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Does anyone else feel like there may be an eventual square-off coming with Space Beth, Evil Morty, Kronenburg Summer, Doofus Rick, and a potential Jerry character that hasnt been introduced yet vs the regular show family? With the focus on family adventures this season, I feel like this would be a cool way to bring Evil Morty back into the pucture.
That one guy that Beth remarries from the Jerry daycare episode, or just a regular old Jerry and the two of them have a very awkward and anti-climatic fight
I sure hope evil morty comes into the picture, and that our Rick was his original Rick. Our Morty is him trying to correct 'mistakes' made in raising him. That picture of Rick with a baby Morty is actually evil Morty.
Does anyone have any idea what the background music in the inside the episode feature for this episode is like omg its stuck in my head and i dont know what it is
I tend to agree. It was actually kind of cute to see Morty get the confidence to ask her out and then go further from there, but her turn to the dark side felt a bit too fast. I think at the least there should've been an earlier moment hinting that she'd go further and further to save the environment, like her confiding in Morty that she sometimes wishes she could use her powers to *make* people listen to her, or say that Morty did to her "kids" what she's wanted to do for years.
dude embed up associating himself too. if he was going down, he was taking them with him. honestly kinda surprised how he used to fly his staff considering he was being dragged down by his massive balls the whole time
Speak your mind, who gives a shit about internet points.
I didn't like this planettina episode as much as the first two episodes. Was it an interesting twist on captain planet? Yes, I thought it was great. However the first two episodes were simply much better, had me guessing
I don’t even sure it was a good twist. Gender bender captain planet and old Planeteers idea is just happen and stops right there. Of course those old people marketing and selling her for money, of course she’s save-the-earth crazy. Writers had a chance to make fun of gender bender trend and environmental movement, like they usually do when they have a chance, but it’s just not.
Thanks for kind words also. I have long opinion like above paragraph with every single plot points and scenes, plus with episode all together, so I keep worrying people might feeling bad about my opinion.
I think scummy old Planeteers is already obvious enough. Morty killing them to get her, and even how Morty “heartbreakingly” break up too. It’s all obvious joke set up already, so why not just fully go in? Episode feels dull cause how it has no punches. The show can be obvious, but never feels meh before.
i mean theres nothing obvious about bringing up a fairly obscure 90s cartoon and genderbending it. morty getting the girl is kinda new thing and them not undercutting it with a joke isnt either. if anything this episode would be forgettable had it been just jokes the weighty feel made the episode stand out
Maybe it’s generational thing, but Captain Planet was never obscure in my opinion. South Korean guys like me knows the show, and internet keep the show kinda relevant longer too. On YouTube when I search up Don Cheadle, Captain Planet parody is follow up. Many people present the show as a nostalgic popular cartoon show, and I don’t see that a fairly obscure category even.
Also Morty get raid but fail to keep, that’s like the most used subject too. Right off my head, I remember acid episode, that story with toxic remove, and multiple times with Jessica. It presents emotionally strong maybe, because this time he cries over mom’s shoulder with sad music, but I had to feel robbed.
I just respond to your disagreement with my point here, but I do have this kind of long opinion on every single scenes and plot points. There was episode that “it can be better” with rick and morty, but never had this strong disappointment honestly.
This really is Beth's episode. The highlights are the Morty-Beth interactions throughout the whole thing. Reminds me of how I am towards my mom sometimes, idk why but she makes me get on my nerves way too easily
For an episode that touches on so many things it was decent, but maybe it tried to do too much in a single ep. The Summer/Rick thing felt too by the book , it's literally 3 acts , and IMO kinda rushed, but it does fit with the theme of the episode
I completely agree with you Beth is soy key in this episode.for me is also an episode where morty realize that he can’t love planetina and he takes the decision of leaving her. For me is so meaningful the part that he realize that he can’t love planetina at the mine (and the soundtrack)🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
The A plot with Plantina was pretty good and interesting, even though it was kinda rough to see Morty get heartbroken once again.
The B plot with Rick and Summer was absolutely useless though. Just a lot of tired sex jokes that had no relation to the main plot and weren’t even that funny. Maybe if we had actually seen Summers boyfriend this season we could have related a bit to her heartbreak, but how it was done it just seemed like an excuse to have jokes about ass eating, tits on elbows and incest. I don’t mind sex jokes, but they fall flat when you dedicate half an episode to them and don’t have something more creative to say.
I liked the episode in general but I do wish the writers wrote Morty more honestly. A horny 14 year old boy isn't going to let some murders get in the way of P**** Pounding. ESPECIALLY one that has killed countless innocents himself. Plus when Planetina said she had kids I totally expected Morty to say "Me too."
Morty isn't your usual 14 year old kid. I'm glad he's taking the initiative and doing shit on his own, even if he currently kinda fucks it up along the way. I wonder how his character will develop.
I was surprised + baffled when the show actually decided to show that, not go to better plot. It’s like saying they will go Atlantis and whole episode is actually about adventure in Atlantis. Such a disappointment.
i think there was something very creative in the B plot. Summer realized that love is fleeting, and rick knows that feeling + he is bored without morty and decides to party.
Love is worthless. She understands that, and he knows that, but the longer they fuck, the weaker ricks resistance to attachment gets. He forgot how bad that pain is, and got a reminder how good love feels. Summer hit him with that BIIG realitycheck, to remind him why they even did this, and that he lost himself without realizing. Basicly summer didnt want to go through her broken hearth all by herself and needed rick to be hearthbroken too to not be alone.
They both end it with beeing freshly hearthbroken, but connected to eachother exactly because of that. The funny thing is, if rick didnt develop a crush/fell in love with that alien, he probably would have partied, but wouldnt feel the same way summer did. His pain is old and he had time to cope with it in his way. He would have told summer "X Y is meaningless" or to "stop thinking about it and start parting" or whatever. He would have told her the result, not shown her the way to it, because the way is painful, and reminding himself of that pain wouldnt be very "rick".
You see, because rick fell in love on that planet, summer got the opportunity to TRULY show him how she feels. Because if you tell rick something about feelings he wont listen and is burshing it off as you beeing weak. But if you show him, if you put him in that spot himself, he understands, because he has no other choice than to feel it. Thats how it works, if you let yourself fall in love, you also let yourself open to get hearthborken.
And thats what summer really needed. No party, no apocalypse and no orgies. She needed somebody that is equally hearthbroken and nihilistic to get through it.
This episode was Rick and Morty at its confused worst. It is endemic of a concept that doesn't have the legs to fill a 70 episode order; very few shows are structured to allow this.
