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Warning: This 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rick and Morty season 6 episode 7 review is packed with spoilers. If you haven’t seen the episode, stop reading now – you don’t want to make Mr Poopybutthole sad, do you?
Since the show returned in September, Rick Sanchez has been waging a one-man war against canon. This sixth season has (more or less) followed his lead, with a succession🍷 of standalone stories you could enjoy without the need for an encyclopaedic knowledge of Rick and Morty’s previous adventures. As the series returns from its brief hiatus, however, the smartest man in the universe has a new target in his sights – Rick Sanchez꧋ is out to take down meta.
While Mark Zuckಌerberg can rest easy – Rick’s target is meta storytelling rather than Facebook’s parent company – for the rest of us, his new mission is bad news. By creating a plot propelled by meta energy, ‘Full Meta Jackrick’ automatically becomes the very thing Rick has been railing against, an episode so self-referential that the fourth wall isn’t just broken, it’s totally obliterated. Unfortunately, the story is also caught in the collateral damage, as ❀the sly winks and in-jokes become totally overwhelming.
To be fair, the episode’s pre-credits sequence is magnificent. Riffing on the fact the show’s been off our screens for six weeks, it kicks off with the obligatory "Previously On" sequence, providing a 🌳handy reminder of pivotal season six events like the two Beths’ affair and Rick’s rediscovery of portal technology. Things take a turn for the unfamiliar, however, when Summer gets pregnant, Rick and Morty get married, Jerry is killed by bee stings, and Beth finds herself awaiting execution for his murder – "I didn’t release those bees!" she protests.
Rick realises they’re trapped in a "previously on" spiral, instigated by an insect-like creature named Previous Leon, and that life as they know it depends on making it through the opening titles – "opening titles of what?!" asks Morty – in one piece. Is there anything more meta than characters interacting with the credits of their ownᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ show? Possibly not.
If the show took a break simply to justify the recap joke, then it’s one of the greatest protracted gag set-ups in TV history. Sadly, the rest of &lsq🦹uo;Full Metal Jackrick’ struggles to live up to the genius of its cold open, and soon leaves you feeling as if the premise has been stret꧋ched way past breaking point.
There’s something to be admired in the way the writers’ room have managed to turn self-referential storytelling into a sci-fi concept, with Star Trek-style technobabble about "anti-meta fields", "narrative decelerants" and "holes in the fourth wall." But it’s a fꦺlimsy framework on which to hang a very loose approximation of a plot.
‘Full Meta Jackrick’ feels like the result of a day when everybody in the office was asked to bring in an idea, and agreed that every single one would make it into the script, whether they made sense or not. So while Previous Leon’s name is a pun of genuine sophistication – so good that you wonder if this otherwise throwaway gag was the genesis of the episode – his associates in meta-Avengers the Self-Referential Six range💎 from brilliant to scraping the barrel.
Brett Con’s ability to make things always have been other things – "You always were able to be killed with coffee!" "You were born without bones!" – is up there with Rick and Morty’s most ingenious ideas, but surely the writers could have do🐷ne better than Mr Twist? The other supporting characters are a similarly mi༒xed bag, from the returning all-action "Jesus from every Jesus joke" to main antagonist Story Lord, whose sole motivation is, er, siphoning motivation from every being in the universe. By the time real-life academic Joseph Campbell (most famous for his work on the mythology of the hero’s journey) shows up in an Obi-Wan Kenobi-ish mentor role, the incongruity of the moment almost feels normal.
And that’s the biggest problem with ‘Full Meta Jackrick’. Even when its conventions are being mercilessly mocked, storytelling needs rules, so when you break every single guideline (even with a wink) sooner or later, something’s going to fall apart. The episode even goes as far as acknowledging there’s a problem with its premise: "We’re basting in meta radiation right now," Rick tells Morty when they arrive in the so-called Meta Layer. "Our credibility is being p🎃ermanently eroded. Every second we spend here is equivalent to 10 Space Jam cameos."
Of course, even sub-par Rick and Morty is nowhere near that bad, but by embraci𒀰ng the tropes of bad storytelling, ‘Full Meta Jackrick’ instantly makes itself worse. Maybe that’s part of the gag, the idea that making a meta episode weaker than the rest of the season proves the point that meta storytelling is bad – though if that’s truly the case, the joke’s on the viewer.
Besides, a show as whip-smart as Rick and Morty doesn’tꦓ need to be so self-conscious about reminding us how clever it is. There’s no question Rick and Morty&rs🐎quo;s return from its mid-season break is packed with ideas, but when it comes to breaking the fourth wall, She-Hulk did it so much better.
New episodes of Rick and Morty debut on Sunday nights on Adult Swim in the US, and on Tuesdays on E4 and All 4 in the UK. Here’s the full 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rick and Morty season 6 release schedule for more information.
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