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Was Season 6 a little bit disappointing? Definitely, but at least the quality stayed good throughout the season. There weren't any episodes that stood out as bad or amazing, just 10 great episodes which I'm honestly fine with. Rick's hints for the next season have made me the most excited for this show since "The Ricklantis Mixup".

This episode in particular was one of the stronger ones which is always a plus, and as a Star Wars fan the idea of dropping a lightsaber perfectly vertical is hilarious. Also I don't know why but I love every episode that the president is in. He's so damn funny, and his chemistry with Morty is great.

I feel that judging this season for being the first to lack at least one episode of 9.0 or higher rating is unnecessary, because what matters to me is that it managed to have a higher quality More stable than the inconsistent last season. Still, I feel that what for me was so unique, funny and special about this series slowly becomes generic and expected, like Rick's crazy joke at the beginning or at the end of the seasons, or Mr. Poopy pants in the post-credits at the end of the season. Plus I feel a strange feeling that this episode was very similar to inside job in some things, like rick's attitude and reagan's father, or the robot rick and the robot kenedy, but well, this is more of a personal thing. I feel that the development in morty and rick's attitudes and actions are very inconsistent, as they try to develop the characters (especially rick) emotionally, but in the end they throw away 90% of what we thought was changing. About one of the main plots of the episode (Rick's), I think it was absurd, the information we were given in this episode about Rick prime's story is scarce, and I find it annoying that they really make us wait for plots that end up being resolved in the first episode of the next season, I wish they could really innovate, entertain, interest and improve many aspects that the series does not know very well how to deal with, as if they were trying to revive the style of the first seasons but now with problems of ideas, script, humor and an exaggeration of breaking the fourth wall and intelligence, which contradicts a lot to the "development" of Rick. Simply a season finale somewhat empty and with a somewhat desperate plot thread, even repeating 3 damn times the same joke of the perfect fall of the laser swords and at the same time showing as 5 scenarios in the whole episode where Rick is seen investigating what we all wanted to know.

Dang. I was sort of just theorizing when I mentioned Rick being a clone or a robot. Was a bit surprised he actually was but not totally surprised either.

For once, I actually kind of understand where both sides are coming from in a Rick and Morty episode. I get why some are disappointed and why some are not. It IS a good episode, with some really good laughs and a twist that I was cool with. I thought Rick hiding out and sending a nicer version of himself for the holidays was done well enough.

As a season finale? It's alright I guess. Moreso a S3 finale than a S4 or S5 finale. It does sort of feel like a tease for the next season. Why not do an eleventh episode where Rick confronts his evil self? I guess Season 7 will give me an answer.

Also, I must say that much of the Star Wars satire and jokes didn't land for me. They outstayed their welcome a bit.

Overall, this sixth season was good. There were some episodes I loved, some I didn't love, but I didn't dislike any of it. It's definitely a more cohesive season than S5, but the quality of S5's best episodes wasn't quite reached here for me. Some of it still felt like classic Rick and Morty though and I respect that.

Fingers crossed the seventh season is great. I'd like another great season of Rick and Morty again.

I think people are still giving Rick and Morty too much hate for going for longevity. People want story and they want "classic rick and Morty" adventures. Justin and Dan are managing to do both and setting up a massive world with dynamic characters. It's just a comedy at the end of the day and they haven't failed at that imo.

The lightsaber stuff made me laugh out loud consistently. Loved the Disney hate. I'm a sucker for President episodes and the extreme pettiness it brings out of Rick. It was one of the least climactic episodes of the series. I'm excited for Ricks hunt but I really do appreciate the way that they can do stupid, fun episodes and still make them have pretty deep character development. I hope they take their time and keep expanding.

Rick And Morty has hit a huge problem. It's lost itself. Season 5 was the beginning. Season 6 continues the trend. Nothing in Season 6 was as bad as the lowlights in Season 5, but nothing was as good as the highlights either. And only 2-3 episodes hold a candle to pre-Season 5 R&M.

So what's causing this problem? The writing, first and foremost, has taken a huge nosedive. Not all the time, mind you, but the inconsistency is maddening. Plots are thinner, and hyper-fixate on too little ideas that, on paper, are funny, but not for an entire episode. Here is yet another example from this season. The lightsaber falling perfectly vertical and creating havoc = funny idea. Having it be the focal point of an entire episode, with so many shoehorned rants about the Star Wars franchise = unfunny idea.

