Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan announce “Solar Opposites”…Battle between the two ensues
Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan could be happy as clams, just chillin’ while producing Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty. Instead, it was leaked earlier this week by Justin, that the duo have been developing a new animated comedy for FOX called ‘Solar Opposites’ Not much is known about the series at the moment, and with the series being in development, it could take a couple of years before we see any friuts of this labor.
Fortunately, we have the internet, and Justin Roiland has taken it upon himself to upload a whole bunch of sketches from ‘Solar Opposites’ and you can check them out below.
AND OH BOY! Mike McMahan was PISSED! Apparently a text exchange between the two was made public on Twitter by Justin, and boy are the comments comical. Let’s put it this way, next time these two are in the writers’ room, be it for Rick and Morty, or otherwise, a lot of stink eyes will be exchanged.
Short of getting Roiland back, which I'm sure isn't going to happen, I don't even think they could get much better than the new voices from the previous season. And the ratings for season 7 weren't much lower on average than for season 6; it was pretty much just a normal season-to-season drop that most likely would have happened regardless.
I mean, look at the actual averages:
Season 1 - 1.57 million viewers Season 2 - 1.97 million viewers Season 3 - 2.33 million viewers Season 4 - 1.52 million viewers Season 5 - 0.96 million viewers Season 6 - 0.56 million viewers Season 7 - 0.42 million viewers
Ever since season 3, it had been having steep drops even with Roiland still involved; the season 6 to 7 drop is actually the smallest-percentage drop it's had since it started dropping, and if anything it's possible that changing the voice actors actually *boosted* interest a bit and prevented it from dropping even more.