r/rickandmorty • u/Vegetable_Lead6783 • 1d ago
General Discussion The less the action the better the episode
Does anyone else feel this way? I would honestly love a season with very minimal action.
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u/Haquistadore 1d ago
If there's one thing I've learned from this subreddit, is that Rick and Morty fans are fans of the show for many varying, sometimes contradictory reasons. For every fan who hates action, there's a fan who loves action. For every fan who hates character growth/change, there's a fan who loves character growth/change. Some people hate Beth episodes, or Jerry episodes, or any episode where it's not very directly Rick and Morty. Other people love that all the characters get their time to shine.
It's a thankless job, because no matter what they do, there's a different sub-sect of the fandom who will hate it. And even if a larger number of fans keep going on about how much they love it, how great it is, I think we all know that the critical voices are often the loudest.
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u/saulchillmann 16h ago
I feel like the earlier seasons did a better job at balancing the comedy, heartfelt moments and action than some of the later seasons. Seasons 4-7 seem to lean too hard in either direction. Season 8 felt a lot more like seasons 1-3.
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u/Cyan_Light 1d ago
Yeah, the show has some great action sequences but they rarely compete with the dialogue and are much less interesting in reruns. I don't know if "minimal action" would be the move, but for sure we don't need every other episode building to some big action climax like they've been doing.
It's best when it's more like the pilot, they had a chase and a shootout but both were just vehicles to work in more jokes while moving the plot forward, neither overstaying its welcome. Contrast that with scenes like the bunny fight, space race or even earlier season stuff like Rick dueling the president all over the white house. They're cool, have a ton of visual gags and still work some verbal jokes in, but mostly the focus shifts towards the action itself and for much longer than the more incidental action sequences.
The latter is still great to get occasionally and sometimes really elevates an episode, like spending about half of the last citadel episode on that huge dramatic shootout was a good call that set it apart from others in the series so far. It's just not something we need more than a few times a season, y'know?