this is a serious improvement
This is a serious improvement
Juan Kelly
Michael Bailey
SOVL vs Soulless
Joshua Gonzalez
Y-YOU GOTTA SUCK MY TESTACLES MHARTI
FOR THE BUDGET INCREASE
Parker Clark
best version coming through
Daniel Baker
Henry Williams
>Uncle Barry is still not canon
Jason Richardson
>final show design is better than pilot design
No shit zoomer
Lincoln Parker
Yes he is. Bushworld Adventures is 100% canon, just in a different multiverse from the one Rick and Morty normally takes place in. There’s probably an Uncle Berry in that universe too though.
Nolan Martinez
That's just the Rick and Morty pilot episode. It goes even further than that. Season 3 was where the visuals really made huge leaps. There was more variety in the character designs, and the backgrounds looked much more elaborate. The show looks fantastic nowadays. Almost makes the breaks between seasons worth it.
Brody Garcia
>Rick and Morty was Justin Roiland's baby that he simply brought aboard Dan Harmon on so it could be sellable for Adult Swim
>Now Harmon's taken full creative control and Roiland doesn't want anything to do with the show, only coming in to record his contracted voices and dipping as soon as he can
I still enjoy the show, but this knowledge kinda hurts…
Ethan Morris
too bad the writing shit the bed after season 3 episode 1.
Nicholas Watson
That's debatable. The show's had a few bumps and detours along the way, but it's still good.
Brody Adams
>but it's still good.
it's a shell of its former self. hell, it doesn't even have its original heart anymore just a bunch of diversity hires for writers who insert cringe
>GURL POWER
segments into episodes, and other equally unfunny bits.
Miss when the show was about Rick and Morty, not the entire Smith/Sanchez Clan.
Kayden Torres
Expanding the focus to the whole family isn't the problem. The problem is the way the Smiths are all written now. Back then, we were so ready to get new episodes because so many of us fell in love with the dynamic Rick had with his daughter, grandkids, and even Jerry. But now it just feels like every family member is tired of each other, even more than before. Only Rick and Morty's friendship is still exciting to watch, even with how it's changed and developed over time.
Lucas Foster
I mean it’s basically a canon Rick what with multiple universes and all.
Samuel Hall
I would love an interview after the show's done with Justin telling how much he hated the show and Dan along with it
Dylan Evans
>Expanding the focus to the whole family isn't the problem.
I disagree. Beth and Jerry worked better as side characters, and Summer was better as an occasional guest on adventures. We waste so much time on their bullshit.
Also, the show can't decide if it wants to be taken seriously or not--it flip-flops every other episode on that.
Jack Bell
I slime just remembering that short.
Anthony Watson
This. I need some kind of documentary after it's all over that really spills the beans. Justin doesn't even attend virtual panels for the show anymore, so he must REALLY resent the Rick and Morty's long-lasting success. It's gotta feel like more of a chore now than anything.
James Carter
>Justin telling how much he hated the show and Dan along with it
didn't Dan act like a baby one time when Justin said something like they aren't friends? something along the lines of Roiland making a minor comment, and fat boy getting upset that Roiland wasn't warm enough in talking about him.
Ryder Sanders
Harmon felt betrayed when Roiland ran off to make his own separate show with another Rick and Morty writer. I guess Harmon must've thought the two of them were some TV-writing duo now or something, but Roiland had his own projects he wanted to do with different people.
Justin Gray
>Beth and Jerry worked better as side characters,
They basically still are. I thought Beth & Jerry were pretty funny in the Mr. Nimbus, Decoys, and Planetina episodes. Even the Beth clone finale from last season was a fun use of the characters.
>and Summer was better as an occasional guest on adventures
Summer is shit now. She's rarely ever funny, and I agree that they either need to reevaluate how to write her or just cut down her screen-time entirely.
>it flip-flops every other episode on [if it wants to be taken seriously or not]
Hasn't the show always maintained that balance? And if you're talking about the fourth wall breaks and jabs at the audience, that all comes from Rick. I personally find it funny how he's always pissed about plot progression. It's almost like he wants to maintain a status quo and carry on with his fantasy family in the Central Finite Curve without having to reveal his past to anyone or deal with actual threats in the actual infinite multiverse…
Cooper Thompson
Only time I've laughed at Rick and Morty since the imposter parasite episode.
Grayson Rogers
Habzin Hotle says hi
Easton Hill
We may have opposing views on the current state of the show, but we can at least agree true parasite episode is the absolute best of the series.
Isaac Harris
>I thought Beth & Jerry were pretty funny in the first three episodes of the season
And what happened after that?
