Doors: Bojack Horseman, The Good Place, and endings
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2020
- spoilers.
Twitter: / altschwiftx
Terry Pratchett: www.imdb.com/title/tt1929387/
Tithonus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus
Death dragon: • Fable of the Dragon-Ty...
Split-brain: • You Are Two
Music: Epidemic Sound - Авто та транспорт
"I love life because what more is there?"
-Anthony Hopkins
that is a good fucking quote, very similar to Henri Matisse's "There are flowers everywhere, for those who care to look."
@@boxxylegoplaymobil8906 had to go for the WestWorld connection. The first quote I thought of was Remarque's qoute: "Life is a disease... Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying... a little shove towards death, the inevitable." Remarque didn't necessarily believe this he saw so much death in WWI that could have been prevented and slowly started to see it as not a inevitably of nature, but of man's incompetence.
What my favorite UA-camr talking about my two favorite shows. what is this a crossover episode!
wow this was deeper than I expected from an Alt Schwift X Video 😅
But I loved it
Video: Life is precious because it will end. To truly live is to accept death and join him as an old friend.
Background music: 🔥🍾🍻🦄🍾🎉🔥
Sigh.... I've been waiting for a couple of years for this video to blow up like the "cookie clicker" video did. X gets so close to transitioning from making videos about the ideas within some particular book or show, to making videos about ideas - full stop. This video is one of the best out there. It really should have 100x this many views in a sane universe.
I loved this video, please make more!
One of his best videos! I would enjoy more of his takes on philosophy.
And also more Potassium Quest, but mainly the former.
loved this
They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.
And the second third too.
Hey man I'd love you to go through BoJack Horseman, episode by episode, and break it down in the same way you did Thrones.
So many metaphors and conflicting meanings to explore and theorise about.
BoJack deserves some more analysis, especially from someone who makes content as high in quality as yourself.
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Love the Futurama and Greek mythology references, and I love the sharp left turn this video took toward the end! And yes, constant reboots and recycled trilogy’s just become annoyingly redundant. I long to be inspired and awed by original ideas! Thank you Schwift, this was yet another brilliant video 😊
"Choosing takes away the fear, the uncertainty. It gives you control of your own destiny. [...] it allows you to live your best life while you still can."
This is so true, I cried a bit because I know this would help so many people
You made me think my impending death and im having an existential crisis now at work. But great video maybe make more philosophical or scientific/historical stuff.
Loved how you ended the video. Most stories really do depict immortality as a curse rather than a gift, which is strange because there are no immortals to offer us their insight on the subject. How could any mortal understand immortality?
Elfor Landstander yeah I’m unsure about the good place’s idea that the people in heaven are just bored because they’ve done everything the could do, I feel that even with infinite time they still wouldn’t have been able to do absolutely everything they wanted to do
@@efrenyalung1348 Human desire is infinitely deep. Even with infinite time you could always desire more. The true terror of immortality is in having it alone.
This is amazing it should be on the main channel
What happens at Alt Schwift X stays at.. oh wait there is a door! =)
*Category:* Autos & Vehicles
Life is but a vehicle we're taking for a joy ride.
Really just going to hit me with the Terry Pratchett emotional punch huh
GNU Terry Pratchett
Man, LOVE this essay, but life expectancy has been relatively consistent over time, once you weed out early childhood mortality. Once you make it to age 5 (life expectancy at e5), you were pretty likely to make it to 60 or 70
Bro that ending got me lol, love this kind of content and hope it never ends!
I'm so glad about the note you ended on =)
Little remark I thought:
The metaphor of the door can be misleading because in real life, you don't cross it instantly. The process of going through the door can be a long and painful agony.
What a well crafted video. Including an ending title crawl to further your point was a master stroke.
That ending gave me goosebumps, please please make more videos on Bojack! I love your channel so much!!
Probably my favorite video so far, well done all shift X especially the all "ending" sequence Idea. 🇧🇷
Damn, I've never even seen either of these shows but this might be one of my favorite videos out of all the ones you've made on Schwift + Shift. Didn't expect the change in the last third of the video lol
I've been watching your stuff for a while, and this is the best video yet. The fake out ending was brilliant
One of your best videos.
I'd love to see more videos about Terry Pratchett! Whether about discworld, or about his other books!
yeaaa... except the ending bit doesn't in any way address the main idea of the preceeding part of the video. yes, dying at 70 will likely look like a preventable tragedy at some point in the future, but that still doesn't lead to the conclusion that death is some evil demon to be defeated once and for all. having the most time possible to live your life as well as possible is *not* equal to having infinite lifespan combined with infinite youth.
