I watched It last night and My immediate reachion was similar to Smid’s: wow; this was a much better episode than last season’s E1.
Very good, very strong start to the season IMO.
Summer totally fucking rocks. Mr. Nimbus totally fucking rocks too; he cracked me up.
This week’s episode is somewhat of a rehash of the various multiverse episodes we’ve seen before, though with the twist that we’re dealing with articially created Smith families rather than alternate universe ones.I liked how the viewpoint family changed so many times that it’s not even clear whether C-137 Rick and Morty are still alive by the end, and the multiple references to states that acted as a hint that the family we’re watching is a decoy. (The ‘real’ Smiths, of course, live in Renton, WA.)
President Keith David acting mildly Trumpian (“march your white ass into the kitchen and get me a Diet Coke”) was pretty funny, as was the ultimate fate of Wooden Jerry. “Christianity again? After cowboys?”
My inner teenager liked the code 8-0-0-8-5.
And another code was 8==D
E2 was quite a letdown IMO. It was an entire show of the same 8 second gag over and over and over again, and we’ve even had this same basic gag before. Lazy. E1 was a 10/10; I give this a 3/10, saved from a 1 not by the codes or Wooden Jerry’s demise (both great) but by the Highlander reference.
I’m 99% sure the baseline family is the one with Space Beth
It clearly is. Real Rick made one clone family and the rest of the clones were made by the first Clone Rick and follow on clones. It’s mentioned early on that clones only have terrestrial adventures so the one with Space Beth has to be real. Real Rick got the one alert when the original clones perished.
I’m loving this season so far. Last season was a bit of a letdown to me, but I enjoyed these first two episodes. I didn’t think it was the “same gag over and over again.” I enjoyed being suckered in a couple times (“Let’s watch some Inter-dimensional Cable!”), and there was plenty going on, plenty of asides, etc to keep it fresh. The Wooden Jerry saga, “Get me a diet Coke”, the childish codes, etc.
Great start!
I’m with you here–the second episode worked well for me, despite the fact that we have seen duplicates of the main characters before.
Lots of work going into these; they will bear a lot of re-watches.
I’m really enjoying the two episodes so far; I thought E2 was really well done with lots of going on and some great asides - I loved the president’s “I have the internet too” bit.
I’ve enjoyed both S2 episodes so far, too. The Asimov Cascade of one decoy family after another getting zapped was good bloodthirsty fun.
OK, I don’t get either joke.
The first one is a calculator joke. The numbers spell boobs. The second one looks like a dick.
Oooooookay. Thanks.
I dunno, it didn’t make sense. Sure, it was in effect another multiverse episode, but it wasn’t. The decoys were all from the same dimension and same world, and supposedly the same R&M abilities. That world would be hellish, shit it’s bad enough with one R&M, but with the hundred or so clones in there.
I know a lot of R&M episodes involve just going with it, and suspending belief, just the basics weren’t there which bugged me all episode.
Wooden Jerry stuff was solid though.
I must’ve missed that part. I guess it got overshadowed in my memory by the cold open where the first decoy Rick and Morty’s plan for the day is to kill God.
Also: Upon rewatching the Wooden Jerry post-credits scene, I noticed that “Who Wants To Live Forever?” is playing in the background, which is both sublimely apropos and perhaps the most hilariously egregious licensing of a Queen song ever.
I got that too, along with the earlier reference in the episode of Highlander, with Connery playing a Spanish dude with no accent change, the film from which IWTLF was from.
“Remind me how many of those states voted for me in the Electoral College?”
Episode three was a keeper.
As an Elder Millennial who grew up watching it because there wasn’t any other kid-friendly programming on TV at 2:30 on Saturday, I loved the Captain Planet pastiche this episode was built around. At first I thought it was odd that there were only four Planeteers, but when they turned out to have become cynical and profit-centered in their middle age, it made sense in a dark way - they must have killed their Ma-Ti analogue decades ago. Morty’s story arc was well-done and felt like a legitimate exploration of teenage love, heartbreak, and disillusionment, and the final scene with Beth comforting him really tugged at my heartstrings.
The B-plot with Rick and Summer was more of a rehash of stuff that’s been done before, but I like how Summer is shaping up to be a more ideal companion for Rick - she shares his nihilist and hedonist tendencies and has much less of a sense of moral hesitation than Morty does.
I thought episode 3 was by far the weakest of the season, and one of the weakest of the show’s entire run. The Rick and Summer stuff was nothing we haven’t seen before (although reasonably entertaining), but the Planetina stuff just fell completely flat for me. There’s an interesting story to be told about a synthetic being trying to interact with the human world, but we didn’t get that story at all, just a fairly ham-fisted “Morty is happy for a while and then he isn’t” arc yet again. Usually one of the things R&M does so well is take already-interesting sci-fi ideas and take them to interesting but logical places. So I was expecting something about the rings. What happens when Morty has them all? Does he have total power over his girlfriend? What does that do to their relationship? Or can he give them to her? Etc. Instead, that was all ignored.