>>84832195>Right, but he was FORCED to have that talk. He's aware that bad things happen, but they're not to be talked about. You sweep them under the rug, you ignore them, you don't talk about them. If your brother is saying weird fatalistic shit, you brush it off with "Oh, he'd tell me if something was wrong!" because then you can keep pretending everything is okay. Not "forced". Diane brought it up to him because his brother didn't and he chose to go have the talk.
Compare this to how many times Diane and Bojack and other characters have been "forced" to talk about/deal with how they really feel and still fail to actually to utter words... unless it's some kind of condescending/insulting diatribe or criticism.
>>He flat out says that the universe is a cruel and uncaring void, He flat out says that the universe is a cruel and uncaring void, and the only way to be happy is to busy yourself with meaningless nonsense until you die. Which is pretty much the advice Bojack was also given earlier: there is no control. The world is a mess. You just have to learn to live in it.
PB isn't particularly poetic about it, but he's got the basic idea. He knows that life doesn't owe him shit and happiness doesn't happen TO you. It's a shitty place and the happiness is the stuff you make/create- particularly with your relationships.
People get caught up so much on that one single line that they ignore all the times when PB does admit he has feelings, that things do make him sad, but that he still tries and doesn't just wallow in his sadness or act bad things don't happen.
What's he supposed to say? That the universe is small and full of stuff that cares about you and that the most important thing is making a mark on the universe so that you will continue on for all eternity?
