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.