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You're probably right about the "most superficial" point. I guess it would have been better to say that the chosen solution for human desires came across as somewhat shallow and superficial.
Also, I didn't say the ending was bad. I think the ending was amazing, but my point was that the intentional feeling of "wrongness" to it means that it can't truly be called happy regardless of how the characters feel because the criteria for a happy ending is relative to the reader and the writer but not the characters.
Agreed.
The question I'm asking myself now is:
In other words, what part of the wrongness or creepiness of this story is owing to this particular story itself, apart from the fact that this is a SL4 story? (I suspect I am still not used to SL4)
I think a good deal of the creepiness comes from some combination the artificial determinism of the utopia, and the uncanny valley
What does uncanny valley refer to here?
Yes, what's uncanny here?