It's a potent deconstruction of familiar science-fiction tropes, and not nearly the disaster Roiland worried it would be. It’s deliberately difficult to follow, but not in a Bane’s original voice from The Dark Knight Rises way-rather, it underscores the episode's theme of teenage uncertainty without detracting from the comedy of Rick’s attempts to brute-force a solution through his genius. But as Rick, Morty, and older sister Summer unfreeze time, they learn that readjusting to the world’s time is unstable most of the episode then takes place in a split-screen that depicts multiple possibilities, with slight variations in scene blocking and dialogue for each quadrant. The season premiere-which Roiland has admitted went through a rough production-picks up six months after the end of the first season, with time still frozen from last season's finale. The intricately constructed worlds of Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, and Steven Universe are all highly rewarding, but Rick & Morty is on the opposite side of the spectrum-trading in pure, unbridled hilarity without worrying about a larger narrative arc. The result, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, is some of the most joyously vulgar science-fiction satire this side of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Yet, as the fanbase was growing, the two creators were already off working on a new season-with exactly the same focus on self-contained stories. Because the show was episodic, Harmon and Roiland threw in plenty of one-off characters. Night Shyamalan-style twist endings to teen horror to Jurassic Park to Inception. What on the surface is the story of a mad genius scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty traversing various dimensions is in practice what you'd expect of anything from Harmon, the creator of Community: meta-commentaries on everything from M. Since its debut in December 2013, Rick And Morty has managed to generate a rabid following with only 11 episodes. "Talk about a reaction to a question that makes us know the answer is wrong," Harmon said sheepishly.
The girl's question solicited applause from the audience, but sitting at the dais, co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon didn’t have an answer to match. At the end of the Rick And Morty panel at San Diego Comic Con earlier this month, the last audience question came from a young girl who asked, “Will Evil Morty come back in season two?” She was referring to the cliffhanger ending of the first season's penultimate episode in Usual Suspects fashion, the episode had revealed a new character who seemed destined to become the series' overarching villain.
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