[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Rick And Morty really took a nosedive for me the last couple seasons. It's always just been a fun-when-high recycling of Star Trek episodes and well-known sci-fi ideas to me, but it always had its own style, clever writing and great acting(especially Sarah Chalke).

Lately the writing has felt a lot lazier, and I guess they ran out of good Star Trek episodes(understandable since none have been made for almost 20 years now...) to "steal" because a lot of the episodes felt like gimmicks based on some action anime I never heard of, fucking Ocean's 11, superheroes, dragons(seriously?), etc.

[Bakary]

I don't think they ran out of sci-fi tropes so much as they ran out on the core idea of the show. They took two established characters (Marty and Doc Brown) and explored/deconstructed the inherent absurdity and great dynamic between those two that was never fully exploited by the original films.

The decline started once they had done what they could with it.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Right, that makes sense. I honestly wasn't aware of the Back to the Future inspiration, I watched it as a kid and it was never really my type of movie.

[jaimebuelta]

Also Rick and Morty is an incredibly nihilistic show. The character dynamics are terrible (to each other), and that limits the long term capacity for stories.

They were able to pull a good few seasons, but it starts looking as the same destructive jokes over and over.

I still watch it and enjoy it, but I feel a bit empty inside, it’s such a bleak view inside humanity…

[panick21_]

There were defiantly some weaker episodes, but some are still really good. The new season ep 1 was pretty good. You can't keep peak quality consistently, no show really can.

You are gone have some stinkers in there, like dragons. Their take on heists was pretty damn awesome I have to say, very nice spin on the traditional heist. The dragons thing was terrible.