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Jan. 3rd, 2020 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretAs we go into the final episodes of The Good Place starting next week, it is increasing bothering me that Mindy St. Claire is the only person in the last 500 years who hasn't gone to The Bad Place. This feels like a mistake in the world-building somehow, not a deliberate condemnation of the Points System. Why would The Good Place argue that she should go with them if it hasn't spoken up for anyone else? Surely there must be some non-coke fiends who did more good for the world than she did.
It feels like they thought up the idea of the Medium Place before they had the idea of nobody having gone to the Good Place in 500 years, and they didn't work out a way to make the two ideas mesh together; It might've been better if they'd decided that the existence of The Medium Place were part of Michael's Gambit rather than a real part of the afterlife ecosystem.
Of course, watch in two episodes we get a surprise revelation that renders this objection moot and proves they've been thinking about this all along. :P
It feels like they thought up the idea of the Medium Place before they had the idea of nobody having gone to the Good Place in 500 years, and they didn't work out a way to make the two ideas mesh together; It might've been better if they'd decided that the existence of The Medium Place were part of Michael's Gambit rather than a real part of the afterlife ecosystem.
Of course, watch in two episodes we get a surprise revelation that renders this objection moot and proves they've been thinking about this all along. :P