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Yeah but in Morty’s defense he does save the rat from getting shot by Rick in the beginning so honestly he’s a good kid I call it a wash. Also the 9 mile hike through the arctic to save all their lives
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also 'Cannibalism Is A Choice'. That sign was just plain evil. The angry mob should have gone after the fucker that made that sign and not Morty.
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May 23, 2020 03:54
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I forgot about that, though I feel the real funny part would have been an entirely different cannibalism incident. The funny part is that absolutely was a video game thing where you actually get engaged with the story and forget to save scum and then your dad hits the wrong button and you lose it all. (yes, that happened to me, I think we've all been there. RIP BOOMFIST, my unarmed/explosives FNV run)
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May 23, 2020 05:44
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That sign was just plain evil. The angry mob should have gone after the fucker that made that sign and not Morty. I made the sign, the writers told me to do it.
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May 23, 2020 06:01
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Typical posted:I made the sign, the writers told me to do it. wow this is the same guy who made the signs for the "god hates you" guy in s1 really makes you think  please post more concept art  Ghost Leviathan posted:I forgot about that, though I feel the real funny part would have been an entirely different cannibalism incident. I thought the funnier gag was the reveal that the timeline when Morty got back together with his ~soul mate~ still existed and Rick could have just sent Morty back to it or reunited them but 
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That sign was just plain evil. The angry mob should have gone after the fucker that made that sign and not Morty. drat straight! As we obviously live in a deterministic universe it should of read "Cannabis is an outcome that sometimes occur from clockwork nature of our universe". Good catch Omoly, most glad you were inevitably going to catch it!
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May 23, 2020 07:48
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Typical posted:I made the sign, the writers told me to do it. I meant in universe! geez! But seriously, the writer who told you to make that sign is great with dark humor and you do terrific work on the show. dr_rat posted:drat straight! .....I gotta be honest, I fully don't understand what's happening here.
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May 23, 2020 07:55
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Glorious autocorrect. Now I'm picturing a stoner cannibal horror movie. Call it... The Munchies.
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May 23, 2020 08:30
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Typical posted:I made the sign, the writers told me to do it. How did you manage to slip in a sign with Mharti from Doc and Mharti on it?
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May 23, 2020 10:28
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
Morty is responsible for the Cronenberg-world. He's a monster.
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That’s a bad read. Rick making a love potion that could accidentally mutate the human genome globally if exposed to the most commonly found virus on the planet and then giving it to his 14 year old grandson to drug a girl at school instead of, you know, not doing that, is a bigger problem. It’s not just dangerous, it’s totally careless. Rick has ended no fewer than 5 entire civilizations by my count since the show started (Kronenburg world, battery world inside battery world, face huggers, time snakes, heist episode), he is always the bad guy.
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May 24, 2020 18:56
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yeah but how many did he save by getting Planet Music cancelled with his tight beats
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Bust Rodd posted:That’s a bad read. He's just a libertarian, but isn't dumb. Meaning he's actually just evil.
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May 24, 2020 19:17
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Bust Rodd posted:That’s a bad read. The 14yo asking for a date rape drug might not be as bad as the quintuple Hitler but its still bad. Two things at different levels of bad can still both be bad.
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May 24, 2020 19:25
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Yeah, the whole point of this episode is demonstrating as clearly as possible that Rick is basically an evil genie who gives Morty what he asks for with horrific side-effects he doesn't bother to make sure Morty knows and then blames him for using it the way he's obviously going to. Also that Rick gets absurdly defensive of usually his silliest inventions. Rick's whole role here is basically the cartoon nutty professor who invents some whizz-bang new doohickey which he hands off to the dopey protagonist who doesn't understand the side effects and Hilarity Ensues, except he drat well should know better and just uses his actual plot devices to escape the consequences after lording it over the person he gave it to, and puts his actual forethought and planning solely into the pettiest schemes of self-aggrandisement and/or reliving memories of a sauce he liked.
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May 24, 2020 19:28
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Bust Rodd posted:That’s a bad read. Morty wanting to drug a girl and have sex with her isn't an insignificant problem.
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May 24, 2020 19:32
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Also, Rick attacks Morty for not asking how the Reset remote worked, but when he gave it to him he responded to enquiry with "do you want to know how it works or do you want to have FUN?" and it's not unreasonable for Morty to think everything just rolls back without consequences.
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May 24, 2020 19:39
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Did come up recently that it's basically the lovely parent that refuses to teach you how to do anything and then gets mad when you don't know how to do it.
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May 24, 2020 19:43
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Alhazred posted:Morty wanting to drug a girl and have sex with her isn't an insignificant problem. I really didn't understand any of the consequences of my actions when I was 14 and obsessed with Harry Potter and Starcraft and was nowhere near intelligent or emotionally aware enough to think about a magical wizard's Love Potion as a date rape drug, i was also 3 years away from having sex and had just BARELY started puberty. Obviously now as an adult it's really easy to see how this all could have happened, although the irony is it was the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with this identical plotline that really educated me on it! LMAO Joss Whedon redpilled me into being an Ally!
