And I feel all the shitty attempts at being "deep" and desperately trying to make you care is trying to (poorly) emulate all the legitimately feelsy scenes in Futurama like Jurassic bark, the episode of fry and his brother, Bender's creation, leelah's parents. The problem is nobody in R&M's writing team can properly write drama so it gets grating and you just want it to go back to the half assed humor. Whenever it tries to be legitimately sad or deep it's just annoying
The difference as well is that a lot of Futurama's classic moments came in the third and fourth season (I've not seen the post FOX seasons as a point of reference). They earned the emotional episodes by making us care for the characters over the prior seasons. After four years, viewers liked Fry enough to give Jurassic Bark that extra sting in the tail, and damn if it didn't work to the point where they were swamped with letters from fans who said that the ending made them cry.
I haven't seen everything you've referenced, largely because I'm not a weeaboo, but I'm not seeing how unintentional similarities is a point against the show. It's a sci-fi comedy, of course it's gonna play with well-known sci-fi tropes. That's its whole thing. For example, what's the rip-off of The Matrix? The federation prison where people get strapped in small containers and interrogated in simulated worlds? Yeah, people have done that gimmick since well before The Matrix. It's kinda hard to do an episodic sci-fi show and not include some kind of simulated world. Or, at least, it's not surprising when something like that shows up.
Mr. Meeseeks is clearly a reference to House of Cosbys, another show made by Roiland on Harmon's old channel. Yes, the Cosbys aren't disposable, but they're annoying and eccentric disposable clones that are made to help out around the house but quickly spiral out of control. Again, there aren't any completely original concepts out there.
Your problem is assuming that Evil Morty was intended to be a big thing. I remember there was a con panel where the fans asked about Evil Morty for Season 2, and Roiland and Harmon didn't have anything planned. Evil Morty was a one-off character used for a big dramatic finish of one episode, and the fans kept demanding he come back. Then they decide a giant fanservice twist next season, and hey the fans suddenly assume Evil Morty is going to be the season's villain. When it turns out the season is just going to finish on a normal episode, like, you know, episodic TV shows normally do, suddenly it's Harmon being too edgy to include the finish fans psyched themselves up for.
That’s easily exploited, but Star Trek is such a large phenomena that it’s probably as big of a shot gun approach as saying people who drink Pepsi over Coke are pedo’s.
I agree that people are blowing shit out of proportion, but the last episode really does seem like a lazy fuck you to the audience. And I don't see the meseeks-Cosby connection. They're all annoying and clones is pretty tenuous, if any Rick and Morty ep reminds me of House of Cosbys it's the one with the mind parasites.
Yeah the last episode was a disappointment, it wasn't even intended to be the last episode. They planned a 14 episode season, but due to Harmon being Harmon they barely managed 10 episodes in a year and a half. That's my point. Harmon's an incompetent drunk, nothing more nothing less.
Sad part is that some tard will actually waste money on this crap.
Less time on his hands due to success!
Jesus Christ!
