Quote: (09-13-2017 09:03 AM)cascadecombo Wrote:
Quote: (08-27-2017 12:10 PM)Aurini Wrote:
Quote: (08-24-2017 04:03 PM)Once Was Not Wrote:
After I learned of what massive leftists Harmon and Roiland are I was genuinely shocked at how palatable the show was for me. Never would have guessed it after the first two seasons.
Riffing off of this and AB's points.
Well written stories will often contain more truth than the author realizes - than the author is even aware of. Prior to these revelations about the creative team, I was hoping the series was moving towards the point of realizing what a terrible human being Rick truly is.
He's the smartest man who's ever lived, but instead of helping others, he sows destruction in his wake. He ruins every planet he visit, every woman he dates, and ultimately ruins his children and grandchildren. At his core, he's a selfish alcoholic and his supposed intelligence is nothing but a conceit; ultimately, he's an idiot.
There are still seeds of this in the series; Beth's abusive behaviour towards her children, even Morty's White Knighting as an unhealthy response to try and be "masculine" when his only role model is a drunk. I loved the show for the darker reflections of myself I can see in it - the forewarning about where alcoholism leads. Others seem to think that Rick is a positive example to follow - and I'd include the creator in that group.
The perfect ending to the series would have been Rick waking up in a hospital bed, dying of liver cirrhosis, with his family all around him - suffering because of him, but nowhere near as pathetic and lacking in agency as he pretended they were. All of the Super Science would have turned out to be nothing but drunken hallucinations. A pathetic death for a pathetic man.
Instead, the natural ending will be replaced with some sort of "happily ever after" that defies all credibility. It's a shame.
That reads as some weird sort of social justice porn.
I'm not a fan of that rendition either. It reminds me of whenever someone does their own rendering a story and it always being the fight club he had split personality ending. These things have been done and usually only work once.
What did you guys think of the most recent episode? As someone who studied the useless major of English in college it's damn near impossible for me to not see allegorical elements in things even when I don't want to. The whole episode I was just stuck like, why would the literal smartest man in the universe volunteer to go to the citadel to be ordinary? Probably the best episode in the season though.