Rick and Morty

This season has been pretty good and way better than the last 2 two seasons, best its been in a while so hoping for more good episodes.

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Jaysus there was a serious message in this weeks epsidoe about internet bullying and the effects it has on people.

Thought it was fairly weak throughout tbh.

I love the sex dragon episode.

Haven't seen Solenya in ages. Absolute classic must watch it later.

I found this season good but I'm not exactly dying to watch every new episode the way I used to. Its better than last season though which had a lot of forgettable mid season episodes.

Aside from current legal challenges Justin Roiland is facing for domestic violence and false imprisonment (which apparently happened in mid-2020 but only made public in the past week or two as the charges are proceeding to trial), screenshots of messages he's sent to women (including some underage women) have started circulating on Twitter.

Messages are from a few years ago, but still pretty damning. Wouldn't be surprised to see more start to come out about him.

Those have a real "I'm too important and full of coke for there to be consequences" kinda vibe off them.

Real wacko Musk vs rescue worker stuff.

FFS.

Well that's the end of Rick and Morty. It was good while it lasted.

Harmon is definitely a bit of a knob. He did issue a very good apology to Megan Ganz on his podcast and discussed it for a long time on it, which Ganz fully accepted. But I think with both him and Roiland, success hasn't always been good for them. Harmon has an air of "tortured artist, burdened by the weight of his own genius" about him. He's capable of great things, but seems to lose the run of himself very easily.

Roiland seemed okay, though I remember seeing a clip of him recording some R&M improv while drunk/drinking, and since then I never felt I'd be surprised if he ended up self-destructing in some way, at least professionally.

So we are getting a Rick & Morty gas leak season 🤣

Roiland is Rick and Morty though. Without his voice it's a completely different show.

Can't see this as anything other than the end of it.

They're pretty unique character voices though. At best you might get a mimic to do a broad approximation. But it won't be the same. It would be grand if it was a secondary character and I don't think it would matter that much. But these are the characters that we spend the most time with in the show.

It'll probably try and grind on for a couple more series, but it's hard to see it continuing in the long term.

Yeah I think they're contracted up to Season 10. Though if the quality/viewership dropped enough I'm sure the channel has a get-out clause to just drop them.

As for Roiland's voice, I actually saw some clips this morning of a guy doing not just Rick & Morty, but also Mr.Meeseeks and Mr.Poopybutthole. He was pretty bang on. Let's face it, there wasn't really that huge a range to Roiland's voice when compared to the likes of Seth MacFarlane. A lot of side characters that might show up for one episode would have slight variations of the same voice (same goes for the characters Dan Harmon would voice). But there'll definitely be a noticeable difference regardless, if not through voice then just the actual performance and how the lines are delivered, not to mention the loss of the improvisation stuff they'd usually incorporate. And given what's happened, people will be actively looking for the differences in the voice too.

The guy Sean who mimics the characters is indeed very good, but a big difference between mimicry and actually acting a role out with all the nuances that come with that.

I'm not too worried about the improv - they can write that into the show to replicate what was probably largely ad-lib by Roiland.

Very interested to see what happens.

Plus you can't fake things like the end of this

that sort of stuff was a very small part of the show though.

I mean I think I'll be ok without Ants In My Eyes Johnson for example.

Yeah, a pretty damning account of what he's been like for quite some time.

Also, just to save other people having to Google it, when they say that the pornstar Riley Reid visited the writers room and "gifted the room a succulent", it's a type of plant.

Now I have to erase my search history...

So was the above just in relation to the domestic abuse charges?

Yeah he seems kind of done and rightly so....the messaging underage girls thing...grim

Lack of evidence.

But ya all of this has burst the bubble in terms of how much of his shows were actually him.

Not sure who the voice actor is but it's a pretty decent job all things considered. Both sound a little different when shouting but their normal conversational voices are fairly good.

Sean Kelly has always denied he was under any consideration but he's just so good I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Granted he was only ever imitating lines that Justin Roiland already delivered but they were almost identical in his newer stuff.

I much prefer this approach then suggestions by some that they should just go with completely different voices.

I will miss definitely Roiland's ad-lib nonsense and his comic timing. The new VA is never going to be the same but a decent imitation is better than none at all.

Like this is Sean Kelly's own voice. But he's already said he's not anything to do with S7.

Well, that was a lot better than I expected, that's for sure.

If I didn't know about Roiland getting dumped I probably wouldn't have noticed really.

I thought Mr. Poopybutthole sounded like someone doing an impression at times.

Didn't know about the guest Star for it, especially since he had a pretty big part rather than just one scene.