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Rick and Morty S4 |OT| 8 More Seasons, Morty
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Think about what humanity may do if an unidentified flying object came and left another human who was similar but different than us who was kept in captivity with another species? It's shown a bit in the episode the Earth snake speaks a different language than them, but they decode it and communicate with it. And that snake probably has some tales being kept in a pet store, brought by a child human into a space suit, sent through space and ejected to that planet.
They make some social commentary jokes about how this is in the Snake Year 2256 or so, and the world has become so divided and hateful that they're going to destroy themselves, they've reached their peak and won't progress because they want bloodshed, power and destruction. But with this discovery they have a new force to unify and focus their hate towards (though other snakes want to protect them so there's a further civil war going on hinted as well).
Also it's a Terminator/Time Travel story parody, because as we find out the "modern" snakes didn't invent a time machine, they just started to. but because the snakes were en route to build a time machine they could start time travelling back in time already because it was made, and this lead to soldiers from the future going back to the past to cause bullshit... And then the rest of the episode goes on to mock time travel p lots because they become too convoluted and messy.
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Yeah pretty much.
The snakes were supposed to destroy themselves in a snake-based race war because Morty killed their snake space envoy. By replacing it with an earth snake, who they figure out how to communicate with, they learn that there are other threats in the universe and up their technology, starting development on snake time travel AND snake skynet.
So in like 2026, the snakes finish time travel and snake skynet gets activated and destroys the world, but the children of the snake that Morty sent form the snake resistance, so snake skynet sends snake terminators back in time to present day terminate Morty, hence Snake Kyle Reese being sent to protect him. Then the snakes send even MORE snake terminators who get stopped by the snake terminator covered in human skin that the snake resistance sent.
Rick realizes that the only way to stop this is to destroy the snake society with time travel before Morty got involved, so they travel to the snake pentagon (currently under siege by snake terminators sent to kill the snake that Morty sent because killing Morty didn't work out) and invent snake time travel, then throw it back into the snake 80s so it gets invented before Morty gets involved. As a result, snakes go back in time to kill snake hitler, but nazi snakes go back to stop them, along with snake terminators who go back to make sure that killing snake hitler doesn't change the timeline for snake skynet, and it creates a never-ending loop of snakes going back stop other snakes from either changing the timeline or keeping it the same.
And Jerry originally dies because he can't hang onto the plane, so at some point in one of the snake futures, the snakes send the most advanced snake we see back to save Jerry, and it inadvertently does by crashing the plane. We don't know WHY saving Jerry was important.
We're seeing ALL of that happen simultaneously. We're seeing the plot of Terminator 1 happen like it did in Terminator Genisys without the context of ANY of the other films. Imagine if in the first Terminator there was an old man Arnold already waiting for young Arnold and Sarah Connor was already a badass and a T-1000 arrives to kill Kyle Reese and John Connor is a robot, but you didn't know what any of that shit was because it was the first terminator but we're seeing it in real time. The effect of every subsequent Terminator film affecting the first happening in real time
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I was laughing like mad with the new episodes.
If your not enjoying you need to see if you had your funny bone stolen.
If your not enjoying you need to see if you had your funny bone stolen.
I laugh at Family Guy occasionally now. Doesn't make it good.
The show badly needs the structure back.
Thought the whole episode was gonna be an Arrival parody, but they smoothly moved into Terminator. Good shit.
Oh man, I just listened to like 15 mins straight of snake jazz. What the hell is wrong with me.
I was wondering where I heard "Snake Jazz" before. Then I remembered the beginning of this Dark Simpsons video (slightly NSFW)
You're like the opposite of the consensus. I remember season 1 where fans said the show was amazing but Rick's constant burping was annoying and hurting the show. They got rid of that and almost everyone is glad for it. I mean it's all subjective whether or not someone thinks the writing has gotten better/worse/stagnant over the past 3 seasons but it makes your take interesting when you say you miss the burps.
While there were a few missteps I enjoyed the half of a season we got. I'm always glad for more Rick and Morty. Just sucks that they're spreading it out with only 5 episodes. I'll lament the lack of enough harder hitting moments but I'm still laughing through a lot of the show.
Are the meatball time cop things supposed to be a reference to Stephen King's Langoliers, which are creatures eat expired time and are similarly like big meatballs with buzzsaw teeth?
It's a *burp* hiatus, Morty!
Wait, is the first half of the season already over????
That was so short and had practically zero plot.
That was so short and had practically zero plot.
