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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I genuinely don’t remember this at all