I’m surprised you didn’t mention that in S02E02 “Dance Dance Resolution” when *Eleanor* and *Chidi* are trying to come up with a plan after they escaped to the medium place, *Mindi* shows them a list of all the plans they have tried before and one of them was, “Make Michel think he’s the one in the bad place”
chunky cheese Not really, the humans might not know they actually really are torturing Michele. (But if we’re being real, i think the theory/twist was possibly what the writers where planing/considering, but they changed their minds for a deeper and more satisfying ending, probably because of the bonds the characters gained between each other, which would have been disregarded or devalued for the sake of a twist)
I love telling this story. I met Ted Danson (Michael) once while the show was on air. I told him it was my favorite show and how much I loved it. He was so ecstatic and thanked me and told me he was really excited for me to watch the next season (which was season 3 or 4) and how he knew I would love it. He was the sweetest person I’ve ever met and he was really passionate about the show
I LOVE TELLING THIS STORY OMG: my parents told me that when i was four i ran into him with a shopping cart and he was really nice about it, and he told me i was a cute little kid. ted danson is the sweetest
The whole thing with Michael becoming human is just that, he’s human now. He’ll have to go through the system when he dies and eventually will walk through the door like the rest of his friends. On that note, The Good Place is one of my favorite shows in recent years, so please do your other theory on it
I find the theory plausible but I think that the bit on Michael's torment being eternal was wrong as by turning him human and giving him the opportunity to leave, the humans beat the 'mega demon'. Unless, of course, when he does die, the so called mega demon wipes his memory and sends him back to the fake good place where he repeats all of the seasons forever, making it eternal. As I'm writing this, I realise that it is possible that the humans who went through the door are not at peace and are just waiting for Michael to die and start again, making Michael's torment identical and eternal. This would make sense as if there is a mega demon that can control Michael to an extent, surely it can influence the humans to create a flawed door that ultimately sends them back to the first season. If you've seen this message before it's because I'm going to copy paste it, I've just realised that this is gold and matpat should hire me ok thanks for reading
Maybe the system they implemented already existed and after a lot of Jeremy Bearimy the sun extinguished all of humanity. The last beings who had to be lead to their peace were all the importal beings we saw and Michael is one of them. The things we see, the whole show is his run through of torture, finding a purpose, losing it, find out what you really need, fulfillment and closure, that Michael goes through.
I once watched like 5 minutes of an episode of The Good Place and laughed and said "wouldn't it be really funny if it turned out they were in the bad place?" and they just looked at me in shock and I didn't know why at first.
I watched the first half of the first episode with my sister who'd seen the whole thing and I went "something is up with the 'good place' it's not really the good place"
Yeah, I watched it ahead of my best friend, and before the first big reveal, I kept going on rants about how something was off. "They spend eternity with the same neighbors.. that sounds like a nightmare" "this would not be my good place"
My brother did something similar to me once. (Spoilers for Steven Universe) He saw me in a Steven Universe shirt and said, "Why does he have a diamond for a belly button?" I know it's probably because in his mind all gems = diamond, but it still shocked me a bit.
Eleanor lays it out explicitly: he's human. He will live as a human. He will die as a human, not knowing what comes next. He will go through his reincarnations as a human. In time, like Chidi and Jason and Eleanor and Jameela, he will reach bored-stiffness (er, sorry--nirvana...) and choose to go through the gate. If he takes her offer, he will just become one more working part of the solution he himself helped develop. Which makes Michael the central figure who is redeemed, rather than the central figure who is never redeemed.
what if he was human all the time and the torture was that he was thinking he was a demon and he become a human again and they do the same torture again when he dies and its go on for ever and eleanor and her friends are the actors in the torture
It also puts him into a decent enough spot for that decision already, i mean he doesn't have to live a complete new life from birth to death, he's pretty old already. At least that what it looks like in the short scene shown. I'll have to go and watch that show now after i forgot all its twists i guess.
@@yasminepadilla Michael becomes human so when he dies and has his test to see if he should go to the good place, once hes finished he can walk through the door (not exist anymore) so hes like everyone else
but he also won’t have any reason to really stay in the good place because everyone would be gone accept Janet. he’s probably just walk on through sadly
The season one twist is so underrated. It truly got me when I first saw it. I also loved the call back to it in their test good place with Brent (was that his name?) and Chidi. When you watch the season one finale back there’s a MASSIVE clue that really should have given it away. Real Eleanor comes into Fake Eleanor’s house and says she is taking one of the slots to the bad place. She wasn’t there when that agreement was made - how would she have known about it?? It’s so obvious yet it took me several viewings to notice it. Also, just to add as an aside, I loved the little nod to the Good Place in Lucifer at the end of season five, when Lucifer goes to heaven and the guy that meets him there cannot swear, saying “what the fork?!” or something like that. Brilliant stuff.
I would say the show is underrated, but unfortunately if you tell people who haven't watched it about the twist then there's a chance they might figure it out, especially if they've seen that Twilight Zone episode where the character is actually in the Bad Place. Though I did see that and I was kicking myself for not having figured out the twist. I was even unsure in season 1 whether Michael was an angel or a demon and that should have tipped me off.
You missed something here: You concluded, at the end, that Michael would eventually die and watch friends disappear for eternity without ever being able to leave himself. Demons can't leave through the door... but humans can, and Michael is human now. He'll die, eventually make his way to the Good Place, and, when he's ready, will now be able to go through the door himself, since he's human.
The door is just a trick, meaning it would never work for him. He is still being tortured even when he is a human so why would he get the opportunity to stop the torture.
I thought the point of the ending was that he could finally go to The Good Place and then pass through the door when he's ready. It's Janet who's really lost everyone for good.
But if you listen to Janet speaking to Jason right before she leaves him to walk through the door when he decides to its time to go through the end door, Janet doesn't experience time in the same way that humans do, so when she remembers her friends it's like she's reliving every experience, she exists outside of linear human time, so while she did say goodbye to them, and they won't exist anymore, they're never really gone for Janet because she exists in all times. That always makes me feel better about Janet being the only one left and having to say goodbye to Jason.
yeah I realised this as well. He's a human, so he will also experience the same 'peace' moment and walk throguh the door like everyone else eventually. Matpat just ignored this
Remember when Micheal joked that only Phoebe from friends should be in the good place, but then Lisa Kudrow showed up in the the good place as patty. then what happens when the actual lisa kudrow shows up?
Kimberly Whitton I was wondering that too. It seemed like a casting mistake seeing as how they had just mentioned Phoebie not so long ago. The broke the canon rules of their own universe by showing that the same actress is herself an actress within the show playing the role of another person.
Maybe in the show Patty was Lisa Kudrow's great great great great (however many greats it takes to get back to Patty's time) grandmother and that's why it looks like her?
but matpat, the whole reason he became a human was so that he'll eventually get to walk through the space dust door himself when he's ready. suffering over, good conclusion for everyone
what if he was human all the time and the torture was that he was thinking he was a demon and he become a human again and they do the same torture again when he dies and its go on for ever and eleanor and her friends are the actors in the torture
“Everyone here thinks I’m Taiwanese, I’m Filipino. The good place is so racist” I just snorted. I have a Filipino friend and he constantly gets a similar thing.
4:58 I remember when Eleanor went back to Mindy’s in one of the reboots and she showed a list of failed ideas thst they have tried in the reboots before. One of them said “Make Michael think HE is the on in the bad place.”
Just a question: Since Michael becomes human at the end, doesn't that mean that once he reaches the afterlife he will be able to enter the doorway and become dust himself?
I thought of this too but what I think MatPat means is, Michael is being tortured even though he doesn't know it, so it wouldn't make sense for them to let him through the door, so I think it implies that when he gets back to the afterlife it will ALL be changed. Think about what Eleanor said when she bid Michael farewell. She warned him, asking if this is what he really wants because they don't really know what's going to happen. by the time Michael returns Shawn could have launched a coup or the system could have been completely changed or taken over. This was the plan all along. Michael won't get to experience the perfect afterlife he helped balance, and will instead be further tortured for eternity and this time without his loyal band of cockroaches.
Maybeee the whole show was michaels test to get into the good place after he died as a human at the end of the show, so it’s in a loop? Jerimy berimy baby
One problem: you ignored the fact that when Micheal comes back to the afterlife, he goes through the system *just like anyone else*, as the show clearly outlines. This means he would not be trapped watching people die forever, as he would have the ability to walk the the Last Door when he was ready.
in the show it is stated that it could very possibly change by the time he dies there may be no door the point system could be changed or shawn could have made it all the bad place so its not guaranteed he will be able to.
Yes, but he accepted this fact. Plus, if the system were to change, it would change for everyone, meaning everyone who died would be stuck in the new system. I guess if a system was devised that forced Michael to become immortal again was implemented, then he might have a bad time, but that is a very, very soecific and pointless change to make to a system on that scale. Micheal accepted this fact anyway, and it would seem unlikely that a complete overhaul would happen, even more unlikely to make a small change, as the old system lasted for billions of years.
@@milesturner3150 Unless going to Earth is still part of Michael's punishment and doesn't matter what happens when he dies he will just go to the next torture.
Really digging this video up because I just finished the show. But, I think the point that was missed was not about torture but about trials and change. The humans changed, but due to the wheels Michael put in motion, everyone went through some form of betterment. When they finally got to the Good Place, they found that without change, without struggle, without sisyphean tasks, paradise is worthless. Michael's struggles were what earned him his worth, but we see that even he, even the committee, even the frog loving doorman grow weary of everything they've ever wanted. He earned his mortality tooth and nail. Those were the steps towards allowing him to become one with the ocean in the end. What started as torture for the four humans was realised to be trials. This realisation was Michael's initial growth that kicked off the entire arc; from demon to deity to mortal to dust.
Sorry that was probably a very weird comment to receive! I noticed you spelled “realised” and “realisation” with an S instead of a Z and I was a bit curious! Sorry…
are you saying that you dont think michael is being tortured I refuse to believe that michael is being tortured everything that happens in the show is torture for michael, i agree with that but whats that point of living if there arent any problems if there isnt a rock to push up a hill .he chose to create the good place he knew the risks but he had to try, he didnt think that he was going to have to retire .if he thought that he could retire then why would he care when chidi tells him he might have to retire if shawn finds out that the second trial also failed
Slightly Revised Theory: The four seasons are Michael in the New Bad Place becoming a better person. When he finally lets Vicki take charge of the reformed system and recognizes that he can't just dissipate like Eleanor and Chidi, he passes the test and finally gets to become human and go to Earth, fulfilling his dream in his own personal Good Place.
