I agree, I don’t think it’s a cop out but a logical response to the idea that the good place lasts an eternity. Eternity is an awfully long time.
I recall one discussion of heaven that took an economic view. Things that happen in the future are less ideal than things happening right now. If heaven is a place of absolute ideal-ness, then it must be a white hot instant of every possible wonderful thing happening at the same time, followed by nothing.
I like this Good Place a lot better.
I find it fascinating how many Christians (in general, not necessarily anyone here) believe in an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God who created the heavens and the earth and everything else in the universe but who can’t seem to figure out how to make the afterlife enjoyable.
Hmm. This talk makes me circle back to whether it’s a satisfying ending. Specifically, whether they represented eternity/Jeremy Bearimy accurately :).
The way “eternity” is presented is as “a really long time without ever stopping.” And Jeremy Bearimies are presented as occurring sequentially and as an accumulation of time.
But “eternity” doesn’t mean “infinite chronological sequence” necessarily (or even technically). It can mean “outside of time.” And doesn’t Jeremy Bearimy loop back on itself?
If the afterlife doesn’t involve experiencing time sequentially, if it’s recursive, then it doesn’t need to get boring. A book might end, but it doesn’t cease to exist when the last page is reached. In the same way that Janet doesn’t seem to grow tired of things, because she experiences time differently, perhaps changing the perception of time would be a good fix to the afterlife.
I imagine that Ted Danson dies, comes back, and is like, “Eleanor! ELEANOR! I’ve got a great new fix for the Good Place so that nobody needs to die! Eleanor?”
I took Jeremy Bearimy to mean basically that time loops around in the afterlife relative to time on Earth. But really, it’s best not take Jeremy Bearimy seriously. It’s a very funny joke meant to explain why they could live 800 lives and still end up back on earth in 2018.
But also, everyone keeps talking about the afterlife being boring. But that’s NOT what they said.
Here’s what Patty said:
Basically, there’s no more challenge any more. There’s no mystery. And that’s what the door is. It’s not about death. It’s about a mystery. The last mystery that even Janet doesn’t know.
The one loose thread we didn’t get wrapped up: where did the Committee go? They all stepped down and ran off to…where? Somewhere else in the Good Place? Another dimension? The Void Between the Worlds?
BTW I rewatched and spotted Trevor - he flies by very fast indeed in the background screaming when Michael and Tahani are talking to Doorman Frog Guy.
Also spotted: Brent is on afterlife number 15,000-something. He’s definitely going to take a while to level up.
Meh. I didn’t like this season in general and really hated the final 2 episodes. I’m honestly surprised that anyone found this conclusion satisfying.
Thank you; it was everything she could have wished for.
And I DID include that speech. 
I like the idea that, along with fitting into the wave/ocean analogy, they became “the little voice in your head” helping you become a better version of yourself, whether it’s delivering someone else’s mail or not using use the fact that everyone’s distracted to go back and steal more olives.
Wow, Janet is Dr. Manhattan.
Which means it doesn’t rain squid in Watchmen; it rains shrimp, which means someone in the world of Watchmen doesn’t really belong there.
We’re through the looking glass here, people.
“Not a doctor.”
I thought of her more like the bots from Westworld. She can’t really see the future (otherwise she wouldn’t be surprised that Jason was still around), but remembering events are just like living them to her.
How does time work in the afterlife in this show? It is implied they were in heaven for eons doing everything you could possibly do, then Michael gets sent to earth’s present, which couldn’t be more than a few years after Eleanor’s death?
It’s all Jeremy Bearimy. And they’re somewhere around the dot in the “i” iirc.
I just binged every season over the past couple weeks and I gotta say this show is very good. Take Jason, in every other show he would have gotten progressively dumber until he became a caricature of a character, here instead he grows and gets smarter.