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.

  • cummunist [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Notice how Morty's reaction was basically the same when she threw a molotov cocktail at a congressman's house and when she murdered actually innocent workers. :LIB:

    Personally, what I think is really wrong with this episode is that those miners are presented as the direct culprit for global warming, and murdering them is said to be "the only solution". I'm starting to know this show and I'm pretty sure this is yet another "villain is right but they're also evil and thus leftists aren't being reasonable" kind of trope.

    Remember when Rick helped some peasant girl slaughter a bunch of rich people who were oppressing the poor into purging each other, just for the moral of the story to be "the poor are stupid and they're gonna end up killing each other with or without oppression from the rich"? Yeah. Fuck this show.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Personally, what I think is really wrong with this episode is that those miners are presented as the direct culprit for global warming, and murdering them is said to be “the only solution”.

      That was annoying. Basically the Mitch McConnell campaign playbook. Convincing people that their human worth is bound up in their business roles.

      Remember when Rick helped some peasant girl slaughter a bunch of rich people who were oppressing the poor into purging each other, just for the moral of the story to be “the poor are stupid and they’re gonna end up killing each other with or without oppression from the rich”? Yeah. Fuck this show.

      I believe that episode ended with him leading the peasants to purge the rich assholes that implemented the system.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The peasants reinstate the purge right after he leaves.

      • cummunist [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I believe that episode ended with him leading the peasants to purge the rich assholes that implemented the system.

        I just rewatched the end of the episode and I'm sorry but what I said was just right. Rick and one peasant lass do indeed "purge" (i.e bring a well deserved slaughter to) the rich assholes who profited off the model of the purge, but at the end of the episode, when the peasants have to actually come up with a new way to actually run society, they just end up disagreeing to the point of almost slaughtering each other and one guy ends up being like "hey wait up what if we just agreeing to slaughter each other on one given day". Back to the status quo in other words. That's strong "communism no work" energy. Here's the episode

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          That’s strong “communism no work” energy. Here’s the episode

          Communism is when you revenge kill and the more kills you get, the more Communist it is?