@Daz:
Humor is inheretdly subjective
I think there was no comedy before Summer -and Morty, I think- started to side with the MadMax guy and pursue Rick. It's not even like Rick and Morty had issues in making me laugh (or just smile or whatnot) though.
And well okay, what comedy was there before that then ?
Morty in the Blooddome
It felt redundant tbh. It made me think about the
Morty and Summer going there in the first place are all derived from the Divorce, and how the characters deal with it
Morty always goes with Rick. You mean "Summer going there derived from the divorce" not Morty.
And I don't know if I have been clear enough but my point wasn't that I gave no crap about the divorce, but that we spent 10minutes on setup of divorce through kiddos not feeling safe about their parents not living together anymore. I didn't complain about the other half of the episode even though it was still Morty and Summer doing crazy things because of their parents' relation.
Episode 3 is also about the divorce or at least derives from it. But I enjoyed it (more–- way more).
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@Kitsune:
People can enjoy the show for different reasons, and that's probably why Rick and Morty is so successful in the first place. That's like totally fine, you know. What isn't totally fine are your constant statements that "this show is not about x, it's about y" which are fundamentally untrue and not only make me question your understanding of Rick and Morty, but also your understanding of basic storytelling.
Dear tough skeptical-thinker. Yes the show is also about the relation between Rick-the-genius and his family.
Rick and Morty has always been, at its core, a sci-fi space romp complemented by a family drama angle. Beth and Jerry's failing marriage has always been a part of the show, for better or for worse.
yeah like I said on the post above yours –-with the Mr.Meeseeks episode for instance, but at least there was fun in it. I've also said something about the ratio of serious things and gags, and why it failed in the first half of episode 2.
It just becomes another zany psychedelic Adult Swim show, and maybe that's fine. But that's not the kind of storyteller Dan Harmon is. That's not the kind of show Rick and Morty is.
I don't know any other adultswim nihilistic show tbh.
The show's point has never been "nihilism is the answer to everything"
Nihilism isn't an answer. I don't understand what you say.
If you mean "putting some "mariage is BS anyway" in the episode wouldn't have been a good answer" it was just a suggestion I thought of while writing my post. Could have been something else, because it's not just unusual to focus this much on the family's relation without some jokes. It's not unusual, it just never happened before. And I'm not talking about Jerry being a pathetic man and Beth telling him to move his ass since season1 but half an episode being a joke-less drama.
The character says "these things don't matter", but the show says otherwise, and constantly dings Rick on this.
Like when? Not that I disagree –-but like when ?
So, yeah, I think I'm qualified enough to speak
But –-but I think I'm more qualified. What are we gonna do ? How is this gonna end ? damn.