The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly

Ricky and Morty found success through its witty, nonstop, thought-provoking humor and clever subversion of sci-fi tropes. Unfortunately, this episode lacked all of that. It was dull, uneventful, and, frankly, a disappointment. The energy and originality that once made the show stand out seems to be fading. I truly hope this was just a one off but with each new episode, I find myself questioning whether the show is slowly losing its edge.

I was so taken aback by how lifeless and uninspired the episode felt. I went out of my way to read reviews just to make sure I wasn't imagining things. I needed to know if others felt the same way, it was out of sync with what Rick and Morty used to be.

I'm sure it is difficult to come up with original ideas that are fast paced non stop comedy. I really hope this series aligns more with South Park and not with Family Guy.

Be honest with me, did you guys get chatgpt to write this episode? The whole idea, the characters, the dialogues, the jokes, the action scenes, all felt old and as cliche as it could get. Everything felt out of place. When the song started on a supposedly emotional part of the story, it felt so forced. I remembered the s01e06 episode when Look on Down From the Bridge played, how shocking that scene felt, like a slap to the face. This time, it was a slap to the face as how bad everything was. As if a group of people had tried, under mortal threat, to just throw up some script and get it over with.

The pacing is off, the dialogue is bad. The new series feel like they try to recreate what worked well for the past best rated episodes. This is not what Rick and Morty is. Every episode doesnt have to be deep or have something to do with the story. The deep moments mean nothing when there arent regular smith family moments and random things inbetween. Again the pacing is off, never do they have a regular conversation like they used to. All they do is montages so they font have to write an actual story or conversation. Overall there is nothing in these episodes that makes me care for the characters. At no point during the Star Wars battles that they keep implementing kn these episodes do I ever feel concened for the characters involved. That means the show is badly written.

So far season 8 episodes felt like they could have a whole movie for themselves, the typical 25 minutes absolutely flew, when this episode specifically ended I thought it just started. Now with everything I enjoyed. Firstly the art and animation are stunning, all the details were carried out with cure and the scenery is amazing, very different to what most Rick and Morty fans are used to. The plot is interesting and intriguing, leaving a sense of mystery to those watching since the beginning. The episode itself is packed with action scenes, all of them carried out flawlessly, as seen so far in the season overall. The music too also really fits with the story. The only complaint really to mention is what said before: this could episode could be longer. Although one may be satisfied to how the episode ends, I almost felt underwhelmed to the fact that the story ended, thinking that there could have been more going on. Overall amazing, worth the full marks!

When this episode first started, i really thought I was gonna be in for another tales of the citadel kind of episode but in all, the story lacked depth and didn't really make any sense to me, the idea of them trying to replicate morty's again and the guy who knows the code wanting to be left alone is cool. But I felt like this could've been way better if there was a true change to the story at the end of this like in the old "plot" episodes. This was very similar to "The Ricklantis Mixup" but just had a worse story unfortunately.

In all i feel like they tried to make a plot episode but didn't know where to go with it.