rhett&link selling ian and anthony smosh back after keeping it safe like their grandparents taking care of their yaoi grandchild while their parents were sick
This is why I don’t think that episode 9 was a total waste. It wasn’t just a “haha you thought Rick was nicer” fakeout. If anything, I’m shocked that Rick didn’t make the robot an asshole. He built the robot because he was pissed at Morty. He could’ve made him season three Rick (or worse) to get back at him.
Instead, Rick programmed him to be a loving grandfather, and the last line shows that he’s aware that he needs to change. Deceiving Morty was still shitty, but…he knows that he’s never done right by that kid.
(contains spoilers for “ricktional mortpoon’s rickmas mortcation”)
let me preface this by saying i love rick and i do not want to sound like a hater lol.
i’m not even gonna pretend to be enthralled by the prospect of breaking this episode down. it was good, even great in a lot of ways, but… it broke a part of me, i think.
i feel betrayed. i feel morty’s heartbreak. i really do.
it was a decent exploration of rick attempting to heal while he’s not ready yet. he’s not ready to move on and get better if it’s going to be hard work.
…and honestly? i’m angry with him for that.
i’m angry with rick for victim blaming morty, yet AGAIN. for acting entitled to morty’s forgiveness. for lying and tricking that little boy into thinking someone real cared about him.
for dragging a 14yo into something this heavy. this destructive. this reckless. this unforgiving and all-consuming.
GOD i am so sick of this. i’m all for rick’s healing, but why is it being put before morty’s every time? i mean… i get that there’s four more seasons to go. morty has plenty of time to be given justice, but… i feel so bad for him.
i think i’m giving it a 7.5/10 after a rewatch because it really was wonderfully and realistically written.
i don’t want to come across as too harsh, because i definitely do sympathize with rick. i don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to break the audience. i think that’s a wonderful tool of art. nor do i think protagonists have to be good. it’s just a harsh reality that your beloved protagonist is destined to be the villain in the story, though, and i feel like that’s what rick is fated to be for morty.
i attribute most of my negative feelings towards my morty bias and my emotional attachment to the last episode.
okay… general thoughts, as always:
-is it bad to say i prefer rick bot over real rick? because, uhhh… i do. he wove his way into my heart by the end of all of this. poor dude. he really loved his family. i kinda wished we could’ve kept him around.
why couldn’t we?
give morty a decent grandpa challenge: go!
i think he’s my new favorite rick aside from c-137. what a badass wholesome peepaw of a dude!!!
-morty loves his family so damn much, and it feels like none of them have really earned that from him. he wants his family to have a nice christmas, even if his is going to shit.
-morty crying when curtis yelled at him made me tear up.
“he’s busy and i hate him!”
it’s just the last little thing he needed to break down. he’s a little kid who’s having the worst christmas imaginable, and… no one cares about fixing that for him.
other than rick bot.
-i actually loved the moment where rick says he’ll get “neurotypical cooties,” and implies that neurotypicals aren’t creative. casual autism rep lol.
-rick victim blaming morty once again… ugh… bro just immediately regressed.
all morty had to do was say he was “boring.” rick just proved that he’d have pulled another “the vat of acid episode” if he hadn’t made rick bot.
how many hurtful things do you think you’ve said to morty, rick? bc i can guarantee it’s a million times more hurtful than anything you’ve ever heard come from morty’s mouth. especially “boring.”
tbh… i think that it might say something about his character that he didn’t do that, and he chose to give morty a better grandpa instead, but also…
ouch.
i know it’s a statement about how he needs to tie up his unfinished business before he can move on and really put in the work, but… morty must just feel like he’s not worth the effort of apologizing.
the man that morty follwed down into that lab isn’t the one who said “i’m sorry.” he’s not the one that said “i love you too.” he’s not the one who hugged morty.
the man who said those things is not the grandpa that morty chose all the way back in “solaricks.”
morty is consistently willing to put the work into helping rick, but he’s constantly shown that rick can’t be bothered to put the effort into helping him.
