In a few days, the sixth season of “Rick and Morty” will begin its broadcast with new madness and space-time twists. The journey of the successful animated series has had obstacles worthy of any story of grandparents and grandchildren, forcing fans to wait years for new chapters or to face, like the entire sector, the problems of the coronavirus pandemic. But Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland have been working since 2018, when the series got a super renewal for 70 chaptersso we wouldn’t have a Rick and Morty drought for years to come.
Those plans have again been confirmed by the creators of the series, who believe so they are going to be able to release a new season per year: “This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever said on the show and it’s still unreal to say, but we’re going to do one season a year. I still don’t understand how that’s possible. But that’s why it never happened when I was at the helm. Scott (( Marder, showrunner) is able to stay within a schedule that largely expects to be so far ahead of schedule that we can release things in a controlled manner. “ says Dan Harmon in an interview with The Wrap. Justin Roiland adds that they will actually do the same thing as “The Simpsons,” which will have an annual season, but with fewer episodes than the yellow family.
The good news doesn’t end there because Harmon and Roiland are convinced the series could go on indefinitely, or at least, says Roiland, “all we want”. Dan Harmon speaks directly of an “infinite” series in the interview: “As for the longevity of the series, it seems infinite to me. This is the easy part. And I think it could be the cause of the frustration on the part of the fans, because of my original commitment. I think a good TV series is one that lasts 1,000 episodes. You don’t design a paper plane to land at some point some distance away from you. A good paper airplane is the one that stays in the air forever, and it’s impossible, but you fold it in a way that is the goal. “. He also believes that not having a specific ending in mind helps them extend the series as long as they want: “I think from the first episode onwards There has always been a commitment in the show’s DNA not to do too many soap operas that forces it to a foregone conclusion in the future., you know, Mulder will find his sister and there will be no reason to continue with ‘The X-Files’. We don’t have that. We have one-off elements regarding the Rick revelations and stuff like that, but I think the adventures could theoretically give for 1,000 episodes”.
More canonical connections in the sixth season
But in a series like ‘Rick and Morty’, in which there are constant links with previous chapters, the task of creating new adventures will become increasingly complicated. Far from running away from the challenge, Dan Harmon explains to Polygon that in Season 6 they embraced him much more than in Season 5, in which they admit they tried to go much freer and not think so much about connections or canon. of the long-term series: “I think we’ll go back to the third season report in terms of canon and loose stuff. Maybe Season 5 felt a bit like a compulsive canon aversion, with a big episode at the end that promised it all. In Season 6 it’s more than “from here on out we’re going to keep trying to achieve that relationship the right way instead of compulsively running away from it or consenting to it”. Justin Roland adds: “We’ve always seen that the show can live in both worlds if we’re careful. We can say ‘fuck it, we’ll make it fully serialized’ in the middle and throw the rest away. You need both.”.
The first part of the sixth season of “Rick and Morty” debuts September 5 on HBO Max.
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