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I kind of agree and disagree with the criticisms in this thread. For a while in season 2 I didn't watch much of the show for pretty much the reasons given here

I kind of agree and disagree with the criticisms in this thread. For a while in season 2 I didn't watch much of the show for pretty much the reasons given here. Nevertheless, I watched a good bit of the first and third seasons, including the [IMHO excellent] finale of Season 3 that prompted Elon Musk to get into a twitter discussion with the show about singularities and partying like Kurt Cobain. [1] Rick and Morty are, I think, intended to be more archetypes rather than actual people most of the time, although sometimes their humanity (particularly Morty's, which is leveraged for comedic effect) shows through. Rick is definitely shown to have something of a softer side that he keeps deeply hidden. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424659

saalweachter 9y ago
Eh, I would say that Rick incompletely rejects his softer side rather than keeping it hidden. He doesn't want to care about anyone or anything; it is how he copes with living in a crap-sack multiverse where he regularly sees himself or his family die, or even kills them himself. Hell, we don't even know that his S1 family was his original family; he abandoned them easily enough in the Cronenberg episode. For all we know, his Beth did die as a child like in his (false) memory in S3E1. He might have returned years later to a different universe, one abandoned by another Rick. We don't know that Morty is his original Morty; the memories in the flashback episode could have been collected from dozens or hundreds of Mortys who didn't make it. Heck, even Rick isn't the original Rick; he has body-hopped through several incarnations on-screen. So he rejects all meaning, but he's still a human with irrational attachments, so sometimes he will stop and do something for someone else. But to him, it's the same as his crippling substance abuse, just one more weakness being indulged for his momentary gratification.
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- yters 9y ago
  Exactly, Rick is a faithful depiction of someone who believes individual lives are ultimately meaningless, which is implied by the whole multiverse scenario. Why does it matter if Morty1 is mistreated and is only kept alive for selfish pleasure? There are an infinite number of Mortys, so Morty1 is nothing special.
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saalweachter 9y ago

Eh, I would say that Rick incompletely rejects his softer side rather than keeping it hidden. He doesn't want to care about anyone or anything; it is how he copes with living in a crap-sack multiverse where he regularly sees himself or his family die, or even kills them himself. Hell, we don't even know that his S1 family was his original family; he abandoned them easily enough in the Cronenberg episode. For all we know, his Beth did die as a child like in his (false) memory in S3E1. He might have returned years later to a different universe, one abandoned by another Rick. We don't know that Morty is his original Morty; the memories in the flashback episode could have been collected from dozens or hundreds of Mortys who didn't make it. Heck, even Rick isn't the original Rick; he has body-hopped through several incarnations on-screen. So he rejects all meaning, but he's still a human with irrational attachments, so sometimes he will stop and do something for someone else. But to him, it's the same as his crippling substance abuse, just one more weakness being indulged for his momentary gratification.

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yters 9y ago
Exactly, Rick is a faithful depiction of someone who believes individual lives are ultimately meaningless, which is implied by the whole multiverse scenario. Why does it matter if Morty1 is mistreated and is only kept alive for selfish pleasure? There are an infinite number of Mortys, so Morty1 is nothing special.
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