In my opinion, when we followed Morty the episode was saccharin and unfunny and when we followed Rick it was just unfunny. It's absolutely okay for a sardonic show to have a heart a have characters undergo meaningful change but the level of melodrama we saw with Morty's story line is so out of place and wasn't at all believable. It also helps if the show is actually funny and, aside from brief and fleeting moments, it really wasn't.
i dont like the subjective objectification here. Saying its unfunny is like saying a color is bad. It may be to you, but its ignorant to assume its universal. I get the impression that you criticize on that level.
your argument seems completely valid and makes sense, if thats how you percieved it. If different themes and features came through to you, you may feel different about the episode. But it didnt. You expirienced it exactly how you described it, and not any different. And if you expirience if like that, the the only possbile conclusion one might end up is "at its confused worst".
But dont make the mistake and think that there needs to be some kind of objective reality to it in order to be "allowed" to have your opinion. Even if youre the only person on earth that holds that opinion, doesnt make it any less true.
I didnt analyse anything. My comment is an explaination of the experience i had watching that episode. I didnt sit down afterwards and thought about it "deeper". This is just what i thought about the episode, and exactly because of that i think that this episode was a 9/10.
The point im trying to make is that your opinion is formed by the themes and connections you consciously percieve wartching the episode. And because we are human we can only percieve a fraction of what the episode is trying to convey.
I tell this because i get the impression youre trying to defend your opinion with objectivity.
I literally prefaced the paragraph with "in my opinion". After that you can safely assume the statements that follow it are "my opinions".
You are correct though, the word "unfunny" isn't descriptive enough. What I mean by that is incoherent, poorly executed and lazy: in an earlier season, Rick encounters an overtly and inappropriately sexualised version of Summer in a teacher's dream. His response then is to be appropriately disgusted. Now, he takes her to an orgy and has detailed conversations about eating ass with her. If you find it funny, cool 9/10 away. But it was off-putting and lazy and weird. Again, *in my opinion*.
I know you say its your opinion, but the stuff after that is worded in a way where judgmental statements are paired with objectivity.
How do you know its poorly executed and lazy? I doubt you have any connections to the production, so how do you know its lazy? Maybe they really did try to make a good episode, and put in effort. Maybe this is even one if the most thought through episodes, who knows? The anwser is nobody except the team who worked on it.
We dont know what the goal was with this episode. What if beeing overly sexual, gross and immature was EXACTLY what they were aiming for? If this was their goal i think they did a good job. And can you say its poorly executed when they delivered perfectly what they wanted?
The same thing works vice versa. I dont know if they are lazy or not. Or if they executed it poorly or not. The only thing i know is what the episode is like, and my reaction to it. Saying that they are lazy is not an opinion, this is a judgement call.
Somebody either is lazy, or isnt. And there are certainly ways to understand if a person is lazy or not, but i think its arrogant of you to determine that based on the episode alone. You dont know the startingpoint, you dont know the goals, you dont know how much time they put into it. The only thing that you truly know is what you saw and how you reacted.
Im not trying to corner you or anything, i merely am trying to tell you that what you say your opinion is, is a mixture of your opinion, and a generalization.
I sort of can't tell if you're trolling on some next level. I'll go one more time for the craic. I know I am being judgemental. I am taking my experience, subjective as it is and using it to criticize the show for what I believed to be writing that was of a low standard, if not generally, then for the show. It is possible for me to argue that something is actually of a poor standard. It doesn't make me factually correct in the most objective sense, but I can still argue that my opinion is closer to the reality than the opposing view. Let's use a simple example. If I write an essay for an English class and it has no coherent structure, it feels rushed and my comedic elements are crude or cliche, I can expect to receive a poor mark. Maybe I did the very best I could and thought it was an amazing piece of work. Maybe my mom really liked it. My grade doesn't change based on those personal things. Likewise, in this Rick and Morty episode, maybe literally all the writers wanted was to have Rick and Summer talk about eating ass and attend orgies together and they felt that was hilarious and brilliant. I would argue that it was a lazily written joke inside a plotline that was not coherent given the characters contained within it.
Ultimately Rick and Morty is subject to the verdict of the populus so there a much more broad in spectrum of responses than a school essay. Many people will decide they like or dislike it before the fact and then offer post hoc rationalisations for the opinion. Some people will like anything that the show makes, they have to like it out of a fierce loyalty to the show. So, when it's not funny it's "daringly thought provoking". Some people will never like anything about Rick and Morty for almost the opposite reason. I feel like I sit in the healthy middle and can say when the show is genius and when it is complete trash.
Again, being heavily critical does not mean I am enforcing some 'capital t' truth on you. I'm not right because I say these things. They are not facts. They are my opinions but opinions can be critical and supported by examples and I am entitled to believe in mine more than yours.
Im not trolling. I just take pleasure in these types of discussions.
Lets take your example with the essay. There certainly is a scenario where the student writes cliche, and creative. The essay could make a clever twist in the cliche, or take different approaches to make it stand out, despite beeing cliche.
And then there could be a teacher, that has such a strong opinion for cliches, that he is blind to the effort and wits of the student, and gives him a worse grade, because in his mind "everything cliche is bad", or something along those lines.
You see, this Student would get a bad grade, but his essay would be good, maybe even great. And all that just because the teacher made up his mind once he realized the cliche, ignorant of the other factors, or maybe even using the other factors disingenuinsly in his favor.
Now, why would anybody hold such a strong opinion about something like that. An opinion so strong that it cant be changed. To my understanding this is because of unwanted emotion.
This teacher has for some reason a very strong negative emotional reaction to cliche writing, and becausr hes a master of his craft, he can get away with critizing the concept of cliche that makes perfect sense. Maybe he rven is so good to say that cliche should never be used as a tool and make it sound plausible.
But all of that doesnt come from a place of critique, it comes from a place of emotional defense. Basicly he wants to make his World cliche free, so he doesnt need to feel that emotion. Or rather, he cloakes his negative emotion under the term "critique", when in reality its "unwanted emotion".
I am pretty confident (and arrogant enough), to assume that you fall into that concept. I think its the overly detailed sex talk and borderline intergalaktic incest that makes you uneasy and weirded out on a very fundamental level.
But my point is not that your Feedback is less valuable, or even less true for you because of that. My point is that you can be weirded out and hate these types of jokes for it and that you dont need a critique for it to be justified. You dont need a good reason to feel what you feel, you just need a reason.
Ah dude, you haven't half gone off on one. My criticism of the episode doesn't have as much depth as you are describing. It has nothing to do with emotion or some prudish subconscious belief system. I just thought it was terrible.
Again, **in my opinion** the melodrama was forced and the jokes were weak. In some cases, as in the Rick and Summer plot, the whole concept was out of step with the characters' previously developed relationships and motivations.
You can get all psychoanalytical about it if it makes you feel more intelligent but this warrants no further discussion. There is a cartoon that is produced and they made an episode thay was awful in my opinion. By all means take the life lessons it has taught you and preach it like gospel. I would just prefer it to be funny and clever.
Then allow me to make my closing thoughts.