Considering that Michael romanticized the mundane pleasures human, life it would certainly be an intriguing idea for him to be tortured by finally becoming a human and then realizing how complicated and tumultuous real life is. But since there was nothing alluded to that in the show I don't think that's what the writers secretly intended. It makes a lot more sense that instead of punishment this would be his reward for finally passing the test. That being said I am really interested in what other series there could possibly be about the show. Please do another one Matpat!
Maybe the system they implemented already existed and after a lot of Jeremy Bearimy the sun extinguished all of humanity. The last beings who had to be lead to their peace were all the immortal beings we saw and Michael is one of them. The things we see, the whole show is his run through of torture, finding a purpose, losing it, find out what you really need, fulfillment and closure.
I'm sorry Mat, you're amazing and you can usually find a needle in a haystack to nitpick in shows, but The good place was 104% perfect, their plot was amazingly well written and tied together, there's no space for a crazy and amazing theory like usual. But still, I had fun, this is legitimately my favorite series of all and I'll always love watching more content about it.
They went to the middle place in one episode, and reviewed all their old plans from previous resets, one of them is, "Make Michael think HE'S the one in the bad place" xD
Wasn’t the whole point of Michael becoming human so that he could take the test, go to the good place and turn into space dust along with Jason, Chidi and Eleanor? That would mean that Michael wouldn’t have to see all of his friends turn into space dust because he would turn into space dust, wouldn’t it?
agreed. this vid got it wrong on the assumption that michael upon dying would turn back into a demon and not go through the system to eventual stardust. which is inaccurate
Assuming the theory is correct, they want him to get hope so they can steal it away from him. He'll probably encounter another obstacle on earth like accidentally causing a genocide or the rehabilitation system can't work on him because he turns back into a demon the second he dies.
For foreshadowing for this theory there’s also, “make Michael think he’s the one in the Bad Place,” from Season 2 Episode 2. I watched this entire series on Netflix, though for season 3 and 4 I used cellular data, one of my favorite parts of being in Japan.
Has no one seen "The Selection" exclusive web series? It's on UA-cam. I hope Matpatt knows about it... it literally has a "Bad Place" theme song and credit sequence.
“Picture a wave, in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, and the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it’s there, and you can see it, you know what it is. It’s a wave. And then it crashes on the shore, and it’s gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while. The wave returns to the ocean where it came from, and where it’s supposed to be.” Ok I love this show.
When it was revealed that Michael could become human I thought he was gonna be born and live an entire life. Who would wanna start their life in their mid 70’s?
Lol I found out about it through this episode, and the proceeded to binge watch it 6 times in a row...i still come back and watch this episode every now and then because it makes a lot of sense and i always seem to miss something...
But Micheal also ended up finding love on earth. The woman teaching him guitar is the actor of Michaels real wife and the director of the good place has straight up said that it was a way of showing Michael finding love himself.
To me, the (not a) person that actually stayed alone was Janet and THAT made me sob like a baby, specially when I thought of how she experiences time. You can see, as Eleanor leaves, how sad she is. And It will never end for her.
@@xixXxxXxix Considering how short the human life is compared to the afterlife, it's unlikely that it will change before Micheal and his spouse gets there, and it will probably be the same once they leave
I honestly believe this was the creator's initial destination for the show; one last big twist, probably revealing Michael as the one being tortured and Eleanor as the torturer. But at some point they realized the relationships between the characters (especially Eleanor and Michael, and Eleanor and Chidi) was just too special and profound to convolute it with that type of twist. Who knows, maybe they knew exactly how they were gonna end it since the beginning, but it definitely feels like they were building towards another huge twist that never came. But hey, that's just a theory!
A theory confirmed ceases to be a theory; it becomes fact. This may very well be their ultimate goal, but directly acknowledging so would defeat the purpose and impact.
Since Michael is human now, he can go through the good place door when he's ready. That's part of the reason Eleanor helped him be human. Because he couldn't go through the door as a demon but he can now.
@@vctrsigma there was a man who was holding onto a branch by his teeth with his hands tied behind his back. He was high up, so much so that if he fell, he would die. A wise man walked by noticing his situation and said "Say the one word that will save you."
All I can say is THE GOOD PLACE is the best series I have ever watched. It was something out of the box and I loved it they should do a little spin of series of Michael on earth or just Janet.
That would be nice, but then after a season if that what do you do, it's something that really wouldn't last that long and probably wouldn't even be good
This theory feels like it ignores the concept of bitter sweetness and that happiness doesn’t necessarily equate to fulfillment. Which is a huge point the show makes.
He’s saying that the video uses examples of Michael’s struggle and obstacles as being examples of his torture. But everything you experience in life is “bittersweet” or a double edged sword. This is what Eleanor is referring to when she talks about how you only get joy when things are finite. Good things are only good when there are bad things to contrast it against. So I don’t think all of the evidence supporting this theory are examples of torture, they’re just examples of challenges Michael experiences, and the tragedy that always accompanies joy in everything we experience in our lives. ... Right OP?
I think he was being tortured but not by design. He is a demon who turns good and I believe that is the result of the unintended torture by 802 tries and the other problems. The reason why he is sent to Earth is so that he can actually go through the door and the last thing shown is basically Eleanor's essence doing something good for Michael, pretty much watching over him.
Just realised, it could be your torture for JANET. She definitely can’t go through the door and now that she has feelings she is just leading all her friends to death and we see her hating not knowing stuff on earth and at the end she says the one thing she doesn’t know is what happens when you walk through the door so she is literally deeply afraid of the unknown and leading her husband to the deepest unknown in the universe...
Jacobius Pineconalhotra but, as she said to Jason, time doesn’t pass the same for her and she is everywhere at the same time. So if she misses any of her friends, she can just go back to a memory of them, stay there and that will be the same as living it. There’s no actual loss for her.
@@achados2024 but she is miserable when she leads Eleanor the same way. Besides that, she is endless and she lives multiple times at once, so, sure, let's say she will spend eternity remembering all the good moments, she can also be spending them remembering them going through the door. Besides that, she feels responsible for Michael (from what you see of her advices when he goes to Earth, almost motherly), and she will have to wait him go through the entire process to see him again. Knowing that, in the end, he will ALSO go through the door, and she will keep being useful.
I've had movies and TV series make me tear up before, but the final episode of The Good Place had me loudly sobbing several times. Nothing else has ever come CLOSE to that.
Michael *definitely* needs a hug, I really feel about him demons can be good and angels can be bad, not everyone is truly perfect. I would like to give him a hug
Michael was made a human at the end of the show, if he does get into the Good Place again he will be a normal human, not a giant squid monster demon. He’ll be able to become space dust just as his friends did.
or thats just retirement version 2.0. theyll make him think he can but there will be a 'mishap' like before with shawn. eleanor hinted to this when she said that the afterlife may change when he gets there.
@@positivitea5296 True, but why would whoever might be trying to torture him make him human in the first place? He has stated multiple times that he wants to experience human life. It is his greatest wish, and after achieving that he would probably not mind anything else due to basically having his bucket list completed.
@@Geoffjun13 That's true. But isn't it weird how both the creator of the show and the "creator" of the goodplace are both named Micheal??? It's almost as if it was intentional...
actually jason figured it out. the first time he said that they're in a prank show which is technically correct edit: y’all sorry 4 this comment lmao i obviously don’t remember what happened when i wrote it but i must have not seen where he put that clip in the video
I mean, since he was turned into a human in the last episode, when he dies and lives out his afterlife in the good place, he'll be able to go through the door and "die" in the eternal way he saw his friends die. Since the problem with him not being able to "eternally die" was originally that he was a demon, him being a human and living out a human life/afterlife will allow him to eternally die once he wants to again
mat, here the thing. he’s becoming a human, so that he can go through the whole system, and eventually walk through the door. being human was his last life goal, and he got it. he finally got to be one, and goes through the system to eventually walk through the door. he does finally get to leave, he gets to be at peace. the judge even mentioned that once you become human, there’s no going back.
*Maybe he should do a theory on..........* -How fast do you need to spin your leg in order to create the DIABLE JAMBE -How much are the straw-hat's bounties are worth in U.S. dollars -Can dogs really pilot vehicles( PAW PATROL) -Can you BOOMERANG your vehicle (TOP WING)
I like how they use the concept of prisoners’ dilemma to model how repetition can solve the dilemma. ...I also like how Jason gets a ton of stuff right and has great ideas.
So I have a theory myself: the door disintegrates you into universal magic dust, right? We then see a speck of Eleanor's dust land on a person and make him do something nice that he almost didn't do. As Chidi said, the wave returns to the ocean and the ocean does what it does with it. TL;DR: the new system is slowly making humanity better by recycling the old goodness when people go through the door. Also more theories please! :D
I though that was a pretty straight foward message, tho i saw it as it’s less so “making them better”, and more so “becoming that little voice” that speaks to you(whether you heed it or not) That voice that helped Eleanor become who she becomes, only to then be part of that voice herself. Really touching 😌.
Zxphrblade See but that would mean they have no will of their action to do good, they don’t choose to be good in that scenario, which is the important part of being good. It’s ok if thats how you saw it, but given the way the show has driven home the theme and discussion on “what it means to he good/moral”, ending the show on that note just seems counterintuitive to me. But- if thats how you saw it, and it works for you, then that’s perfectly good.
I like the idea that when people disintegrate they become the little voice trying to make people be better. It’s a recurring theme through the show and it makes a lot of sense that since the people passing on from the good place are the best versions of themselves, they know how to be ethical and can help people do that.
I hadn't looked at the full title. Then Mat says Pitch Meeting and my head exploded (Typing this headless, don't know how there aren't typos) You two are the greatest UA-camrs of all time and I'm just so elated you worked together... Let me go cry, I'll be back. Don't judge me, crying is tight!
It's honestly one of my favorite parts of the show. Here's why: www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-good-place-creator-says-they-were-parodying-liberals-with-the-good-place-committee.html/
@@yamomwasthebomb7159 I didn't read the article but from the link that's exactly how it played in my head: a group of liberals. It was the clothing semiotics that actually did it for me.
