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XboxPants posted:Why was Beth less happy in the paradise world? Why didn't she simply continue working with horses, but without pay? Why would that route not offer value to her existence? (it's because value is determined by how much money you generate) The only person we see continue to pursue their craft out of passion is the BBQ shack guy and he's revealed to be an unnatural creation. As if it's impossible for a real human to do this. Goddamn it's a standard trash science fiction plot, aliens come down and make things perfect but in the context of writing a show you can't have the aliens stay and have everything be perfect forever so there has to be some major flaw so that the show can continue. Usually this is because the aliens are evil or some other thing is wrong, but Rick and Morty wants to swerve that premise (explicitly underlined in Rick's speech) and still have a show, so it's human self-destruction and ennui that does the paradise in. This is not presented favourably, humans being bored with paradise and incredibly self-destructive is not only the explicitly the joke of the episode (listen to the closing song where it lists off the many many actual environmental disasters we have or are currently inflicting on ourselves) but also many other episodes of Rick and Morty. Not only that but being bored with heaven is a common narrative device and theme throughout modern culture, so much so that it has a tv tropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HellOfAHeaven It's also a documented psychological phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill There's an Isaac Bashevis Singer story called "Fool's Paradise" about the concept: https://twistsandstories.blogspot.com/2014/07/fools-paradise-by-isaac-bashevis-singer.html
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Oct 11, 2022 22:26
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Mx. posted:Pretty sure Harmon is the incest guy Harmon's fetish is mannequins and red heads not incest. Roiland's solo stuff also has incest
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Jan 13, 2023 00:51
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Nichael posted:Wealth and power rot brains. and Justin's brain was already super rotten
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Jan 14, 2023 01:54
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Dragonstoned posted:The key point of my post was that I didn't know how much of a piece of poo poo this guy really was until this news about domestic abuse dropped... funny that you should use a Jon Hamm meme while saying this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hamm#Assault_incident
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Jan 24, 2023 09:25
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Dan Harmon's been pretty open about his dad's physical abuse and while Harmon's reconciled with his father to a degree I'm not sure the same amount of leeway might extend to someone who's merely a close friend.
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Jan 25, 2023 07:30
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xerxus posted:https://youtu.be/8DI946ov1ns Wow they really dramatised nearly every problem with Justin as a show runner mentioned in that article as a series of promotional clips/interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8qfpGwzhOU It's got everything the annoying dogs, the rc car, the distance between Harmon and Roiland, the obsession with VR, the goofing off instead of doing needed work
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PostNouveau posted:This is one of the Rick & Morty writers basically saying it non-anonymously Here's an ex-writer for Rick and Morty https://twitter.com/vornietom/status/1623015292900372481 fez_machine fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 23:49
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Everything about Hugh Jackman made me laugh, because it was a) actually Jackman doing the voice, and b) he was having an incredible time being completely unhinged. I think I was just laughing at how much joy he was taking in saying his lines. this is the trap late simpsons fell into, eventually it stops being a joy. It's always a bad sign to have a celebrity voice themself
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Oct 17, 2023 01:56
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alf_pogs posted:or character actress Margo Martindale on Bojack Horseman Both these examples had strong diminishing returns
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Oct 18, 2023 09:22
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Doesn’t matter what the voices sound like if the show isn’t funny. The fact that there's a years long lag between writing, an episode being released, and audience feedback means it won't any time soon Harmon has also made it clear that his standards were causing both workplace stress and getting in the way of Rick and Morty being a decades long gravy train for him
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Oct 22, 2023 00:16
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LividLiquid posted:His growth means worse art and I'm fine with that, even if it is a little disappointing. I'm not sure any showrunner can maintain a high standard of art when you get into the high volume make the same burgers forever business
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Oct 22, 2023 01:45
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PneumonicBook posted:You guys can just stop watching the funny cartoon science man show when you don't like it you know. we can watch the funny show and discuss why it didn't meet our expectations or resembled worse shows as well I can't speak for others but it probably isn't consistently bad enough to drop just yet
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Oct 22, 2023 07:59
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Takes No Damage posted:The newspaper comic For Better or Worse did it from '79 to 2008, can't think of an animation that's done it tho. Big Mouth just aged its characters up a year, so they might continue doing it every few seasons.
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Oct 22, 2023 12:07
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Good episode Revealed that Rick and Jerry's most shared trait is selfishness.
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Oct 24, 2023 06:37
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It was an okay episode but big webcomic 3 to 5 years in vibes
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Nov 14, 2023 00:58
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I don't like the megging of Summer in this episode. Summer has always been an attractive and competent if emotionally volatile teenage girl and it feels like someone came from Family Guy to do an ugly Meg joke.
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Nov 20, 2023 22:24
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I think I liked this more than most because it resolved my megging anxiety
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Nov 27, 2023 11:29
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yeah that was objectively terrible still pretty fun though
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Good episode
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