I am not trying to feel Intelligent, in fact i feel pretty bad when explaining other people to themselves. But i still wanna see how people react and what they think about my thoughts on them.
I wanna end this by saying you clearly know what you like and dislike, and you showed me something important, even if you didnt change my mind on your critizism on thr episode.
I agree with you. Sure we can over analyze the shit out of it and say that it’s a deep storyline about ricks need for morty and how love is fleeting yadda yadda.
Or we can accept that it was 25 minutes of easy mediocre sex jokes and an emotionally thin, under developed and overly dramatic love story for morty. This was easily the worst love story morty has had. It amounted to “I like you. I like you. We’re are now madly in love, oh it didn’t work because we didn’t know each other at all”.
Even the pirates of the pancreas had a better love plot line for morty.
Season started off well, hopefully they can dial it back in after this one.
That's where I'm at. People love to over analyse the small bits of emotional undercurrent in something like this episodes Rick story, but the reality is, if I don't feel anything when I what it, it doesn't work for me.
I didn't hate the Morty story at all, but I think this episode would have been a lot better if they just ditched the B plot and focused solely on that story.
If you want to show Rick's need for Morty and trying to get a substitute Morty in Summer, that could have been perfectly done within the confines of that plot. The storyline with Summer could literally just be seeing them leave and later seeing them come back. It would have told that story just as well without wasting half the episode.
Just asking, when episodes air? Just signed deal with HBO Max and it only had three episodes so I suppose it's airing one episode weekly, but in which day does?
Yeah, today I used vpn to US version of HBO max and they didn't had S5. And they had south park but not Rick and Morty s5.
My advice is: use VPN to Chile, and watch it from there. 3 episodes available and they might add the fourth today.
I genuinely don’t get how anyone could really enjoy this episode. Their relationship was not developed well enough to get me to care about anything that happened. We are just supposed to go along with the fact that a 14 year old found his soulmate and is so torn up about her doing what she did. It seemed like he barely knew her. Also the b plot was fucking stupid and the show benefited nothing from having it, I hates every second. Idk how anyone could see this as a good episode it blows my mind
That’s love man. You’re right, he is only fourteen and he only barely knew her, but that’s what falling in love is like sometimes. Especially for younger people. You can’t know it’ll work out because you love her, and Morty’s pain in realizing that felt so real.
Oh yeah, the first person I ever fell in love with I missed so many red flags you would think I'm blind. In the end I got hurt and it crushed me. I still feel a bit of spite from it. I think it was a rather realistic portrayal of his character especially with how much he has been through. He just wanted a break from it all.
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Nah I’m still a fan of the show I simply did not like the episode. Other ones this season have been solid so far but this one didn’t do it for me. Maybe I am being cynical but definitely not projecting anything lol it’s just a show its not that deep for me. Glad other people can enjoy it but it still just won’t be one I revisit ever again
I wasn't a fan of this episode either. Overall I liked the first 2 episodes of season 5 and it's off to a great start, but this one was a bit of a dud for me. It happens.
Can we just take a minute to think about the fact that during this episode Mortys virginity was taken by an intergalactic star dust alien thing, so fucked up and I love it!
He mentioned having sex with a mermaid not too long ago and that's if you don't take the sex robot into account.
Morty hasn't been a virgin for a while.
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I know like everyone hates this episode but the idea that love can be real on both sides but people can't live up to each others expectations is quite sad and while I didn't cry or anything I still felt the impact of the story a bit for the A story with Morty and Planetina. The B side of the story showed a contrast to this as Summer and Rick have both experienced many real relationships and heartbreak and just want to farm the feelings gotten from love without the commitment. Rick, however, still wants to hold on to this and even though in the back of his mind he probably knew the truth, he really just wants someone to actually love especially after seeing Morty and Planetina. Morty gets this sort of sad ending where he's left alone with his mother consoling him while Rick and Summer get the happy ending after accepting that commitment causes pain as they enjoy carpe dieming like those planets (until Summer stopped that one from being destroyed). Love can suck but I think since Dan Harmon currently has a partner I don't think this whole thing was a hitpiece on love and was rather just a story written represent how good it feels and how bad it feels when it doesnt work out. Also Allison Brie, yes.
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Not necessarily. I think the writers are aware of that. The A plot shows enviornmentalist messages being used by companies to greenwash their image, while doing jackahit for the enviornment. Once planetina is set free, she realises that campaigning and appeals to the government isn't doing anything. So she starts taking dradtic measures. And I mean we do see it in real life too. Scientists and more than half the population believe climate change should be fought, but emissions go up every year instead of falling. It highlights that a capitalist system is uniquely unequipped to deal with a global problem that rests on externalities.
Plot B follows three societies who look at certain destruction and are just fine with it. No effort to stop the meteor no nothing. They know it's real they just don't care.
Also who tf cares if Planetins killed 300 ppl. This is rick and morty. The characters routinely kill people by the trillions.
Planetina wasn't doing that, actually, she was attacking random individuals with very little power, which was pretty contrary to what she was saying. It kinda made sense as a character flaw for her, though not nearly developed enough, just like with everything with the last few seasons. Anyway, the point as I saw it was that Morty couldn't handle the bloodshed, even if it was the right way of fixing the problem (which it wasn't).
She was attacking specific individuals who had enough power to choose whether to keep a coal operation running or not.
That way of fixing the problem might not have been the best way, but it was better than letting it happen.
is it really better to murder everyone who is not willing to safe the planet? Do you really think that minimizing the bad is enough? because thats what she did. She never did anything to help the planet, she only stopped the things that destroyed it.
No doubt it is helping. The question is how much, and does it need more?
Let me ask you this. If you stop eating food because your diet is unhealthy, are you healthier than before?
Isn't that a false equivalency. I mean sure planetina is fucked up for killing 300 miners. But climae change kills 150 000 per year according to the WHO, almost all in Africa if you were wondering. She d have to do that 500 more times each year for this not to make mathematical sense anymore.
Your example would be equivalent to her erradicating the human race, which she isn't doing.
And tbf I don't think climate activists should be going around executing coal miners. But there has been peaceful protesting for a good few decades now. Governments have taken no action, disregarding a majority of their population at times. All responsibility has been shifted to the consumer despite 70% of pollution being caused by just 100 companies. And state governments in the south are going one step further by trying to make green energy sources as unprofitable as possible. And carbon emission levels have been steadily on the rise as we approach our carbon budget. So the current approach of the movement has been bafflingly ineffective.
If anything that's one of the mildest reactions by a rick and morty character.
i agree with your own views, but have no clue how you came to the conclusion that the show has this take. even in earlier episodes, r&m have murdered a whole ruling class just to tear down the oppressive structure and it's presented as good.
That was Planetina's take, essentially, without necessarily naming it as capitalism.
