I’m curious where you read the part “justifying the main character to be an asshole”?
Well, from the text. Of the show, not the post. I mean from the show.
Arguably the whole ethos of early Rick and Morty is the infamous “nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die, come watch TV” speech. If you’re here to tell me that’s your jam and you think when it strayed into having a moral stance on being an asshole is when it started going downhill I’m gonna infer some stuff.
I may not be right, but I’m gonna infer it.
So here you just completely admit to doing the very thing I advocated against.
You are not responding to what I said, you are responding to me based on a thing I said I liked, soley based on associations of that thing I like, without actually asking me /why?/
Then you also assumed I believe things, or have opinions or whatever that I do not actually have.
I did not expect an actual example of Tumblr hivemindism to actually manifest when I criticized it.
Remarkable.
Ah, yes (raises glasses) (strikes anime pose)… remarkable.
You have to consider, if only for a moment, that people are going off of context cues here, friend.
Hey, context cues can be deceptive. The Internet is prone to generalizations, and nobody has time to be selective, so a ton of babies go waaaay out of here with a deluge of bathwater. But at the very least seeing people react to what one does online provides… a sense of branding feedback?
People love to make sweeping declarations in social media. It’s all mostly crap, but it’s worth interrogating what one is projecting to make that cut sometimes. And I say this as somebody who gets branded a “reply guy” all the time. Often rightfully so.
You’re assuming that because the main character of the show has that moral stance, that the show is promoting it?
That’s exactly what isn’t happening and what this whole discussion is about.
The show goes to great lengths to actually show how miserable Rick’s life is precisely because of that!
Nope, I specifically am not.
That speech is not given by Rick. It’s given by Morty. If you’re gonna do the textual analysis thing, that’s a key difference. The show acknowledges Rick is messed up, but Morty is supposedly the normie trying to get by and he uses that particular turn of phrase to comfort Summer, who at that point is coping with the fact her family is dead and replaced by transdimensional dopplegangers. Randomly, as the OP says.
So it’s not Rick’s stance, it’s the stance of the show telling us that, at the very least, letting go of reasons and meaning and purpose and indulging on the commonplace while suspending knowledge that the universe is fundamentally pointless helps in coping. That’s the show talking, not the character.
Alright, that’s way too much Rick and Morty analysis for now. If you get it you get it. I don’t need to convince anyone. Because, you know, nobody exists on purpose, and so on and so forth.
The show had a moral stance on being an asshole the whole time. I’ve got to be honest, did you actually read the other user’s comment or just skim it?