First of all, if you liked this season I'm not gonna judge you. This thread isn't meant to attack anyone who disagrees with me, everyone should have their right to have an opinion.
With that said I also want to mention that even though there has been more than a year since this season, my opinions about it haven't changed much if at all.
I disliked every single episode. You know "The Ricklantis Mixup", a highly praised episode considered by fans one of the best in the series? I disliked it as well. There are many reasons why I felt towards it that way, but the main reason is that how on earth - or in this case in the multiverse - is it possible that millions of versions of an old genius - they themselves being geniuses - would let a 14 year old boy run for their president? I mean, sure it's fiction, but in this show kids are kids. They go to school, are financially dependent on their parents and lack life experience. Maybe in one or more universes things are different, but it's never established that evil Morty comes from such a universe, so I'm let to assume that in his universe kids are still kids. Granted, he is a genius, but we have no confirmation that the Ricks know that, and even if they did know it would still not make any sense, because they're geniuses as well. Not to mention that in real life genius kids are still kids. Even if they are above average intelligence, they still need a parent or guardian. It seems to me like the writers were to lazy to come with a more believable way for evil Morty to gain power.
If I were to list general problems with the show it would be:
With that said I also want to mention that even though there has been more than a year since this season, my opinions about it haven't changed much if at all.
I disliked every single episode. You know "The Ricklantis Mixup", a highly praised episode considered by fans one of the best in the series? I disliked it as well. There are many reasons why I felt towards it that way, but the main reason is that how on earth - or in this case in the multiverse - is it possible that millions of versions of an old genius - they themselves being geniuses - would let a 14 year old boy run for their president? I mean, sure it's fiction, but in this show kids are kids. They go to school, are financially dependent on their parents and lack life experience. Maybe in one or more universes things are different, but it's never established that evil Morty comes from such a universe, so I'm let to assume that in his universe kids are still kids. Granted, he is a genius, but we have no confirmation that the Ricks know that, and even if they did know it would still not make any sense, because they're geniuses as well. Not to mention that in real life genius kids are still kids. Even if they are above average intelligence, they still need a parent or guardian. It seems to me like the writers were to lazy to come with a more believable way for evil Morty to gain power.
If I were to list general problems with the show it would be:
- the comedy lost a lot of quality, a few jokes made me giggle but that's about it
- hiring female writers just because they're female
- the fanbase (not a problem with the show itself and good shows can have bad fans, but I do believe that in this case the show itself is partially and I do mean only partially at fault)
- characters have been painfully flanderized:
- Rick, while always a depressed asshole genius with a don't give a fuck attitude, seems to have become more "hip". He made some references to social media and we see less of his unhappy side. When we do see his depressed side, it's not done very well. He and Morty feel sadder than usual after an adventure we barely see then try to get rid of their toxic sides. After that said sides try to fuck up the world and it's up to our main characters to stop them. Then Rick finds out, that the toxic sides are what they themselves subjectively consider toxic about themselves. I do agree on that morality is subjective and so are personalities. As it turns out, Rick considers his love for his grandson toxic and uses this to regain his toxic side, because you need to be toxic on some level. Sure, nobody and nothing is perfect, but there are certain things you should not have. If you consider love to be toxic you need to reevaluate yourself and if you consider that you need your depression, what you actually need is therapy (yeah, Pickle Rick I know). Also, Rick sometimes just simply wins without any effort (pretty boring) and other times turns himself into a pickle.
- Jerry has become pretty much like Meg from Family Guy and Squidward in the worst seasons of Spongebob, only less tortured, at least at the moment. Seriously, the guy just visits his kids and gets called a loser by the wind. He does get back to Beth at the end, but considering how broken their marriage was, I'm not making too many hopes.
- Beth has become a bitch then a psychopathic bitch who occasionally shows signs of trying to do good then realizes - at least at the moment - that she was evil, enough said.
- Morty, well I would call his flanderisation failed character development. He is shown as much competent, he becomes even able to defuse one of Rick's bombs. The problem is that we never saw Morty learning how to do this or any other scientific stuff, which is a shame considering how many possibilities there are for this. He was also a lot more confident, which I didn't find forced, because he was becoming more and more confident through the seasons. What bugs me is that in the episode about toxicity, he shows his old lack of confidence once again. In the Whirly Dirly Conspiracy he mutilates Eathen for "messing with Summer's body image", when in reality it wasn't the case at all and Morty should've know better. He was basically like Rick, only worse, because the latter doesn't call his atrocities moral.
- Summer, oh boy did she become the most inconsistent character. In the Mad Max parody she goes completely wild, kills and claims not to care about dying, because of a divorce, as Morty implies. Maybe it wasn't for that reason, but it still felt a bit forced. Then she becomes a regular teenager again, then out of nowhere a superficial lethally stupid titan (by the way, "The Wirly Dirly Conspiracy" plot is my least favourite of the series), then a regular teenager again. Now that is a new level of flanderisation, exaggerating a different trait to no end each episode and creating a totally new personality or reusing an old one. Look on the bright side, patients of multiple personality disorder might relate to this.
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