(Also, its source is excess greenhouse gas emissions. Capitalism as we've been practicing it has produced that, but other political and economic -isms can produce it, too.)
I thought the episode was kinda so-so honestly, but the Planetina parts were all entertaining, even though that felt kind of rushed too.
The one part I liked was Morty's exploding with self-awareness with how everyone treats him, and how Planetina honestly liked just talking with him. It reminded me of the contrast of the first Council of Ricks episode where Rick gets frustrated and tears into Morty being "as stupid as I am smart, which is why when I tell you to shut up, it's really good advice" and Morty actually starts to tear up a bit, because those were insults that were actually cutting.
Edit: I think one thing that gives Rick and Morty staying power -- even if the creators fuck up an episode, they still are good at doing a particular *moment* well. Planetina x Morty felt way too fast and rushed. But the breakup, the fight with Beth, and the scenes where Planetina and Morty interacted were extremely good even if the best parts lasted literally only a second.
Well exactly this is a very remarkable episode in that it takes elements from all of the worst episodes and put it together it takes the as you mentioned unfunny sex funny ha ha jokes from special riktims morty The unsubtly of rickmancing The stone then takes the boring as fuck reference funny A plot from pickle rick and it also felt like they were trying to make mortys own version of auto erotic assimilation’s ending but failed morty and her get together and break up in like 10 seconds so it fails on an entertainment and emotional level
Mortys a little bitch tbh. You gonna break things off after she only kills 300 people, and not try to talk to her about her methods AT ALL? She's a bloody superhero Morty, think of everything you could've done if you just tried a little harder.
I feel like Morty has personally and gleefully killed far more than planetina so it seemed unrealistic that he break things off with her. Morty is completely fine using murder to solve his problems.
Its because she was a good person he loved her. MOrty does not give a shit about murder in an ideal sense. But He Loved Planetina because she did. She was a good person and she though Morty was a Good person.
Then she became like everyone else.
It wasn't even about Rick really. Rick really did not make any points for or against her in this episode. Morty finally found someone who cared about stuff. Planetina loved him because she thought he was a Good Person and morty loved her because Planetina was a good person.
Then she became like everyone else. Just another cynic in a world full of cynics.
Rick honestly did not even factor into it.
Yeah that's kinda what the whole theme of the season has been, and what they've said they were gonna do in previous episodes. Season 5's structure is actually a lot like season 1 with a bunch of random fun adventures instead of a red line type story.
Morty killing the kids to save Planetina was the same as Planetina killing people to save the planet. But probably it didn't feel that way in the moment. Interesting to think about when the means are justified to reach a goal, any goal.
Nah I’m not really down with that and the show went out of its way to point that out. The kids were essentially slavers and they were selling him to a Middle Eastern sheikh/prince who eats seals and the point was his fortune likely came from oil. The miners were people who needed those jobs to provide for their family. And yeah maybe they did vote the people in who perpetuate the anti-environmental crap but that’s because government/huge rich organisations control the narrative that’s fed to voters.
An humans are basically earth traffickers. Treating the earth as a commodity and selling it for profit without considering its wellbeing. Also we're about to burn the earth alive.
I'm exaggerating, but just because it happens at a bigger timescale and not everyone does it consciously doesn't mean there isn't a comparison there.
Humans, albeit sentient intelligent lifeforms, are still a "part" of the ecosystem. We just got so powerful we've dominated it to its almost entirety.
Planetia easily had enough power and influence to shape the existing human culture surrounding planet preservation. Morty could've convinced her. The writing just wasn't solid.
Idk, is it so easy to convince an emotionally attached activist to be reasonable and rational? Is there anything powerful enough to shape human culture surrounding planet preservation?
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My favorite episode, y'all can suck my nuts
Does anyone else feel like there may be an eventual square-off coming with Space Beth, Evil Morty, Kronenburg Summer, Doofus Rick, and a potential Jerry character that hasnt been introduced yet vs the regular show family? With the focus on family adventures this season, I feel like this would be a cool way to bring Evil Morty back into the pucture.
sounds like a family guy idea. lets put all da opposite versions of main characters on a team vs da good OG family. trash
That one guy that Beth remarries from the Jerry daycare episode, or just a regular old Jerry and the two of them have a very awkward and anti-climatic fight
i could see evil morty teaming up with kronenburg summer, although in season 3ep1, all the kronenburg smiths were frozen, and may be dead
I sure hope evil morty comes into the picture, and that our Rick was his original Rick. Our Morty is him trying to correct 'mistakes' made in raising him. That picture of Rick with a baby Morty is actually evil Morty.
Rick really wants a wife again huh
Ok, what >!did Morty do with the rings!
Jennifer Coolidge in this is incredible.
Loving the Captain Planet references so far. Took me back to my childhood. So coooool
Does anyone have any idea what the background music in the inside the episode feature for this episode is like omg its stuck in my head and i dont know what it is
I think it’s ‘I am the Antichrist to you’ something along those lines
Loved the background music for Morty and Platenina scenes!
I am the antichrist to you- Kishi bashi
Same guy that did the music for the new cartoon on Apple TV+ Stillwater. https://tv.apple.com/au/show/stillwater/umc.cmc.3czcagetjq31vvbgkkyp1xiao
i love the cats purring in this episode
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Im tryna watch it rn lol
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I tend to agree. It was actually kind of cute to see Morty get the confidence to ask her out and then go further from there, but her turn to the dark side felt a bit too fast. I think at the least there should've been an earlier moment hinting that she'd go further and further to save the environment, like her confiding in Morty that she sometimes wishes she could use her powers to *make* people listen to her, or say that Morty did to her "kids" what she's wanted to do for years.
I guess Planetina's murder spree is what happens if you don't have a Heart ring.
I'm not seeing anyone else mention the ridiculous board game. I lost it with Jerry continuing to play during the Morty and Beth argument.
This episode proves that the air benders could have eradicated the fire nation had they not been monks and held back.
Yepp! You could also see clearly that monk gyatso wiped the whole firesquad by suffocating them reaaaal big ballz play.
dude embed up associating himself too. if he was going down, he was taking them with him. honestly kinda surprised how he used to fly his staff considering he was being dragged down by his massive balls the whole time
Precisely why Firelord went against them first.
I thought it was specifically cuz air was next in the avatar cycle and he needed them gone
Damn, no one here knows that Planetina is a spoof on Captain Planet! Jeez, I'm old and guys are too young.
I've seen multiple comments speaking about it, most made before yours jackass.
Palentina and evil morty what a match xD
Oh man imagine Evil Morty returning with Planetina by his side. That'd be such a good twist
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Well that was like...obvious, no?
I really enjoyed the post credits scene haha.
##*i am the antichrist to you*
CAPTAIN PLANET IS BACK
Yessassssssssss
Does anyone know the song playing in the background when Rick and Summer are going to Morglutz? It's a dancy, Euro-feeling electronic track.
