![]() We ultimately said, Fuck it, we’ll just write a cliffhanger. It spiraled into madness trying to break that second part. We were gonna get Rick in prison, and then the very last episode of Season 2 was essentially gonna be what eventually became the first episode of Season 3 - which is Rick escaping from prison and resetting everything. ROILAND: This one is one of my favorites simply because it wouldn’t exist if not for the fact that we originally had intended to do a two-part finale at the end of Season 2. The one where Rick and Morty land on a planet whose law and order is the plot of The Purge. And we just cracked up and said, “Why can’t we end our episode like that?” And I remember it taking me a couple seconds to get over my allergic reaction to that, like, “Wait, well, are they taking years? Are we saying six months have passed? Is voting age?” And then getting over that, and having the reward be that some things don’t matter, canonically like that. We were like, “How do we end this story?” And Justin told this story about two kids from his neighborhood who had a troubled childhood, and simply worked out for years and then beat the shit out of their own father. But really, the most important thing is the relationship between Summer and Rick, that triangle of father figures, and the idea that there is a devil - the idea that Rick is jealous of the devil the idea that being jealous can have nothing to do with whether you’re better or worse at something than someone, you can just be angry at who you perceive as a hack.Īnd then that fun ending. ![]() In that episode we also simultaneously established that you can do sci-fi stories that have absolutely nothing to do with Rick causing them - the Plutonians just come down and abduct Morty and Jerry, and that’s a pretty satisfying story, too. “Something Ricked This Way Comes” was a re-introduction to that concept. HARMON: As much as Rick and Morty had this important dynamic, there was this whole, different, untapped thing that was Rick and Summer. The one where Rick disapproves of Summer's new job at the devil's store, and Morty and Jerry go to Pluto. ![]() But they still managed to name seven of their faves, and, in the process, revealed the tremendous amount of blood and sweat and madness that goes into making the wildest show on television. “I’m so proud to have a show that it’s almost arbitrary to pick a favorite - there’s no clunkers I can think of," Harmon said, and he's damn right. Instead, I rang up Harmon and Roiland and asked them to tell me about their favorite episodes so far. I'm pretty sure I could write a dissertation on it at this point, highlighting all of the wild, mind-blowing layers within each 20-minute story. I've seen every episode of Rick And Morty at least five times. There is little doubt in my mind that authors and screenwriters and comedians will study Harmon’s process in the distant future, when we're all Cronenberg creatures. It's this far-reaching awareness of collective literary and societal memory that makes Harmon's work feel so pertinent to contemporary storytelling Rick And Morty isn’t too different from Shakespeare’s plays, which essentially satirized the Western canon and the very idea of the archetype, like Harmon and Roiland do now, within their show's freaky, boundless universe. In essence, Arthur's birthright made him the righteous heir to the Atlantean throne.The process is a riff on the Hero's Journey, or the Monolyth, a narrative pattern found in canonical myths and epics. With his mother as Queen of Atlantis and his father an ordinary lighthouse keeper on land, he was the bridge that connected the conflicting people of land and sea. His story was an allegory of identity and trying to find his place in either world. Aquaman's parents' forbidden love forced Arthur in between two worlds: the world of land and sea. Aquaman got a lot of things wrong (who can forget Pitbull's masterpiece "Ocean to Ocean?"), but oddly enough, it did do forbidden love justice. Wonder Woman 1984 touched on it with Diana Prince and Steve Trevor, exploring how they just weren't meant to be. Marvel is surprisingly remixing the heartwarming story of Arthur Curry.įorbidden love is actually pretty common in superhero films. ![]() Aquaman gave forbidden love a go back in 2018, and now Ms. Marvel? Yes, superheroes can break taboos and fall in love, or at least their parents and great-grandparents do. Marvel Season 1, Episode 5, "Time and Again," now streaming on Disney+.įorbidden love - it's most associated with Romeo and Juliet or West Side Story, but did anyone ever consider Aquaman and Ms.
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