Anthony Gomez
Am I the only one who saw the pilot on YouTube in like 2009? Someone I subscribed to favorited it, and you would see favorites on the front page back then. I don't think it had many views at the time. It only ever got removed once the show aired.
Josiah Barnes
I came here to post this
Asher Barnes
WAAAAAAAAY better than the fake Sanchez family episode.
James Reyes
why his hair blue tho
Dominic Ramirez
Episode 1 of Solar Opposites basically spells out what happened between them
Noah Bell
?
Connor Wilson
mate
Josiah Rivera
don't tell me what to do.
Alexander Parker
Michael Cusack is king
Elijah Roberts
>that back-and-forth
Jesus fucking Christ, Dan Harmon is one childish and petty cunt.
Daniel Hernandez
I'd take this as witty banter if it weren't for the fact that Justin hasn't been in the writers' room since Season 3. He's gotta be sick of working with Dan at this point.
Daniel Walker
>?
What is in question here?
Colton Thomas
I don’t wanna watch Solar Opposites, gimme a quick rundown
William Rodriguez
I mean, it's no secret after Community that Dan Harmon is a legitimately awful person, both to work with and on a moral level. Can only imagine the shit Justin has had to deal with.
Robert Harris
It pains me to see every behind-the-scenes featurette in the latest seasons and not have Roiland pop up even once. His heart just isn't in it anymore. I'm sure the new writers are doing their best, but they're all still working in such an awkward environment, led by Dan Harmon no less.
Tyler Murphy
I enjoyed it til S3E10
everything to episode 6 actually really impressed me
Brayden Torres
Two aliens on earth see a funny TV character go on adventures (including piano wire assassination of Roiland in his own car and he's wearing a hulu shirt), bring him to life (make him Real) and hang out with him, the character ends up hanging with some bros instead. Aliens make a new version of that character that ends up monstrous and deformed, it fuses with the original into a larger monster. The bros accept the shrunk down version of the fused deformity anyway.
Tyler Thomas
You mean Season 3 Episodes 6-9 really impressed you?
Liam Adams
I love how Cusack flipped the entire show family dynamics with Rick being in terrible relationship with Beth and best buddies with Jerry instead.
Bentley Flores
Put the witchetty grub on yer cock.
Jacob Morales
Because science.
Jonathan Rivera
Kek, no wonder Jerry fucked off to the woods instead of staying locked up in that house
William Baker
I love Dox & Mharti, unironically.
Gavin Young
It's amazing how Roiland was able to parody Doc Brown and make the character his own by simply coming up with a powerfully iconic color palette. Now you can't picture anything other than Rick Sanchez when you pair up pale blue, gray, white.
Lincoln Morris
trans rights
Josiah Turner
Family Guy's first episode was hand-animated and looks great though.
Kevin Perry
Hunter Wilson
>bad newgrounds tier
>upgraded to soulless modern sitcom tier
wow!
Christopher Watson
>soulless modern sitcom tier
Rick and Morty is definitely several steps above that. Each episode feels like a 22-minute movie.
Jordan Reed
not really, the obvious use of puppetry and the complete lack of any line weight and usually of any defined detail on the characters makes it look like shit.
The animators are definitely trying, but they're stuck with a shit art style.
Lucas Wright
Maybe it's 'cause I've always had a soft spot for crude cartoon styles (always loved the look of Groening's shows, big fan of the weird Bob's Burgers style), but Rick and Morty does a lot of cool stuff visually. The rigged animation, while obvious, is very expressive whenever the characters gesticulate. You're right about the uniform line art, but I don't think that nor the adherence to mimicking Justin Roiland's crude style prevents new character designs from looking pretty neat. The detail and variety in costume design, character proportions, and color palettes are a far cry from how limited the designs were back in Season 1.
The gorgeous background art needn't be explained, but some of of the shot choices and action sequences can feel pretty cinematic, too. Makes it feel like the shit Futurama was able to do back in the early 2000s, but on an even grander scale. In my eyes, each Rick and Morty episode really does feel like a major event to some degree.
Christian Mitchell
the backgrounds, props, designs and even effects can be really cool, but the modelling and animation of characters lends more to the dialogue sitcom style and the action scenes always feel flat and weightless
Gabriel Thompson
Wakfu uses similar animation principles and looks infinitely better. It's backgrounds and props do too, for that matter. the bar for animation in the west is extremely low at the moment.
Robert Ramirez
>one of the precursor of R&M was a deliberately terrible show called "The Unmarketables"
>cut to 2022, Rick & Morty is nothing but a brand with no substance
makes you think
Eli Long
Who could've ever guessed Justin Roiland would end up making one of THE most marketable cartoons of all time?
Adrian Cox
trans gressions