Quote:Perhaps. But have you ever wondered why the protagonist Rick - the Rick-est Rick of all - hates the idea of a Citadel, has very low opinion of other Ricks and is able to outsmart them with relative ease? Maybe the message is, that bureaucracy and conformity make Ricks dumb and ineffective - enough for someone like Evil Morty to exploit that.
Also - Americans elected Donald Trump to be their president 2 years ago. I rest my case.
About that. I remembered in the first episode with the citadel. There Rick calls the council hypocrites, because they themselves created a government so that they can hide from another government. Well, unless they said that it's impossible for any good government to exist they're not hypocrites, at least not in this scenario. To me it seems like the show it's implying (maybe not intentionally) that the sole existence of a government or any authority figure is bad and that anarchy is the answer, which believe me, it's not. As stupid and/or evil most rulers can be, the civilized countries wouldn't be the way they are without the existence of a high power.
Quote:Sure. I wasn't implying that the episode belongs in the fantasy genre, just that sci-fi has to take real life natural laws into account. The mad scientist trope does make it - technically - sci-fi. But the idea of people transforming into inanimate objects (and back), while retaining some human traits, like their personality, intellect, voice, face - that's something straight out of fairy-tales. But mostly - it's a wacky cartoon thing.
As I said, it doesn't matter if it's ridiculous or bizzare, as long as science is the single explanation given it's pure sci-fi. Sci-fi doesn't actually have to take real life natural laws into account, it just needs to have a world with it's own natural laws. Said world may or may not have some of the same laws that exist in our own world.
Quote:That's jokes. Having similar jokes is one thing, repeating the same plot is another. Sure - they could have done it. But the point is - they didn't have to if they didn't want to.
I'd prefer much more repeating plots than jokes. As I stated before, rule number 1 of comedy is that a joke isn't funny anymore or at least it's less funny if you repeat it. A story however is less likely to become boring the second time you hear it. Even for someone who likes "groan humor", wouldn't they get bored after hearing the same joke over and over? The majority of the planet dislikes repeating jokes, it's a bad decision to repeat jokes if you're going mainstream. You're also more likely to not stand the test of time. If you are going to use a "groan joke", why not make a funny one surrounding the boring one? This way you're going to make more people happy.
And I do think that there are other good options the creators could've used for evil Morty to gain power without repeating the same plot.
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Charlie Chaplin
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