Captain Planet analogue goes crazy and kills coal workers - Morty is devastated, he agrees it's right to feel bad the planet's dying but the ep implies the correct answer is to do nothing.

Not even 'subversive' Rick and Morty could dare suggest blowing up coal/gas plants without demonising the act (it's quite doable to do such a thing without killing workers....)

Ala a recent trend in modern blockbusters where villains are morally correct in their actions right up until they kills civilians for no reason- just to force a third act showdown, effectively negating their positive ideas.

Also there's an opening joke that is an explicit merch promotion that isn't even ironically done. Just a shitty shirt effectively done to camera. At least Schezuan sauce actually made sense in the show, this was just pure shit. The other eps are good, but the industry in culture industry will rear its head anytime you get big.

    • cresspacito [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There was a couple of really good ones imo, plus this season's first two, but yeah, they've lost something. Pretty cringe that they seemed to stop doing an interesting over-arching story simply because fans were annoying about it.

      • Dewot523 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They were never doing an overarching story, ever. Every single episode is self-contained and might have at most one callback to a different episode. The show was never serialized and since the first time the creators made a continuity reference they've been fucking with the obsessed little nerd boys who think that Rick and Morty must secretly be building up to a grand avengers style plot instead of seeing the show for what it is, a half hour wacky animated comedy that has some funny dick jokes and also some not funny dick jokes.

        • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I think they’ll have some big two episode finale where the evil Morty character they’ve shown pop up once a season or show will reveal some big evil plan and some major character (probably Rick) will die defeating him and everyone will act sad. Then everyone will forget about the show except the dozen or so good episodes in the first 3 seasons.

          • Dewot523 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            This is completely wrong. They had an entire episode that made fun of this concept in season 4 where they defeated evil Morty in a non canon episode through the power of praying to Jesus Christ.

    • gofer300 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I love Dan Harmon, I have rewatched Community multiple times including the gas leak season but I agree 100% it just keeps getting worse and worse, the last season only had a handful of funny gags

      • spectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think he's started that they have a multi-season contact, but he's kinda burnt out on the show (partly cause of the behavior of the fan base iirc)

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm pretty sure I watched the last season but all I remember is the train episode. And I thought that was trying too hard and wasn't that funny

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I think they had ideas already chambered for the first two seasons a d now they're all out of sci Fi concepts to parody so there isn't really any direction left.