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.

    • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      “I mean fuck Morty you personally killed a small medieval city’s worth of people last episode just to try and get your dick wet.”

    • PrincessMagnificent [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      Why don't they just use the clean energy source Rick uses, enslaving an entire tiny universe of people and threatening them with destroying their universe if they won't power your phone

      • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I mean what’s really fucking stupid is that Rick is presented as such a super genius he probably could invent some cold fusion drive and carbon capture device to stop global warming in a weekend. But he like, doesn’t, for reasons.