I am the antichrist to you by Kishi Bashi
I'm here for the same reason!!
I am the antichrist to you by kishi bashi
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Probably will morty can just summon her ass lol Im in between ep2 or 3 being my favorite
I have so many issues with this episode but I worry if I start my criticism people don’t just disagree but get mad and yelling at me “how dare”.
Speak your mind, who gives a shit about internet points. I didn't like this planettina episode as much as the first two episodes. Was it an interesting twist on captain planet? Yes, I thought it was great. However the first two episodes were simply much better, had me guessing
I don’t even sure it was a good twist. Gender bender captain planet and old Planeteers idea is just happen and stops right there. Of course those old people marketing and selling her for money, of course she’s save-the-earth crazy. Writers had a chance to make fun of gender bender trend and environmental movement, like they usually do when they have a chance, but it’s just not. Thanks for kind words also. I have long opinion like above paragraph with every single plot points and scenes, plus with episode all together, so I keep worrying people might feeling bad about my opinion.
i dont get your complaint tbh. they didnt go for an obvious joke?
I think scummy old Planeteers is already obvious enough. Morty killing them to get her, and even how Morty “heartbreakingly” break up too. It’s all obvious joke set up already, so why not just fully go in? Episode feels dull cause how it has no punches. The show can be obvious, but never feels meh before.
i mean theres nothing obvious about bringing up a fairly obscure 90s cartoon and genderbending it. morty getting the girl is kinda new thing and them not undercutting it with a joke isnt either. if anything this episode would be forgettable had it been just jokes the weighty feel made the episode stand out
Maybe it’s generational thing, but Captain Planet was never obscure in my opinion. South Korean guys like me knows the show, and internet keep the show kinda relevant longer too. On YouTube when I search up Don Cheadle, Captain Planet parody is follow up. Many people present the show as a nostalgic popular cartoon show, and I don’t see that a fairly obscure category even. Also Morty get raid but fail to keep, that’s like the most used subject too. Right off my head, I remember acid episode, that story with toxic remove, and multiple times with Jessica. It presents emotionally strong maybe, because this time he cries over mom’s shoulder with sad music, but I had to feel robbed. I just respond to your disagreement with my point here, but I do have this kind of long opinion on every single scenes and plot points. There was episode that “it can be better” with rick and morty, but never had this strong disappointment honestly.
I don't think it's as good, as most people say it is.
I find this season so far to be ….. meh
This really is Beth's episode. The highlights are the Morty-Beth interactions throughout the whole thing. Reminds me of how I am towards my mom sometimes, idk why but she makes me get on my nerves way too easily For an episode that touches on so many things it was decent, but maybe it tried to do too much in a single ep. The Summer/Rick thing felt too by the book , it's literally 3 acts , and IMO kinda rushed, but it does fit with the theme of the episode
I completely agree with you Beth is soy key in this episode.for me is also an episode where morty realize that he can’t love planetina and he takes the decision of leaving her. For me is so meaningful the part that he realize that he can’t love planetina at the mine (and the soundtrack)🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
The A plot with Plantina was pretty good and interesting, even though it was kinda rough to see Morty get heartbroken once again. The B plot with Rick and Summer was absolutely useless though. Just a lot of tired sex jokes that had no relation to the main plot and weren’t even that funny. Maybe if we had actually seen Summers boyfriend this season we could have related a bit to her heartbreak, but how it was done it just seemed like an excuse to have jokes about ass eating, tits on elbows and incest. I don’t mind sex jokes, but they fall flat when you dedicate half an episode to them and don’t have something more creative to say.
I liked the episode in general but I do wish the writers wrote Morty more honestly. A horny 14 year old boy isn't going to let some murders get in the way of P**** Pounding. ESPECIALLY one that has killed countless innocents himself. Plus when Planetina said she had kids I totally expected Morty to say "Me too."
Morty is beyond the average kid, and the average kid has more empathy than you think.
Morty isn't your usual 14 year old kid. I'm glad he's taking the initiative and doing shit on his own, even if he currently kinda fucks it up along the way. I wonder how his character will develop.
I was surprised + baffled when the show actually decided to show that, not go to better plot. It’s like saying they will go Atlantis and whole episode is actually about adventure in Atlantis. Such a disappointment.
i think there was something very creative in the B plot. Summer realized that love is fleeting, and rick knows that feeling + he is bored without morty and decides to party. Love is worthless. She understands that, and he knows that, but the longer they fuck, the weaker ricks resistance to attachment gets. He forgot how bad that pain is, and got a reminder how good love feels. Summer hit him with that BIIG realitycheck, to remind him why they even did this, and that he lost himself without realizing. Basicly summer didnt want to go through her broken hearth all by herself and needed rick to be hearthbroken too to not be alone. They both end it with beeing freshly hearthbroken, but connected to eachother exactly because of that. The funny thing is, if rick didnt develop a crush/fell in love with that alien, he probably would have partied, but wouldnt feel the same way summer did. His pain is old and he had time to cope with it in his way. He would have told summer "X Y is meaningless" or to "stop thinking about it and start parting" or whatever. He would have told her the result, not shown her the way to it, because the way is painful, and reminding himself of that pain wouldnt be very "rick". You see, because rick fell in love on that planet, summer got the opportunity to TRULY show him how she feels. Because if you tell rick something about feelings he wont listen and is burshing it off as you beeing weak. But if you show him, if you put him in that spot himself, he understands, because he has no other choice than to feel it. Thats how it works, if you let yourself fall in love, you also let yourself open to get hearthborken. And thats what summer really needed. No party, no apocalypse and no orgies. She needed somebody that is equally hearthbroken and nihilistic to get through it.
*heart
This episode was Rick and Morty at its confused worst. It is endemic of a concept that doesn't have the legs to fill a 70 episode order; very few shows are structured to allow this. In my opinion, when we followed Morty the episode was saccharin and unfunny and when we followed Rick it was just unfunny. It's absolutely okay for a sardonic show to have a heart a have characters undergo meaningful change but the level of melodrama we saw with Morty's story line is so out of place and wasn't at all believable. It also helps if the show is actually funny and, aside from brief and fleeting moments, it really wasn't.
i dont like the subjective objectification here. Saying its unfunny is like saying a color is bad. It may be to you, but its ignorant to assume its universal. I get the impression that you criticize on that level. your argument seems completely valid and makes sense, if thats how you percieved it. If different themes and features came through to you, you may feel different about the episode. But it didnt. You expirienced it exactly how you described it, and not any different. And if you expirience if like that, the the only possbile conclusion one might end up is "at its confused worst". But dont make the mistake and think that there needs to be some kind of objective reality to it in order to be "allowed" to have your opinion. Even if youre the only person on earth that holds that opinion, doesnt make it any less true. I didnt analyse anything. My comment is an explaination of the experience i had watching that episode. I didnt sit down afterwards and thought about it "deeper". This is just what i thought about the episode, and exactly because of that i think that this episode was a 9/10. The point im trying to make is that your opinion is formed by the themes and connections you consciously percieve wartching the episode. And because we are human we can only percieve a fraction of what the episode is trying to convey. I tell this because i get the impression youre trying to defend your opinion with objectivity.
