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littlealeta · 2 years ago
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Can anyone tell me what people see in this new season of Rick and Morty? Yeah I haven’t seen any episodes in their entirety (only a few clips like I said I would) and I have been researching information about it because OCD won’t let me get away from this piece of crap but I really don’t see what all the rave is about with this season. I may or may not have women’s intuition but this overall season just sounds weird. Each episode just sounds mediocre like I have yet to see an actual decent episode even season 4 had a couple of decent episodes. Maybe Solaricks is probably the only one close to decent. I know it’s too early to tell but so far, this ranks below season 4 for me and maybe slightly above 5 (5 was all around mediocre and had some of the worst episodes in the show and I didn’t even watch episodes 2, 4-7)
To me, this new season just doesn’t feel like Rick and Morty while also suffering from some of the same issues seasons 3-5 had. The only good things I would say is that there are still jokes, it’s not entirely unfunny. They have good premises but poor execution. They at least have plot and character development without getting rid of them or insulting the audience. Jerry is an actual character from what I heard of. Rick is a bit more caring and emotional than he was last season but he still feels very off. I don’t mind Rick getting nicer but he just seems overall soft especially with his family almost like a goody-goody. And this is RICK we’re talking about. Rick may have a caring and loving side but soft is the last thing I would use to describe him and I just don’t see why he would get to this point especially this soon. Not to mention Rick’s overly soft attitude also makes him less compelling as a character and more like what Jerry used to be, just a doormat to his family’s bs.
I was hoping that Morty’s new codependency in the season 5 finale was just character bastardization that the writers were eventually going to take back but no. Solaricks and Rick: A Mort Well Lived are continuing to double down on this with Morty craving affection from Rick, showing lots of open affection, and having separation anxiety from him.
It’s like the writers are trying to do the innocent child and hardened adult relationship in the way that it is almost always done. Just all around wholesome and loving. Now there are characters that kind of started out like Rick such as Joel from The Last of Us or Gru from Despicable Me that were asses to their adopted kids in the beginning just like Rick did with his grandson but unlike Rick, Joel and Gru actually had believable buildup to being nice to the children. But what did Rick do to earn Morty’s attachment and being nice to Morty? Sure he had buildup to start caring for his family but as far as being wholesome to Morty? Barely there and mostly the result of the shallow crow arc. What reason would there be for Morty to start being attached to Rick? Sure he always cared for Rick deep down but he was never this lovey dovey or attached to him up until now. Rick spent a day with rebounds then all of a sudden, he’s changed? Not only is it out of character for Rick to want to spend time with someone trying to improve him and then openly admit that he’s fucked up but it’s also rushed. The crows told him to save a couple of aliens and then partnered up with him for anime adventures. How in God’s name would this change his relationship with Morty?
Look, I don’t have a problem with Rick and Morty’s relationship becoming more wholesome somewhere down the line. I love this trope wholeheartedly and I would love to see it in Rick and Morty. But it’s just so cheesy because they are doing this too quick with no buildup or reason to it. If they really wanted to do it, take notes from how Last of Us and Despicable Me did with their irritable, cold protagonists warming up to their children.
They also brought back Rick’s OPness when I thought after destroying the finite curve that caused him to be this powerful/smart in the first place were the writers getting rid of this flaw but ig not. :(
It just feels like the writers are writing Rick and Morty in a way that they and/or the fans fantasize. With Rick and Morty having a more loving relationship, Rick being an all-powerful God who can conquer anything, all the pointless cartooniness. People need to understand that this is 2022, not the 1960s. Cartoons have been starting to branch out from weird absurd looney tunes esque gags for decades now with even Disney branching out of it and Rick and Morty was one of those cartoons with cartoony elements like Rick getting buff with Summer being rare/almost non-existent and the absurdities of the sci fi being the main point of the show. Even when it did get cartoony, because being cartoony isn’t its main identity, the cartoony aspects were more for a joke AND they also had a purpose to it. They didn’t use cartooniness to undermine and automatically get rid of conflict conflict like seasons 3-6 do. The cartoony stuff in Night Family were just there just to be there. They had no point to them and I don’t think a lot of them were even played for jokes.
To me, I think that it’s because the writers are writing in a way the fans fantasize and also they could be giddy because season 5 was so weak for a Rick and Morty season. I also noticed this in the Sonic fandom with Sonic fans who hate Modern Sonic games praising the movies to high heaven despite them actually being pretty mediocre.
Rick and Morty isn’t a show about a loving grandpa and grandson relationship nor was it a show about a terminator who can conquer anything. It’s a show about a super smart broken scientist struggling to learn to care for his family. He was never supposed to be OP and its core identity was never to be cartoony at least in the way things like Looney Tunes, SpongeBob, or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs are. The writers need to look at what the show is and not what it should be to the point of immediately changing its identity to make it look like almost a completely different show.
You can really tell that the creators are hands-off with this show because of how unique this particular season feels. It’s been going in weird directions since season 3 so yeah it’s partially Harmon’s fault but I thought season 3 was an oopsy and that they were going to learn from their mistakes but I also heard Justin Roiland quit helming the show around season 4.
It’s clear that Rick and Morty fans can eat pretty much anything up so I don’t think that changing the show back to its original identity would hurt it too much.
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