I'm okay with the idea that we might extend human lifespans indefinitely in the distant future, but the CGPGrey video says that if you're not doing EVERYTHING possible RIGHT NOW to make humans immortal you are COMPLICIT in EVERY DEATH THAT HAPPENS also you are stupid and malicious. That's how the apologists of the "dragon" are presented in the video, which is just, really silly.
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This was the comment i needed to complement perfectly the video, thanks!!
Matilda Duff I honestly forgot about that part of it, yeah I don’t like that at all. Non-transhumanists are just death cultists basically? Nah
Oh my gosh. I laughed so hard at that. That was perfect!
Such a great message, then transition, th..
"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
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Death, in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives: 3"
I love this video a lot! First time ever watching anything from your channel but really nailed it here. Thank you, for not just providing the satisfying feel good ending but also providing an alternative thought about how we handle death. I feel though as if The Good Place deals more so with the concept of not existing rather than dying. And while yeah, death in reality means not existing and can be the same thing. In the good place there is actually a system for people who die. So, existence continues. The show didn’t touch upon the not existing part either. And I feel bojack and the good place and your video could’ve touched upon it more. But then again maybe the ending to the vid was a response to this. That we won’t ever really get a satisfying answer, not right now. Because there really isn’t any until we slay the beast called death. And I think the way Bojack and The good place handled their versions of nonexistence was good in their own ways, Bojack you just die and whatever you take from it is on you. And The Good Place, you get a system that will eventually lead you to get good enough so you can find your inner peace to not exist. Though I like what both fictional stories have to offer. There’s not much I can take away from it, sure they are digestible pieces of media I consumed and got me to think about death and not existing. But, the answers I want might not be able to take place in my life time. And maybe I’ll be okay with and all I know is that I’m not okay with it right now. Thank you again, loved the video and hope to see you again!
I really liked this video. A bit off the beaten path of a normal ASX video, but I liked it. That ending... :)
SUCH a good quality video! Keep these coming my dude!
This is so good! Glad you mentioned it on your Glidus stream.
brick up that door. i don't plan on using it
This is a really incredible video, genuinely very poignant and really gets to the issue in such a concise manner
Good stuff! Would love some more videos like this.
I loved everything about this!
“To know that you can go gives you strength”...it reminds me of that scene in family guy when Brian and Stevie are trapped in the bank vault and Brian’s “door” or option for death is a gun he keeps there incase he can’t take it anymore
My goodness Schwifty, I didn't know you did content on my all time favourite book series AND animated tv show!!
You rock and you evidently have taste. I like you and all the stuff you do. Love from Switzerland
Such a well-made video man. I'm glad a stumbled across this and wish it got the millions of views it deserves.
Great video. Thank you
@Alt Schwift X
Idk how I missed this when it came out. Thank you for mentioning it during the Glidus alignment stream!! I LOVE both of these series.
I needed this, thank you.
A truly fantastic video, thank you so much.
You want things to be wrapped up neatly
The way that stories do
You're looking for answers
But answers aren't looking for you
Because life is a gradual series of revelations
That occur over a period of time
It's not some carefully crafted story
It's a mess, and we're all gonna die
If you saw a movie that was like real life
You'd be like, "What the hell was that movie about?
It was really all over the place."
Life doesn't make narrative sense 🎶
That being said, it's really messed up that you banged your ex-boyfriend's dad
Love seeing more analysis videos like this! Also, great editing choice for the ending, made my heart skip a beat. Would be cool if you replaced the credits with guest starring Alt Shift X cause for a moment my dumb ass was wondering how TF did I miss Zach Braff in this video 😂
honestly the consistent portrayals of immortality as some kind of burden, some kind of endless boring nothing, or a Faustian bargain with a hidden catch, is the biggest coping mechanism shit you see even in really wonderful media like the Good Place. fuck that, being immortal would rule
I am so happy u put in the second part
I would love to see more videos like this from you
You are the best Alt !
Wow. Just wow... I like the style of this video. Keep it up.
I just stumbled upon this brilliant video. Thank you.
i've come back to this video perhaps 3 or 4 times since it aired two years ago. the calm logic and rationale is soothing in times of chaos in the world.
I never knew I wanted this but I LOVE it!
This also reminded me of the Ice King from Adventure Time, and how the crown kept him alive but made him lose his mind.
I smiled and cursed your name at the "abrupt and unsatisfying ending". Got me good
What a fantastic video. What a fantastic channel. Pls dude make more content.
wow!! great video. so uplifting then grounding and a MAGNIFICENT FINISH!!
That’s a very good video! Love your ASOIAF content, but would love to see some other “off topic” videos too. Cheers!
You are a blessing in this platform you and videogamedunkey
Man, I saw the finals for both of these shows one day after the other. I was left feeling super down for the next few days
Loved the final credit scene ;)
Thanks to a stream with glidus found out about this, the good place is one of my favorite shows so I can’t wait to here u talk about it
This channel is underrated.
time is the ultimate tyrant.
awesome essay. thank you.
