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hopefully it will be the final one

probably not, rick and morty is a huge merchandise empire

  • 99LuftBalloons [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Has anyone really watched much past season 3? I quit after :pickle-liz: and after that I have literally never thought of it unprompted.

    Funny how that episode made it go from one of my favorite series to complete memory-hole.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        and a larger focus on how it doesnt matter what he feels, because the multiverse

        an objectively stupid take. You're here and you matter for who and what you are. You could add in a million people just like you and each of them would matter. People are non-fungible

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          • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            People are non-fungible

            Isn't this like....a basic tenant of leftism? Fucking sucks that people don't understand this.

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              • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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                2 years ago

                So, I'm not smart enough to really understand what 'non-fungible' means, so I took "people are non-funglible" to basically more or less mean "people are good and I love them." That, to me, seems a basic tenant of leftism.

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      • HornyOnMain
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        2 years ago

        The dumb parody episodes where the entire point was just “hey look at how dumb and overdone these tropes are in this genre of tv, and how above it we are” were the real low part of the show for me, especially since they keep happening. They literally watch like slightly better written cinema sins videos

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            • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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              2 years ago

              I mean the old Peter O Toole/Orson Welles bit about Shakespeare playing the ghost rings true. The great artists know not to take the lead role but instead some role that sells the illusion/sets the stage for the lead.

              Immature artists like Roliand and Lin Manuel cast themselves as leads since they can't imagine receding into the background (as great authors and artists do).

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                • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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                  I mean negative capability exists (i.e. we can always read "against" Rick or these other self inserts since there are other characters).

                  But the degree of self inserts just makes that so hard. Susan Sarandon as the therapist is right, but the show keeps screaming Pickle Rick....

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                    • 99LuftBalloons [none/use name]
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                      2 years ago

                      The show never really read against him in the first place. Despite all the opposition Rick gets, his philosophy and viewpoint always turn out to be right in the end.

                      The closest they get is showing Rick as sad but even then it plays into the self-felating "tragic smart guy" who isn't understood by the sheeple around him.

                    • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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                      2 years ago

                      Yeah again, it's immature art, since the mature artist isn't concerned with making sure people read things exactly right (think of Verhoeven GOD and chuds reading Starship Troopers as rah rah - granted in that case they're telling on themselves a bit..)

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        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          It wasn't a non-starter for me, because there's an interesting critique you can make about this perspective.

          but like what @LegaliiizeIt said it became over time apparent there was no actual critique being made.

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        • culpritus [any]
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          2 years ago

          this is the basically the edgelord version of Rocko's basilisk and 'effective altruism' which are both just doing eugenics with extra steps - so just a multiverse of bazinga chuds all the way down

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It definitely got worse but I still watched. its such a small amount of time and I can pirate an entire season in like 5 minutes so I've typically waited until I remember "oh yeah, another season came out" about 6 months after the fact, then watch them in a couple days.

      my life will not be affected in any form or fashion if the show dropped off the face of the earth.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      As soon as they made it the slightest bit more difficult to watch than showing it for free on the adult swim website, I stopped :shrug-outta-hecks:

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      what did me in was that episode which tries to parody heist movies (but in particular ocean's eleven which hasn't been culturally releveant in nearly a decade) where everyone kept repeating "you son of a bitch i'm in" . i couldn't tell if it was making fun of the audience for liking this sort of lowbrow comedic repetition stuff or if it was playing it straight and the audience can't tell that this is on the same level as big bang theory sheldon banging on penny's door with his robotic "penny penny penny" calls every episode.

    • Cherufe [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The last season was pretty good except for a few episodes. Seasons 4 and 5 were pretty rough