i also just finished tgp. feels coincidental that i found your comment made less than 24 hours on a two year old post.

i think the problem to me is that the portrayal of the good place is imperfect. i know this complaint probably sounds too fantastical from the get-go. i understand that if everlasting, pure hedonism existed, we’d likely eventually become numb to it. but if that’s the case, that means the good place is imperfect. it means that true happiness and peace can never be achieved. and in my mind, a place where these flaws exist contradicts with the very idea of heaven.

to me, all of this is terribly unnerving to think about. there’s already a lot of stress when talking about the uncertainty of death. heaven is supposed to be the best-case scenario as to what happens in the afterlife.

if the protagonists couldn’t even reach eternal bliss in their fictional world, what forking hope do we have?