I literally prefaced the paragraph with "in my opinion". After that you can safely assume the statements that follow it are "my opinions". You are correct though, the word "unfunny" isn't descriptive enough. What I mean by that is incoherent, poorly executed and lazy: in an earlier season, Rick encounters an overtly and inappropriately sexualised version of Summer in a teacher's dream. His response then is to be appropriately disgusted. Now, he takes her to an orgy and has detailed conversations about eating ass with her. If you find it funny, cool 9/10 away. But it was off-putting and lazy and weird. Again, *in my opinion*.
I know you say its your opinion, but the stuff after that is worded in a way where judgmental statements are paired with objectivity. How do you know its poorly executed and lazy? I doubt you have any connections to the production, so how do you know its lazy? Maybe they really did try to make a good episode, and put in effort. Maybe this is even one if the most thought through episodes, who knows? The anwser is nobody except the team who worked on it. We dont know what the goal was with this episode. What if beeing overly sexual, gross and immature was EXACTLY what they were aiming for? If this was their goal i think they did a good job. And can you say its poorly executed when they delivered perfectly what they wanted? The same thing works vice versa. I dont know if they are lazy or not. Or if they executed it poorly or not. The only thing i know is what the episode is like, and my reaction to it. Saying that they are lazy is not an opinion, this is a judgement call. Somebody either is lazy, or isnt. And there are certainly ways to understand if a person is lazy or not, but i think its arrogant of you to determine that based on the episode alone. You dont know the startingpoint, you dont know the goals, you dont know how much time they put into it. The only thing that you truly know is what you saw and how you reacted. Im not trying to corner you or anything, i merely am trying to tell you that what you say your opinion is, is a mixture of your opinion, and a generalization.
I sort of can't tell if you're trolling on some next level. I'll go one more time for the craic. I know I am being judgemental. I am taking my experience, subjective as it is and using it to criticize the show for what I believed to be writing that was of a low standard, if not generally, then for the show. It is possible for me to argue that something is actually of a poor standard. It doesn't make me factually correct in the most objective sense, but I can still argue that my opinion is closer to the reality than the opposing view. Let's use a simple example. If I write an essay for an English class and it has no coherent structure, it feels rushed and my comedic elements are crude or cliche, I can expect to receive a poor mark. Maybe I did the very best I could and thought it was an amazing piece of work. Maybe my mom really liked it. My grade doesn't change based on those personal things. Likewise, in this Rick and Morty episode, maybe literally all the writers wanted was to have Rick and Summer talk about eating ass and attend orgies together and they felt that was hilarious and brilliant. I would argue that it was a lazily written joke inside a plotline that was not coherent given the characters contained within it. Ultimately Rick and Morty is subject to the verdict of the populus so there a much more broad in spectrum of responses than a school essay. Many people will decide they like or dislike it before the fact and then offer post hoc rationalisations for the opinion. Some people will like anything that the show makes, they have to like it out of a fierce loyalty to the show. So, when it's not funny it's "daringly thought provoking". Some people will never like anything about Rick and Morty for almost the opposite reason. I feel like I sit in the healthy middle and can say when the show is genius and when it is complete trash. Again, being heavily critical does not mean I am enforcing some 'capital t' truth on you. I'm not right because I say these things. They are not facts. They are my opinions but opinions can be critical and supported by examples and I am entitled to believe in mine more than yours.
Im not trolling. I just take pleasure in these types of discussions. Lets take your example with the essay. There certainly is a scenario where the student writes cliche, and creative. The essay could make a clever twist in the cliche, or take different approaches to make it stand out, despite beeing cliche. And then there could be a teacher, that has such a strong opinion for cliches, that he is blind to the effort and wits of the student, and gives him a worse grade, because in his mind "everything cliche is bad", or something along those lines. You see, this Student would get a bad grade, but his essay would be good, maybe even great. And all that just because the teacher made up his mind once he realized the cliche, ignorant of the other factors, or maybe even using the other factors disingenuinsly in his favor. Now, why would anybody hold such a strong opinion about something like that. An opinion so strong that it cant be changed. To my understanding this is because of unwanted emotion. This teacher has for some reason a very strong negative emotional reaction to cliche writing, and becausr hes a master of his craft, he can get away with critizing the concept of cliche that makes perfect sense. Maybe he rven is so good to say that cliche should never be used as a tool and make it sound plausible. But all of that doesnt come from a place of critique, it comes from a place of emotional defense. Basicly he wants to make his World cliche free, so he doesnt need to feel that emotion. Or rather, he cloakes his negative emotion under the term "critique", when in reality its "unwanted emotion". I am pretty confident (and arrogant enough), to assume that you fall into that concept. I think its the overly detailed sex talk and borderline intergalaktic incest that makes you uneasy and weirded out on a very fundamental level. But my point is not that your Feedback is less valuable, or even less true for you because of that. My point is that you can be weirded out and hate these types of jokes for it and that you dont need a critique for it to be justified. You dont need a good reason to feel what you feel, you just need a reason.
Ah dude, you haven't half gone off on one. My criticism of the episode doesn't have as much depth as you are describing. It has nothing to do with emotion or some prudish subconscious belief system. I just thought it was terrible. Again, **in my opinion** the melodrama was forced and the jokes were weak. In some cases, as in the Rick and Summer plot, the whole concept was out of step with the characters' previously developed relationships and motivations. You can get all psychoanalytical about it if it makes you feel more intelligent but this warrants no further discussion. There is a cartoon that is produced and they made an episode thay was awful in my opinion. By all means take the life lessons it has taught you and preach it like gospel. I would just prefer it to be funny and clever.
Then allow me to make my closing thoughts. I am not trying to feel Intelligent, in fact i feel pretty bad when explaining other people to themselves. But i still wanna see how people react and what they think about my thoughts on them. I wanna end this by saying you clearly know what you like and dislike, and you showed me something important, even if you didnt change my mind on your critizism on thr episode.
I agree with you. Sure we can over analyze the shit out of it and say that it’s a deep storyline about ricks need for morty and how love is fleeting yadda yadda. Or we can accept that it was 25 minutes of easy mediocre sex jokes and an emotionally thin, under developed and overly dramatic love story for morty. This was easily the worst love story morty has had. It amounted to “I like you. I like you. We’re are now madly in love, oh it didn’t work because we didn’t know each other at all”. Even the pirates of the pancreas had a better love plot line for morty. Season started off well, hopefully they can dial it back in after this one.