But we need 8 more seasons so that the szeuchan sauce dilemma can be resolved!
Its taken 9 years to get through 3.5 season, we will all be in the old folks home after
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but if we're talking slow burns, it took Venture Bros 15 years to do 7 seasons.
FUCKING WORTH IT
the only time the burps were really funny is when they went to the planet ruled by the evolved women and, after being cleared of their crime of farting, while Rick is belittling them all, he's constantly belching in front of them, haha.
I watched the pilot episode back in 2011. One of my professors at UT, James Fino, was an executive producer on the show. We got to visit starburns studios and they showed our class the rick and morty pilot.
I think season 4 has overall been one of the weaker seasons. But I am finding that it's growing on me.
Episode 5 is awesome, and I love that there's these intricate sequences where everything is shown instead of explained.
Hoping the rest of the season is closer to episode 5.
Episode 5 is awesome, and I love that there's these intricate sequences where everything is shown instead of explained.
Hoping the rest of the season is closer to episode 5.
Generally I do feel like this first half of the season is weaker than previous seasons as well, but I still enjoy it and I think you nail one area this season does have above other seasons. The actual visuals of the show have seen a huge upgrade, there's a lot of actually pretty good visual gags and more use of visual storytelling, and there's sequences you can tell the animation team got busy with putting more than usual detail into, three examples off the top being the "Akira" moment in the first episode, the "planet heist" moment in the third episode, and the various snake battles in the fifth episode. The one area I think that has seen a big improvement this season is the visual side with a lot more being done with the animation now and it obviously having a bigger budget.
That's not to say this half a season is terrible, and I think I'm more okay with certain episodes after sitting with them for a while, but I do think this first half of the season is overall weaker in my opinion. Not terrible, and I wouldn't even call it bad, Hell there's some moments that are actually pretty great and I do think a couple episodes in the first half are even great, but I do feel this stretch of episodes is overall the weakest the show has been so far.
Still going to watch the second half of the season and see how they bring it together.
While we wait for Season 4 to resume, here's the Pringles commercial that will be playing during the Super Bowl this Sunday.
That pinball machine looks great! Hopefully the local barcade gets it in. There's a good chance they will.
How has the 2nd half of the season date not been announced yet?
I'm not a marketing person, but feels like a lot of momentum and interest has been zapped at this point. Football is over, at least give us a date. it's gotta be soon, right?
I'm not a marketing person, but feels like a lot of momentum and interest has been zapped at this point. Football is over, at least give us a date. it's gotta be soon, right?
If they continue with the S4 format, no. Seems they stopped giving a shit about any sort of recurring storylines or themes.
Hoping they realized halfway that it wasn't as good as the first 3 seasons and they just shoved all those episodes out, taking more time on the back half.
I'd guess most locations that want it would probably get it, but it is restricted to 500 units and they literally all sold out in under 4 hours. Which I think is some kind of record, for pinball machines at least.
Thank god I know at least one person in Australia getting one, hopefully they'll sell it to me when they get sick of it and maybe I'll have money by then.
Damn, didn't realise it was so limited! The place I'm talking about is Netherworld in Brisbane... Blows my mind that my shitty city has managed to support a very successful barcade with great machines and beers. Gives me hope for humanity.
Oh, they'll most certainly be getting one. Jimmy is switched on, if he's not getting one at launch he'll line up a second hand one eventually.
I hope so. I like that they're seeding this story in the background and setting this character up for mysterious reasons. I think he's only been in 2 episodes so far? But they've both been really good episodes, and I like recurring antagonists - especially if they can be an intellectual or strategic match for Rick.
While we wait for more Season 4, this short aired on Toonami last night. Produced by Studio Deen.
Fun fact: Those are the official Japanese dub actors for Rick & Morty.
How the fuck did Studio DEEN make this? They aren´t the worst but close enough.
S&S is an incredibly accurate adaptation of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga/films. The only thing missing was the crippling sexism to hit all marks. How the Ricky and Marty anime sounds like:
S&S is an incredibly accurate adaptation of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga/films. The only thing missing was the crippling sexism to hit all marks. How the Ricky and Marty anime sounds like:
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Here's the trailer for Justin Roiland's upcoming Hulu show Solar Opposites, which looks a lot like Rick and Morty:
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Nice, looks like
We're getting followups to the Citadel and the wedding episode
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so star wars, Prometheus, Breaking Bad, and Children of Men
I don't know the first one unless it's a reference to the Evil Morty rap