I’m not a big fan of the Lower Decks (the comedy just doesn’t hit the right marks for me), but hot damn it really regularly serves up die-hard Trekkie fanservice.
Honestly, an on-the-nose animated star trek show would be incredible. It seems more like they wanted to make Rick and Morty and were stuck “toning it down” to fit the setting, which defeats the purpose.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison. R&M punishes it’s viewers for becoming emotionally invested in it’s characters. Final Space is a more apt comparison in my opinion. It’s stupid and irreverent, but the characters have emotional development. So when it drops the irreverence to have an emotional moment, it catches you off guard, but it doesn’t feel forced.
I’m not ashamed to say I cried during the last parts of Final Space.
It’s toned down the Rick & Morty feel from S1 and struck a decent balance, I think. They’ve tackled oddball issues concerning past Federation protocal and encountered their own (presumably canon) situations. That being said, the S4 opener was a bit bonkers.
I’m not a big fan of the Lower Decks (the comedy just doesn’t hit the right marks for me), but hot damn it really regularly serves up die-hard Trekkie fanservice.
Honestly, an on-the-nose animated star trek show would be incredible. It seems more like they wanted to make Rick and Morty and were stuck “toning it down” to fit the setting, which defeats the purpose.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison. R&M punishes it’s viewers for becoming emotionally invested in it’s characters. Final Space is a more apt comparison in my opinion. It’s stupid and irreverent, but the characters have emotional development. So when it drops the irreverence to have an emotional moment, it catches you off guard, but it doesn’t feel forced.
I’m not ashamed to say I cried during the last parts of Final Space.
Outside of the animation Lower Decks doesn’t seem to have much in common with R&M.
Mike McMahan was a series writer on Rick and Morty and is one of the listed creators of Solar Opposites.
The series creator is literally directly connected to Rick and Morty.
It’s toned down the Rick & Morty feel from S1 and struck a decent balance, I think. They’ve tackled oddball issues concerning past Federation protocal and encountered their own (presumably canon) situations. That being said, the S4 opener was a bit bonkers.