-the fact that morty felt bad for yelling at rick? i just wanted to tell him that he has a right to be upset…
-notice how not one member of the family mentions morty’s absence from the holiday family time? yikes…
poor little guy.
i think this is why that reveal bothered me so much… he thought someone real cared about him. he thought a real person cared about saying “i’m sorry. i love you too.” to him.
but no.
-what’s even more heartbreaking? he learned to care about rick bot. that was the grandpa he wanted, but he doesn’t even get to choose that, anymore.
“i don’t want another you!”
-bro rick just won’t let up. the lightsaber bit? GOD, man. just let the kid have a moment.
-something is so comically wrong with rick’s ability to create AI systems lmao. they’re always so sassy and go against his orders. the garage? the car? dude… maybe rethink your stance on AI autonomy. you’re giving it more freewill than you allow your grandson.
-i literally can’t even be upset with morty for being angry with rick. i’m here for it. smoke his ass, lil junebug!
-poor rick bot trying to come clean to his family. that guilt sure did eat him alive :((
look at him with his girls… :(
i guess that explains his softer voice acting for last ep and this ep. he’s just a completely different rick.
-it kept making me upset that rick demonized morty over and over again for trying to stick up for himself. it was really hard to watch him not even try to pretend to care about earning morty’s trust, respect, and forgiveness.
he HONESTLY thinks he’s entitled to it.
-MORTY!! YOU ADORABLE LITTLE BADASS!
-curtis is such an ass lmao. gay icon.
-noticed these gay lil soldiers. ship them!!
-I. LOVE. RICK. BOT.
go dude, go!! he’s honestly so sweet… i’m going to genuinely, deeply mourn this character.
-haha, how cute is it that morty acts like a little adventure expert? “slowly closing door! slide!”
-poor rick bot… suicidal ass :(
-dude, morty just cannot catch a break, huh?
“i’ve always wanted to fight with a lightsaber, but not like this! you ruined it!”
every time i think this kid is gonna get a piece of his childhood back, it’s like… nope!
-the joke about the robot with lightsabers for eyes was actually so funny.
-okay, okay… the slow motion scenes WERE hilarious. i must admit.
-it broke me when morty said he was done with forgiveness… especially to see him follow rick down to that lab just a few moments later…
will he ever stop hoping that people can be better? will he ever stop sacrificing himself to his own detriment?
one thing about morty? he’s gonna try to do the right thing. the noble thing.
-ugh… poor morty… i hate the fact that this pushed him to trust rick again. i hate the fact that he had to lose rick bot.
and rick twisting the meaning of rick bot’s words, too? i don’t think rick bot meant for rick to offer to drag morty into this.
oh, well… i can just tell this dynamic in s7 is going to be harrowing. morty just wants to believe his grandpa can be good. i hope he can :(
-lmao why is rick essentially curtis’s tech sugar daddy? slay i guess?
-this ending scene is heartbreaking. morty once again a slave to his grandpa’s madness? so obviously terrified? morty’s just a kid, and what an unfair choice to force him to make…
“it’s going to take over your life, morty!”
“it’s the most painful shit i’ve ever been through and i’m fucking bringing you into it, because you asked for it!”
did he ask for it…? crying and sobbing.
i am super excited for the new season, though! it seems like they’re gonna be ballsy and make it hyper-serialized when in comparison to the rest of the show, which… hell yeah!!
i guess i’m both excited and anxious to see what they do to my boys, though. i really need them to heal and work together. i was really starting to hope that rick was starting to treat morty like a partner- or, at least, a kid who’s feelings, wants, and needs matter just as much as his own.
just like morty to lay himself upon the altar so that rick may bathe in his blood- a fitting sacrifice. a noble end.
i’m about to custom make a tee with morty’s face on it that just says: “SAVE THE BABY 2023”
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