i watch and consume media for many reasons, but one is to find heroes: those whose dial has become the greater good, particularly when weighted against one's own desires. one of the many gifts of "the good place" is, coming out of a performative evangelical mindset, i'm objectively just a little bit better than eleanor, and yet if she can make this choice (chidi made the big choice, but hers is the choice to hope they can find each other again), it's definitive proof "character" never forking mattered anyway. it's the gift that people can change that is often missing from evangelism. so much time is spent on convincing people of their fallen nature when so many already know and suffer - often at the hands of evangelicals. but it's the faith to believe someone can change and then the grace and character to stand by someone as they do, over and over again, that sustains me. answers to the contrary are valid too, but i'm so glad shows like "the good place" fall where they do on the side of the question "can people really change?"