I agree. Why hasn't Chidi chimed in with something like ''your inactions are causing suffering while you have the power to stop it, so it's bad, and you're being bad''.
I've always wondered what happened to the leaders of the good place after they ran away saying not to try to find them. But there are only so many places to go in this universe. Like are they just hanging out IHOP?
Tahani: Take it sleazy! Michael: ... you got to say it? Tahani: Well, then you say it back! Michael: No no, it's not OrGaNiC Michael now: Take it sleazy!
There is a significant error in this theory though. Michael is now human, so when he does reach the good place, he *will* be able to go through the door.
Actually Eleanor explains the risk of becoming a human. She clearly states that there is no guarantee that when he dies he will (a) go to the good place. He could easily go to the bad place and (b) that the good place and bad place will look as it is now. She says anything can change, i.e. Shawn can takeover and redesign the good place and bad place as he sees fit or that the point system is reverted or changed so that he ends up in the bad place again etc etc. So there is a possibility that he'll die and the door won't exist anymore and he'll just be tortured some other way
That depends on when he dies. Due to the Jeremy Barrimy effect he could end up dying before the squad saves humanity. He could just end up in the bad place! Tortured by himself!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Loved and rewatched this show ad nauseum. As a Marines daughter, I never learned symbolism or lieing. I miss anything that's not stated outright. You are like a professor and I'm a student. Thanks for adding a new dimension for me. I still prefer truths, but you taught me to look deeper. Good job, Sir!
Does anybody remember when Chidi and Elinor went to Mindy St. Claire’s house then they looked at plans that they had in past timelines? “Make Micheal think *he’s* in the bad place.”
*THINK* is the word here. That basically confirms the theory wrong. Also all the characters do stuff when they are not with Michael, so that doesn’t make sense.
@@yeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyey I agree. Also, if Michael is human now, it'd mean he would eventually become one with the universe like the others. He wouldn't just get stuck in the afterlife after he died on earth like matpat implies
@@Phil_is_it Except, if he is being tortured, then the whole thing is still a construct, regardless of which phase he is in (good place, bad place, earth). And if so, there would just be a contrived reason why he still can't go through the door, even though he is now human, or he would go through the door, and it would actually lead to a new phase of endless torture.
Michael: “I gotta say, it took me a long time to get used to the... _hanging bits_ .“ Eleanor: “Gross.” Michael: “Get your mind out of the gutter, Eleanor. I was talking about my testicles.” This may be my favorite line in ANY show.
So I want to point out a rather large hole I see in this theory. Michael is in the good place for several (hundred, thousand, million?) Jeremy Bearimys before he's turned into a human. All of which time would be with little to no torture.
And Michael also spent an undetermined amount of time as an architect BEFORE the show even started, with no torture for him as well, because at that point in time he took pride in being a demon and that made him happy. We know he was relatively young compared to some of the senior architects and that the "Good" Place was his first ever neighbourhood, but we don't know how much Jeremy Bearimys this entails when you are an immortal being. Possibly millions of them. And he didn't go through any amount of torture during this time frame either. If you look at the bigger picture, Michael suffered for a very small amount of time.
Another theory, the universe makes them their original characters, full circle. Like real elenor the death row loyer , jianu the monk and real charitable tihani. Eleanor gets innocent Minnie st Clair into the good place and Micheal a human. Tihani actually helps ppl as an architect and Jason literally waits for thousands of years in the forest thinking about Janet and Janet even says that he was like a monk... just saying...
@@purplebutterfly2113 Well, he never had a "real Chidi", but his main flaw was his indecisiveness. And the last thing he does is make the decision to leave, and it's the most sure he is of anything he's done in his existence. So, close enough.
This show was THE MOST AMAZING SHOW ever done in the history of humanity. This is a clever contraption to TORTURE us by comparing all future show to this amazing GEM.
@@ryanlewis8457 In your opinion. I could say the same for the original comment, but from what I've seen, more people have the same opinion as the original comment.
Nothing made me more happy in this show than the mentor like relationship between Michael and Janet. It was so wholesome and you could see how proud he was watching Janet who in a sense was his child, grow up. Of couse my list of happiness in this show is closely followed by Jason and Janet, and Eleanor and Chidi.
Another theory: What if Janet is actually the one being tortured? Think about it for sec. Janet’s whole shtick is that she’s a robot, and not a human, or as she likes to put it “not a girl”. This in itself is torture for her because no matter how hard she tries to connect with the humans and understand their habits and emotions, she can’t, simply because she is not one of them, not matter how hard she tries to be. Another thing: the second way that Janet is being tortured is the fact that she’s basically a robot slave for everyone else in the good place. Anyone can just request her at any time and get her to bring or do anything they want, no matter how big or small or weird or wild it may be. She essentially has no free will over her own actions because she is constantly doing what others want when they want, which causes her to slowly go insane and start glitching (as seen in season 2, episode 7). Last but not least, in season 4, when they all get to the actual good place. Yeah sure, Janet is no longer being tortured in the sense that she doesn’t have to work anymore and do stuff for other people, but then everyone she loves leaves. Micheal becomes head of the good place, tahani becomes an architect, and Eleanor, chidi, and Jason all walk through the portal and become space dust. Janet may be in paradise, but now all of her friends are gone, so the real question is Is she really in paradise or was the entire show just one big, elaborate scheme designed to torture her for eternity?
While that is a good theory, Janet says that she enjoyed helping people and that her purpose is to help people. Yes her friends go through the door but she tells Jason when he’s leaving that for her he’s not really leaving because she can always feel him in the universe. Her happiness comes from helping people and so she can help people as much as they want in the real good place.
14:15 Part of the deal with becoming human was that he would go through the afterlife system as well, and therefore, he will eventually be able to leave like all other humans in the good place can.
I disagree. Being human was one of Michael's greatest dreams. He envied them and finally got to be one in the end. He won't be around forever, watching those he loves disappear. Eleanor even said he'll die and go through the new afterlife system. Which means, when he's ready, he too will be able to walk through that final door. If he was being tortured, it all ended when he became human. If anything, Janet kinda loses because all HER friends, even Michael, will dissolve back into the universe. But since she's always living every moment ever, that's not as big of a problem. “You said that every human is a little bit sad all the time, because you know you’re going to die. But that knowledge is what gives life meaning.” - Michael, The Good Place 4×12
@@din5385 well not defending this I feel like some times he makes really good theories and then other times he likes an idea so much he cant help himself he has said this in a few videos so he knows he has a problem with this in an undertale vid he tried to defend himself but now he can see it like I can believe he wants to make good theories I have not seen a sans is ness or the knight for hollow knight is pale king meme in a while so I can see him stop this behaviour for a really long time still dosent excuse these old vids
Just my thoughts about Michael's story. He's the key to everything because, out of all the eternal beings, he was the one with the imagination to devise something new. Yes, it results in psychological torture for him but his journey leads him from being an evil demon to becoming a good person. The other eternal beings learned things too which led to change. Michael eventually earns his reward in the Good Place but one which is unique to him - living on Earth as a mortal human. So what could happen to him after his physical body dies? As he became a real human it's very likely that he could eventually go through the final doorway but there's also another possibility. His human friend, Tahani, chose to become an architect so maybe Michael would choose this path as well. His experiences as an immortal being and a mortal human would give him a unique perspective.
The Good Place is definitely my favorite show of all time, so sad that it had to end but at least they left it at a satisfying ending instead of milking a few more seasons like other shows
He also pulls of pathetically "heroic" and emotionally damaged perfectly on the Thrilling Adventure Hour radio podcast as Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars.
If I was an architect, I would make the afterlife a magical rpg land where you can climb mountains and slay monsters and do all kinds of stuff like that. And gradually release "updates" so the dead people have more content.
Astrovite yeah but in the good place in the show if you go through the doors to places (I forgot the color of them) you get to go to any time and place imagined or real so in theory you could got to your own rpg land and maybe bring some friends along and just have some fun. But in the good place you could go anywhere through these doors so you can do something else if you don’t want to do rpg land. Also in these doors you can do anything so you could also implement a leveling system for rpg land!
And you have the choice to give your allegiance to any and all Daedric Lords and when you finally die for eternity they all have to figure out who gets you.
Give everyone the ability to architect for themselves, and control own memory, with restorations of all their memories once they finish their creations fun. They literally design their own paradise. Once they get bored, allow them to scramble their personalities, and do the same thing with different view points. As close to infinite paradise and perspective as you can get without putting them into loops.
@@feedme7307 I kind of feel like that's what the afterlife is. I've always believed that when we die, you go to what you believe the afterlife is. Giving all religions merit. As though we do just create our afterlife based on what we live by.
What struck me when I got through all the seasons is the show kind of punts in the end. When they get tired of the good place, they walk through the portal... and no one knows what happens to them. Kind of like life.
Just realized another thing that doesn’t make sense is that they said nobody got into the good place for over 500 years but also said Abraham Lincoln was the only president to go to the good place
@@realiitaat that was my point and only then I realized that Michael probably supposed to go to future then? But probably they can send you in any point of time
Is it just me who though the last episode title "Whenever you are ready" was really good? Like after the penultimate episode I was left knowing that the show will end, and the next episode was title like that, and I knew it was longer than others, so I could watch it "whenever I am ready" for it to end...I think it was such a good metaphor since in the Good Place people now had an ending, and we also had the show ending, both "whenever we are ready"
I literally just watched this entire show in the span of the last few days. I was actually expecting this to be the final plot twist because I saw the same patterns with Michael. Happy they didn't pull the trigger on it though, might not have been as satisfying an ending.
The thing that really stood out to me about the ending, was that, yes Michael got to be a human, but, and no disrespect meant to the actor, he still seems to be the same age as his 'suit' intended to portray. I figured they'd give him a younger body or something so that he could live out a full life on earth, but he really isn't going to get the opportunity to experience the entirety of human existence like he wanted. He's going to get small taste of his big dream, and then will have to go through the tests to enter heaven which are led by someone he outright dislikes.
