Morty Daddy

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.

All it did here was take away from what actually had potential. They could have just deleted the Rick and Summer plot and put all that screen time into fleshing out the A plot, add actual growth and resolution to their relationship, and not just make a joke out of it like they seem to do with every single thing they know the viewers care about.

Why are they making the show at this point? All they seem to wanna do is just spite the audience. Just quit. Sell the IP and let someone else take over. The amount of disdain from the writers this show emanates is so bizarre.

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.

The main thing is, this crazy stuff doesn't seem to have any real core or lead to anything new, in my opinion. Still, it felt like this episode was made just to further emphasize Morty's failure. Also, Rick's actions didn't really align with his usual character, I think. Morty reflecting on things felt kind of forced mechanically, like he was made to reflect without a real reason. He wasn't even obligated to think about it. Maybe it would've worked better if it was presented more as multiple-choice style or something. I like his boldness, but where does it lead him? Or is something else waiting for him? I don't know.

Even though the episode was split into two separate parts, I'm unsure whether either part could actually carry the other. Jerry likes reading books, haha. And Summer doing all that just to satisfy her desires throughout the whole episode - kind of insane, haha. But still, I want more. Where do these weaker episodes lead to? Is it just a time constraint? I don't know. But creativity should go beyond time limits.

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.