#i'm chidi

[andremichaux]

The Holy Quintet

[katoska]

Maybe I’m the only one, but I hate Jeremy Bearimy with the fire of a billion suns.

Not the episode, but the concept as Michael explained it. 

I know it’s just meant to be funny, I know it’s supposed to not make any sense. But it feels just so gratingly lazy. And worse, not only does it not at all explain what it sets out to, it contradicts it.

Jeremy Bearimy would make (barely) sense only if it were Earth’s/that Universe’s timeline. If that timeline was a complicated closed loop that consisted of lots of other loops, then time passing wouldn’t matter to the people outside it. Cause a timeloop implies Determinism. Therefore,  the humans would have died at the beginning of a small loop - that has been and will always be there -  the loop starts where the timeline diverged when they were sent back to Earth, and ends where they will die again and things will get back to “normal”; or maybe it’s where the ripple effects smooth out. It would explain why time didn’t have to be turned back: the humans were just sent on a different “track”, heading towards the loop.

Believe me, I’m no fan of Determinism either, but with the Afterlife being in a closed timeloop we’d have to deal with it anyway. Plus if events there happened before the events that happened before, as Eleanor put it, then eternal beings like Michael and Shawn wouldn’t be able to be surprised by anything, because everything has happened to them before before - well, unless the timeline has never fully looped all the way around, I guess. But in that case it wouldn’t matter that it is a loop.

Of course, Earth’s timeline being a loop would also mean that at least certain eternal beings (like Gen) would be able to “see into the future”, if they are allowed to see the whole timeline, rather than just the slice from Big Bang to whatever “present” time their assigned humans are from...

Don’t mind me. I’ve watched too much Doctor Who, and things like timelines and timeloops make me overthink.

[windsroad]

ah... yes... videos about ethics and moral philosophy.............. mmmm... all that good stuff

[mysterekromance]

Right now I’m in season 1 where Eleanor has admitted to not belonging in the good place. You?

Oh I'm in season 3 galsshsksgsksj I'm sooooo excited for you dude cause it just gets better. Season 2 is probably my fav. So yesterday I had to make a simple decision, and I realized I am chidi hakshsksbsks I literally spent hours trying to decide something that was really really really simple