@@ishakatiyar3021 Would that be possible? Jason never says anything about siblings, and he says that his mom died soon after he was born. Maybe Kamilah’s child or Simone’s. I think the reason was to just be able to show him living life without changing actors.
cause as we saw with the afterlife the screwed up and don't know what to do. so they think if they just start over they would do better. and if you think about it even if they do restart accounting would just screw things up. I mean how is a theme wedding bad? why would they lose points for that? and with literally gods running thing whose going to call out the bullshit?
@@Orsonfoe With the Theme Wedding, The explanation probably goes as follows: "Weddings are meant to be important, Life Altering events that you pay the utmost respect to at all times. Having a themed wedding just turns that respected event into a simple spectacle that is there to either be laughed at or thought of as a simple costume party. Themed Weddings ruin the sanctity of such an important event."
2:35
Jason Mendoza: "I wasn't a failed DJ, I was pre-successful."
Gets my parents every time.
Great outlook on life tbh. Staying positive AF.
Hello lolipop
@@rockyfromtpot7346 hey rocky
wait a sec
Lolipop?
I did not expect you to be here
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that in S02E02 “Dance Dance Resolution” when *Eleanor* and *Chidi* are trying to come up with a plan after they escaped to the medium place, *Mindi* shows them a list of all the plans they have tried before and one of them was, “Make Michel think he’s the one in the bad place”
Yousef Gamer u smart
*Think* is the keyword there. Make him *think* he’s in the bad place. So the theory kind of falls apart ther
Catch that magic panda. Use here powers.
chunky cheese
Not really, the humans might not know they actually really are torturing Michele.
(But if we’re being real, i think the theory/twist was possibly what the writers where planing/considering, but they changed their minds for a deeper and more satisfying ending, probably because of the bonds the characters gained between each other, which would have been disregarded or devalued for the sake of a twist)
And they bring it up another time
Hold on MatPat, Jason wasn’t a failed DJ; he was PRE-successful.
No one understands Jason's true genius
Lol
I'm pre-successful too in life
kudos for that carlinism.
I'm merely failed to win
"Ya basic... That's a human insult... it's devastating... you're devastated..."
I love this so much.
YOUR GLUE?
My favorite moment from TGP
YA DEVISTATED
“JASON figured it out? JASON? this is a low point for me. yeah, this one hurts. ow.”
Lol. tbh, i would react the same if i was micheal.
I mean 😭 who wouldn’t
I mean, Jason figured out in the same situation that Eleanor did the first time
*Gotta give credit where credit is due*
*also he knew it was a prank show ;)*
@@certiimxhzn *wise words.*
I love telling this story. I met Ted Danson (Michael) once while the show was on air. I told him it was my favorite show and how much I loved it. He was so ecstatic and thanked me and told me he was really excited for me to watch the next season (which was season 3 or 4) and how he knew I would love it. He was the sweetest person I’ve ever met and he was really passionate about the show
You should have told him to take it Sleezy
@@NinetyLegoslol
I met him too, at the beach! He spat it my mouth and kicked my teeth in, really down to earth guy!
@@nuttynutsnutstache hes just like me fr
I LOVE TELLING THIS STORY OMG: my parents told me that when i was four i ran into him with a shopping cart and he was really nice about it, and he told me i was a cute little kid. ted danson is the sweetest
Okay Jason is a “pre-successful” DJ not a failed one.
Oh dip. Same thought here
He's a successful DJ in the afterlife!
someone said it 😌
@@ThuyTran-qv1qc I'M TELLING ON YOU!
"they think im taiwanese, im filipino"
Michael's giggle when Eleanor figures it out will never not give me chills
Fr
It was iconic
It was scary, make sense though.
Remember when Jason figured out it was the bad place 😂😂😂😂 a real low point for Michael
That and the, "yeah, this one hurts," lines are my favorite from the entire show.
It's one of those unforgettable scenes 😂
@JP Heath yep they're on a prank show
I felt the pain in Michael's Voice when he said
Jason, JASON figured it out?
“JasoN FigurD iT oUt¡¡¡
Ted Danson as Michael couldn't have been a more perfect choice, he balances the plotting demon and the sensitive dreamer sooooo well and so uniquely
Also the laugh. Just, the laugh...
I was imagining Jeff Goldblum as Michael.
SO GOOD I loved him
My gramma dated him once for a while
A pisces forrrreal
The whole thing with Michael becoming human is just that, he’s human now. He’ll have to go through the system when he dies and eventually will walk through the door like the rest of his friends. On that note, The Good Place is one of my favorite shows in recent years, so please do your other theory on it
Mark Hutto yeah this theory video kinda is a “waaa waah” 👎🏼
I find the theory plausible but I think that the bit on Michael's torment being eternal was wrong as by turning him human and giving him the opportunity to leave, the humans beat the 'mega demon'.
Unless, of course, when he does die, the so called mega demon wipes his memory and sends him back to the fake good place where he repeats all of the seasons forever, making it eternal. As I'm writing this, I realise that it is possible that the humans who went through the door are not at peace and are just waiting for Michael to die and start again, making Michael's torment identical and eternal. This would make sense as if there is a mega demon that can control Michael to an extent, surely it can influence the humans to create a flawed door that ultimately sends them back to the first season. If you've seen this message before it's because I'm going to copy paste it, I've just realised that this is gold and matpat should hire me ok thanks for reading
@@ethanpower4613 ok i'm glad i read this comment
Mark Hutto do you know some one named Diane
Please do the other theory, MatPat.
I know he’s a demon in this show, but Ted Danson just seems like the sweetest man to me
No matter how old he gets or what happens to his hair, I can’t distinguish him from Becker! 😂
Fr
He is, I’ve met him.
Getting an actual DEMON to become human, die, then become good enough to get to the good place is like THE ULTIMATE way to test the system.
THIS
Julliana Paulino OH MY FUCKING GODDD
Julliana Paulino dogma film?
Maybe the system they implemented already existed and after a lot of Jeremy Bearimy the sun extinguished all of humanity. The last beings who had to be lead to their peace were all the importal beings we saw and Michael is one of them. The things we see, the whole show is his run through of torture, finding a purpose, losing it, find out what you really need, fulfillment and closure, that Michael goes through.
Wouldn't Michael's knowledge of the Afterlife make him exempt from the system entirely?
Eleanor: Like who died and left aristotle in charge
Chidi: *p l a t o*
“Well yeah but who dies and left Plato in charge?” Eleanor asks after the scene
*S* *O* *C* *R* *A* *T* *E* *S*
I remember that 😂
I dont get it
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I love how subtle, yet accurate it is when Matpat mentions "physical torture" and shows an eggplant being stomped.
Yea bc in the show in the bad place they flatten your pp
Thas just funny
Yeah and they spoke in the show about how the bad place has been flattening pickles in the meantime and it's not as amusing to them
CBT
😶
I once watched like 5 minutes of an episode of The Good Place and laughed and said "wouldn't it be really funny if it turned out they were in the bad place?" and they just looked at me in shock and I didn't know why at first.
I watched the first half of the first episode with my sister who'd seen the whole thing and I went "something is up with the 'good place' it's not really the good place"
Yeah, I watched it ahead of my best friend, and before the first big reveal, I kept going on rants about how something was off. "They spend eternity with the same neighbors.. that sounds like a nightmare" "this would not be my good place"
I was watching it with my brother and on the first episode when I first saw Michael I said, he's probably the bad guy and he was in shock.
My brother did something similar to me once.
(Spoilers for Steven Universe)
He saw me in a Steven Universe shirt and said, "Why does he have a diamond for a belly button?" I know it's probably because in his mind all gems = diamond, but it still shocked me a bit.
Yeah I was just wondering why the good place doesn’t even seem good so I was suspicious
The last word said in this series is “sleazy”
Just felt like pointing that out
The most heartfelt "sleazy" of all time
William Vouk The other guy responds with “alright”. It’s quiet, but it’s there
Ryan Collins I was gonna say that, and I was quite dissappointed that it wasnt sleazy that ended the show 😢
William Vouk fax
No it's not
Eleanor lays it out explicitly: he's human. He will live as a human. He will die as a human, not knowing what comes next. He will go through his reincarnations as a human. In time, like Chidi and Jason and Eleanor and Jameela, he will reach bored-stiffness (er, sorry--nirvana...) and choose to go through the gate. If he takes her offer, he will just become one more working part of the solution he himself helped develop. Which makes Michael the central figure who is redeemed, rather than the central figure who is never redeemed.
what if he was human all the time and the torture was that he was thinking he was a demon and he become a human again and they do the same torture again when he dies and its go on for ever and eleanor and her friends are the actors in the torture
you're forgetting that she also says that he MIGHT go through the system and there's no way to know what will actually happen to him
@@architype84 Possible but no supporting evidence to say the humans were the demons except for conspiracy theories. Nice what if scenario tho.
It also puts him into a decent enough spot for that decision already, i mean he doesn't have to live a complete new life from birth to death, he's pretty old already. At least that what it looks like in the short scene shown. I'll have to go and watch that show now after i forgot all its twists i guess.
@@SisselTheCat thanks
Actually, since he's Human now, once he dies and passes his test, he can eventually go through the door like the others. So.
Exactly
@@yasminepadilla Michael becomes human so when he dies and has his test to see if he should go to the good place, once hes finished he can walk through the door (not exist anymore) so hes like everyone else
Yes then he can rejoin Janet so she isn’t alone for long
but he also won’t have any reason to really stay in the good place because everyone would be gone accept Janet. he’s probably just walk on through sadly
@@Loveteyah He has new friends that he made on Earth that he'd probably want to spend time with
The season one twist is so underrated. It truly got me when I first saw it. I also loved the call back to it in their test good place with Brent (was that his name?) and Chidi.
When you watch the season one finale back there’s a MASSIVE clue that really should have given it away. Real Eleanor comes into Fake Eleanor’s house and says she is taking one of the slots to the bad place. She wasn’t there when that agreement was made - how would she have known about it?? It’s so obvious yet it took me several viewings to notice it.
Also, just to add as an aside, I loved the little nod to the Good Place in Lucifer at the end of season five, when Lucifer goes to heaven and the guy that meets him there cannot swear, saying “what the fork?!” or something like that. Brilliant stuff.
I would say the show is underrated, but unfortunately if you tell people who haven't watched it about the twist then there's a chance they might figure it out, especially if they've seen that Twilight Zone episode where the character is actually in the Bad Place. Though I did see that and I was kicking myself for not having figured out the twist. I was even unsure in season 1 whether Michael was an angel or a demon and that should have tipped me off.
