They could have simply said that the Final Door leads to becoming one with the universe- part of the fabric, but not a conscious part.
Yeah, this is how they fix death in His Dark Materials, and it's really fulfilling and believably hopeful. The worldbuilding that led up to it was different, so it wouldn't work the same with The Good Place, but it could've been satisfying in its own way! Definitely more so than Magical Oblivion Mystery Door.
Same re: the heartstrings ending :/
I've been keeping up with the podcast, which has people from all different parts of the show's creation talk about behind-the-scenes stuff, and any time there's a heartstrings-tugging scene they'll talk about how much people cried at the table read.
On the one hand: having writers who care is better than the alternative! On the other: it sometimes feels like their approach is "we're all completely on-board with this thing, so let's just indulge and roll around in it for a while" -- and they stop doing the work to bring the audience on board. So if you aren't there already (even if you're pretty close, and could've been brought the rest of the way with a few more scenes of work), it'll just leave you cold. And that would be a rough way to close the whole thing out.
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on Saturday, January 25th, 2020 09:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, this is how they fix death in His Dark Materials, and it's really fulfilling and believably hopeful. The worldbuilding that led up to it was different, so it wouldn't work the same with The Good Place, but it could've been satisfying in its own way! Definitely more so than Magical Oblivion Mystery Door.
Same re: the heartstrings ending :/
I've been keeping up with the podcast, which has people from all different parts of the show's creation talk about behind-the-scenes stuff, and any time there's a heartstrings-tugging scene they'll talk about how much people cried at the table read.
On the one hand: having writers who care is better than the alternative! On the other: it sometimes feels like their approach is "we're all completely on-board with this thing, so let's just indulge and roll around in it for a while" -- and they stop doing the work to bring the audience on board. So if you aren't there already (even if you're pretty close, and could've been brought the rest of the way with a few more scenes of work), it'll just leave you cold. And that would be a rough way to close the whole thing out.