Final Space’s future is going to depend on how the story progresses. After all, Rick & Morty had a rough start too.
By Sean David Hartman
It seems that with popular cult classic Rick & Morty on one of its overly long hiatuses, a gap must be filled in the animated adult existential science fiction department. Enter Final Space, which seems to desire to take on the same crazed cult fanbase.
However, instead of a deranged mad scientist going on interdimensional adventures, we have an imprisoned con-man discovering he is carrying the most adorable weapon of mass destruction to ever exist.
The story focuses on Gary—I’m sorry, “Captain” Gary—who is stuck on a prison satellite, Galaxy One. The satellite has only one prisoner, himself, and therefore he is taken care of by a variety of robots. Its essentially Mystery Science Theater 3000, without the theater.
Captain Gary must deal with a controlling satellite AI who serves as his warden, as well as robot companions who are just as oblivious as you. Sadly, these robots are not enough for Captain Gary, who essentially plays the role of Tom Hanks in Castaway. Gary’s Wilson is his refrigerator, who takes on the role of a space cadet he has a crush on, and ironically, the reason he is in the satellite prison in the first place.
All these things change with Captain Gary finding an adorable green alien, who Gary names Mooncake. Mooncake is truly adorable, so it is not surprising that everyone else in the series is after Mooncake, including an ominous villain and a cat Han Solo. It turns out that Mooncake is a “planet-killer”, able to destroy anything in its path with relative ease.
The show seems to lust after that Rick & Morty demographic, but the show’s absurdity and desire to maintain a continuous storyline— is something that differs from Rick & Morty.
Final Space’s future is going to depend on how the story progresses. After all, Rick & Morty had a rough start too.
Sean David Hartman is a freelance reporter for the Central Florida Post, with a wide portfolio ranging from entertainment to politics. He is a centrist political operative and blogger and a student at UCF. Hartman is autistic and bipolar, and supports the neurodiversity movement.
