Mindy came up with the charity idea during a coke binge, but the difference is that she actually wanted to follow through. She withdrew her life savings with the intent to start the charity, but died before she could. Tahani never had that epiphany that she should do something good just for the sake of doing good.

Tahani and Eleanor’s relationship being torn down this season is disappointing, but I am sure that will just make it more fun when they rebuild it. (Please).

My only problem with it is that Tahani wasn’t successful.

I’m looking forward to Michael and Eleanor being on the same team - the quick look between them when Vicky started singing sold me completely. This episode felt like a lot of set up, but I guess every week can’t end on a ‘what?!’ note.

Counterpoint - Yes. The Mr. Show revival was really good and would provide a good model for this. Just do a handful of episodes to keep the quality high, and don’t make any plans for any further seasons. I liked KITH: Death Comes to Town, but my biggest complaint was it wasn’t a sketch show, it was a narrative…

Memory restoration would be cool. I like learning more about the characters, but I would rather watch their relationships continue developing from where they ended up the first attempt, since I liked them.

Tahini, still under the impression that she’s in The Good Place, did not have to worry about being sent to the Bad Place at that point last year. She would not be caught dead in a Medium place.

Same. I find the Eleanor/Tahani relationship more interesting than Eleanor/Chidi in many ways. Better jokes too.

I am not pleased that Eleanor and Tahani’s complicated, forked-up friendship seems to be a casualty of the reboot. Or that the possibility they could be soulmates was treated as a throwaway joke.

The rate this show blows through plot is amazing. My only complaint is that we didn’t see the Tahani and Eleanor soulmate cohabitation. That must have been a great version. And JASON figured it out once! Bah!

The golden rule in The Good Place writers’ room seems to be “Never put off until next episode, that which you can do this episode.”

I think it was one of the comments on this site that predicted that Michael would team up with the four at the end of this season. Who knew Mike Schur and the gang blew this show up so early in the season. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

Honestly, me actually find it satisfying that you being such a horrible person is going to prevent you from enjoying what shaping up to be a terrific show. Some with such toxic, hateful point of view not deserve nice things.

There’s a big difference between a fuzzy, low-bandwidth hologram that’s actually just the image of a real person, and the “holograms” from the later shows that are fully corporeal, and sometimes capable of independent thought.

This reminds me, having fewer episodes per season than TNG/DS9/Voyager and no holodeck means we’ll probably be spared scenes of the crew doing community theater. Thank god.

How many admirals does Starfleet have, anyway? We must have met them all in the Next Generation timeline, and a bigger bunch of traitors, dimwits and incompetents has never been seen until Trump was elected.

The best comment I’ve seen so far on Discovery is that it makes The Orville look like community theater.

Man, it is SO GOOD to have Star Trek back on television. I didn’t realize just how much I missed it until the start of the premiere and hearing all the technobabble, and figuring out the timeline re: the Klingons, and all that good stuff.

And even then, in order to get the maximum effect out of him, you have to demote him back to captain.

If nothing else, the show understands the most important rule of Starfleet: anybody above the rank of captain is completely useless.