By: Nostalgia Drive
The R5 of the pilot was not the final animation. Animators for House of Cosby's (the studio behind the show) had clearly finished the scenes, but the color grading was off. Characters didn't pop against the backgrounds. The lighting on Rick’s lab looked flat compared to the deep shadows of the broadcast version. It looked like a really, really good Flash game. rick and morty s01e01 r5
"Is the R5 worth it, or should I wait for the 720p WEB?" "The Russian subtitles are burned in, but I don't care. Wubba lubba dub dub!" Today, you can stream the pilot in 4K HDR. The belches are crisp. The colors pop. Justin Roiland’s improvised stutters are perfectly encoded. By: Nostalgia Drive The R5 of the pilot
For two whole weeks, the only way to see Rick turn Morty into a neutrino bomb was to endure the R5. It was a right of passage. You watched it in 480p with artifacted shadows and dubbed audio because the hype was real. Community forums were flooded with threads like: The lighting on Rick’s lab looked flat compared
Region 5 covers Russia, India, Africa, and parts of Eastern Europe. Why does that matter? Major studios would send "work-in-progress" DVDs to these regions early for dubbing and localization.
When dropped as an R5, the internet lost its mind. But for different reasons than you might think.