This is my 4th favorite episode of the entire show.
And one of the only 4 that I rated a 10/10.
There are so many genuinely smart ideas and I personally was laughing my ass off through out the entire episode.
From the previously on being one of the coolest openings to an episode of a show I have seen, to the commentary on the very structure of story telling, to using story elements as characters, and so, so, so much more.
If you know anything about writing, you should love this.
I've seen a few say it's too meta, as if that's suppose to be a critical complaint.
Explain to me why that's a problem. Some say because it stops being funny, which is subjective and I personally found this to be one of the funniest episodes. Some say it's trying too hard to be smart... which... it is, but they never explain why it isn't working.
Like, you can't say something is trying to be X positive thing as a complaint, without saying why it isn't that.
Rick and morty has always tried to be smart, that isn't new, tell me why you think it isn't that.
You wanted adventure? You wanted originality? You waned cool concepts?
This episode has all of them. At this point people are just complaining for the sake of complaining. S4 wasn't as good as the first 3, and the entire middle section of S5 was rick and morty at it's worst.
But this season has been great, and this was imo it's best episode by far.