That's not surprising. I was just pointing out that that's how the license has largely been used.

I'm happy with what I get too, I'm just saying I'd be happier with more. This show is so head and shoulders above almost everything else on TV. If you could farm out production to alternate reality Roilands and Harmons and have a 24/7 Rick and Morty channel, that would probably be the only thing I'd watch.

That sounds pretty niche, but I'd probably be interested. The punchline is that the obvious adaptation is definitely the wrong one.

Pretty much. Trying to adapt D&D as a Tolkien knock-off is almost guaranteed to fail. I think the direction to go with a D&D movie is either as a comedy where you're moving between the people playing the game and their characters, or as a Predator/Predators action-horror type deal in a nod to Tomb of Horrors.

I mean, I'd happy with 12. Or 11. Making one of the episodes 10 minutes longer? Any way to get more, really.

It just occurred to me that Rick behaves like someone playing through a video game for the third time. He always knows what to do, he tries to skip boilerplate exposition whenever possible, he ignores things he has no interest in as much as possible, and spends as much time as he can doing whatever he considers fun.

It's weird because he's such an obvious loser and simultaneously the most relate-able character on the show. The scene where he's wandering around the asteroid in a confusing alien society before finally giving up and accepting his lot might have been the realest thing in the episode.

I hope the next season is more than 10 episodes. Provided a larger order doesn't cut into the quality.

They packed an impressive amount of it into his brief appearance. Apparently he had a SO back home.

I'm still processing that last scene where they just switch Jerrys with barely a second thought. The whole Jerryborree plotline was pretty wild.

Disney's just going meta with the mystery vibe. When will the next episode air? Why is the scheduling so erratic? My guess is vampires.

Every gameplay mechanic in 1 was trash. The shooting, the powers, the Mako, all of it. It was all bad.

Gravity Falls did.

It's pretty easy to sell me on a movie with even a halfway decent trailer, but this looks like garbage.

This episode was also what hooked me on the show, but it was the Chad character's absurd bit of only talking in Matthew McConaughey lines for me. It's just such a goofy conceit, and I thought played really well.

I dunno, as my wife pointed out when we watched it, having men and women compete against each other in a competition that is almost entirely upper body strength based would be unfair. Although they probably have options for the order they run the challenges in, and may have selected this one for the possibility that…

I always take jury reaction shots with a grain of salt. I think those might be some of the more questionably edited parts of survivor.

He does, and you're right, that's not seen at all in the intro episode. It might have been explained and I just missed it. If it is explained it would probably be in the second episode which gets into his background a fair amount.

The show is pretty shaggy in many respects, and has some things to work on if it gets a second season. As mentioned above, Eugene Cordero as Michael needs some work. While it's not the worst execution of the unrequited love trope I've ever seen, the Stewart/Tina plot is about the 100th time I've seen it happen, and…

I enjoyed Kent's character and thought Neil Casey was good as him, but I don't recall there being any explanation for why he has super human intelligence, which struck me as weird.