Opinion: I think Beth left.

 

Yeah, seems likely that she did. Solid episode all around. Jerry keeps on being Jerry as well.

Surprising info on Beth though, that she was like that as a child but maybe not so much in hindsight.

Wonder if we'll get snippets into her solo adventures.

 

Honestly, I thought she asked for a clone-Rick but stayed.

I don't know how to approach this season. I feel like I'm largely watching it for the characters at this point - it's gotten way less funny. Some of the storylines have been good individually, but I feel together they lose something by doubling down on its themes. This one in particular felt very meh.

 

One of the things I'm noticing is that Rick is becoming less and less likable to me. He's like what an edgy fourteen year old thinks is cool. A lot of his lines this episode really illustrated this for me. Specifically his bit at the end.

"Am I evil?"

"Worse, you're smart."

These writers are stupid. And worse, they think they're smart. I only like Rick's I'm14andthisisdeep style nihilism when the writers are using it purely for humor, or to get across how miserable his view of the world makes him.

These past two episodes were kinda meh, especially after the Ricklantis Mixup.

 

Eh, fair enough. I mainly just disliked it because the scene wasn't all that funny to me. That image however - that is hilarious.

 

Oh yeah, I know that. As I said before, I just don't really enjoy Rick's nihilism unless it's funny.

 

What kind of a fucking finale is that supposed to be?

I sure hope they're trolling us.

 

Yeah, that was horrible. Worst episode ever. It was just too... same-y. The subversions rang hollow.

The way everything was handled was so not the Rick and Morty we've all come to know and love, the Beth stuff especially. I can't stand that she broke the 4th wall. Very disappointed. It's almost made me lose the avid interest I've had in the show since Evil Morty made a come back.

 

Ricklantis Mixup probably should have been the finale. They could have easily put it at the end of the season, instead of in the middle.

 

Unless they really are trolling us and we'll get a real finale this year.

...maybe ;_;

 

Yeah. Damn. That just wasn't very good. Pretty big let down after the evil Morty episode.

 

Got done with this recently. Incredible show.

The humor hits all the juvenile and adult buttons that it can hit, and the way the cast plays off each other is amazing. Also, Cyril Figgis as the voice for Jerry is about the greatest thing the show could've done. It just fits so beautifully I want to cream myself everytime I hear it.

On a more serious note, there were some bits that actually touched me deep down there, in my black heart. Rick handing himself in during the finale of the second season was one such bit.

Ah, and of course, guest voices: nothing beats the sudden Jon Oliver (scientist in the intestine theme park), or Stephen Colbert (Rick-like genius that developed on the world Rick created to power his battery). Mass Effect 3 also has some good candidates: Fem!Shep for Jerry's blue alien huntress rebound; and Captain Anderson for the President.

 

I was a bit disappointed by the final episode too. That said, it had a few things I appreciated. Specifically Rick's fight with the president. The fact that we heard about all the rooms in the white house earlier in the episode, and then got to see all of them during the fight was cool. Plus all the other small details were cool too. My favorite bit was the fake moon landing studio. I actually paused a few times throughout the fight just to look at the stuff in the background.

 

It's possible, but seems more like wishful thinking than anything else IMO.

 

The more I think about it, the more I like it. There's a lot more to this finale than I first thought.