Thank you, The Good Place
I have just finished the final episode of The Good Place. It’s a good show for the first season and I was deeply addicted to it with all of the new concept, the new world and the final plot twist at the end of the season. But then, after binging through 3 seasons, I was kind of bored by the plot, and how the chaos and plot twist just seems so extra, draggy and unnecessary. But still, it’s a good show, as I believe, also of my nature of just sticking to a show until its end, I continued my journey. And let’s just say, my time didn’t gone to waste.
It’s a very calming and fulfilling ending. If I could recommend anyone new to watch the show, I would ask them to watch the ending, but I guess you could not fully get the fulfilment without going through the entire show.
Spoiler* In the end where each character walking through the final door for different reason, just put a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. “I hate to see you walk through the final door at the edge of existence, but I love to watch you leave.”
I would say the season that bored me to almost giving up the show is the second and third season where they were busy figuring out the way to go to the “real good place”, as well as trying to get the judge’s attention to the flaws in the system. But the thing that worth me to ponder is that when they finally got into the “real good place”, where you could have everything at the tip of your finger and you live eternally, just how a heaven supposed to be, just how everyone imagine how a heaven should be and dreading to get into, the people there just lost it. The idea that you could get everything without working for it just makes them a gloop. So they invented a door where the people in the good place could just disappear into specs of dust in the universe after decided they are ready to leave. And it’s the idea that they could leave at anytime they want sparks the excitement to discover and start doing things, because they know they have the option to not have the eternity to do it.
Ironically, this just makes the place more human than it was never supposed to be, but should be. And the fact that aside from giving the option to leave, the last door also gives them the opportunity to grief. Just that this time, you get to decide your time. It hits me when Eleanor decides to let Chidi goes through the door before her. “I need to let you go because I owe it to you.” To humans that have never cross path, the only thing that we owe to each others is our freedom.
Also, the show just got me thinking: do we really want everything to be figured out and laid on the table for us? Do we really want to know the answer to the universe? Perhaps, sometimes what we really need is to have life to give us a break, then continue hitting us with a rock, a wrecking ball, a handful of sand, while also making sure we are alive and fine for awhile and on the edge of exploding again. Just saying.
“Some good days. Some bad days. He has got a few friends. A few people he can’t stand. He’s learning something all by himself. And hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He’s messing up, trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That’s what everyone does.”
With the option to live the infinite Jeremy Bearimy and Janet by your side, they still choose to live the most human way possible. “and blessed Micheal’s enthusiasm for everything human”.
Maybe, just maybe; we’re all in a good place.
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