The funny thing I haven't seen people really talk about is that Rick and Morty is, for better or for worse, 100% a modernization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everything people don't like about it is what they wouldn't like about Douglas Adams if he were new
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I get where you’re coming from but Adams cynicism was MUCH less nihilistic and a lot more absurdist & whimsical. Rick & Morty is more nasty & a lot less clever than most of Adams work. It also seem to take itself way more seriously than HHG
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My whole thing here is if you reread Adams, as I recently did, the HHGG series is a LOT darker than a lot of the fans remember it as, there's a lot of shit all the way through it that's just brutal
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Replying to @calzoneactual @GregWildSmith
Yeah okay but it starts with the whole Earth being destroyed though
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