I've always been a bit bewildered by R+M hate. Like it's not my favorite show, or even one I really keep up with regularly but like it's fine. I know a bunch of totally normal people who are into it. The backlash just seems disproportionate.
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof @BootlegGirl
The Szechuan sauce thing was really stupid and really visible
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I mean, I like Rick and Morty but I hate at least 60% of the fans.
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People always say that and I get it, I've seen the horror stories, but I guess I don't go out enough because the only Rick and Morty fans I know IRL are pretty normal young women.
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yeah, the first person to recommend R+M to me was a female student of mine, who was extremely progressive - I only didn't watch it then based on a very strong anti-recommendation from people I trust on here
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And I don't have any personal investment in people liking the show: if they don't, who cares, but it just seems to me that the omnipresent takedown movement in some circles is a bit odd.
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof @BootlegGirl and
Lyndsay Ellis once did a thread about why Homestar Runner is better than R+M and that just seemed bizarre to me. Like yeah, the kids today are not as big of fans of an early 2000s web flash show that was your trash in high school as they are of this new thing made for them.
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That's... ah extremely apples and oranges comparison
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Yeah I was gonna say, my understanding is R&M can be watched as, like, a coherent story that just happens to be parodic/comedic, right? As opposed to HSR which is basically a series of skits (that do theoretically have continuity)?
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I've never seen HSR, but Gen-Xrs who grew up on early internet culture have a weird tendency to over-inflate it's importance/staying power (and quality) I think her point was that it did "shock" humor more responsibly?
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H*R never quite went there with actual "shock" humor, just surrealism and absurdism One of the challenges they deliberately set for themselves was they were pretending this was the website of an actual children's cartoon so all the humor was theoretically G-rated
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I could well be misremembering her points, and I wouldn't want to misrepresent them. It was the generational thing that put me off of her argument.
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