To be fair, the final episode of season 3 of Rick and Morty is pretty solid. It's kinetic, crude, and highly entertaining, integral aspects of season 1 and 2 that most of season 3 saw fit to substitute with gore and the exploration of characters nobody really cares about. The only problem is that it's both the finale and a complete filler episode at the same time. The only thing that (arguably) distinguishes this episode from any other is the family reunion, which isn't exactly what I'd call finale material.
Everyone except for the die-hard fanbase (which has about as much sense as an onion) has gripes with this season. Personally, I thought this season betrayed the standard Rick and Morty formula, which was driven by novel, interesting concepts involving eccentric and memorable characters. In this season, the characters (most of whom are given repressively human characteristics) defined the concepts for the most part, leading to altogether boring plots that seemed to serve no other purpose than to pick apart characters that needed no picking apart in the first place. A curious consequence of this narrative shift is that any attempts at emotional resonance fell flat, simply because I knew to expect it.
The show felt pretty dumb this time around. It had none of the hilarity of M. Night Symhasjdhkajshdkasjh-aliens, the wrenching strangeness of Rick Potion #9, the thrill of The Ricks Must be Crazy, the genius of Total Rickall, or the honest emotion of The Wedding Squanchers.
While I'm not going to pretend that I came up with this myself, The Ricklantis Mixup would have been a much, much better finale than this one. The "finale" they chose is, while better than what came before, completely ordinary and forgettable. Such a shame.
(It's actually tuesday but I like frogs)
Everyone except for the die-hard fanbase (which has about as much sense as an onion) has gripes with this season. Personally, I thought this season betrayed the standard Rick and Morty formula, which was driven by novel, interesting concepts involving eccentric and memorable characters. In this season, the characters (most of whom are given repressively human characteristics) defined the concepts for the most part, leading to altogether boring plots that seemed to serve no other purpose than to pick apart characters that needed no picking apart in the first place. A curious consequence of this narrative shift is that any attempts at emotional resonance fell flat, simply because I knew to expect it.
The show felt pretty dumb this time around. It had none of the hilarity of M. Night Symhasjdhkajshdkasjh-aliens, the wrenching strangeness of Rick Potion #9, the thrill of The Ricks Must be Crazy, the genius of Total Rickall, or the honest emotion of The Wedding Squanchers.
While I'm not going to pretend that I came up with this myself, The Ricklantis Mixup would have been a much, much better finale than this one. The "finale" they chose is, while better than what came before, completely ordinary and forgettable. Such a shame.
(It's actually tuesday but I like frogs)