This season felt like it was written in a vacuum. The characters feel off and their immune to real world consequences. The plots for this season are stunningly absurd and complex, but feel lifeless and devoid of charm. There's no continuity between episodes. Rick and Morty have been sidelined in their own show and they haven't shared a solid adventure together all season. The smartest man in the universe is now easily manipulated and passive.
The mafia bit had potentially and the anime voltron set up sounds like a good idea on paper. In execution, it fails completely. Jerry calls his own son a "little rat," Summer is basically a sociopath and Rick is possibly the stupidest character in the family. I understand that they were going with a Godfather theme. But the characters established traits are bending to contrived plots. It's happening every episode. They act different not because of character motivations but because the writers really want to hit the beats of Godfather. Why? My biggest problems with this season are displayed in this episode:
Sidenote: Some R&M fans are actually in denial, thinking this seasons suckiness is due to Morty actually being evil morty lol. Fanboys are really something else.
The mafia bit had potentially and the anime voltron set up sounds like a good idea on paper. In execution, it fails completely. Jerry calls his own son a "little rat," Summer is basically a sociopath and Rick is possibly the stupidest character in the family. I understand that they were going with a Godfather theme. But the characters established traits are bending to contrived plots. It's happening every episode. They act different not because of character motivations but because the writers really want to hit the beats of Godfather. Why? My biggest problems with this season are displayed in this episode:
- Rick and Morty's are sidelined in their own show. They havent even had a adventure together all season.
- The plot moves waaaaaay to fast and doesn't allow things to develop. Instead the viewer just gets hit over the head with a crude nonsensical sc-fi randomness (kinda feels like family guy).
- The jokes are either crude or just wordplay that thinks it's real clever.
- Nothing is being developed. The stories literally have no beginning middle and end, they just sort of happen. Seriously, what happened to Dan Harmon's "Story circle?"
Sidenote: Some R&M fans are actually in denial, thinking this seasons suckiness is due to Morty actually being evil morty lol. Fanboys are really something else.