![]() To that point: those who write Rick and Morty off because of Szechuan sauce obsessed fans are missing some of the best cartoon craft on television. People had to conceive, write, and animate all of that. So I appreciated all the moments in “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat” when Morty looked into the death crystal formations to find cloudy predictions of his own demise. If you want to string along a bunch of moments, you can’t just film them in one location with different angles - you have to literally draw every single beat, even if it lasts one second. In interviews for both The Iron Giant and Ratatouille, Brad Bird has said that montage is one of the bigger challenges for an animation team. Literally, the death crystal’s window into the future allowed Morty to witness over one million endings to his own life. While “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat” didn’t push the larger story along too far, it did, like the best episodes, imagine endless possibilities of where Rick and Morty’s story might go. Season 3 deepend the show’s mythology, which should expand even more in season 4 and across Adult Swim’s 70 (!) episode order. Even through the ridiculousness of two Wasp Ricks rescuing Morty, I couldn’t help but notice the illustrated texture of black swirl wrapping around Hologram Rick. By the end, Morty goes full Akira, allowing Roiland and Harmon to stretch the animation quality in ways that feel like new dimensions for a show that I thought had been everywhere. In true Ricky and Morty fashion, Morty’s stolen death crystal cracks open reality and asks deep existential questions (in this case, predicting death and existing to die) laced with squishy gags. The manners don’t matter: Morty is doomed the second he steps foot on a greyish purple planet where smugglers mine “death crystals” for cash. Now Rick has to ask before yanking Morty into a McGuffin-chasing adventure. Don’t worry, we did it for you.Īfter nearly a two year hiatus, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat” finds Beth, Jerry, Summer, Morty, and Rick back at the kitchen table as one happy family. To quote Rick, “There’s a lesson here, and I’m not the one who’s going to figure it out.”īut there’s a lot to appreciate in this premiere - including a set of details one really needed to pause to appreciate. Where else can you go for Fascist Shrimp Societies and laser guns that turn police cars into metal cubes with feet? The premiere delivered that bizarre image while also poking the hive of Rick’s problematic behavior. The opening half hour gushes with blood, guts, and interdimensional logic, a reminder that only Undone, a straight up trip, is working at Rick and Morty’s level of science-fiction psychedelia. I don’t know how they did it, but Rick and Morty creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon delivered the goriest episode ever with the season 4 premiere, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat.”
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