You missed something here: You concluded, at the end, that Michael would eventually die and watch friends disappear for eternity without ever being able to leave himself.
Demons can't leave through the door... but humans can, and Michael is human now. He'll die, eventually make his way to the Good Place, and, when he's ready, will now be able to go through the door himself, since he's human.
The door is just a trick, meaning it would never work for him.
He is still being tortured even when he is a human so why would he get the opportunity to stop the torture.
@@Victorious_ evidence?
@@Victorious_ only because he was a demon - he's human now
That was literally what i was going to comment
Yeah, but I don’t think the “humans” are actually human. Well, if the theory is correct, that is, so yeah. The door is not real.
I thought the point of the ending was that he could finally go to The Good Place and then pass through the door when he's ready. It's Janet who's really lost everyone for good.
Janet won't be forced to live forever, she can be marbleized.
But if you listen to Janet speaking to Jason right before she leaves him to walk through the door when he decides to its time to go through the end door, Janet doesn't experience time in the same way that humans do, so when she remembers her friends it's like she's reliving every experience, she exists outside of linear human time, so while she did say goodbye to them, and they won't exist anymore, they're never really gone for Janet because she exists in all times. That always makes me feel better about Janet being the only one left and having to say goodbye to Jason.
Remember Tahani is still there
yeah I realised this as well. He's a human, so he will also experience the same 'peace' moment and walk throguh the door like everyone else eventually. Matpat just ignored this
@@krishvids608 Of course he ignored it. That's his whole ouvre.
Thing: *exists*
MatPat: The main character is secretly kidnapping children and torturing them whilst being a child him/herself.
awwww.... thats a adorable profile pic!
I mean like, true though
you forgot the 10 foot tall thing
Reminds me of Julius from Genealogy of the Holy War
Isn't that just Monica from ultra despair girls?
"Get your mind out of the gutter, Eleanor. I was talking about my testicles"
Is such a good line 😂
That makes me wonder what would be worse in a demons eyes
Remember when Micheal joked that only Phoebe from friends should be in the good place, but then Lisa Kudrow showed up in the the good place as patty. then what happens when the actual lisa kudrow shows up?
Kimberly Whitton I was wondering that too. It seemed like a casting mistake seeing as how they had just mentioned Phoebie not so long ago. The broke the canon rules of their own universe by showing that the same actress is herself an actress within the show playing the role of another person.
Maybe in the show Patty was Lisa Kudrow's great great great great (however many greats it takes to get back to Patty's time) grandmother and that's why it looks like her?
@@thebelen2359 yeah maybe
@@machomancake I thought they deliberately did that as a joke
Christina they did lol
but matpat, the whole reason he became a human was so that he'll eventually get to walk through the space dust door himself when he's ready. suffering over, good conclusion for everyone
True, forgot that
what if he was human all the time and the torture was that he was thinking he was a demon and he become a human again and they do the same torture again when he dies and its go on for ever and eleanor and her friends are the actors in the torture
@@architype84 that's a bit rich, my friend
@@aplusk3081
Excuse me i dont speak
english as my first language and i dont get what "that is a bit rich " means
@@architype84 it means they don't agree with you
“Everyone here thinks I’m Taiwanese, I’m Filipino. The good place is so racist” I just snorted. I have a Filipino friend and he constantly gets a similar thing.
You shouldn’t be watching this video if you didn’t watch the show
@@yeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyey who cares? He just wants to watch some MatPat.
@@yeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyey boi i have never watched the show and i still kind of got what was happening
Mediocrity wtf man Jesus my brain hurts
Heaven is so racist
4:58 I remember when Eleanor went back to Mindy’s in one of the reboots and she showed a list of failed ideas thst they have tried in the reboots before. One of them said “Make Michael think HE is the on in the bad place.”
Just a question:
Since Michael becomes human at the end, doesn't that mean that once he reaches the afterlife he will be able to enter the doorway and become dust himself?
It technically also means noone is in charge of heaven rn
@@ThePhant0m100 oh dip, dog. You're right
DeMarco Saunders, Janet could run the good place
I thought of this too but what I think MatPat means is, Michael is being tortured even though he doesn't know it, so it wouldn't make sense for them to let him through the door, so I think it implies that when he gets back to the afterlife it will ALL be changed. Think about what Eleanor said when she bid Michael farewell. She warned him, asking if this is what he really wants because they don't really know what's going to happen. by the time Michael returns Shawn could have launched a coup or the system could have been completely changed or taken over. This was the plan all along. Michael won't get to experience the perfect afterlife he helped balance, and will instead be further tortured for eternity and this time without his loyal band of cockroaches.
DeMarco Saunders True, but I guess maybe it’s kinda run by itself and the Janets, Michael said he has no purpose once the new system was acted upon.
Maybeee the whole show was michaels test to get into the good place after he died as a human at the end of the show, so it’s in a loop? Jerimy berimy baby
No.
that's fucking good
Thank youu ! I've been waiting for this comment ! I thought the same.
He's definitely in the dot over the 'i'
Minus Tuesday
One problem: you ignored the fact that when Micheal comes back to the afterlife, he goes through the system *just like anyone else*, as the show clearly outlines. This means he would not be trapped watching people die forever, as he would have the ability to walk the the Last Door when he was ready.
in the show it is stated that it could very possibly change by the time he dies there may be no door the point system could be changed or shawn could have made it all the bad place so its not guaranteed he will be able to.
Yes, but he accepted this fact. Plus, if the system were to change, it would change for everyone, meaning everyone who died would be stuck in the new system. I guess if a system was devised that forced Michael to become immortal again was implemented, then he might have a bad time, but that is a very, very soecific and pointless change to make to a system on that scale. Micheal accepted this fact anyway, and it would seem unlikely that a complete overhaul would happen, even more unlikely to make a small change, as the old system lasted for billions of years.
@@milesturner3150 Unless going to Earth is still part of Michael's punishment and doesn't matter what happens when he dies he will just go to the next torture.
I just need to hang on to this fact because I can't stand the thought of Micheal being tortured, hasn't he suffered enough?
My thought exactly.
Really digging this video up because I just finished the show.
But, I think the point that was missed was not about torture but about trials and change. The humans changed, but due to the wheels Michael put in motion, everyone went through some form of betterment.
When they finally got to the Good Place, they found that without change, without struggle, without sisyphean tasks, paradise is worthless. Michael's struggles were what earned him his worth, but we see that even he, even the committee, even the frog loving doorman grow weary of everything they've ever wanted. He earned his mortality tooth and nail. Those were the steps towards allowing him to become one with the ocean in the end.
What started as torture for the four humans was realised to be trials. This realisation was Michael's initial growth that kicked off the entire arc; from demon to deity to mortal to dust.
Are you British?
Sorry that was probably a very weird comment to receive! I noticed you spelled “realised” and “realisation” with an S instead of a Z and I was a bit curious! Sorry…
are you saying that you dont think michael is being tortured I refuse to believe that michael is being tortured everything that happens in the show is torture for michael, i agree with that but whats that point of living if there arent any problems if there isnt a rock to push up a hill .he chose to create the good place he knew the risks but he had to try, he didnt think that he was going to have to retire .if he thought that he could retire then why would he care when chidi tells him he might have to retire if shawn finds out that the second trial also failed
Slightly Revised Theory: The four seasons are Michael in the New Bad Place becoming a better person. When he finally lets Vicki take charge of the reformed system and recognizes that he can't just dissipate like Eleanor and Chidi, he passes the test and finally gets to become human and go to Earth, fulfilling his dream in his own personal Good Place.
Good point Michaels good place would be earth considering his immense fascination with it
This is much better. I love this theory and wouldn't be too far from believing it, however, I still maintain it's just as simple as what we see.
THERE ARE 4 SEASON TELL ME MORE, I AM WATCHING THE SHOW ON NETFLIX AND I DONT WANT TO WAIT TILL AUGUST 25!
Considering that Michael romanticized the mundane pleasures human, life it would certainly be an intriguing idea for him to be tortured by finally becoming a human and then realizing how complicated and tumultuous real life is. But since there was nothing alluded to that in the show I don't think that's what the writers secretly intended. It makes a lot more sense that instead of punishment this would be his reward for finally passing the test.
That being said I am really interested in what other series there could possibly be about the show. Please do another one Matpat!
Maybe the system they implemented already existed and after a lot of Jeremy Bearimy the sun extinguished all of humanity. The last beings who had to be lead to their peace were all the immortal beings we saw and Michael is one of them. The things we see, the whole show is his run through of torture, finding a purpose, losing it, find out what you really need, fulfillment and closure.
No one:
Matpat: this is not what it seems it is philosophy
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No u
You forgot the part: *”jAsOn fIgurEd iT oUt!?”*
He also forgot Elenor saying "Make Michael think he is the one in the bad place"
That’s not the important part
Andrea Jones it is very important.
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"Oh that hurt.."
I'm sorry Mat, you're amazing and you can usually find a needle in a haystack to nitpick in shows, but The good place was 104% perfect, their plot was amazingly well written and tied together, there's no space for a crazy and amazing theory like usual.
But still, I had fun, this is legitimately my favorite series of all and I'll always love watching more content about it.
i love the fact you said 104% perfect like micheal said things could be up to 104% perfect ☠️
They went to the middle place in one episode, and reviewed all their old plans from previous resets, one of them is, "Make Michael think HE'S the one in the bad place" xD
JUST LIKE FORKING BEYONCÉ!!!!!!!!!!
Wasn’t the whole point of Michael becoming human so that he could take the test, go to the good place and turn into space dust along with Jason, Chidi and Eleanor? That would mean that Michael wouldn’t have to see all of his friends turn into space dust because he would turn into space dust, wouldn’t it?
agreed. this vid got it wrong on the assumption that michael upon dying would turn back into a demon and not go through the system to eventual stardust. which is inaccurate
Yeah I was thinking about that too...
Assuming the theory is correct, they want him to get hope so they can steal it away from him. He'll probably encounter another obstacle on earth like accidentally causing a genocide or the rehabilitation system can't work on him because he turns back into a demon the second he dies.
