Pretty good chance after viewing the first episode of season 7, I'm done with the franchise. The last two seasons weren't great. The first episode of season 7 is giving me a depressing episode of jerks, everything sucks. There is no heart in the series, it sucks. Its repeats of old jokes. Do they have an original idea to use, not really.
At this point, its going to be a Bilibili.tv episode if someone says its good to view anything else.
You remember when Southpark did the manatee episode for family guy using random balls to write episodes? Yeah, the writers broke out an Excel spreadsheet and rolled a D100 to determine what to write as a script.
It sucks watching a franchise die, but its dead.
I'm not intelligent enough to watch Rick and Morty.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
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English lit major?
You are probably too intelligent to watch it.
They made more after season 3?
This is like hearing Archer is still airing
It got fairly poor quickly after they added the women writers. The jokes aimed at the guys, nope. They did put in a selfcest with the daughter fucking herself, I guess that was supposed to be funny somehow?
It just went to a morally degenerate leftist high road depression fest of suck.
Dan Harmon sacrificed the writers’ room to the feminists in order to stave off his own metooing.
Yeah I watched the first episode of Season 3 and proceeded to never watch it again once I confirmed that they diversity-hired a shitload of women writers.
I'm not sure that's right. In season 2, the one with the tv showing shows from different dimensions, Morty tells Summer that he's not really her brother, and points to the graves outside. Also, the first episode came out months before the rest of season 3, so I think that this one episode was made before the arrival of the female writers, although I'm not 100% about that.
The one that made me lose interest in the series was the pickle Rick episode, that had the female psychiatrist that's somehow smarter than him, so much so that the only response the smartest man in the universe had against her were the equivalent of fart jokes to attack her personally, that one of the female writers openly said was her self-insert.
Edit: Small correction to the above. The episode in which Morty tells Summer about his grave is called "Rixty Minutes", and it's the 8th episode of the 1st season.
Pickle Rick was shockingly stupid. People convinced themselves to enjoy it ironically. Only someone retarded could have written that shit.
I completely agree. I really couldn't understand the people wearing pickle Rick shirts, or who were talking about the episode as if it had been good, when it was the one that convinced me that the series wasn't worth watching anymore.
Peak self-awareness.
Archer turned into a total current-year shitshow with the latest season.
They introduced a new main character and of course it's an ethnic woman who is better at everything than everyone else. Brown girlboss time!
The Rotten Tomatoes score reflects that: 100% critic score, 40% audience.
I'm in the same boat as OP but with Archer: after viewing the first episode of season 14, I'm done with the franchise.
LAAAAANNAAAAAAAAAAA!
I stopped watching a couple of seasons back. First 3-4 seasons are still solid gold.
Honestly having it end in the gunshot before the coma seasons makes a great subversion ending, all his lifestyle and his tomfoolery cut short with a surprisingly realistic outcome
That new chick sucks. I do suspect she's the actual big bad villain of the story and is just roping the Agency around getting her affairs out of the way.
Archer might be one of the most hateable shows of the last 15 years. It's a kind of obnoxious unto itself.
Archer is still airing?
i was done the second they fired the creator over nothing. i'm not interested in watching whatever skinwalker remains.
Yeah resigned to finish season 6 and decided it ended. Too bad, I liked it for a time. Didn't know season u was a thing
I think the guys who made that show are hardcore pedophiles.
They are for sure.
The show started off good, but like with everything it was subversive Jewish programming that tried less and less to hide that part of itself with each session. Female writers helped accelerate the decline that was already happening
Wouldn't be surprised if that was why they fired Roiland. By getting rid of him for being such a sex pest (allegedly), they're hoping to throw the heat off themselves.
Yea, in season 3 they brought in female writers whose only qualification was being female. That's not even some "right-wing conspiracy theory". They said so themselves. Of course that's when the writing fell off a cliff.
S3. That episode is what got me to never watch another new episode again. I'll still occasionally binge most of S1-S2 every now and then.
Why the hell was OP even still bothering to check?
They blew their comedic load by season 2. Just like almost every other writer in the entertainment industry they expended all their good ideas early on and just fall back on callbacks and generic current year garbage to milk paychecks for as long as possible afterwards.
I need to pee.
Oh you meant thoughts about the show? 🤔
I'd rather be peeing than watching any show with this art style, which includes Star Trek Lower Decks.
The pathological nihilism of San Francisco spewed as a half-assed moral play to young adults is already damaging as it is.
This is exactly the point. There are no heroes in modern writing because the Left don't believe in heroes. "Out of Frame" explained it as best as anyone could.
It's a close facsimile but it's very by-the-book. Read the script with no deviation, unlike Roiland who would ad-lib and put filler words in to sound like natural diction (for better or worse).
Not really that noticeable.
I’ve seen some episodes here and there but plan on binging the series eventually. Should I stop at a certain point? Does it get woke or have some feminist writer that changes things?
S1-S2 are amazing. S3 is the beginning of the end as they hired a shitload of female writers and it clearly shows.
First season promoted cuckoldry and other degeneracy.
The first couple of seasons were funny. I think I stopped after the pickle Rick season.
I sail the high seas to watch it. I don't think it's worth my time (or anyone else's here) after watching S7E1. It was shockingly bad.
the show died at pickel rick.
Jumping the Shark has been replaced with Pickling the Dick?