Morty Daddy

TL;DR: Really enjoyed the A plot, thought B plot was boring, otherwise fun and wholesome episode.

It felt like it was trying to cram so much, and it didn't really leave me with any lasting impact. I felt like they were trying to do so much that the editors had to do very uncanny hard cuts just to fit the time. I feel this episode would be better with a longer runtime. Really it felt like it had so much yet so little, which isn't a compliment.

The characters actually had interesting growth... up until the end. I felt they were so close to giving us a satisfying ending with Jr and Morty and they just didn't. Other than the subpar ending I actually really really enjoyed the Morty storyline. It felt nice seeing Jr again and his interactions with Morty felt like they were really related. To be fair they really only had one bonding scene but it was nice when it happened. I also like Jrs character here. Sure, he's kind of a jerk but I don't mind as it was pretty funny. It also seems like he changed for the better at the end, so that was nice. And apparently he has a bunch of kids... Morty has grandchildren! The last thing I have to say about this was seeing the robot again was unexpected but honestly it had some pretty wholesome scenes with Jr... looking past the very odd circumstances.

I really have nothing to say about the Rick and Summer subplot. I don't know if it was just me but I didn't understand a thing that was happening there. It also didn't have a good action scene and was overall boring.

I'll edit this review in the future, but overall this was a nice episode with some great character moments. Would definitely have a higher ranking if the B plot was better.

8/10.

Rick and Morty has consistently gotten worse over the last few seasons. The plot of this episode is so moronic I felt like I would have to bang my head against a wall to lower my IQ enough to enjoy it. Harry Belden is also an absolutely terrible voice for Morty - he overly embraces the stutter and makes Morty sound like an idiot. It's like Morty is trying to do a Morty voice. The writing feels uninspired, like it's just trying to meet episode quotas instead of telling interesting stories. Every episode lacks the nuances that made the original seasons great. The core theme of the show feels broken now; whatever heart, creativity, or meaning it once had has been replaced with shallow gimmicks.

The reviews are saying they don't get this episode. It's clearly a parody of Minority Report, taking aspects of that sci fi movie and playing with it. It doesn't have to be deeper than that for entertainment, and it delivered some good laughs and extrapolated some interesting ideas out of the premise of precognition.

The other story line about Morty's son again just played with that set up from a previous episode, and a garbage disposal theme and ran with it for a few minutes.

There were elements of heart in it, and some good banter. I'm not sure what people are expecting but so long as it delivers entertainment, humour, insight and thought provocation it's already streets ahead of most tv content.

The penultimate episode of this eighth season of "Rick and Morty" is perhaps the pick of the bunch so far.

Morty (Harry Belden) gets a call from his son, Morty Jnr (Maurice LaMarche) who is near death and wants only to meet his mother, a sex-robot that has been dumped in a pocket dimension of Rick's (Ian Cardoni) creation, exclusively used to dump rubbish and broken/useless tech. Rick and Summer (Spencer Grammer) have reservations to a precog restaurant, where the food is selected for you, based on what they know you will want. However, the precogs have prepared for Rick's arrival.

I don't think is a co-incidence that that two episode that have worked the best this season are the two that stuck to the classic "A" and "B" story format and this episode is genuinely good. Film parody's a bit a played out, I admit but the nods to both "Minority Report" and "The Lord of the Rings" and just enhancements to the stories here, rather than the actual stories themselves.

The best episode of this run. Lets hope it can finish strongly next week.

I was bored.

I didn't think that would happen with Rick and Morty.

A sequel of sorts to an earlier episode (though not technically his son given universe hoping), but that only served to remind me of the peak early seasons.

The trash world was... there.

The pre-cog stuff was not utilised well.

I don't want to be negative, I love the show, but the scripts are straining, the laughs less frequent and the clever sci-fi twists... aren't.

Hoping the last episode of the season is a big one. I know they don't want to do mythos episodes, but they are so good at it, I would be disappointing if it is just increasingly hit and miss self-contained episodes.