Rick and Morty
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Honestly I was shocked at how good the episode was--when it started and I saw how they were setting up the metaphors, I figured it would be stupid SJW crap. But it was the opposite of the normal shallow, ridiculously one dimensional views of shit like that. I loved how they showed all the complexity of human interaction is always boiled down to some stupid fucking phrase..."The same as always, Ricks killing Mortys". That line, given how they set up the metaphor, and the show, was fucking amazingly introspective. The whole episode was, really. I'd love to pick the brains of the person behind most of the ideas to see what he actually thinks of them.
But yeah, this was probably my favorite episode. It was really fucking fantastic.
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tyen
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Amazing episode.
President morty is...
President morty is...
The morty that was controlling the rick that was murdering other ricks and had that matrix of mortys in pain.
At the end of this episode when the papers were flying around, you can see the pic of morty with an eyepatch.
At the end of this episode when the papers were flying around, you can see the pic of morty with an eyepatch.
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Zyke
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Wow, I just have to say I completely agree with everyone else on this episode. This season overall has been a lot better than I expected, but this episode was a whole new level of writing. I can't believe how much they fit into 22 minutes, and it was all amazing. That was just fantastic.
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Xarpolis
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Good catch, I didn't see the pictures at the end, but I knew who it was from the moment he executed the council of Rick's.
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Amzin
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It's absolutely one of the best. It's hard to identify a single other one that does so much so well. I like the Unity and Car Battery ones a ton still. Season 3 is just making writers of every other show look bad at this point.
I was thinking about it though, I think R&M found a formula to cheat kind of. You really only have a handful of characters to build depth for, but you get to have infinite variations of those same characters that get to inherit all the development and bits you've seen so far even if they're 10 second one-offs. This lets you have really good characters with an absurdly huge actual cast that's easy to keep attached to. The fact that this episode had almost no screen time from our "real" characters yet did so much is a testament to that.
I was thinking about it though, I think R&M found a formula to cheat kind of. You really only have a handful of characters to build depth for, but you get to have infinite variations of those same characters that get to inherit all the development and bits you've seen so far even if they're 10 second one-offs. This lets you have really good characters with an absurdly huge actual cast that's easy to keep attached to. The fact that this episode had almost no screen time from our "real" characters yet did so much is a testament to that.
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That's a perk of being in a third season while introducing very few additional characters, on the other hand, there aren't many shows where you could do that. I still think the closest show right now is Bojack, which relies much more on visual gags and RL connections. There's also only a few episodes which actually advance the overarching plot, so the moment they choose to devote a whole episode to that, it shines so much more and it has been pretty well established by now, that C-137 Rick and Morty are coated in plot armor, so an episode that doesn't have to deal with that crap is both surprising and welcome change.
They set up this episode by the previous ones, make no mistake, but that still doesn't detract from how well they pulled it off.
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So many details packed into the background of many scenes too. There was the campaign posters for Morty that directed you to jeez.com (or maybe awjeez.com, couldn't see the entire poster). Then there was a sign in the Morty parade that read: "Morty by Birth, Proud by Choice"...god just so good.
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