Like last week's episode, it's another Rick and Morty that I'm not sure I'd describe as being hilarious, but one running two plots, both of which have the seed of a good idea, but neither of which felt developed quite enough.
An off-world arcade is attacked by terrorists and the power disruption leaves Morty's (Justin Roiland) consciousness spread over the millions of non-playable characters in the game he was playing. Rick (Justin Roiland) goes in to convince these individuals of their true nature, but a divided Morty struggles to decide whether to believe him. Meanwhile Summer (Spencer Grammer) tries to foil the terrorists, led by an Alien Hans Gruber (Peter Dinklage) by doing a "Die Hard", except she hasn't seen the film.
The Rick and Morty story feels like it's ground we've covered before, with Morty struggling to decide whether Rick actually cares about him. There's a nice little moment in a late scene that suggests he does, more than he lets on. The "Die Hard" story has an excellent vocal performance from Dinklage, and some comedy from the rest of his group of Jar Jar-esque aliens. But it's central joke, about everyone acknowledging that their doing "Die Hard" is beaten to death pretty quickly, and lacking in an imaginative twist to elevate the premise
As I say, both these stories are decent enough ideas but neither felt quite fleshed out enough to me and neither of them produced enough laughs. I wouldn't go as far as to say that the edition was a failure, but it's a fairly underwhelming episode for a show that often aims, and hits, much higher.