It's like the writers think that making the plotline a joke means that they don't have to write many more jokes for the episode. They would also do well to remember that being silly and being dumb are not inseparable things. Stories can be silly but still be smartly written. This ain't it. Season 7 has to turn it around.

I really liked the growth all characters have and I'll definitely miss robo Rick. I can't wait til next season, this episode have a great plot twist, I just wish that the president doesn't appear in next season. But there's so much I need to see, like bird person, Rick prime, I need more of space Beth and Beth and I'm really intrigued of how would be the relationship of Morty and Rick, cuz I feel that even if Rick have open up to the family and Morty have come to understand more his grandfather and both got closer, I also feel that their relationship have been really damaged for this episode. I hope we get to see more of the Rick that really cares for Morty and his family.

This episode wasn't good for a season finale. It reveals that Rick was a robot for the last episode. I knew it wasn't the real him. It did at least have a cool premise with Morty's lightsaber falling towards the Earth and almost destroying the core. The President comes in to stop it and Morty directly does, but then the President steals it. It goes back towards the Earth as the White House flies into space.

Morty gets its back again and the White House gets destroyed at the bottom. I was thinking we'd see the lightsabers go towards the Earth at the end. It was instead Mr. Poopybutthole. Shouldn't he have died when Mr. Frumbles destroyed the Earth? I guess this is just the new Universe's version of him. Still good, but I wanted to see a lot more advancement with finding Rick Prime, but at least we'll get that next season. ***

The episode itself is pretty tame, with morty dropping a light saber into the sun and figuring out Rick in the last two episodes was a robot and that the real Rick was searching for Rick prime. I wish we could have season seven now because this looks so interesting and I'm still stunned by that last scene, woah. It was a perfect indicator that Rick hasn't changed since episode one. I want to see a I depth analysis of morty before rick to see how much Rick has affected him, or more specifically: the effect of Rick potion #9 the reason I mention this because morty is seemingly going to join Rick on his road to revenge and seeing morty mature throughout the pain that will bring. I liked this episode, and I'm excited for more.

The first episode gave me high hopes of the season but ever since it has just been worse. Boring forgetful episodes because for awful storylines. Rick didn't feel like rick in the entire season, space Beth was boring as hell, Beth behaves like a robot, they did nothing with summer and morty seems lost and different every episode.

IMAGINE THIS, you make the first episode about catching evil rick and then the finale about the same. All you did this season is make goofy episodes that in it self didn't do much or were engaging.

AND PLEASE TELL ME WHY THE HELL IS THE PRESIDENT IN SO MANY EPISODES. He is decent character but is so overused. I don't understand his relevance in a episode like this and how he impacts rick and morty's overall story.

This episode seems to quite obviously be full of metaphors for where the show's at at the moment. I'm not sure if they were all intended, and if they were, if I indeed caught all of them, misinterpreted others, but having browsed some other reviews I feel pretty sure that some of the more obvious metaphors went over the heads of a significant portion of viewers.

After the long hiatus of earlier seasons, Harmon and co have been dragging out content with increasing frequency. Harmon and Roiland have confided publicly how exhausting it is for them keeping up with the increasing intensity of the production schedule based on the success of the early seasons which catapulted them into long-term contracts. I'm hesitant to believe they anticipated how much of a commitment this show could possibly be and the all-consuming success it would generate.

Many fans are disgruntled with the downward spiral of Rick and Morty's late/latest seasons. Personally, for me the opening moment of the pilot episode irreverently parodying Back to the Future with an exaggerated + alcoholic "Doc" flailing and failing to counsel an anxiety ridden "Marty McFly" was and continues to be utterly hilarious and the peak of Rick and Morty. The premise was originally conceived of in Justin Roiland's "Ricky and Mharti" earlier in his career. In the early seasons, they successfully fleshed out this premise while pivoting story beats and character developments on some interesting 101 philosophical quandaries and personal existential pontifications afforded by having a maniacal, self-hating, and toxic genius steering the absurdist ship. Once the ship gathered steam and garnered more stakeholders and devout fans, the show quite clearly waned and became increasingly thin on the ground in terms of story writing and disinterested with itself. This show now is perhaps more self-aware and creative than it ever was, but with that comes an awareness of the price it's paid by compensating story and genuine growth with meandering, readily inconsequential, rapid fire plot devices. Occasionally worthy of a wry (if not hysterical) laugh and self-aware enough so as not to be dissociative for the viewer, but ever vigilantly filled with a sense of self-disappointment in lieu of something genuinely captivating.

