He thought being able to do two voices would completely safeguard him from consequences lol
Thank god we live in a meritocracy, I'd hate for bad people to rise to positions of prominence. :freedom-and-democracy:
And then he turned the Soviet Union into a pickle. Funniest shit I ever seen.
Camera pans to Gorbachev already lying on the floor bent and twisted in the Family Guy pose
R&M's writers would jump ship noticeably frequently, often after writing acclaimed episodes. Guess this explains why.
It was pretty evident the quality of the writing plummeted pretty sharply every season
All this tells me is that Rick and Morty will be the best it's ever been in upcoming seasons.
He would skip important meetings, cancel last minute or arrive drunk
I dunno why, but i just love him going "I'm gonna need another shot" and everyone in the room just going "Noooo..."
Lol
to give the devil his due as far as I can tell his entire job was to sound like a drunk obnoxious person
There are so many people that could do that and be less of a kiddie creeper and/or sex predator.
I have known many drunk and obnoxious dudes who manage to avoid being massive creeps
Exactly.
Roiland was paid millions to be the worst kind of drunk. :disgost:
He thought being able to do two voices would completely safeguard him from consequences lol
Since Roiland was so bazinga years ago about the threat of replacing his writers entirely with an algorithm, it'd be poetic justice for him to be replaced by voice AI entirely. :manhattan:
to a way lesser degree, but yeah sadly he is a version of Roiland who knows terms like 'emotional labor'
I think part of the priviledge of being white, male, and from a priviledged backround is the right to have things work out for you despite being utterly mediocre
Yup and if you create something that has endless milking potential (Rick and Morty) you pretty much get the Weinstein treatment (everyone knows you are a POS but are unable to do much about it).
I'm just glad that their awful misanthropic creation brought them some degree of misery.
hahah imagine if the mellowing of Rick was because Harmon saw how grotesque Roiland was, and only then decided that hedonistic nihilism actually sucks
I feel like Dan Harmon could have grown as a person after Community if it weren't for Roiland/Rick and Morty. Or he did grow during and after Community and chose to regress
I stopped watching after like season 4 and it was on thin ice then. First 2 seasons were kinda neat and did some inventive stuff which I feel they had that many episodes of concepts chambered and then had a hard time coming up with more. There's no fucking way they could do the Rixty Minutes B Plot now, there was a balance of genuine emotion that paralleled the wacky nihilism and they fed each other as A and B plots instead of having this adversarial relationship
From what I heard about Roiland and Harmon, Harmon "discovered" Roiland and sort of elevated him.
It may have been the same kind of curse as seen in Glass Onion where Andi "discovers" Miles.
He bragged/threatened that he could replace his writers with le epic algorithm years ago. :manhattan:
I've always hated that piece of shit. I'm glad he's finally no longer getting a free ride as an "ironic" asshole.
Part of that may be because so many writers have already quit and continued to quit over time, but I get you.
Part of me wonders if this is just damage control to save Rick and Morty and that other one about the aliens, but this isn't exactly unbelievable.
It's probably a little of both, but after seeing his messages to that underage girl it's extremely easy to believe he was behaving like a huge fucking tool and entitled waste of space while other people were adding creative input to the show.
Oh yeah, I dont want to imply that this is some conspiracy or something to make him seem less shitty. I hope that wasnt the case. I'm just griping and being a cynical fuck
Not how I took what you said at all! In fact, I think there's probably some truth to the idea that there's a PR campaign trying to shine a light on how useless he was so that people don't abandon the show or expect a significant change in quality or something.
The voice work thing is especially funny because they're not hard voices to imitate...
Capitalism is the best system because it rewards talent and hard work :so-true:
According to another show source, he was easily distracted, too; the writers would regularly walk over to a Toys R Us, where they would buy action figures or Nerf guns, and “then he played with them the rest of the day and we couldn’t get any work done.”
Toys R Us shut down in 2018, but Rick and Morty has been airing since 2013. Yeah it's a 10 year old show somehow.
For some reason a lot of people in the entertainment industry at the leadership tier with those specific black eyeglass frames are total douchebags. The other most glaringly obvious one is JJ Abrams.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and fucking Alex "Most Punchable Face In Show Business" Kurtzman.
Are you in show business? Do you have command of old IPs and the means to wreck them because of your great "vision" for how they should actually be?
If not, you're safe. :bloomer:
Me, sweating over my treatment for an explicitly communist batman animated film :ohnoes:
Me, sweating over my treatment for an explicitly communist batman animated film
That isn't wrecking. That's building. :tequila-sunset:
I got laser eye surgery specifically to not look like that brand of guy lol
But didn't you love his series where the Romulans don't even try to be stealthy and Picard is a spineless layabout who gave up after hitting one obstacle and left billions to die, and then he dies but not really because he copy-pasted his brain to a robot that now also looks like a frail 150 year old Frenchman
They had a Romulan with a space katana and a very very LOTR name. Elnor or something? Kurtzman is a hack-fraud, like the Red Letter Media meme, except actually a hack-fraud.
To this day I am baffled by people who like the show and can't conceive of disliking it for anything but CHUD reasons, as if there's no way anyone would take issue with the Federation making a slave race of Data knockoffs, for slavery purposes (to enslave)
When he lead that horrid remake of The Mummy with Tom Cruise, he pontificated to the media that "everyone has a monster inside of them" as a sort of deep statement. I think it's like con artists believing everyone is a con artist.
