Watching The Good Place (through two seasons so far) and my main complaints would be:
1. I probably expected too much from the twists from other people talking about this show, they're all pretty obvious. I assume because Michael Schur isn't bad enough to not set them up.
2. I can see why they did but the second season just skipping over all the reboots and also not explaining if memories could be restored sort of undermined the angles the consequences a lot of this could have meant along with the consequences of not being able to do it anymore. Especially considering that with what appears to be for the third season we've lost memories again. Combining this with the earlier point, part of the underwhelming nature of the twists is how much they actually seem to not explore many of the possibilities that the universe is raising only to ignore because it's necessary for the arc conclusions.
3. There's this awful musical cue that constantly comes up for "emotional" moments and I despise it more than any musical cues in anything outside of Sherlock. Especially as it appears to be coming in more and more well before the moments actually begin.
4. I really don't understand the central premise of teaching academic moral philosophy to these idiots.
My Name is Earl probably did this better and in a far more intellectual way even while pretending to be built around a simple version of karma.
5. Janet might be the best character? Then Eleanor. (My head canon is that Michael is really just Ted Danson. Not to be confused with Ted Dan Son.)
1. I probably expected too much from the twists from other people talking about this show, they're all pretty obvious. I assume because Michael Schur isn't bad enough to not set them up.
2. I can see why they did but the second season just skipping over all the reboots and also not explaining if memories could be restored sort of undermined the angles the consequences a lot of this could have meant along with the consequences of not being able to do it anymore. Especially considering that with what appears to be for the third season we've lost memories again. Combining this with the earlier point, part of the underwhelming nature of the twists is how much they actually seem to not explore many of the possibilities that the universe is raising only to ignore because it's necessary for the arc conclusions.
3. There's this awful musical cue that constantly comes up for "emotional" moments and I despise it more than any musical cues in anything outside of Sherlock. Especially as it appears to be coming in more and more well before the moments actually begin.
4. I really don't understand the central premise of teaching academic moral philosophy to these idiots.
My Name is Earl probably did this better and in a far more intellectual way even while pretending to be built around a simple version of karma.5. Janet might be the best character? Then Eleanor. (My head canon is that Michael is really just Ted Danson. Not to be confused with Ted Dan Son.)
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