Roiland has gone through serious bouts of depression during the runtime of this show (which seems to have been obliquely channeled into the hyper-functional alcoholism of Rick), while Harmon would love to do other projects of his own-making, rather than devote his writing prowess in leading the writer's room on the coattails of another's love child project. If I'm to look at it cynically, I'm pretty sure Harmon would snap off the hand of anyone who could offer him the role of writing and producing a new Community season that promised to be only half as successful as Rick and Morty instead of helping write season 7 (and beyond). He has has after all expressly stated that Community is his proudest body of work (based on his own experiences in community college, himself inspiring the POV of a more socially competent Jeff Winger), and either working on a Community revival (with the movie to go on top of the 6 seasons now announced) or some other project belonging to him alone, would probably be enough to dissuade him from signing onto more Rick and Morty.

In this episode, robot Rick is pandering to Morty and the family as per his programming at the hands of real Rick. Sticking to what seems to be the most important metaphor in this episode (sidelining, for example, the self-deprecating parallels of Star Wars, first starting with a turd then ending with a turd), robot Rick is emblematic of what the show has become. Robot Rick cannot directly confide his "robotic" truth, but is expressing it as directly as he can to those that have grown to him ('say you're a robot without saying you're a robot') and wishing some act or circumstance will put an end to the misery of his dissonant existence, simultaneously both caring and gratified by the esteem in which he's now held and yet also nothing more than an empty puppet. The show isn't exactly crying for help, but the metaphor of robot Rick parallels the bind of the show creators in keeping this going for as long as they have been contractually committed to. And it needs someone, anyone but themselves (for fear of preemptively disembowelling it's own legacy perhaps?), to put it to an end.

If this doesn't happen before season 7, we'll get a half-baked Rick nemesis season. As Rick confides, that arc will either be a recurring backdrop or in the forefront of the season's narrative. Perhaps like an Evil Morty Mk II in spirit? You guys liked that right? It sounds intriguing, no? Whatever really. Or at least, no one tasked with writing it probably cares too much at this stage.

There were some good episodes in this season but the last two or three episodes were an absolute slog to get through. Although this season had a few good adventures which this 2 star does not reflect on but my big complaint is they really didn't do anything this season. They closed a dimension Rick kept putting off he'd fix as I guess the writers couldn't figure out anything good enough then they wave this somewhat interesting character in front of us like a carrot on a stick which wasn't say Evil Morty good but still interesting and they hardly used that other Rick. They just teased us about him in the last episode again like hey gang ya remember him! That was quite a let down. Same with using the guest voice actors doing the same voices for other disposable characters over and over again to the point it's pointless. There's more voice actors than the usual Nolan North and Maurice Lamarche and so forth they keep running back to.

This episode in general is just more Keith David being Keith David. He has a great voice but he's gotten over used. They should add more characters or bring back ones they haven't used in a while unless the second rate writers haven't seen the first few seasons. Bring back bird person or someone else to win some fans back instead of most of the half baked ideas from this season. Keith had more complexity as a character in Steven Seagal movies he was in and seriously the whole episode was about a light saber being dropped to the earths core. Seriously... who cares. Star Wars fans or not I doubt they would care. This has to be one of the worst Christmas "Specials" I've seen in a while. However.this was still a huge improvement from the stupid crows episode season 5 ended on. Rick doesn't work unless he's mean and edgy. The nice Rick didn't work in those few episodes and the miracle on 34th street the mindless banter got old. The season is really summed up with the last scene after the credits for the entire season. What the writers need to do is give us more lore about either Evil Morty or this new Rick. This season was just a mess like season 4 and 5. The wacky adventures are extremely important and a big reason I haven't given up on this show but just like Blacklist they dragged it on for so long that no one cares who Reddington really was/is.