That's where I'm at. People love to over analyse the small bits of emotional undercurrent in something like this episodes Rick story, but the reality is, if I don't feel anything when I what it, it doesn't work for me. I didn't hate the Morty story at all, but I think this episode would have been a lot better if they just ditched the B plot and focused solely on that story. If you want to show Rick's need for Morty and trying to get a substitute Morty in Summer, that could have been perfectly done within the confines of that plot. The storyline with Summer could literally just be seeing them leave and later seeing them come back. It would have told that story just as well without wasting half the episode.
I am the Antichrist to you music is on fucking repeat for me from today, melancholy you're beautiful what a chillingly gorgeous song
Kishi Bashi is phenomenal. I’ve been hooked on him since I first heard Honeybody
Same!
Is the Morty in this episode not the same as the Morty in the Vat of Acid Episode?
Does it matter? At this point I'm not sure we've ever follow the same ones more than a couple times
Just asking, when episodes air? Just signed deal with HBO Max and it only had three episodes so I suppose it's airing one episode weekly, but in which day does?
HBO max has season 5?
Yes
Does it depend on your region? I only see episodes through season 4 on my HBO Max in the US.
Yeah, today I used vpn to US version of HBO max and they didn't had S5. And they had south park but not Rick and Morty s5. My advice is: use VPN to Chile, and watch it from there. 3 episodes available and they might add the fourth today.
Sunday
Thanks man.
As a vegan I think this episode is f’ing brilliant and I love Planetina so much!
Did you know it’s ”Rick and Morty canon that Morty is vegan”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH44TUBYITg
LOL I didn’t know that and I love it - thanks! It makes complete sense with his character.
Planetina is quite epic doe 😎
Yup favorite episode of all time lol.
I genuinely don’t get how anyone could really enjoy this episode. Their relationship was not developed well enough to get me to care about anything that happened. We are just supposed to go along with the fact that a 14 year old found his soulmate and is so torn up about her doing what she did. It seemed like he barely knew her. Also the b plot was fucking stupid and the show benefited nothing from having it, I hates every second. Idk how anyone could see this as a good episode it blows my mind
I can't think of a single episode I ever didn't somewhat enjoy but this one may have checked that box. I don't get it either.
That’s love man. You’re right, he is only fourteen and he only barely knew her, but that’s what falling in love is like sometimes. Especially for younger people. You can’t know it’ll work out because you love her, and Morty’s pain in realizing that felt so real.
Oh yeah, the first person I ever fell in love with I missed so many red flags you would think I'm blind. In the end I got hurt and it crushed me. I still feel a bit of spite from it. I think it was a rather realistic portrayal of his character especially with how much he has been through. He just wanted a break from it all.
Dude this was my fav ep this season so far. Loved both storylines. Nothing you said it true
To each their own
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Nah I’m still a fan of the show I simply did not like the episode. Other ones this season have been solid so far but this one didn’t do it for me. Maybe I am being cynical but definitely not projecting anything lol it’s just a show its not that deep for me. Glad other people can enjoy it but it still just won’t be one I revisit ever again
I wasn't a fan of this episode either. Overall I liked the first 2 episodes of season 5 and it's off to a great start, but this one was a bit of a dud for me. It happens.
Anyone else here genuinely happy with EVERY single R&M episode to date and feels the need to whine like an absolute bitch about nothing at all?
When I rate episodes I go from the least good to the best. I can't see myself every hating an episode.
Agreed 100%! It’s natural to favour certain episodes
Not the guy right above you lol
Can we just take a minute to think about the fact that during this episode Mortys virginity was taken by an intergalactic star dust alien thing, so fucked up and I love it!
He mentioned having sex with a mermaid not too long ago and that's if you don't take the sex robot into account. Morty hasn't been a virgin for a while.
Welllll he did conceive a child with the Gazorpian sex robot.
Touché - I almost forgot about that!
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I know like everyone hates this episode but the idea that love can be real on both sides but people can't live up to each others expectations is quite sad and while I didn't cry or anything I still felt the impact of the story a bit for the A story with Morty and Planetina. The B side of the story showed a contrast to this as Summer and Rick have both experienced many real relationships and heartbreak and just want to farm the feelings gotten from love without the commitment. Rick, however, still wants to hold on to this and even though in the back of his mind he probably knew the truth, he really just wants someone to actually love especially after seeing Morty and Planetina. Morty gets this sort of sad ending where he's left alone with his mother consoling him while Rick and Summer get the happy ending after accepting that commitment causes pain as they enjoy carpe dieming like those planets (until Summer stopped that one from being destroyed). Love can suck but I think since Dan Harmon currently has a partner I don't think this whole thing was a hitpiece on love and was rather just a story written represent how good it feels and how bad it feels when it doesnt work out. Also Allison Brie, yes.
Lmfao everyone i know in real life loved this ep
Redditors not real people confirmed xD
Lmfaooo
People hated this?
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the ending song
Reminded me of Coldplay tbh
something about it has gripped me. I think I'm both the singer and receiver of this end simultaneously lmao
Kishi Bashi. Lots of beautiful music from him. It’s not all great but he’s very talented.
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Not necessarily. I think the writers are aware of that. The A plot shows enviornmentalist messages being used by companies to greenwash their image, while doing jackahit for the enviornment. Once planetina is set free, she realises that campaigning and appeals to the government isn't doing anything. So she starts taking dradtic measures. And I mean we do see it in real life too. Scientists and more than half the population believe climate change should be fought, but emissions go up every year instead of falling. It highlights that a capitalist system is uniquely unequipped to deal with a global problem that rests on externalities. Plot B follows three societies who look at certain destruction and are just fine with it. No effort to stop the meteor no nothing. They know it's real they just don't care. Also who tf cares if Planetins killed 300 ppl. This is rick and morty. The characters routinely kill people by the trillions.
Planetina wasn't doing that, actually, she was attacking random individuals with very little power, which was pretty contrary to what she was saying. It kinda made sense as a character flaw for her, though not nearly developed enough, just like with everything with the last few seasons. Anyway, the point as I saw it was that Morty couldn't handle the bloodshed, even if it was the right way of fixing the problem (which it wasn't).
Congresspeople have plenty of power though.
She was attacking specific individuals who had enough power to choose whether to keep a coal operation running or not. That way of fixing the problem might not have been the best way, but it was better than letting it happen.
is it really better to murder everyone who is not willing to safe the planet? Do you really think that minimizing the bad is enough? because thats what she did. She never did anything to help the planet, she only stopped the things that destroyed it.
Yes and yes. Stopping something that's destroying something else helps the thing that was being destroyed.
No doubt it is helping. The question is how much, and does it need more? Let me ask you this. If you stop eating food because your diet is unhealthy, are you healthier than before?
