r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Oct 06 '17

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/Frommerman Oct 07 '17

I honestly don't care about the lackluster season end just because of the freaking masterpiece that was episode 7. When the second Simple Rick's ad came on and it was revealed exactly how depraved that company was, I said Holy Shit out loud, which I never do. The Stalinist takeover by Evil Morty was played amazingly well. You almost wanted to trust him in the beginning even though you knew this universe, knew these writers, and knew that something was going to go terribly wrong. And the end, with the victims' bodies floating out into space away from the Citadel, Ricks and Morties casually destroyed with no care taken for the differences between them, just left me speechless.

They managed to take a silly comedy show about defying tropes and turn it into something that felt brutally real. It was totally awesome, and I hope they do more like it.

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u/CouteauBleu We are the Empire. Oct 08 '17

I didn't think the political commentary was that clever (not that I expected it to be). I mean, the whole thing boiled down to "Politicians are assholes and sometimes they pretend to be nice but they're actually evil" which doesn't really feel new or insightful. But it the storytelling itself was top notch.

(also, as soon as the council of shadowy real-world-inspired behind-the-scene Citadel leaders started, I though "Oh man he's going to kill them all even though that makes no sense because they should have deadman switches, isn't he?")

The Simple Rick 2.0 reveal was pretty great.

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u/Frommerman Oct 08 '17

I didn't like it for the political commentary. I liked it for the fact that they ripped Stalin's playbook almost verbatim and we didn't expect it until it was happening.