EXACTLY I WAS SO CONFUSED.. he finally is gna move on
Yup I agree
For foreshadowing for this theory there’s also, “make Michael think he’s the one in the Bad Place,” from Season 2 Episode 2.
I watched this entire series on Netflix, though for season 3 and 4 I used cellular data, one of my favorite parts of being in Japan.
That would be foreshadowing.
I saw the thumbnail and I immediately remembered the idea from that episode!
Has no one seen "The Selection" exclusive web series? It's on UA-cam. I hope Matpatt knows about it... it literally has a "Bad Place" theme song and credit sequence.
I've been watching since the beginning
NeinZedd9 I saw it.
“Picture a wave, in the ocean.
You can see it, measure it, its height, and the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through.
And it’s there, and you can see it, you know what it is.
It’s a wave.
And then it crashes on the shore, and it’s gone.
But the water is still there.
The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while.
The wave returns to the ocean where it came from, and where it’s supposed to be.”
Ok I love this show.
That's death to you, my friend. Oh i love the show
god i’m sobbing again
@@JuandiegoAvilaNEVAAA and quantum mechanics
Yup, still not over it.
I almost cried when I saw the ending
“Micheal’s existence is one of ceaseless torment, insecurity, and constant disappointment”
High School Students: first time?
School period
"Get your mind out of the gutter, I was talking about my TESTICLES"
That scene was the best 😂😂
That and "Take it sleazy" are the two best lines in the series.
When it was revealed that Michael could become human I thought he was gonna be born and live an entire life. Who would wanna start their life in their mid 70’s?
Michael.
I dont think he actually wanted to live completely like human,he just wanted a retirement
a wise old man close to ready to die...
@@jarodcito the good kind of retirement hahahah
Imagine being parent of immortal demon who designed afterlife and became human
"You won, and you still somehow failed."
*TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY*
ABORT ABORT FISSION MAILED
Classic
YES IM SO HAPPY THAT YOU DID A VIDEO ON THE GOOD PLACE
Edit: I just realised that this was posted 2 yrs ago 😭
Lol I found out about it through this episode, and the proceeded to binge watch it 6 times in a row...i still come back and watch this episode every now and then because it makes a lot of sense and i always seem to miss something...
2020:*starts*
God: Now in terms of how I handle this moving forward, obviously, Earth is cancelled.
As i read the comment the clip played 😮😶
GOTTA ERASE THE EEEEEAAAAAAARTH!!!
ERASE THE EAAAAARTH!
@@misswbs Y E S
Also, when they were at Mindy Saint Claire's one of the ideas on the back of the board was 'make Micheal believe he's the one in the bad place'
Nice catch, I remember that.
But he is in the bad place... like that whole neighborhood was located in the bad place. And Michael is from the bad place.
@@almightykue3914 Technically correct (the best kind of correct), but the question is if he is an employee or tenant.
Almighty Kue
Obviously, that's not what I meant
Monika, nice to see u here
But Micheal also ended up finding love on earth. The woman teaching him guitar is the actor of Michaels real wife and the director of the good place has straight up said that it was a way of showing Michael finding love himself.
Maybe is because he's also under the system and he's finally earn his way to his version of heaven
To me, the (not a) person that actually stayed alone was Janet and THAT made me sob like a baby, specially when I thought of how she experiences time. You can see, as Eleanor leaves, how sad she is. And It will never end for her.
That just means he will also be tortured emotionally when he or she dies, and probably won't get to see her in his afterlife.
@@xixXxxXxix Considering how short the human life is compared to the afterlife, it's unlikely that it will change before Micheal and his spouse gets there, and it will probably be the same once they leave
after his human life, Michael will go through the system and will be allowed to go through the final doorway when he wishes
You forgot to mention that phoebe is the only friends character in the good place.
Hello my fellow Red person!
@@AP-57 hello fellow redson
Haha wtf
@@AP-57 this has to be my new favourite interaction between youtube commenters
iconic
I honestly believe this was the creator's initial destination for the show; one last big twist, probably revealing Michael as the one being tortured and Eleanor as the torturer. But at some point they realized the relationships between the characters (especially Eleanor and Michael, and Eleanor and Chidi) was just too special and profound to convolute it with that type of twist. Who knows, maybe they knew exactly how they were gonna end it since the beginning, but it definitely feels like they were building towards another huge twist that never came. But hey, that's just a theory!
KKortez A FILM THEORY!!
DDP AAAAAND CUT
A Film Theory! Annndddd CUT
A theory confirmed ceases to be a theory; it becomes fact. This may very well be their ultimate goal, but directly acknowledging so would defeat the purpose and impact.
You can torture someone without meaning to.
Since Michael is human now, he can go through the good place door when he's ready. That's part of the reason Eleanor helped him be human. Because he couldn't go through the door as a demon but he can now.
Yay, become your best self, then oblivion?
That is, if he can become a good person in the after life and prove that he is worth of going to the good place
@@vctrsigma there was a man who was holding onto a branch by his teeth with his hands tied behind his back. He was high up, so much so that if he fell, he would die.
A wise man walked by noticing his situation and said "Say the one word that will save you."
c++
When he signed that paper, he became a good place architect, or *"angel"*
All I can say is THE GOOD PLACE is the best series I have ever watched.
It was something out of the box and I loved it they should do a little spin of series of Michael on earth or just Janet.
That would be nice, but then after a season if that what do you do, it's something that really wouldn't last that long and probably wouldn't even be good
No, like the seasons end, all good things must come to an end, nothing lasts forever.
@@rollinsolo1157ye I agree in my opinion they should make shorts of Jason reacting to the Jaguars winning or something like that
This theory feels like it ignores the concept of bitter sweetness and that happiness doesn’t necessarily equate to fulfillment. Which is a huge point the show makes.
Can you elaborate?
@@rassel5384 yea what they said. Expound on this
He’s saying that the video uses examples of Michael’s struggle and obstacles as being examples of his torture. But everything you experience in life is “bittersweet” or a double edged sword. This is what Eleanor is referring to when she talks about how you only get joy when things are finite. Good things are only good when there are bad things to contrast it against. So I don’t think all of the evidence supporting this theory are examples of torture, they’re just examples of challenges Michael experiences, and the tragedy that always accompanies joy in everything we experience in our lives. ... Right OP?
I think he was being tortured but not by design. He is a demon who turns good and I believe that is the result of the unintended torture by 802 tries and the other problems. The reason why he is sent to Earth is so that he can actually go through the door and the last thing shown is basically Eleanor's essence doing something good for Michael, pretty much watching over him.
But Michel isn’t happy, he may not have fulfillment, but he isn’t happy either
Just realised, it could be your torture for JANET. She definitely can’t go through the door and now that she has feelings she is just leading all her friends to death and we see her hating not knowing stuff on earth and at the end she says the one thing she doesn’t know is what happens when you walk through the door so she is literally deeply afraid of the unknown and leading her husband to the deepest unknown in the universe...
Jacobius Pineconalhotra but, as she said to Jason, time doesn’t pass the same for her and she is everywhere at the same time. So if she misses any of her friends, she can just go back to a memory of them, stay there and that will be the same as living it. There’s no actual loss for her.
@@achados2024 but she is miserable when she leads Eleanor the same way. Besides that, she is endless and she lives multiple times at once, so, sure, let's say she will spend eternity remembering all the good moments, she can also be spending them remembering them going through the door. Besides that, she feels responsible for Michael (from what you see of her advices when he goes to Earth, almost motherly), and she will have to wait him go through the entire process to see him again. Knowing that, in the end, he will ALSO go through the door, and she will keep being useful.
@@achados2024 yhb
@@achados2024 zvhzdooo
Janet is god xD
The ending of the good place made me cry, not gonna lie
Man it sucks when good shows end
I’m just laying on my bed, trying to accept the fact that I’m not gonna see any more of the show anymore
Better a show ends on a high note rather than overstay its welcome and become something you dont enjoy anymore.
I've had movies and TV series make me tear up before, but the final episode of The Good Place had me loudly sobbing several times. Nothing else has ever come CLOSE to that.
It's GOOD when a good show ends. It means it doesn't stay long enough to become trash because of some soulless execs from a greedy media company.
All things must end so new things can begin. It’s the way of the universe.
Michael *definitely* needs a hug, I really feel about him demons can be good and angels can be bad, not everyone is truly perfect. I would like to give him a hug
Michael was made a human at the end of the show, if he does get into the Good Place again he will be a normal human, not a giant squid monster demon. He’ll be able to become space dust just as his friends did.
or thats just retirement version 2.0. theyll make him think he can but there will be a 'mishap' like before with shawn. eleanor hinted to this when she said that the afterlife may change when he gets there.
Makes sense theory roger
@@positivitea5296 True, but why would whoever might be trying to torture him make him human in the first place? He has stated multiple times that he wants to experience human life. It is his greatest wish, and after achieving that he would probably not mind anything else due to basically having his bucket list completed.
I love how season 1 twist was literally in the title card. “The Good Place creates by Michael”
O M I G O D
no the creator's name is michael shurr
@@Geoffjun13 That's true. But isn't it weird how both the creator of the show and the "creator" of the goodplace are both named Micheal??? It's almost as if it was intentional...
Yeah but it's no mystery he created that version of 'The Good Place', that's literally his job as an architect
i always loved that little detail. i think they named Micheal that name on purpose, since the creator of the show is named Micheal
actually jason figured it out. the first time he said that they're in a prank show which is technically correct
edit: y’all sorry 4 this comment lmao i obviously don’t remember what happened when i wrote it but i must have not seen where he put that clip in the video
I can tell you typed that comment about 2 minutes before it was covered in the video.
I read it at the same time
Yeah it almost like he showed the clip of him saying it ... crazy
well he didnt figure it out . . . he thought it was a prank show but never aware of what that meant.
they got pwned
I mean, since he was turned into a human in the last episode, when he dies and lives out his afterlife in the good place, he'll be able to go through the door and "die" in the eternal way he saw his friends die. Since the problem with him not being able to "eternally die" was originally that he was a demon, him being a human and living out a human life/afterlife will allow him to eternally die once he wants to again
mat, here the thing. he’s becoming a human, so that he can go through the whole system, and eventually walk through the door. being human was his last life goal, and he got it. he finally got to be one, and goes through the system to eventually walk through the door. he does finally get to leave, he gets to be at peace.
the judge even mentioned that once you become human, there’s no going back.
emma olsamic it could be a trap the door is fake and no matter what he does he will never go through it human or not
@@nc9604 And what part of the show *ever* implied that?????
