Just watched this episode, and the issue I had with it was that the swearing, by every character was constant. Maybe it was to highlight the earthiness of the Captain Planet character, but it took me out of story. I find excessive swearing to be lazy.
There were good elements, but the Rick/Summer sidestory could be cut waaaaay back to make room for the emotional development of Morty, which was the focus. Anyway, a miss in R&M seems to be equal to a decent episode on a lesser animation, so I enjoyed it still.
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Tonight's episode was easily my favourite of the season. I thought right off of the bat that Rick was playing dumb to take the piss out of Morty, but that went a different direction than I thought.
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FYI, apparently some streaming sites accidentally released episode 7 instead of 4, and it's available on the high seas. Noticed that my Plex server grabbed both which was a nice surprise. Kinda hesitant on actually watching the final episode now though since it might spoil something from the ones yet to come out
That episode was insane, ridiculous, stupid and amazing.
Probably my favorite this season. But yes, I commented to my wife that it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen. She then asked me if I wanted to turn it off, to which I replied, Not a chance.
The plots do seem to be getting slightly repetative. The other episode it was horse people. Now turkey people.
So I heard people had issues with the space sperm episode and potentially a collosal incest baby out there somewhere?
Apparently that episode tanked the season ratings.
I find it funny that with all the ridiculous lengths R&M has gone to over the years that this is where audiences draw the line
The stupid part...or great part...I don't know depending on how Twitter will turn, is that they entirely acknowledged that in the episode, then threw their hands in the air ala Rick and Morty at the end. That was the joke.
I happen to think that social media, and Twitter in particular, would fold themselves over and over so much that it would create a symbolic incest baby had All in the Family aired in 2020.
They can't figure out what's a joke and what the joke is supposed to be, thus ####ing each other over what should be offensive and objectionable.
Incest baby.
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Probably my favorite this season. But yes, I commented to my wife that it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen. She then asked me if I wanted to turn it off, to which I replied, Not a chance.
The plots do seem to be getting slightly repetative. The other episode it was horse people. Now turkey people.
This is what is most worrisome. Harmon gets into these plot "holes" where he recycles the same crap and starts getting depressed about it then drops it entirely. IMO we are at or near the end of R & M. But that's ok, it was a lot of fun and I think it helped kick open the doors to some crazy sci fi potential that no one thought would be translatable to media before. A perfect example is what disney has now done with the Loki series.
I don't know why I feel so cynical about this, but this is the second overblown, sad parody of the season. This wasn't entertaining.
What is happening this season?
A lot of the stuff was really cliche too. Making fun of anime characters? Same thing with the Scorcese voice over routine. It didn't really fit the theme of the show and also came across as pretty dated.
I also don't find the giant incest baby concept very funny. They kept saying it through the episode.
I'm hoping the show can find itself again. We should be getting at least one episode linked to the larger plots this season, so hopefully the show can right itself with that.
I will admit that even the older episodes tend to diminish quickly for me on re-viewing. However, this season feels like watching repeats. There's something missing.
Maybe it's the heart, Rick is a tragic soul, yet this season just seems to be a jerk. Even last Sunday's episode, he dropped Morty and Summer on a dime. Previous seasons he'd do that but there's be a conflict within him (even if he tried to dismiss it). Now nothing.
Even the payoff for the voice over bugs (internal monologue things? whatever they were) would normally be a cool payoff, but just wasn't.
Hopefully it turns around.
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I have actually liked the season for the most part, but what was that episode 7 with the ferrets and junk. I couldn't even force myself to laugh and just shut it down.
Maybe if I knew the references better or something, but that was just crap. The first time I couldn't be bothered to watch.
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The latest episode, which is bird person centric, seemed like by the far the best this season. They moved away from the gags back to something more character focused. Not a lot of laugh out loud moments, but pretty enjoyable.
Overall my biggest issue with this season is that it's just not very funny, and the characters seem to be doing things that are out of character for the purpose of gags. Kind of things me of what happened to the Simpsons post season 10 or so.
So far, these self contained comedy focused episodes just haven't been funny. In the past they hadn't done so many of these. There was always a citadel episode or two. A Beth/Rick, Beth/Jerry, Morty, etc relationship/character development arc that they had as a side story arc. This season they referenced those arcs, but only as call backs to previous episodes. The call backs seem way to frequent and lazy.
This episode was pretty great though. I'm hoping we get a very solid citadel/evil Morty episode as a finale.
