If you did a show with a Christian religion theme, how would you represent heaven and hell?
That’s a tough one because a part of me would want it to be “accurate” because the accurate version says so much about the real mindset of that religion, but the accurate version is also the most boring. Heaven and Hell in Christianity are just literally NOTHING. Heaven is floating around forever in just pure unbroken bliss (they don’t want to say it this way, but what they seem to mean is one never-ending orgasm) and canonically Hell is just people hovering in infinite fire in so much pain they can’t do anything but convulse and scream and that’s it. “Real” Christian afterlife beliefs are utterly devoid of worldbuilding or story material! You get either the good nothingness or the bad nothingness! Supposedly you never even say another word ever again for eternity because you can’t in hell and have no reason to in heaven. At least, that’s what every Christian I’ve ever known in “real life” thinks?
I think getting into how I’d fix that while remaining true to the spirit would take me a lot longer to sort out. I think they should maybe STILL be places where the human souls are distilled down to one mindless sensation, because that’s actually got some intriguing applications too, but I’d want there to be other things other than all the floating idiots. Souls are probably like an infinite energy resource to everything else inhabiting those realms.