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I heard all the good writers left, which is why the quality has massively dropped off. Maybe all the Pickle Rick Sichuan sauce shit killed their passion for the show, or maybe working conditions suck or something.
maybe working conditions suck or something.
Back in 2014, the (American) animators behind Rick and Morty joined the LA Animation Guild, and Justin Roiland went on Reddit and posted a screed where he said "FUCK THE UNION." The post was purged by /r/rickandmorty, but /r/drama remembers, and I gotta say if the people working for Roiland said that working under him sucks I would totally believe them based on his comments here and elsewhere.
Every episode felt fucking rushed, like they were just speeding through the story.
This is how I feel about 90% of new stuff that comes out. It seems like the art of the establishing shot has been completely lost, and that producers panic if a show or a movie goes more than two seconds without someone talking. It's hard to imagine that this is the same show as Season 2, where you would occasionally just get a long sequence of a character just silently despairing.
R&M's team also needs to accept the fact that they're terrible at action scenes. The action scenes in this show have always been propped up by the fact that they were pretty short and decisive or stuffed with interesting character interactions, but in this season the Turkey and Sperm episodes especially hammer home that the action in Rick and Morty fucking sucks.
Still enjoy it enough to keep watching though, maybe the new writers just need to mature into it and it'll get better.
Rick and Morty jumped the shark with the pickle rick episode. Not because the premise was unimaginably stupid--which it was--but because that was when Rick's power level got completely out of control. In the early seasons the heroes would have to run away from enemies or outsmart them... now rick just pulls a deus ex machina out of his ass every time and just mercs every problem before it even threatens to become interesting. An omnipotent protagonist does not make for a compelling story.
The fundamental problem is the same as Game of Thrones: they got too popular too fast and started pandering to their dipshit fans for fear of losing their audience. Art cannot survive under capitalism.
Game of Thrones had a few other fundamental problems. The dragons eating up the majority of the CGI budget just got worse and worse.
I've found R&M has turned into one of those things I check out new eps of just to know what people online are going to be talking about.
I'd rather be watching the final part of Money Heist.
I’d rather be watching the final part of Money Heist.
That just reminded me that something ended today. :maxwell:
was a fan of Harmontown for a while until a live podcast show where he let a maudlin cancer patient from the audience take over the mic to tell her sob story for half an hour, and got so drunk he pissed himself in a diaper on stage
possibly the worst show I've ever been to, fuck Dan Harmon
Yeah... It was interesting until he did the live shows and just totally snapped. His co-hosts were really the one that made it and they all left at some point.
liked the main co-host with the sorta Lyle Lovett vibe but totally forgot his name, also liked Spenser the D&D guy
EDIT: Jeff Davis!!1! it was Jeff Davis. sorry Jeff also you are way more attractive it was just a general black clothes and hair thing
It was cool how the audience became members of the show. Harmon was always too wasted to do shit so he'd just bring people up to talk and they were always super interesting. That kinda fell flat once he left his comic shop and started interacting with random people, the whole dynamic was ruined.
I mean Spenser was just a dude who raised his hand when Harmon asked the audience of anyone was a dungeon master in a drunk rant about how he wanted to play D&D. Ended up being the best part of the show.
He does have some understanding of the political reality, but is also intolerably lib. That rant makes good points and his conclusion is "Vote Hillary".
How the fuck he goes from "YOU HAVE TO KILL FASCISTS, YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH THEM" to "so that's why you need to vote away the fascist" is wild.
