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.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The idea was that he wanted to start a war so he could use the weapons I think. Which is totally nonsensical.

    I think it was supposed to be like a 9/11 allegory or something but they just decided to make the Osama character a socialist

    • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Pretty sure if the Taliban had nukes they wouldn’t have had to fly planes into building tho.

      Why bother blowing up earth if you can get everything you want by threatening to blow them up (or have them be eaten by space goop)?

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            The latest season is pretty good, the stuff on Earth is cool. They show Philadelphia as a massive sprawling slum plauged by inequality and exploitation. There's no dancing around the fact that the UN/Earth is a failed capitalist state that's been preventing the revolutions of the second (Mars) and third (Belt) worlds.