Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation

This episode was a blast, I'm really liking Marty's character development and in more recent episodes his ability to think for himself (although that leads to more good than bad).

This episode opens up with "Nice" Rick giving the family presents thus giving Morty a lightsaber. Then the lightsaber falls and whilst retrieving it find the original Rick trying to find Rick prime which leads to story points unfolding and the president coming back into the mix.

What I liked:

• Nice Rick (A side of Rick that is there but we never get to see)
• A dumb story that leads to good laughs
• Star Wars (duh)
• Disney Star Wars hate (Duh x2)

What I disliked:

• Lack Luster Concept
• The President (at first he was a cool character but now every episode he's in just worsens the stories overall quality)

This season is probably the best since season 3 and had great episodes like Solarricks, Analyse Piss and Night Family as the stand out. I like the more canonical episodes this season as they actually flesh out the characters a fair bit in the right direction. Overall I'd give this whole season a 7/10.

It's not a bad episode. In fact it's in the better half of episodes this season, but like, really?

This is the first season where the plot felt like it it didn't move at all.

It's weird because season 5 had great story beats, but had a few episodes that were no where near up to the normal rick and morty standard.

But this season while not a single one of the episodes was bad... there was very little that the show delivered for it's story.

Now that's not the worst thing ever, but I did come out of this season thinking by rick and morty standards it was average.

Yes, season 5 had bad episodes.

But it also had way more episodes that stood out. I still think this is an improvement, but I can't say I wasn't disappointed by the lack of story.

The episode itself is fun. It has some nice moments and is entertaining through and through. Although it's not the funniest and most of it's value comes from character development and being a fantastic teaser.

And to be completely fair, while it being a teaser in the first place isn't something that I love, I also admit that, that is completely a problem that only stands because I have to wait for season 7.

Which means it won't be one for future viewers.

Anyways, this season had a lot of good, but not as much great as I expected.

The only episode that truly stood out to me was the meta one which as a wanna be writer, I absolutely adored.

Season six of "Rick and Morty" concludes with an episode that is perhaps the most balanced on of the whole run. It's funny, it has a reasonably clever sci-fi plot, gives us a little more of the backstory we've been missing and resolves a theory I've seen online.

It's Christmas, and amongst the thoughtful gifts that Rick (Justin Roiland) has bestowed on the family is a true working Light Sabre for Morty (Justin Roiland). Unfortunately, Morty drops his weapon at an exact vertical angle, and it cuts through several levels of Rick's underground lab before starting to burn through the Earth towards the Core. The President (Keith David) arrives and offers Rick the chance to help save the world but he, and Morty, are engaged in an argument as, searching through the lab has revealed a truth.

The truth revealed, that the Rick we've seen recently has been a robot, programmed to be nicer than the real Rick, but also to allow him to focus on hunting Rick Prime, is a theory I had seen bandied around on the internet. I do wonder though if we've seen these episodes a little out of the initial intended order as, though he says he switched early in the Knights of the Sun episode, we had seen a nicer Rick in a few of the earlier ones. The episode also teases that season seven may focus on Rick's hunt for his wife's killer but delivering on a tease wouldn't exactly be on brand.

The President appearing again feels like "Rick and Morty" playing their trump card, as Keith David's delivery is uniformly brilliant and his commitment to the Star Wars analysis scenes were great. It helps that they were well written too just the sort of rant you'd read on an internet forum, or in an IMDB review.

The season overall was more consistent that the last run and had no particularly bad episodes, but that came at the expense of no really top-notch ones either.

Not the mind-blowing end to the season I think we were hoping for and certainly weaker than the season 5 finale, though this still delivers a pretty funny, well paced episode. Robot Rick was definitely a highlight and it's always nice to follow Morty's character development throughout the show. Despite suffering from much the same problems every recent episode displays like an over-reliance on metalanguage (self aware promises of future canon and plot points) and pop culture references (the whole episode is a star wars joke), this still delivered in a way that satisfied me, and it's certainly a good entry to the show.

Keep the seasons rolling, Rick and Morty will always be a crazy ride of mayhem that I cant stop watching. When Dan Harmon sticks with a show it proves the belief that he has in ever season! Proven time and time again that he can create some of the best comedy with some of the weirdest story points. We have rick back with portal travel.

Theres some many great details that is have seen throughout the series which i cant describe in details across the board. There have been ups and downs for this series but i cant say this has been a bad series by any way. Give me any more episodes of Rick and Morty i'll watch it. Just rolled on 2023 for season 7!