This has been my problem with GAF from the outset.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1084678Rick and Morty.
Great show, very funny, I adore it. I don't put my
faith into it. I watch it, make a few connections, might watch some old ones. But holy christ they are absolutely sucking the fun out of the show by trying to make it something it isn't.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=176346765&postcount=1383I think I know what bothers me so much about this episode in particular...
Okay, so the show is pretty wacky and they constantly break the fourth wall and the science fiction concepts are often completely unrealistic. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff because we're lead to believe that Rick's technology and super science makes anything in the show possible. The show also goes to great lengths to show you the heavy-handed emotional side of things. The often grim results of science experiments gone wrong, dark themes like the correlation between intelligence and sadness, and coping with the powerlessness of mortality in the face of the hard truth. It's a very fine balance and when it works, it's awesome! It's what makes the show stand out. In "Rick Potion No. 9" the ending is only made so powerful because we can see the toll that Rick's bastardized and lazy science has taken on the entire human race in a particular universe. However, that feeling is only made possible when it's shown that the universe(well, universes at this point) that Rick and Morty live in is actually a pretty normal, realistic place where crazy events involving aliens and interdimensional characters are mostly localized to Rick as they show up in the wake of Rick's often reckless experiments and immature ventures. The premise for most episodes often involve a conflict that is either brought upon by an experiment gone awry, stumbled upon while on a crazy adventure, or is tracked to earth by/on Rick himself. The biggest problem with this episode is that these massive head aliens came to Earth with seemingly no provocation or purpose besides instant, easy conflict. Rick knows about them, sure, but there was no explanation linking them to Rick or his actions. Add to that the fact that the entire planet has to deal with something so bizarre. Rick feels like a bystander in this episode that just chooses to get involved because he's bored. The heads coming to Earth randomly flips the idea that this world is a normal place like our Earth that, from time to time, has to deal with Rick's super science shenanigans. Now the world in the show is more so a place where anything can happen even without Rick around.
So it was an okay episode, but it messed with the formula a bit and felt a little unsatisfying due to that. It almost takes away from what the show has been going for so far a little bit. Makes everything feel a little cheaper and a little more random. Another thing I worry about is that I think Rick and Morty might soon start to suffer from the complex that some shows have of the titular characters having such a big role in saving the world over and over again but avoiding celebrity status(having the world in the show not remember that those crazy guys who are saving the world just saved the world sometime last year).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=176403123&postcount=1431The problem isn't with their origin or their purpose in the story, the problem is the idea that out of all the billions of planets with life on them(and probably at least tens of thousands that have cultures that feature music), they choose Earth at the perfect timing(while R & M are alive). Why couldn't they visit earth when music/creative energy was first concepted? Or maybe during the time of Mozart? Or perhaps sometime in the future when entire new genres of music that we cannot conceive of are beacons of creative achievement?
What I'm trying to say is that story-wise there is no purpose for them to randomly hit Earth now, except to setup conflict for Rick and Morty to resolve. This could have so easily been avoided by a single scene tying Rick(who as far as we know is the only human on earth who can explore deep space) to their reason for wanting to test Earth. Maybe he's just out drunkenly cruising somewhere past a star system while blasting some music on his ship's stereo and in doing so he catches the attention of a scouting big head out in space. The giant heads track Rick to his culture's origin so they can test the people of that planet. I feel that kind of context would have made such a world of difference in that episode because it would be another example of Rick's carelessness putting his planet in his current universe in grave danger.
So much faith in these intangible things: MGS, Rick and Morty, Ronda Rousey. Christ look at that new Rousey thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1101997People lining up to shit on her from the rooftops because she isn't what they had in mind. She's a woman who punches other women real good. Nope! She needs to have the same political affiliations and also play Captain Marvel, too. Wait she said what? She made a dumb choice? FUCK HER.
