-realizing-she’s-bi plot. Her chemistry with Rosario Dawson is pretty great. Same goes for the Gina Rodriguez-Justin Baldoni chemistry.

It might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ve loved basically all the Quentin-Black Siren scenes this and last season. It’s super messed up, but in a fascinating and plausible way. Especially since at this point Quentin has seen both of his daughters die and come back to life so many times.

So Shoshanna, Marnie, and Jessa?

Yeah, I don’t know, it seems like they could’ve just called the police and gone with self-defense. Agreed that this was still the strongest plot this episode, but I’ve liked the Archie-Veronica-Hiram stuff well enough, too.

As soon as Darci brought up a character named Felicia, I KNEW the ‘bye, Felicia’ joke was coming, and I groaned when it happened. Maybe I’ve just heard too many of those jokes lately.

I know this comment is made on any new pointless adaptation, but really, why is this being turned into a TV show? Love the movie, but I just don’t see how this story can take up more than two hours. Is it just the exact same characters and main plot, but with more extraneous subplots? Or is it an entirely different…

Good point. To play devil’s advocate, I think they potentially address that possibility when the judge says it’s dangerous and Michael says (paraphrasing) “It’s only four people.” He could mean that four people wouldn’t necessarily change too many results.

That’s a good point. I like it. Reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Who knows, but it’s such a nebulous, unprecedented scenario that if the writers wanted them to get their memories back, they could hand-wave it and say that yes, superior beings can restore memories. (I’m sure they could come up with a convincing way how.)

I think it only really matters in that, if it wasn’t a simulation, that’s revealing the Judge and Michael/Shawn/etc. are actually changing the course of time and bringing people back to life. The implications of that would be huge. But right, for the purposes of seeing if the gang passes the ‘test,’ it doesn’t matter…

To be fair, the Judge says it’d be dangerous to do and Michael says “it’s just four of them,” so that lends credence to the idea that it could be real life. (Like they’re only bringing four people back to life, which is risky because it could screw with time.) So who fucking knows. :) Okay I’m done theorizing for the…

Right. It’d be weird if they were just brought back to life/if time was changed, because that wouldn’t be a test at all. The ‘test’ is to see if they would’ve become good if they hadn’t been killed prematurely. So if they pass and become good eventually in the simulation, they end up in the Good Place.

I figure it just has to be a simulation because it wouldn’t make sense otherwise. The ‘test’ is to see if they’d become good eventually if they’d survived. So once they pass the test, theoretically, Michael and the judge would send them to the real Good Place. And if they still remain bad, even without dying…

It was pointed out on Reddit etc. already, but:

My thought - and I could be wrong - was that all the characters are still in the afterlife, and this is a simulation, so all the languages/accents are still corrected like they were throughout the first two seasons. Michael and the Judge didn’t actually bring them back to life (right?) and go back in time/change the…

Great, great finale, and it makes me really look forward to S3, and now I’m sad we have to wait so long.

Definitely the best episode since at least the bachelor/bachelorette parties one. I tend to be indifferent to most episodes now, even the ones that don’t have anything particularly wrong with them, but this was solid.

Same. When she said Jennifer was “trippin,” I laughed a lot. Just felt very real.