Sure, the frigid wife and dead daughter backstory is a bit cliche at this point, but it works because of Rick's clear disdain for it, he knows how obvious a motivator this is, and he hates it. Grief sent Rick down a path to find the other Rick who introduced him to portal gun tech, and who killed Beth and Diane, leading Rick to kill hundreds of other Ricks, until he agreed to a truce and created the Citadel of Ricks. Yes, the flashback from the Season 3 premiere was real, Rick's wife did die in that explosion, along with Beth. Here we get a couple of huge lore dumps, the first of which is confirmation of Rick's backstory. Indeed, Rickmurai Jack even includes its fair share of meta jokes about how they're doing all this for the fans, and how we better enjoy it now because it won't last - there is even a comicbook-like editor's note with Rick as Stan Lee reminding us when Evil Morty first showed up. In case it wasn't obvious before, the Rick and Morty writers absolutely despise continuity, and it's hard not to see why, given that the moment the show leans too heavily on it, it effectively ends, with new episodes having to build upon what came before and not repeat any plot point.
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In order to fix Morty, they head to the Citadel, which Rick wants to avoid because it "runs on canon." After a dinner invitation by President Morty, fans finally get the full continuity and lore meal they've been asking for. The scene also works because it forgets about the crude jokes, the sci-fi concepts and the crows, and focuses on what made this one of the best animated comedies of the past decade, the relationship between the characters.Īfter Rick realizes that his archnemesis, CrowScare is having sex with his crows, Rick leaves his dark companions and returns to Morty, who turned himself into a 40-year-old to guilt Rick into coming back home because he is starting to recognize that he desperately wants to get back together with Rick, as he's become codependent on their relationship and adventures. Sure, we know this is only temporary, but as I've noted before, the show doesn't have to actively remind us that things have changed for us to know that things have changed, and even though Rick and Morty will probably largely ignore the events of this episode in the future, the audience knows what Rick said, and it does change how we view their relationship from here on out.
I’ll always be your grandpa, I’m just kind of obsessed with crows now," Rick says in a rather teary farewell. Now, the idea of an episode where Morty and Rick split up is nothing new, but what matters is the emotional and grounded way in which the episode ends, with Rick finally acknowledging his own toxicity, and deciding to leave Morty himself rather than firing him. After Nick kills a bunch of people in his quest to fuel his own portal gun, Morty decides to leave him, pulling a 127 Hours to cut his own hand off and then throwing it down Nick's own portal hole, killing him. Turns out, Morty and Nick are linked because they both accidentally spill some portal gun fluid on their bodies, creating a direct portal between them. This time, it is Nick, a guy that hung out with Rick once and now lives in a mental institution because of this experience. Meanwhile, Morty teams up with yet another seemingly innocent person that turns out to be a violent psychopath. Most of the episode's humor lies in Rick learning that crows are "empathetic as fuck" and extremely cool. While the finale doesn't retroactively fix those problems, it does provide a thin layer of continuity that makes the feeling of something being off lead to a big change in the main dynamic of the show, as Rick fires Morty once and for all.Įpisode 9, Forgetting Sarick Mortshall, starts with Morty pissing Rick off so much by messing with the portal gun - to literally fix the many problems Rick leaves behind - that he pulls out the Wheel of Sidekicks Better Than Morty and decides to team up with two crows.
The big problem in the season is that many of the episodes felt like they were sidetracking the character dynamics we know and love in favor of wacky sci-fi concepts, and every time two characters were on screen together, something felt off. So far, Season 5 has played fast and loose with continuity, teasing small changes that have been lurking in the background, with subtle differences in the way certain characters act that seem to indicate they've changed after all this time.
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