Note that this post includes a major spoiler for the show The Good Place. The show is fantastic, so I'd suggest not reading unless you've already finished season 1, or have decided it's not for you.
Note that this post includes a major spoiler for the show The Good Place. The show is fantastic, so I'd suggest not reading unless you've already finished season 1, or have decided it's not for you.
I only started watching it after I got spoiled, and didn’t mind it. Before I knew about the premise I thought the show looked boring. Didn’t pick it up based on the excerpt on Netflix.
The show doesn’t really rely on not knowing the twist. And even saying there’s a spoiler for season 1 will probably clue most people onto what the twist is anyway
It doesn't look like much, but is absolutely terrific. I rewatch it every few years: it's funny as hell, and grapples with real philosophy.
Now I know there's a spoiler, the title of the article is a spoiler.
It is, in fairness, a pretty common trope. See also https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=936 , and also Iain M Banks' Surface Detail; both predate _The Good Place_.
(WARNING: The above comic contains the same spoiler as the article, more or less.)
Jacob's Ladder (1990) is one I'm thinking of too.
I am ride or die Good Place; my family has the Trolley Problem party game. Don’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it.
But honestly I feel the Darkest Timeline is more apt, ala Community.
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Yes, we're so starved for content about the corruption in our country, thank god there's this one article that explains these hidden secret issues.
Oh okay, let me try to advise instead what you are suggesting:
Dont read anything about the corruption in this country, because it might not be entertaining as 10 year old TV show. You need a healthy entertainment diet of non-corruption content, so that you don’t feel the need to contribute to democracy.
Where is this "anything" coming from? Do you think this is the only article about this topic? This isn't even new.
Oh okay, there are multiple articles on the same thing, don’t read or inform yourself of anything because they might spoil an old TV show!
The article isn’t a light refresher on corruption, it literally has suggestions of how to change cryptocurrency investment for the better. It is frankly very indepth and lengthy and very good. But one wouldn’t know that if they skipped over it because of few lines might hurt their entertainment viewing-surprise ego.
Don't put spoilers in your article then idk what to tell you.
Okay then I know what to tell you however: Enjoy your new found uninformedness as relative to your passive tv diet.
> Read the article and try to understand it.
You made it seem mysterious, but it's spelled out explicitly in TFA:
> the meticulously designed paradise she has been living in is in fact an engineered torture chamber
You should be kinder to people if you want them to come around to your way of thinking.
I was unkind? I would call telling people to prioritize circuses over learning and livelihood pretty damn cruel. Even if they did it in a friendly way.
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I disagree that a spoiler warning qualifies as a “dismissal” or even a “complaint”.
But the spoiler warning isn’t the dismissal. It’s the dismissal that’s the dismissal:
> so I'd suggest not reading unless you've already finished season 1
Looks pretty dismissive unless you finish watching a tv show not entirely related to the content of the post to me.
How is it not a complaint to complain that theres a minor spoiler from a tv show in an article and suggest people not read it?
Well, I wasn't intending to violate any guidelines, and I don't believe I've dismissed the article besides. I was just trying to save some people from potential frustration, as there was no warning provided upfront.
edit: Ah, I see. You left this comment after having your last response flagged.
You dont believe you dismissed the article?
> so I'd suggest not reading unless you've already finished season 1
That’s pretty dismissive!
Yes I left this comment as an attempt at a new healthier approach to calling out bad/unhealthy comments. Not going to flag a rules debate.