The bad place could erase his memory as he goes through the door and start the whole thing over
kilimenjiro i said it COULD be. Im just trying to fix the theory
It's not a very good theory if it can't be backed up by the show itself, and in fact if the show itself refutes it quite often...
Matpat: Warning everything is going to be spoiled
Me: oh. oh alright then.
*Maybe he should do a theory on..........*
-How fast do you need to spin your leg in order to create the DIABLE JAMBE
-How much are the straw-hat's bounties are worth in U.S. dollars
-Can dogs really pilot vehicles( PAW PATROL)
-Can you BOOMERANG your vehicle (TOP WING)
I though I had seen the entire show as of now
but it seems like Netflix hate my country and didn't release the last 2 seasons in my country
"An insecure mess contemplating his own demise" is basically me in a nutshell
This theory felt like a hit to the gut.
Ditto mate
I like how they use the concept of prisoners’ dilemma to model how repetition can solve the dilemma.
...I also like how Jason gets a ton of stuff right and has great ideas.
So I have a theory myself: the door disintegrates you into universal magic dust, right? We then see a speck of Eleanor's dust land on a person and make him do something nice that he almost didn't do. As Chidi said, the wave returns to the ocean and the ocean does what it does with it.
TL;DR: the new system is slowly making humanity better by recycling the old goodness when people go through the door.
Also more theories please! :D
I though that was a pretty straight foward message, tho i saw it as it’s less so “making them better”, and more so “becoming that little voice” that speaks to you(whether you heed it or not)
That voice that helped Eleanor become who she becomes, only to then be part of that voice herself.
Really touching 😌.
I see it more as a, when a good person goes through the door it makes one random person do a good thing on earth.
Zxphrblade
See but that would mean they have no will of their action to do good, they don’t choose to be good in that scenario, which is the important part of being good.
It’s ok if thats how you saw it, but given the way the show has driven home the theme and discussion on “what it means to he good/moral”, ending the show on that note just seems counterintuitive to me.
But- if thats how you saw it, and it works for you, then that’s perfectly good.
@@jeom3808 Exactly!
I like the idea that when people disintegrate they become the little voice trying to make people be better. It’s a recurring theme through the show and it makes a lot of sense that since the people passing on from the good place are the best versions of themselves, they know how to be ethical and can help people do that.
I hadn't looked at the full title. Then Mat says Pitch Meeting and my head exploded (Typing this headless, don't know how there aren't typos)
You two are the greatest UA-camrs of all time and I'm just so elated you worked together...
Let me go cry, I'll be back.
Don't judge me, crying is tight!
what are you gonna cry out of? Your pores? That sad sweating and I do it a lot
Come back! It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience!
They worked together before
The "We're the good place; we can't just _do_ stuff" line has always infuriated me.
It's honestly one of my favorite parts of the show. Here's why: www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-good-place-creator-says-they-were-parodying-liberals-with-the-good-place-committee.html/
@@yamomwasthebomb7159 Ok this was such a great article, thanks for sharing
@@yamomwasthebomb7159 I didn't read the article but from the link that's exactly how it played in my head: a group of liberals. It was the clothing semiotics that actually did it for me.
@@yamomwasthebomb7159 I was honestly expecting to get Rick rolled
I agree. Why hasn't Chidi chimed in with something like ''your inactions are causing suffering while you have the power to stop it, so it's bad, and you're being bad''.
I've always wondered what happened to the leaders of the good place after they ran away saying not to try to find them. But there are only so many places to go in this universe. Like are they just hanging out IHOP?
i wish we saw them eventually return and find out the problem they were facing for millenia got solved in a day lol
When everyone else cried:
Chidi: Eleanor is the answer.
When I cried:
Michael: Take is sleazy.
Also, OMG YESSSS, MAKE MORE THE GOOD PLACE VIDEOS!!!!!!
i cried on both. and at the "wave returning to the ocean" thiing
I think everybody cried at Take it sleazy. How could you not?
I cried when Eleanor gave the wallet back to the guy that had lost it and then he took a drawing of her daughter out of it :(
Tahani: Take it sleazy!
Michael: ... you got to say it?
Tahani: Well, then you say it back!
Michael: No no, it's not OrGaNiC
Michael now: Take it sleazy!
When I cried:
I panicked because I was worried I wouldn't remember Jason's haircut. I'm allowed to get my hair cut like his at the end of corona.
There is a significant error in this theory though. Michael is now human, so when he does reach the good place, he *will* be able to go through the door.
Actually Eleanor explains the risk of becoming a human. She clearly states that there is no guarantee that when he dies he will (a) go to the good place. He could easily go to the bad place and (b) that the good place and bad place will look as it is now. She says anything can change, i.e. Shawn can takeover and redesign the good place and bad place as he sees fit or that the point system is reverted or changed so that he ends up in the bad place again etc etc. So there is a possibility that he'll die and the door won't exist anymore and he'll just be tortured some other way
That depends on when he dies. Due to the Jeremy Barrimy effect he could end up dying before the squad saves humanity. He could just end up in the bad place! Tortured by himself!
@@matthewcole4506 that's a really good point!
Not if they have him never die, or fail him no matter how he does!
@@matthewcole4506 That's probably the best dispute to this point that I've seen.
"Kevin, are you a demon"
"Raymond, of course not'
"Did Cheddar just bark up fire?"
This is my favorite comment ever
I’m watching this vid on my phone and season 6 of Brooklyn 99 on my tv😂
NO STOP YOU DID NOT SBXJVDUSVWYBDIWDB THIS MAKE SO MUCH SENSE
Omg another b99 fan
*B99 theme song plays*
Na na na na naaaaaaaaa
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Loved and rewatched this show ad nauseum. As a Marines daughter, I never learned symbolism or lieing. I miss anything that's not stated outright. You are like a professor and I'm a student. Thanks for adding a new dimension for me. I still prefer truths, but you taught me to look deeper. Good job, Sir!
Does anybody remember when Chidi and Elinor went to Mindy St. Claire’s house then they looked at plans that they had in past timelines? “Make Micheal think *he’s* in the bad place.”
Yeeeeess!!!!!!
*THINK* is the word here. That basically confirms the theory wrong. Also all the characters do stuff when they are not with Michael, so that doesn’t make sense.
@@yeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyey I agree. Also, if Michael is human now, it'd mean he would eventually become one with the universe like the others. He wouldn't just get stuck in the afterlife after he died on earth like matpat implies
@@Phil_is_it Except, if he is being tortured, then the whole thing is still a construct, regardless of which phase he is in (good place, bad place, earth). And if so, there would just be a contrived reason why he still can't go through the door, even though he is now human, or he would go through the door, and it would actually lead to a new phase of endless torture.
@@dumsquirrel yeah but thats a huuuuuuge stretch.
Glad MatPat has good taste. Kristen Bell is the obvious choice for everyone's celebrity crush
Bro kisten Is so fucking gorgeous
In what universe?
Who
@@plaguedoctor8180 the person who plays eleanor in the good place
@@RemoveChink all the universes
Michael: “I gotta say, it took me a long time to get used to the... _hanging bits_ .“
Eleanor: “Gross.”
Michael: “Get your mind out of the gutter, Eleanor. I was talking about my testicles.”
This may be my favorite line in ANY show.
I have to agree with you, that line got me good.
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But like, what was he thinking she was thinking about?
@@BubbIeHub yes. It really is! I love that line!
@@0Panquake The ears? idk man
Remember when Shawn called out PewDiePie in season 4 😂
No.
@@UltimatePerfection ok thanks
Very
That was the least funny moment in the entire show
@@thecactuscats2852 yeah, i was thinking "ok, what did pewdiepie do to the writers to deserve that?"
So I want to point out a rather large hole I see in this theory. Michael is in the good place for several (hundred, thousand, million?) Jeremy Bearimys before he's turned into a human. All of which time would be with little to no torture.
That's a very good point actually :D
Honestly I think this is a better point than the whole 'But he'll be able to walk through the door once he dies' thing
And Michael also spent an undetermined amount of time as an architect BEFORE the show even started, with no torture for him as well, because at that point in time he took pride in being a demon and that made him happy. We know he was relatively young compared to some of the senior architects and that the "Good" Place was his first ever neighbourhood, but we don't know how much Jeremy Bearimys this entails when you are an immortal being. Possibly millions of them. And he didn't go through any amount of torture during this time frame either. If you look at the bigger picture, Michael suffered for a very small amount of time.
Just because you’re in “the good place” doesn’t mean your happy
It could be that after Micheal died he could’ve been placed fake memories in his head to make him think he’s gone thru that make Jeremy Bearimys
Another theory, the universe makes them their original characters, full circle. Like real elenor the death row loyer , jianu the monk and real charitable tihani. Eleanor gets innocent Minnie st Clair into the good place and Micheal a human. Tihani actually helps ppl as an architect and Jason literally waits for thousands of years in the forest thinking about Janet and Janet even says that he was like a monk... just saying...
Jacobius Pineconalhotra. I love this so much
What about chidi though
@@purplebutterfly2113 Well, he never had a "real Chidi", but his main flaw was his indecisiveness. And the last thing he does is make the decision to leave, and it's the most sure he is of anything he's done in his existence. So, close enough.
@@purplebutterfly2113 he's purpose on earth was to "solve moral and ethics" and he literally made the system that determines humans after life.
> imagine thinking you're smart enough to correctly theorycraft but you can't spell lawyer.
This show was THE MOST AMAZING SHOW ever done in the history of humanity. This is a clever contraption to TORTURE us by comparing all future show to this amazing GEM.
Destined for cult classic title for sure! A show all can watch... kids, adults, teens, liberals, conservatives, and atheists!
Raising hope was a better show
@@ryanlewis8457 In your opinion. I could say the same for the original comment, but from what I've seen, more people have the same opinion as the original comment.
No Jane the virgin
The office was better
11:18 the fact that he’s never retired is really what sells it for me
he didnt retire because it was actually the good place janet it makes sense. michael is not being tortured
I’m the most upset about not getting to see the timeline where Eleanor and Tahani were soulmates.
