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 think it’s more the writers have ceased giving a fuck that they technically wrote Morty to be 14. I don’t think Harmon or Roland are actually advocating for the idea that sexual relationships between adult women and underaged boys can be healthy. I think it’s more that Morty was written as 14 cuz the show started as a parody of those old SciFi/adventure shows were a young boy goes on adventures with an adult but the fact that said adventures are actually super dangerous and traumatic for someone that age is glossed over (essentially the same thing Venture Bros was parodying). But at this point so much crazy shit has happened the fact Morty is technically 14 doesn’t really matter, Summer is like 16-17 and Rick sends here out on Commando assassination missions now. Every main character has nonchalantly committed war crimes at this point, by disbelief about how morality works in this show is throughly suspended.

    • kulak_inspektor [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      right, but it doesnt change that he's 14 in some capacity, at least emotionally. Beth says as much as that in the episode. Rick and co do a bunch of genocide, but this isnt technically.....

      Edit:I'm sorry, I didnt realize you said it was technically. I dont actually care, I also think its an absurd, stupidass Futurama bit. I was trying to poorly parody the people upset over the climate change bit. Your points ring true and everyone upset over a Rick and Morty bit should read them

      • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I mean if you find it disturbing I ain’t gonna tel you you’re wrong.

        I just find it difficult to consider the real world moral implication of it when the 14 year old in question has also killed a few thousand people, been a Wall Street stock broker, lived the entire life of another man in a simulator and went on a post apocalyptic vengeance quest where he drowned a man to death.