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[Plague Doctor]

Show has been trash since season 2 or 3.

Fun Fact: The writer and Show Runner for She-Hulk was a writer for Rick and Morty for some seasons.

So.. yeah... there's that.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

In my personal opinion, S1 and S2 were almost all great episodes. S3 was around 80% good. S4-S7 was about 70% good. There are still some amazing episodes in each season, but also more meh episodes too. The show is still overall "good" in every season, but doesn't quite live up to the first two seasons.

I feel the same

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Yeah, the few episodes I saw of the first two seasons, I thought were fairly good, but nowhere near the heights of Dan Harmon's other show, Community.

I hope we get that movie someday. We already got Six Seasons

 

[Clear]

In my personal opinion, S1 and S2 were almost all great episodes. S3 was around 80% good. S4-S7 was about 70% good. There are still some amazing episodes in each season, but also more meh episodes too. The show is still overall "good" in every season, but doesn't quite live up to the first two seasons.

I'd pull the hit to miss ratio down 20-30% from S4 onwards, but generally I'd agree.

Season 7 was unexpectedly solid in my opinion, and a step above 5 and 6, but it really feels to me that its gotten very repetitive. 2/3rds of the gags are either pop-culture references or slapstick violence... Its nowhere near as consistently "smart" as it was.

 

[TheMan]

Had no idea. I guess hype for this show really died after Justin's scandal, or perhaps even before that. I'll say last season was better than I expected but if season 8 is the last one, I'd be ok with that. Ran its course.

 

[Rentahamster]

I'd pull the hit to miss ratio down 20-30% from S4 onwards, but generally I'd agree.

Season 7 was unexpectedly solid in my opinion, and a step above 5 and 6, but it really feels to me that its gotten very repetitive. 2/3rds of the gags are either pop-culture references or slapstick violence... Its nowhere near as consistently "smart" as it was.

5 and 6 had decent "smart" scifi episodes, IMO. The first two in season 5 were pretty good. The Narnia revenge story and the decoy family story. S5E8 where Rick is trying to rescue Bird Person was also very deep.

S6E2 where Morty is trapped in Roy had decent writing. S6E4 with the Night Family was interesting. S6E8 with Pissmaster had a lot of character development.

 

[Clear]

5 and 6 had decent "smart" scifi episodes, IMO. The first two in season 5 were pretty good. The Narnia revenge story and the decoy family story. S5E8 where Rick is trying to rescue Bird Person was also very deep.

S6E2 where Morty is trapped in Roy had decent writing. S6E4 with the Night Family was interesting. S6E8 with Pissmaster had a lot of character development.

That decoy episode was a bit of a shark jump in my view and should never have made it to air. In trying to be clever basically they gave the audience a reason never to care about continuity or about the characters. Night Family wasn't quite as bad but I'd bet that the relentless nihilism drove a lot of the audience away.

What they seemed to fail to realize is that the audience needs a solid point of reference to ground all the crazyness. The reason the show blew up in the first season was because they inadvertently added actual emotional stakes with the characters (love potion's ending for Morty, and Rick's failed suicide at the end of Auto-Erotic Assimilation). This is the real "note" about the first season that they needed to pay attention to.

When they lean into this, like they did in the season 7 finale, the show really sings because the audience is given a reason to relate to the high-concept bullshit. Dan Harmon should understand this, and yet the main holdover from Community seems to be him recycling whole themed plots in lesser forms.

 

[Rentahamster]

Episode 3 was pretty good. I was going to give it a 7/10 on first watch, but after rewatching I think it's a solid 8.5/10 at least.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

The new high on life 2 had me thinking about Justin (the new VA isn't that great). So I went and looked for this old unofficial RnM. I remember seeing it years ago (the "completed version"). This is old, and not the original person upload. But it would have been nice if AS just gave the original animator a few bucks and moved it to AS channel. Instead of having takedown notices.



original

 

[Rentahamster]

Episode 4 was okay. It was retreading themes that previous episodes did better, however, like the Knights of the Sun episode.