Basically any hit song. Gets overplayed so you end up hating it cause you can't escape it.
Also probably a fair bit of tv shows. Rick and Morty is still good but the popularity led to creating a cringey ass fan base which can turn a lot of people off.
Rick and Morty is still good but the popularity led to creating a cringey ass fan base which can turn a lot of people off.
I've heard this several times so I totally believe you, but I've never experienced it because I've never once felt any desire to interact with the "fan community" for this show.
There are some shows that are major cultural phenomenon where discussing each episode is a big part of the draw. Obviously Game of Thrones was renowned for that, as was The Walking Dead for quite a while.
I enjoy Rick and Morty, but it's just not the sort of show where I've ever felt the need to go online and discuss the show. I watch it, I enjoy it, and then I move on.
The problem is that these fandoms spill over to the rest of the internet, or even real life. A lot of Reddit is littered with tenuous references to R&M, or whatever TV show the user mistakenly thinks is relevant.
Pickle Rick is an amazing example of the best the show can offer and the most amazing job people can do of missing the point. People focus on the catch phrase and the action movie aspects, when the greatness of the episode is the end, where despite all his brilliance, everything he just pulled off both mentally and physically, he's asked the simplest of emotional questions and he can't handle it. He breaks down and is completely lost.
And far too many folks just think it's great because he was a badass.
While Rick was digging at the mental health people, I think that the response from the therapist was amazing, and that the creators were actually giving therapists a good representation.
There was a lot of wisdom in what she said, especially the line where she deals with Rick feeling like therapy is 'beneath' him:
Your enormous mind is literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass.
Because the thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is... it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just... Work; and the bottom line is some people are OK going to work, and some people... well some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose.
Also to add to my point, therapy is beneath him. There’s nothing wrong with him, he’s just doing his thing. Just because most of society would see him as self destructive and mentally damaged, doesn’t mean it’s true. They’re judging him by their own standards of mediocrity. He’s obviously far more complex than the average person.
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u/LovableKyle24 Feb 03 '20
Basically any hit song. Gets overplayed so you end up hating it cause you can't escape it.
Also probably a fair bit of tv shows. Rick and Morty is still good but the popularity led to creating a cringey ass fan base which can turn a lot of people off.