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 @Rois_Kenny @arthur_affect
HHGG is about the universe's constant grand scale attempts to understand itself. It carries on from a lot of absurdist fiction from post WW2 Europe. It's also full of genuinely fun wordplay and literary tricks. R&M is about a nihilist who uses his nihilism to be an amoral dick.
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Replying to @Rois_Kenny @arthur_affect
Like yeah you can take the fact that both shows have absurdist themes and say that two characters conclude that since there is no objective meaning to the universe, you should just get drunk to ignore that. But HG comes v much in a context of fiction about making sense of a...
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...universe which has no objective truth, where horrifying crimes can be committed by everyday people, and attempts to find objective meaning in a meaningless universe. R&M is more edgy "nothing matters, idiot" that I don't think is the same.
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All I can say is I think this take oversells HHGG and undersells R&M Rick and Morty as a whole really isn't "Nothing matters, idiot" as a message, and the moments of cruel sadomasochistic nihilism are right there in HHGG too
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In particular, and I say this as someone with great affection for HHGG, I think you're overselling the original radio series as having much more of a grand plan behind it as opposed to being wacky cynical humor Adams was making up by the seat of his pants
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hhgttg never relied on constant gross out humour so its way better, hhgttg would never decide to spend 5 mins having dragons talking about fucking each other. r&m suffers from people thinking its smarter then it is becuase it had a science element and did a couple clever things
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Lol So Long and Thanks For All the Fish literally has a whole chapter about the sex dragons (the Fire Dragons of Fuolornis)
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