Morty Daddy

This Rick and Morty episode was a real miss, landing firmly on the "therapy to cure insomnia" side. The A-plot with Rick and Summer at the precognitive restaurant was just dull. Rick likes it summer hates it, Summer's mad ricks's not paying attention, and we have two generically boring chase scene .

The B-plot with Morty and his adult son was even worse. It felt like nothing important was happening, leading nowhere. No character, including Morty, was likable or used in an interesting way. The plot felt automatic, and honestly, not a single joke was funny.

It just felt like white noise; things happened just because. But that's how Rick and Morty is a roulette wheel. Sometimes you get gold, and sometimes you get this big pile of nothing, is not that the episode is bad is just that is nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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.