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May 24, 2020 19:46
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Alhazred posted:Morty wanting to drug a girl and have sex with her isn't an insignificant problem. This is simultaneously true and also has absolutely no bearing on how much of Cronenberg world was his fault (it wasn't).
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May 24, 2020 21:20
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BizarroAzrael posted:Also, Rick attacks Morty for not asking how the Reset remote worked, but when he gave it to him he responded to enquiry with "do you want to know how it works or do you want to have FUN?" and it's not unreasonable for Morty to think everything just rolls back without consequences. Sure, but don't forget this whole thing spawned out of Morty hounding Rick for not doing any of "MY ideas", all of which have routinely had terrible consequences (all the way back to the Meeseeks episode in S1 where Morty was in charge for the first time), yet Morty still bitches about it. Rick even reminds him on the way home from the acid vat how terribly his dragon worked out. So it makes sense that Rick would be fed up by now, and want to teach him an extreme lesson that he can't ignore anymore. "The vat of acid is good" not just because Rick is exceptionally petty, it's "good" because the alternative is Morty's horrible world-breaking poo poo that endangers everyone. This is the same kid who in the season premiere JUST went all Tetsuo, straight up murdered a bunch of soldiers with future-telling crystals that Rick repeatedly told him not to use, got out of a multiple homicide charge by manipulating a judge using her dead husband, AND repeatedly refused to clone a dead Rick to fix the problem after Morty got him killed, all because he saw a vision that he might get to bang his crush when he's an old man. Morty knows there are consequences, he just doesn't care when it benefits him. Maybe he will now, if they use this episode for character continuity.
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I think the general complaint is that ,while both Rick and Morty do absolutely reprehensible things, at least Morty has the excuse of being a dumb hormone-filled teenager. Rick is just a nihilistic sociopath who happens to also be a technocratic God. Neither of them care about the consequences if their actions ultimately benefit them.
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sticklefifer posted:Sure, but don't forget this whole thing spawned out of Morty hounding Rick for not doing any of "MY ideas", all of which have routinely had terrible consequences (all the way back to the Meeseeks episode in S1 where Morty was in charge for the first time), yet Morty still bitches about it. Ah yes, the abuse victim should silently support their abuser because the victim has also shown poor judgement in the past. This is clearly the victim's fault, and not at all another way for the abuser to exert power over the victim. Pull up, thread, Jesus Christ
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, the whole point of this episode is demonstrating as clearly as possible that Rick is basically an evil genie who gives Morty what he asks for with horrific side-effects he doesn't bother to make sure Morty knows and then blames him for using it the way he's obviously going to. Also that Rick gets absurdly defensive of usually his silliest inventions. Yeah, that was kind of my issue with the last episode. We've seen Rick as this Techno Monkey Paw God already many times. A family member whines at Rick about poo poo not being fair, Rick relents and gives them what they want to disastrous consequences. And really, the true joy of save states in a video game is to have more than one that you can go back to. But I can see how narratively that gets even trickier to work a meaningful story out of.
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Slightly Absurd posted:And really, the true joy of save states in a video game is to have more than one that you can go back to. But I can see how narratively that gets even trickier to work a meaningful story out of. Plus in this case, the big problem with Morty's idea came from how Rick chose to implement it - it was implied that he could have chosen to take a time-travel-based approach (which would result in a device which doesn't kill alternate versions of its user), but he chose the murder option because of his attitude towards time travel. Can't really blame Morty for that.
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Y'all are a big pile of bummers in this thread. This is a loving science fiction cartoon for Christ's sake, just enjoy it or stop watching! Also what kind of mental defectives try to extract meaning and lessons from a 22 minute cartoon? Next you're gonna start deconstructing Tom and Jerry as a metaphor for marriage or some other garbage thing.
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mycomancy posted:Y'all are a big pile of bummers in this thread. If you don’t enjoy the thread then stop reading??
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mycomancy posted:Y'all are a big pile of bummers in this thread. Yeah okay Outer Space Hitler Cat, we'll stop asking questions and just enjoy this thing uncritically.
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mycomancy posted:Y'all are a big pile of bummers in this thread. Yes, how dare anyone think that a science fiction work could contain a metaphor for something real.
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May 25, 2020 04:19
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oh my god I like where this is headed
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May 25, 2020 04:31
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This setup is great.
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May 25, 2020 04:32
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Laughed hard at that transformation swap.
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May 25, 2020 04:33
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May 25, 2020 04:33
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Soooo Rick hosed a pla-- Ah, yeah, there y'go!
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May 25, 2020 04:33
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I hosed A PLANET
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May 25, 2020 04:33
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Jesus, Summer.
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May 25, 2020 04:38
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Rick was cucked by a planet.
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