*chases around my Japanese-speaking friends with a dictionary*

I need to carve an initialism on my new bo and I decided I wanted to use one of the two kanji that can be used to write my last name.

Problem is "滝" can also mean "waterfall" so I'm not sure if in practice it's used to refer to the rapids of a river as well, and "瀬" only seems to crop up in geographical contexts that are much larger than a river that would produce rapids.

I am overjoyed

S3E10 of the Good Place is so meta.

Like.

Sooooooooooooooo meta.

It's also an One Person Theatre episode and I fucking love those.

Some thoughts on the Good Place

Spoilers, obviously

So far, season 1 has been the best one. Then again, season 1 has the deck stacked in its favour -- it doesn't leave as many dangling threads as it goes, and wins largely thanks to the format enabling it to do so. That being said, season 2 has my favourite characterisation and humour overall, and while season 3 has my favourite episode in the whole show, it's still my least favourite and overall the weakest one, mostly because something weird happens to everyone who isn't Jason, Janet or Eleanor.

(Or maybe I'm just salty because I felt like season 2 left Michael's arc kind of incomplete when it was progressing so nicely. This is entirely possible -- he is my favourite character, and I always feel like my faves get done dirty.)

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Am I looking forward to season 4? ... I mean, kinda? If only to see how they're gonna turn around the last third of season 3, which really kind of falls apart now when I think about it, but so far the series definitely peaked at the back half of season 2. It's really dense, and I'm looking forward to rewatching it with my mindset adjusted by the knowledge of what comes ahead (and the awareness of what the "best versions" of these characters are capable of being like) but right now it sits at a "yea it's alright" level of recommendation.