Rick and Morty S3 #03 — A Reading of AlphaRickFanX’s Fan Theory
August 7th, 2017
Boy, if you thought last episode was on the nose…
Impressions:
Once again, I find myself not really wanting to talk much about this episode itself as I do wax nostalgic about things it represents in the animation field, particularly things that seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur in Japanese media. The episode was again, mostly okay. The rat massacre was the kind of gratuitous action scene 'action' anime should be putting out every week, and most of the Pickle Rick side of things in general was just unhinged enough to be generally amusing. But then there's the therapy side, particularly the extended denouement towards the end. It's tiresome at best, and no doubt hundreds of internet fanboys screamed out in unison "They read my psychoanalytic screed on the show's illustration of the burden of intelligence!" Maybe I'm getting older. Maybe it's just fatigue with how much media wants to push "everything is always awful and dark and horrid all the time." Either way, I'm incredibly tired of it.
But at the same time, I'm keenly aware that the rat-murder sequence, as well as the therapy crap, exists because the creators got together and said "This would be awesome as hell." Well, not the same exact sentiment for the therapy bit; that I imagine was a lot more smug and bitter about someone's recent divorce. It's extremely auteur driven… auteurful? aueteristic? driven by the creators themselves in a manic experiment that I simply don't see almost at all from Japanese media anymore since the dawn of the lockstep adaptation. There exist almost no ambitious OVAs like FLCL or Gunbuster, and the experimental comedies are largely relegated to the 2-3 minute-long shorts hell. And I walked uphill both ways through the snow in 100 degree weather to school. Things always seem better in the past, but it certainly seems really hard to find much in anime these days that I can say without a doubt was driven by the creators and the desire to express themselves through their work, rather than the marketing department.
Posted in Rick and Morty | 5 Comments »
Meh. It was ok but the pickle rick parts felt like that alt dimension tv stuff they did before.
Wish they would, like, go back to barely using Summer. Never gave a shit about her teen problems.