'Death is good, actually' has always reeked of cope to me.
For what it's worth, people who have depression shouldn't have seen this. The video itself is nicely produced but the content is alarmingly dangerous.
impressive synthesis. great work
ayy dude this is art i love you
We need more of these Schwift!
Damn that ending is simultaneously genius and frustrating. Hated that you did it, but loved that it happened
Watching this video I remembered the last two episodes of Midnight Gospel, I liked the approach they did about death. Btw great video! Definitely gonna check the channel
Really a cool video. Really beautiful. Really real. Everything is here. Thanks
Loved your video's "tidy" ending!
Very experimental, I like it!
This video is a work of art. I loved the end and I totally agree. Nothing is impossible for humans and we should never take anything as inevitable and unchangeable.
I enjoyed that a lot, thank you very much
Awesome video
This was a great video!
God damn this was a fuckin good video! I'd love to see more stuff like this. I came for the ASOIAF theories, and I'm definitely staying for this.
Good work. I like that type of video esseys
The brain to me is more like a pair of glasses, if they break you can’t see, but the glasses aren’t “you” they are just a device that you need to perceive this world.
Yeah that's an interesting argument. But if the brain isn't the mind, why do split-brain patients have two distinct minds? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain ua-cam.com/video/wfYbgdo8e-8/v-deo.html
Wonderful video it added much to ponder about that is for sure :)
Your writing is getting better I see you there’s more personality in this one
I could listen to this man talk for days
the good place was such a great and original show! Speaking of cartoons, Adventure Time from season 3 onward gets pretty metaphysical at times, highly enjoyable. thanks!
Possibly your greatest statement to date Schwifty; you're a beacon and a revelation in these self-obsessed times, and you continue to do Oceania proud. I don't know why they don't have you doing the chat show circuit yet.
*Edit: Lmfao @ your warning, "spoilers," in the description rofl. Brilliant mate.
God you’re so fucking awesome Schwifty
Boi I was about to click away with an exhausted sigh of "yet another deathist" BUT THEN YOU WENT AND TURNED IT AROUND IN THOSE LAST THREE MINUTES YES RAGE AGAINST THE DYING THE LIGHT LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED AND FOLLOWED ON TWITTER
YAY!! New ASX video!!!!
Now that you’ve done this, do a recap and a theme analysis of the entirety of both of these amazing shows!
Very well done!
Again, Thanks!
love it, made me wanna finish watching bojack horseman
I loved this video, for what it said, for it's own little spin on the end about endings. I think one of the biggest things I liked about this video is that it at least touched on the thing I didn't like about The Good Place ending. It's supposed to be analogous with a good death, but the way it's presented it's more like rational suicide. And I don't think those messages are mutually exclusive, and there could have been a cool message there, but it seemed to be an accidental subtext, and it made me squirm when the characters would ask each other not to step through the door. It was an uncomfortable reading I think because it that wasn't the specific angle they meant, so it was like accidently I dunno, morbid? Despite being otherwise a great idea and execution. Anyway, another great video.
Secretariat is also a standin for Bojacks father, who also commited suicide. And the point of him isnt that he thinks life is meaningless. Secretariat/BojacksDads poem at the end clearly highlights it. It's about that life isnt meaningless, but that they only realised that when it was already to late. They dont advocate to end things on your own terms. They are advocating to keep going. To not waste what you have. It's ultimatively Bojacks wakeup call.
Holy Forking Shirt balls that was a good video!!
Great man
This is main channel worthy.
You got one fact slightly wrong while mentioning the correct reason. The reason life expectancy increased is as you said preventing infant mortality. This does mean actually that there is an extremely high chance that unless we start replacing organs with biogrown ones or machines we cap out naturally at around 80-90 years.
Furthermore, with true immortality comes the 100% chance of getting stuck somewhere PERMANENTLY, at the core of a black hole, on an asteroid in space, at the bottom of an ocean. BUT that implies the scattering of the particles of the universe is close to completion and either heat death was true or regression was true. Meaning very soon from that point it is likely that you will either freeze in one moment in time forever, or you will be sucked back into big bang seed. The second option is not so kind, as since you are truly immortal you cannot be broken down, therefore the singularity cannot happen.
Even so, we are the generations that will have to pay the price, for a bounty we will not see. We might set in motion the machine of extremely long lives, but it's likely noone alive will ever reap the rewards of it. So we must strike a balance, between not going gently into the night, by researching how to prevent death for as long as we can, and being at peace with our imminent death, and being happy with what we have achieved in life.
Thank you for this wonderful video.
jesus christ i love your content
Marry it if you love it so much.