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Unrelated thought, I think Rick and Morty has lost the plot. The last 2 seasons seemed like increasingly forced technical exercises in narrative-fu. Back to South Park being the only dialed in show I guess.
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I felt like it lost it in s03e01 when it deus ex machina the ending of 2. Instead of becoming more intense (as per your distillation article) and allowing the emerging plot to happen it regressed into being episodic. Felt arrested. Let's see if s06e01 is the same or not...
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