Rick and Morty cancelled soon? Co-creator Dan Harmon has addressed the animated comedy’s long-delayed third season and suggested that it doesn’t place the future of the series in danger.
In a series of tweets, Harmon attempted to reassure fans:
A hungover thread where I address Rick and Morty devotees because I feel bad for any fan worrying about any show-threatening issue:
Justin and I are very regretful about the season taking way too long. I want to explain “what happened” because it’s way less dramatic than you might ever imagine. Post internet TV audiences are so used to finding out there’s an intriguing/confusing/intense reason 4 delays.
And Christ knows if you’ve ever seen MY name on the internet I’ve only got myself to blame for an association with intrigue/confusion/drama.
But the truth in this case is so very boring. I will put it to you as objectively as I can, though we aren’t talking about an auto plant. The reason S3 took long is because it took long to write, because it was S3 of a show that we were scared to make worse than S2 or S1.
It’s a common yet odd phenomenon. Tail-chasing, perfectionism, overthinking? One prob is that any description you pick for it.
Is going to have a falseness. If I say “we overthought” someone else could say “well, no, we thought the right amount,” it’s like talking about religion or something. It feels I think, to writers, sacreligious and ineffective to open the creative process and poke and label.
But don’t worry about the content, because, the reason overthought slows you down is, you just do way more versions of stuff than needed.
You usually end up back where you started. So as far as I can tell, although I’m too close to it, it’s just another good season of RAM. That took way too fucking long to write because it just seems like the same stuff that took way less time to write. That’s it. Boring answer.
As I speak, more articles are coming out about me and Justin fighting. Because it’s a less boring reason for a season to take long, and because I’m Dan Harmon, so it’s a smart fucking first guess, it just happens to be hilariously not true even in the slightest. If you do know of me at all you know that if Justin and I HAD ever fought, not only wouldn’t we be able to keep it secret, we’d be all too eager to share it with you.
Also, that’s not what would make the show slow down! Fighting probably would have been a good idea, it might have sped us up. So that’s it. I shouldn’t have started a thread when i need to pack for airport, but that’s it. We took too long writing. Totes regrets.
And we look back and we talk to each other about how we can avoid it happening again and I’m pretty sure the reason it won’t is cuz it happened. That’s how it works. You do something you don’t know you’re doing and then you’re like oh I did that and then you do otherwise.
I don’t know if any danger to the show itself that comes from you believing justin and I are fighting and the show is gone forever, BUT
A hungover thread where I address Rick and Morty devotees because I feel bad for any fan worrying about any show-threatening issue:
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
The first episode of Rick and Morty Season 3 released April 1, 2017, with the remainder of the third season to start airing July 30, 2017 on Adult Swim.
Are you confident Rick and Morty can survive its delayed third season, or is Season 4 already dead in the water despite Harmon’s protestations?
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the cancel/renew status of Rick and Morty Season 4…
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