Oh my word...
R&M have taken continuity and character development completely out of the atmosphere and into Low Earth Orbit with with stunningly dark yet forthright episode.
Here we see, perhaps for the first time, just how deeply Rick hides his love for his grandson. We see him put his ego on hold as Morty learns an important lesson about "the real world," ironically from a fantastical one.
As Morty lets his guard down, finally thinking things are going his way, the chirpy and perky Mr. Jellybean (exquisitely chosen by Roiland and Harmon for being one the sweetest and most inoffensive candy treats) shows his true intensions and takes advantage of our young protagonist's naïvety, viciously molesting him in a public toilet.
Morty, never one to take things lying down, shows him what's what and fights back. While physically unharmed, we again see the psychological toll that his adventures with his wayward Grandpa are taking on his psyche and perhaps start to worry and wonder what will happen to him over the course of the show.
One of the key scenes is how Rick reads the distraught Morty and puts his own fun on hold for once. Then, seeing the battered Jellybean emerging from the toilets, he immediately puts two and two together. At that moment, their relationship changes and for the first time we see Rick the family man, Rick the protector and the Rick that does-what-needs-to-be-done. We learn just how far he is prepared to go for his family as he unequivocally and without recourse to even a single backwards glance dispatches the Jellybean as Judge, Jury and Executioner.
The Meeseeks subplot while giving rise to one of the most joyful and memorable characters in the whole series again shows Roiland and Harmon's drive to show that frivolity can often be used to disguise a darker message.
The Meeseeks, you see -for all their cheerful banter- are in constant pain. For that is how they are created; They are created to feel pain as long as they live and, worse, they are effectively immortal with only one escape... That escape? To fulfil the wish of the person who brought them into existence. In doing so, they bring their pain to an end by effectively dying.
And that was just part of a 20 minute episode of R&M.
R&M have taken continuity and character development completely out of the atmosphere and into Low Earth Orbit with with stunningly dark yet forthright episode.
Here we see, perhaps for the first time, just how deeply Rick hides his love for his grandson. We see him put his ego on hold as Morty learns an important lesson about "the real world," ironically from a fantastical one.
As Morty lets his guard down, finally thinking things are going his way, the chirpy and perky Mr. Jellybean (exquisitely chosen by Roiland and Harmon for being one the sweetest and most inoffensive candy treats) shows his true intensions and takes advantage of our young protagonist's naïvety, viciously molesting him in a public toilet.
Morty, never one to take things lying down, shows him what's what and fights back. While physically unharmed, we again see the psychological toll that his adventures with his wayward Grandpa are taking on his psyche and perhaps start to worry and wonder what will happen to him over the course of the show.
One of the key scenes is how Rick reads the distraught Morty and puts his own fun on hold for once. Then, seeing the battered Jellybean emerging from the toilets, he immediately puts two and two together. At that moment, their relationship changes and for the first time we see Rick the family man, Rick the protector and the Rick that does-what-needs-to-be-done. We learn just how far he is prepared to go for his family as he unequivocally and without recourse to even a single backwards glance dispatches the Jellybean as Judge, Jury and Executioner.
The Meeseeks subplot while giving rise to one of the most joyful and memorable characters in the whole series again shows Roiland and Harmon's drive to show that frivolity can often be used to disguise a darker message.
The Meeseeks, you see -for all their cheerful banter- are in constant pain. For that is how they are created; They are created to feel pain as long as they live and, worse, they are effectively immortal with only one escape... That escape? To fulfil the wish of the person who brought them into existence. In doing so, they bring their pain to an end by effectively dying.
And that was just part of a 20 minute episode of R&M.