Honestly same, they are a total ship
I want the one where Chidi and the Monk bang.
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide yo wot i mean jason and elanor are like identical but really like what
no you are not, i am WAY more upset
Nothing made me more happy in this show than the mentor like relationship between Michael and Janet. It was so wholesome and you could see how proud he was watching Janet who in a sense was his child, grow up. Of couse my list of happiness in this show is closely followed by Jason and Janet, and Eleanor and Chidi.
My theory: What if this video is just what they used to try to convince Michael he’s in the Bad Place during that season 2 episode?
MatPat is the MegaDemon
Eleanor turns off her phone: see bro, I knew you were just like us
season 3* duh
@@tutin9930 no 2
tutin it was season 2
Another theory: What if Janet is actually the one being tortured? Think about it for sec.
Janet’s whole shtick is that she’s a robot, and not a human, or as she likes to put it “not a girl”. This in itself is torture for her because no matter how hard she tries to connect with the humans and understand their habits and emotions, she can’t, simply because she is not one of them, not matter how hard she tries to be.
Another thing: the second way that Janet is being tortured is the fact that she’s basically a robot slave for everyone else in the good place. Anyone can just request her at any time and get her to bring or do anything they want, no matter how big or small or weird or wild it may be. She essentially has no free will over her own actions because she is constantly doing what others want when they want, which causes her to slowly go insane and start glitching (as seen in season 2, episode 7).
Last but not least, in season 4, when they all get to the actual good place. Yeah sure, Janet is no longer being tortured in the sense that she doesn’t have to work anymore and do stuff for other people, but then everyone she loves leaves. Micheal becomes head of the good place, tahani becomes an architect, and Eleanor, chidi, and Jason all walk through the portal and become space dust. Janet may be in paradise, but now all of her friends are gone, so the real question is Is she really in paradise or was the entire show just one big, elaborate scheme designed to torture her for eternity?
“Not a robot”
I was just going to mention that she has to watch everyone she’s ever cared about die disappear or turn into whatever Derek is
While that is a good theory, Janet says that she enjoyed helping people and that her purpose is to help people. Yes her friends go through the door but she tells Jason when he’s leaving that for her he’s not really leaving because she can always feel him in the universe. Her happiness comes from helping people and so she can help people as much as they want in the real good place.
Actually, janet interprets time differently. Past and future are one and the same to her. So, in a way, her friends never leave.
@@fenexus404 Yes!! jeremy bearimy!
"No, my name is Jason. Also, everyone here thinks I'm Taiwanese. I'm actually Filipino.
Everyone's so rascist."
Wow, Pinoy actor
more and more examples of how people dont know how to use the word “racist” lmao
SobeCrunkMonster it’s a joke dummy
That line is very relatable.Im tired people calling me that.
digiteen99 technically it was the bad place then
14:15 Part of the deal with becoming human was that he would go through the afterlife system as well, and therefore, he will eventually be able to leave like all other humans in the good place can.
Spyfire2000 This needs to be higher up
sequel baiting.....
I disagree.
Being human was one of Michael's greatest dreams. He envied them and finally got to be one in the end. He won't be around forever, watching those he loves disappear. Eleanor even said he'll die and go through the new afterlife system. Which means, when he's ready, he too will be able to walk through that final door. If he was being tortured, it all ended when he became human. If anything, Janet kinda loses because all HER friends, even Michael, will dissolve back into the universe. But since she's always living every moment ever, that's not as big of a problem.
“You said that every human is a little bit sad all the time, because you know you’re going to die. But that knowledge is what gives life meaning.” - Michael, The Good Place 4×12
This is the thing about matpat. He cherry-picks information that helps his far-fetched theories, then ignores everything else that goes against it
@@din5385 well not defending this I feel like some times he makes really good theories and then other times he likes an idea so much he cant help himself he has said this in a few videos so he knows he has a problem with this in an undertale vid he tried to defend himself but now he can see it like I can believe he wants to make good theories I have not seen a sans is ness or the knight for hollow knight is pale king meme in a while so I can see him stop this behaviour for a really long time still dosent excuse these old vids
No he ended up with the ultimate torture; taking guitar lessons from his own wife! 👿
@@din5385 and he's very believable
Just my thoughts about Michael's story. He's the key to everything because, out of all the eternal beings, he was the one with the imagination to devise something new. Yes, it results in psychological torture for him but his journey leads him from being an evil demon to becoming a good person. The other eternal beings learned things too which led to change. Michael eventually earns his reward in the Good Place but one which is unique to him - living on Earth as a mortal human. So what could happen to him after his physical body dies? As he became a real human it's very likely that he could eventually go through the final doorway but there's also another possibility. His human friend, Tahani, chose to become an architect so maybe Michael would choose this path as well. His experiences as an immortal being and a mortal human would give him a unique perspective.
The Good Place is definitely my favorite show of all time, so sad that it had to end but at least they left it at a satisfying ending instead of milking a few more seasons like other shows
Marc Evan Jackson was emotionless in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and pulls off being malicious in “The Good Place”. Wow
honestly shawn is just the evil version of kevin
He also pulls of pathetically "heroic" and emotionally damaged perfectly on the Thrilling Adventure Hour radio podcast as Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars.
@@PurpleMoon799 AHHAHAHA
Kevin was alright in Brooklyn 99. he is a static character
If I was an architect, I would make the afterlife a magical rpg land where you can climb mountains and slay monsters and do all kinds of stuff like that. And gradually release "updates" so the dead people have more content.
Astrovite yeah but in the good place in the show if you go through the doors to places (I forgot the color of them) you get to go to any time and place imagined or real so in theory you could got to your own rpg land and maybe bring some friends along and just have some fun. But in the good place you could go anywhere through these doors so you can do something else if you don’t want to do rpg land. Also in these doors you can do anything so you could also implement a leveling system for rpg land!
And you have the choice to give your allegiance to any and all Daedric Lords and when you finally die for eternity they all have to figure out who gets you.
Give everyone the ability to architect for themselves, and control own memory, with restorations of all their memories once they finish their creations fun. They literally design their own paradise. Once they get bored, allow them to scramble their personalities, and do the same thing with different view points. As close to infinite paradise and perspective as you can get without putting them into loops.
@@feedme7307 I kind of feel like that's what the afterlife is. I've always believed that when we die, you go to what you believe the afterlife is. Giving all religions merit. As though we do just create our afterlife based on what we live by.
@@feedme7307 the doors allow you to do anything you want, so that is basically being your own architect
What struck me when I got through all the seasons is the show kind of punts in the end. When they get tired of the good place, they walk through the portal... and no one knows what happens to them. Kind of like life.
How did i watch an entire show just to watch an episode of film theory
But It was worth it, right?
Ye
Same
@@meisbackforever Double samesies :)
Yeah @emilion06 I did the exact same thing . I literally just finished the show, and then came back to finish watching this theory...
Just realized another thing that doesn’t make sense is that they said nobody got into the good place for over 500 years but also said Abraham Lincoln was the only president to go to the good place
CookieCakeEater Micheal didn’t know who got in the good place before he talked with the accountant so he just lied about who got in
TemmieTube didn’t Janet say it though? And Janet was unable to lie, and knew literally everything about the universe
Yeah but doesn’t this take place over hundreds and hundreds of years
@@realiitaat huh, never thought of that before, good point
@@realiitaat that was my point and only then I realized that Michael probably supposed to go to future then? But probably they can send you in any point of time
Is it just me who though the last episode title "Whenever you are ready" was really good?
Like after the penultimate episode I was left knowing that the show will end, and the next episode was title like that, and I knew it was longer than others, so I could watch it "whenever I am ready" for it to end...I think it was such a good metaphor since in the Good Place people now had an ending, and we also had the show ending, both "whenever we are ready"
I know that title was so perfect I knew I was gonna tear up just by reading that
no yeah i cried
I still haven’t braved the last episode, I’m still not ready
I literally just watched this entire show in the span of the last few days. I was actually expecting this to be the final plot twist because I saw the same patterns with Michael. Happy they didn't pull the trigger on it though, might not have been as satisfying an ending.
"Ceaseless torment, insecurity, and constant disappointment"
That could be the name of my autobiography
The way you view like life shapes the way you expirance it
@@anthonyweber4986 yea, getting hit 6 times on the head and 1 time in the groin by a basketball is considered lucky
@@eh9618, That's unfortunate. But I wouldn't classify a being hit with a basketball as ceaseless torment.
@@kodaminclyde327 so true
@@kodaminclyde327, elaborate
The thing that really stood out to me about the ending, was that, yes Michael got to be a human, but, and no disrespect meant to the actor, he still seems to be the same age as his 'suit' intended to portray. I figured they'd give him a younger body or something so that he could live out a full life on earth, but he really isn't going to get the opportunity to experience the entirety of human existence like he wanted. He's going to get small taste of his big dream, and then will have to go through the tests to enter heaven which are led by someone he outright dislikes.
We don't know how much time the judge gives him.
yea i thought he was going to be born as a baby or something
and better yet he would be born as the baby of someone related to the characters like doug's grandchild or something
@@ishakatiyar3021 yeah that would have been better, but can't complain about one fault in a massively genius show
@@ishakatiyar3021 Would that be possible? Jason never says anything about siblings, and he says that his mom died soon after he was born. Maybe Kamilah’s child or Simone’s. I think the reason was to just be able to show him living life without changing actors.
Superiors: we gotta whip out humanity because it is a problem
Angels: Why
Demons: why
Humans: why
Everything else: why
if it ain't broken don't fix it
if it's broken then get rid of it
- that's a sabrina carpenter's song, i forgot the title 🤣
cause as we saw with the afterlife the screwed up and don't know what to do. so they think if they just start over they would do better. and if you think about it even if they do restart accounting would just screw things up. I mean how is a theme wedding bad? why would they lose points for that? and with literally gods running thing whose going to call out the bullshit?
@@Orsonfoe With the Theme Wedding, The explanation probably goes as follows:
"Weddings are meant to be important, Life Altering events that you pay the utmost respect to at all times. Having a themed wedding just turns that respected event into a simple spectacle that is there to either be laughed at or thought of as a simple costume party. Themed Weddings ruin the sanctity of such an important event."
Don't forget when the lady in the middle place showed them their prior plans one of which was "Convince Michael that he is in the bad place"