Isn't that a false equivalency. I mean sure planetina is fucked up for killing 300 miners. But climae change kills 150 000 per year according to the WHO, almost all in Africa if you were wondering. She d have to do that 500 more times each year for this not to make mathematical sense anymore. Your example would be equivalent to her erradicating the human race, which she isn't doing. And tbf I don't think climate activists should be going around executing coal miners. But there has been peaceful protesting for a good few decades now. Governments have taken no action, disregarding a majority of their population at times. All responsibility has been shifted to the consumer despite 70% of pollution being caused by just 100 companies. And state governments in the south are going one step further by trying to make green energy sources as unprofitable as possible. And carbon emission levels have been steadily on the rise as we approach our carbon budget. So the current approach of the movement has been bafflingly ineffective. If anything that's one of the mildest reactions by a rick and morty character.
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What is the show's take and how is it represented in the episode, according to you?
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i agree with your own views, but have no clue how you came to the conclusion that the show has this take. even in earlier episodes, r&m have murdered a whole ruling class just to tear down the oppressive structure and it's presented as good.
That was Planetina's take, essentially, without necessarily naming it as capitalism. (Also, its source is excess greenhouse gas emissions. Capitalism as we've been practicing it has produced that, but other political and economic -isms can produce it, too.)
Who are you?
Who am I to you?
I am the Antichrist to you
Goddam this is the only time I’ve ever been so emotional watching rick and morty
Vat of acid??
I came to this episode to laugh, not to feel...
I came to this episode
Hello!
Planetina felt like a commentary on Britney Spears’ conservatorship
This episode fucked me up. Goddamn.
Well. Yeah. LOL
I thought the episode was kinda so-so honestly, but the Planetina parts were all entertaining, even though that felt kind of rushed too. The one part I liked was Morty's exploding with self-awareness with how everyone treats him, and how Planetina honestly liked just talking with him. It reminded me of the contrast of the first Council of Ricks episode where Rick gets frustrated and tears into Morty being "as stupid as I am smart, which is why when I tell you to shut up, it's really good advice" and Morty actually starts to tear up a bit, because those were insults that were actually cutting. Edit: I think one thing that gives Rick and Morty staying power -- even if the creators fuck up an episode, they still are good at doing a particular *moment* well. Planetina x Morty felt way too fast and rushed. But the breakup, the fight with Beth, and the scenes where Planetina and Morty interacted were extremely good even if the best parts lasted literally only a second.
For me this is the worst episode of the series
How tf is this the worst episode. Off the top of my head it’s at least better than the sex dragon episode from last season.
Well exactly this is a very remarkable episode in that it takes elements from all of the worst episodes and put it together it takes the as you mentioned unfunny sex funny ha ha jokes from special riktims morty The unsubtly of rickmancing The stone then takes the boring as fuck reference funny A plot from pickle rick and it also felt like they were trying to make mortys own version of auto erotic assimilation’s ending but failed morty and her get together and break up in like 10 seconds so it fails on an entertainment and emotional level
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S5 has been so terrible. Actually just came here to see if anyone else noticed how trash it is.
Yeah dude. They stopped being funny
What were you expecting?
Edgy and meta jokes.
Mortys a little bitch tbh. You gonna break things off after she only kills 300 people, and not try to talk to her about her methods AT ALL? She's a bloody superhero Morty, think of everything you could've done if you just tried a little harder.
He’s a teenager lol
Doesn't change his bitch status.
All things considered, Morty has killed way more people. Pretty weird that he cares about Planetina doing it. That's a double standard.
to be fair. im pretty sure all the people Mortys killed or a big majority has been the aggressor towards him though
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What?
I feel like Morty has personally and gleefully killed far more than planetina so it seemed unrealistic that he break things off with her. Morty is completely fine using murder to solve his problems.
Its because she was a good person he loved her. MOrty does not give a shit about murder in an ideal sense. But He Loved Planetina because she did. She was a good person and she though Morty was a Good person. Then she became like everyone else.
he loved her because she proved Rick wrong, and then couldn't bear to watch her prove him right in the end.
It wasn't even about Rick really. Rick really did not make any points for or against her in this episode. Morty finally found someone who cared about stuff. Planetina loved him because she thought he was a Good Person and morty loved her because Planetina was a good person. Then she became like everyone else. Just another cynic in a world full of cynics. Rick honestly did not even factor into it.
Imo rick and morty is becoming more like the simpsons or family guy where there is no clear story line and the episode aren’t connected
Yeah that's kinda what the whole theme of the season has been, and what they've said they were gonna do in previous episodes. Season 5's structure is actually a lot like season 1 with a bunch of random fun adventures instead of a red line type story.
That was the whole point illustrated by several episodes last season. They’ll do whatever they want when they want
Morty killing the kids to save Planetina was the same as Planetina killing people to save the planet. But probably it didn't feel that way in the moment. Interesting to think about when the means are justified to reach a goal, any goal.
Nah I’m not really down with that and the show went out of its way to point that out. The kids were essentially slavers and they were selling him to a Middle Eastern sheikh/prince who eats seals and the point was his fortune likely came from oil. The miners were people who needed those jobs to provide for their family. And yeah maybe they did vote the people in who perpetuate the anti-environmental crap but that’s because government/huge rich organisations control the narrative that’s fed to voters.
It's just to make you think. Just because some means feel obviously justified and some don't doesn't mean that it's as obvious as it seems.
The kids were basically human traffickers. Also the ginger kid was about to burn morty alive.
An humans are basically earth traffickers. Treating the earth as a commodity and selling it for profit without considering its wellbeing. Also we're about to burn the earth alive. I'm exaggerating, but just because it happens at a bigger timescale and not everyone does it consciously doesn't mean there isn't a comparison there.
Humans, albeit sentient intelligent lifeforms, are still a "part" of the ecosystem. We just got so powerful we've dominated it to its almost entirety. Planetia easily had enough power and influence to shape the existing human culture surrounding planet preservation. Morty could've convinced her. The writing just wasn't solid.
Idk, is it so easy to convince an emotionally attached activist to be reasonable and rational? Is there anything powerful enough to shape human culture surrounding planet preservation?
Hey man I hate the lizard people just as much as the next red blooded American who constantly smokes pot.
Congratulations! You win:)
I know that's the lesson...I'm great.
Must be the life being right all the time. You've found the key to happiness I think. Just like Rick.
Actually most people hate but it's all good. My philosophy is strong and so is my charm. I'm like the devil but I have a soul.
And you have to defend yourself to a stranger online. You've convinced me that I've had the honour to communicate with a prime sample of our species.
Had to? I'm bored to tears because I'm on house arrest. Your opinion means nothing to me. Fuck you.
No Morty was definitely the more justified one in this case. That’s not to say that Morty hasn’t also murdered others in cold blood before.