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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    Definitely this! I lost my love of the show after the 4th season due to the fans.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I kinda fell off around then as well. I started watching sometime around the end of season 2 airing, and I remember how fun and exciting it was. I'm not sure the show was meant to go on as long as it did. I think that's a big problem with things getting popular too, is this desire to keep things going past their expiration date.

    Credit where it's due, Netflix does the limited series thing and I like that. Let's state from the beginning: this is it. Now, Netflix also just cancels shows it shouldn't, and that's massively disappointing, so debit where it's due too (that's an opposite of credit but obviously not the right one but I can't think of the word and I gotta wrap this thing up).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    What happened? I only lightly watched the show.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    They turned into a pickle, funniest shit I ever seen.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That’s when I stopped watching. It was so stupid that it just turned me off.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The joke was that there was no joke, Rick is just being an asshole and disappointing everyone around him. But between that and the shezuan sauce incident, I realized the fandom has literally zero media literacy, they're just clapping at shapes and colors.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Everyone's media literacy, reading comprehension, ability to appreciate nuance or capacity to consider multiple non-mutually-exclusive ideas in their head at once is vanishing.

    It's actually so fucking depressing to see how many people who I agree with politically and ethically are also kind of stupid and seem to have peaked intellectually.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I don't know if its gotten worse, we should expect it to have gotten better now that people consume more media than ever.

    If judging from my trump-supporting, boomer extended family playing Jimmy Hendrix's Star Spangeled Banner at a 4th of July cookout, it was always terrible.

    These include people who are still mad at Jane Fonda and blame the vietnamese for defending themselves.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    A lot of folks have watched the show and come to the conclusion that it's an endorsement of their lifestyles which they view as similar to Rick at the start of the series, plus the extremely toxic behavior that comes along with the impression that you're better than everyone and your intelligence justifies any behavior you are criticized for

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Yeah. Used to be like that. What a shitty way to live. Denying any need to change by claiming superior intelligence over the people suggesting change, even though you're desperately unhappy.

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