#tgp 4x13

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 04. chidi anagonye and eleanor shellstrop - the good place

[avengerdaisy]

[littlehobbit13]

Love the little touches in the series finale of The Good Place.

One of my favorites?

Jason’s shirt, as he’s leaving the afterlife, has a wave on it.

Nice link to Chidi’s speech about the Buddhist concept of death and a nice callback to Jason’s first appearance in the guise of a monk, but also a nice gesture to him finding that monk-like peace waiting the 1000 extra bearimys for Janet to return. He’s come full circle.

[chacetic]

normal show where a main character dies but people find out they weren’t really dead: angsty, lots of crying, dramatic reveal

the good place: ppl thought jason died 1000 years (or jerimy bearimys) ago but then janet arrives and he just casually walks out from behind a tree like “hey janet!” and shes all “jason? oh hey it’s jason”

[rascal-shark]

i really just want art of simone watching tahani put jewelry in a vending machine now

tahani: why isn’t this working? i’m inserting my valuables into the machine

simone, sipping coffee, has been watching the whole time: what does the price on the chips say?

tahani: it says... oh my it says .50. i’ve been a complete fool. i’ve been inserting 24 karat gold instead of 50 karat gold.

simone: a rookie mistake

[shut-up-shut-up-hi-shut-up]

Get yourself a man who will wait 1,000 Bearimys to give you a necklace he thought he lost but was just in his other pocket

[prettylittlearrowfangirl]

There was a whole separate thing in [“Patty,” the episode prior to the finale] that we had talked about for years. And the idea was that Chidi had one more solve, one more detective solve, which was like, well, what does that mean? What did all of our journeys mean if they don’t help anyone? Like, the whole point of this show has been about helping other people and if we just get to the end–you complete your journey and then you dissolve and you’re in the universe in some ethereal way–that’s fine for you. Doesn’t help anybody else. And, so, originally, Chidi was like, “Here’s how it’s going to work: you go through the door, you dissolve into the universe, and somehow or another, you filter back down to Earth and you enter the souls and hearts and brains of  living people, and you help them make better choices.” That was the whole second half of that idea. But that episode was so complicated and so much stuff was already happening. They were getting to the Good Place, the Good Place committee was running away ‘cause nothing was working, they met Patty, everyone was miserable, they realized they had been kind of tricked or that things were bad, they had to come up with this new plan–it was so complicated that we were like, “Alright, we’re gonna save that until the finale. The whole second part of that–we’ll save that until the finale.” Then it got to the finale, and–talk about complicated, there was plenty of shit going on in the finale already. And it was like, “Well, I don’t want to stop and explain this.” Like, and also, by the way, the whole point is the true joy’s the mystery. That’s the thing that we keep talking about, so why are we explaining everything? Like, why are we having people just say out loud everything that’s happening? So it was like, “Alright, here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re not gonna say that that’s what happens. In fact, we’re going to explicitly say, through Janet and Eleanor, "I don’t know what happens. The true joy’s in the mystery.” And then we’re gonna see what might happen. We’re just gonna get a little glimpse of it and maybe this is the way it’s actually working, maybe this is the first time this has ever happened, I don’t know. But somehow or another, one little firefly of wisdom is gonna drift down to Earth and it’s gonna go into this guy’s brain and it’s not gonna cure cancer or give him the idea of how to create a perpetual motion machine. It’s just gonna have him make a slightly better decision than the one he made. And if you want to believe that that is the design of the system, great. If you want to believe that the system has evolved into this, great. If you want to believe this is a one-time only event, great. I don’t know. We’re not saying [what the answer is], because we don’t know. We’re saying that it’s possible that some accumulated wisdom of people who have completed their journeys on Earth and gone through that door–and in the afterlife, and have gone through the door, it has the ability to filter back down to Earth and have people make slightly better decisions than the ones they would have made.

Mike Schur on the way they decided what happened when Eleanor went through the door, via The Good Place: The Podcast (”Series Forking Finale, Part Two”, 55:45-58:32)

[parksanddownton603]

i do like having the knowledge that someday Michael will die and one of the architects will see his file and give it to Tahani, and she’ll get to design a test for one of her oldest friends to make sure he’s ready to get to the good place as a human being. And then when he goes to meet the test architects, Tahani will be there with a hug and a smile in his old bowtie telling him how well he did, ushering him into the good place again. 

And when he gets there, among all the Janets, there will be one who looks a little wiser than the others and maybe a little sadder too, waiting for her best friend to come back like he promised. And he did come back. 

Only now he can play the guitar, and he has just so much to tell her.

[elivilor]

“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while.”

- Chidi Anagonye

[justkindaoverhereobsessing]

Team Gibbs, the rest of NCIS + all other government agencies, everyone who has read McGee’s novels, NCIS murder suspects, victims’ families, random people on the street, the voice of God herself: We know you guys are totally in love. Everyone can see it.

Tony and Ziva: 

[butter-is-a-milkshake]

The Good Place? More like "Character Development: The Show"

[forbescaroline]

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #11. eleanor shellstrop and jason mendoza - the good place

[avengerdaisy]

[thegirlwhohasnochill]

ok so I’ve seen a lot of different posts about the good place finale circulating around the internet about the way the soul parts the body or the ways in which different people can have an influence on others even long after they have parted ways with the world and returned to the universe and I just wanted to add my two cents to that idea. I think the way they show Eleanor’s essence floating on down to the man who gives Michael his mail is absolutely beautiful but what’s even more beautiful is when you think about how many other thousands and millions of people’s essences might have floated on down to earth and made the smallest of differences in any given individual’s lives for even the smallest ounce of a second. when you think about each individual essence floating on down to earth it’s nice but when you think about the collective influence that all of these people’s souls and essences have had on lives all over the earth, it is so indescribably profound. whenever we think about the universe most of us think about how small or insignificant we are or how little we matter or how little of a difference we make and while that may be true we never realize the importance of our collective potential as souls scattered across the universe making small changes wherever we go and to me that is the most incredible thing about humanity. mike schur said fuck your cynicism and fuck your pessimism about the universe and how little difference we make. each and every single individual CAN make a difference to the very fabric of our lives no matter how small or minute and that’s just wonderful.

[chacetic]

elanor calmly asking chidi “say goodbye now so you can leave me when i’m asleep” hits SO HARD. she has to accept that her husband chidi is going to die. like.

[astrodenz]

"Sometimes, when you’re feeling helpless, the secret is to help someone else. Get out of your own head. Trust me. The next time someone asks for help, say yes."

–Michael, (The Good Place S3×E1)