Whoa, didn't expect this episode going in this week. After a season nearly full of one-off episodes, either really clever or a bit weaker, we get an episode full of character development, while also exploring the relations between some characters.
Many people last season were complaining about the amount of ultimately unimportant episodes, so this is a nice change of pace. However, I feel like some people will still complain about this episode not being the most clever, or the most mind blowing one of the series. Impossible to please everyone, I guess.
It seems easy for people to forget that there are 70 episodes of Rick and Morty ordered, so they won't all be the greatest episodes and they will explore new ideas. However, I really enjoyed this one. Different doesn't always equal bad, and that was certainly the case here. (Plus, this wasn't even necessarily "different", because it's not like there were never episodes like this in Rick and Morty, just not recently.)
In this episode Morty gets a girlfriend, similarly to in "The Vat of Acid Episode", except in this one we get to see the whole thing play out, and with dialogue. It was a delight to notice Alison Brie (who played Annie Edison in Dan Harmon's other show "Community") as the voice of Planetina, who did a fantastic job voice acting here. I didn't even recognize her voice at first, even after having watched all 6 seasons of Community and all of Bojack Horseman (where she voiced Diane). Props to her, as well as the voice actors for Beth and Morty (Sarah Chalke and Justin Roiland), as there was much more emotion involved in the voices this episode. We're reminded, through this plot, that Morty is still a teenager, and still has pretty shallow views of the things around him. He killed an entire town on an alternate planet in the first episode, and killed Planetina's 4 "kids" in this episode (fantastic scene, by the way), yet can't stay with Planetina because she killed those workers. It sort of makes sense that he would react this way, as a 14 year old, since those people were from his planet and dimension, and he viewed them as innocent, but this was still pretty dumb of him. What else is new though, it's Morty.
Most importantly (in my opinion), in this part of the episode, we get to see Morty express his frustration with the way people view him, and some development in the relationship between him and his mother. I really enjoyed this part of the plot, like I said, very different kind of episode to what we've been getting recently (but in a good way).
The Rick and Summer plot was getting pretty weird, but ultimately the point was to show how much Rick desperately wants to be a non-caring person, but in his attempts to do something completely meaningless to him he ends up getting emotionally attached to one of the aliens. This shows further that our Rick (C- 137), despite wanting to just be another rick, can't help but care about things, or people.
All in all, I can see some people disliking this episode, but for people who enjoy character driven episodes (with some really good action sprinkled in), this will be an enjoyable episode.
Many people last season were complaining about the amount of ultimately unimportant episodes, so this is a nice change of pace. However, I feel like some people will still complain about this episode not being the most clever, or the most mind blowing one of the series. Impossible to please everyone, I guess.
It seems easy for people to forget that there are 70 episodes of Rick and Morty ordered, so they won't all be the greatest episodes and they will explore new ideas. However, I really enjoyed this one. Different doesn't always equal bad, and that was certainly the case here. (Plus, this wasn't even necessarily "different", because it's not like there were never episodes like this in Rick and Morty, just not recently.)
In this episode Morty gets a girlfriend, similarly to in "The Vat of Acid Episode", except in this one we get to see the whole thing play out, and with dialogue. It was a delight to notice Alison Brie (who played Annie Edison in Dan Harmon's other show "Community") as the voice of Planetina, who did a fantastic job voice acting here. I didn't even recognize her voice at first, even after having watched all 6 seasons of Community and all of Bojack Horseman (where she voiced Diane). Props to her, as well as the voice actors for Beth and Morty (Sarah Chalke and Justin Roiland), as there was much more emotion involved in the voices this episode. We're reminded, through this plot, that Morty is still a teenager, and still has pretty shallow views of the things around him. He killed an entire town on an alternate planet in the first episode, and killed Planetina's 4 "kids" in this episode (fantastic scene, by the way), yet can't stay with Planetina because she killed those workers. It sort of makes sense that he would react this way, as a 14 year old, since those people were from his planet and dimension, and he viewed them as innocent, but this was still pretty dumb of him. What else is new though, it's Morty.
Most importantly (in my opinion), in this part of the episode, we get to see Morty express his frustration with the way people view him, and some development in the relationship between him and his mother. I really enjoyed this part of the plot, like I said, very different kind of episode to what we've been getting recently (but in a good way).
The Rick and Summer plot was getting pretty weird, but ultimately the point was to show how much Rick desperately wants to be a non-caring person, but in his attempts to do something completely meaningless to him he ends up getting emotionally attached to one of the aliens. This shows further that our Rick (C- 137), despite wanting to just be another rick, can't help but care about things, or people.
All in all, I can see some people disliking this episode, but for people who enjoy character driven episodes (with some really good action sprinkled in), this will be an enjoyable episode.