In Pocket Mortys, there's a female Morty called "Morticia." There's also a girl Morty just named "Girl Morty", which is a reference to Mabel from Gravity Falls.
Last ep was pretty good, but I feel like they wayyyyyy overstuffed it with plots that'd have made great eps in their own right. Not really all that interested in Evil Morty either, but honestly I've never understood why the fandom was so enamored with a spoof on a pretty cliched twist anyway.
Because he's 'eeeeeevil' but potentially for good reasons [Rick is an asshole and Morty suffers] so even being evil should potentially improve life overall.
Because he's 'eeeeeevil' but potentially for good reasons [Rick is an asshole and Morty suffers] so even being evil should potentially improve life overall.
Last ep was pretty good, but I feel like they wayyyyyy overstuffed it with plots that'd have made great eps in their own right. Not really all that interested in Evil Morty either, but honestly I've never understood why the fandom was so enamored with a spoof on a pretty cliched twist anyway.
I can't speak for the knuckle draggingly autistic part of the fandom, but I think the reason why a lot of people (myself included) are interested in Evil Morty isn't so much because he's an evil Morty, but rather how he came to be Evil Morty.
The newest season hadn't been all that great to me, but the latest episode is now my top 5 (what are the other 4? not sure). I really hope the rest of the season will be great, but this episode was a highlight already.
I didn't get the opportunity to watch Sunday's episode until last night, and holy shit. I'm still thinking about it. Aside from the fucking awesome Evil Morty reveal, it was just a really fantastic episode in general. I particularly loved the plot about the Rick who worked in the wafer cookie factory.
Also, we finally got an in-depth look at the Citadel of Ricks, and it makes perfect sense why our Rick hates it so much and wants nothing to do with it (aside from the whole "fuck authority" thing). It's basically just a microcosm of the rest of the world: the ruling elite keeping everyone down and exploiting them, people stuck in shitty 9-5 jobs that don't pay them nearly enough, rigid social/occupational classes, etc. Essentially, the Ricks retreated from society only to perfectly recreate it. It's a small wonder that our Rick prefers to live in his daughter's garage and go on crazy adventures instead of being a factory worker.
Oh, and I can't be the only person who thought that the Rick who gave Campaign Manager Morty the incriminating information about Evil Morty actually worked for Evil Morty, can I? Evil Morty would have known that Campaign Manager Morty would be bitter about being fired and would want revenge. He would have chosen Campaign Manager Morty specifically to leak the info to because he'd be more likely to violently act on his personal vendetta in a way that benefits Evil Morty's plan. Surviving an assassination attempt would skyrocket Evil Morty's popularity (as seen with what happened to Ronald Regan after his survived assassination attempt), giving him the edge he needed to win the election.
Idk, I was just surprised they didn't show that mysterious Rick as part of Evil Morty's entourage because I thought that's what they were hinting at.
The whole thing is nuts and bothered me at first. Like, what they just all surrender their portal guns?
Apparently so. The fuck kind of Rick surrenders his portal gun? To me, the entire thing seems to be designed to contain Ricks and prevent them from Ricking things up. Which would mean several of them are on a govts payroll. No wonder Rick hates it. The entire thing reeks of bullshit, and no wonder they are all mooks. Far too many of them are so UnRick that they willingly stay there, giving up everything that makes them Rick.
Otherwise, we would have and should have seen most of the Ricks just portaling the fuck out once they got ported into a prison.
Its just a show man. However, if they went in and had a back story for it, it could be Ricks that lost their portal guns, with the vast majority of Ricks not living in the citadel (which seems logical to me). Just as the Mortys were mostly, it would seem, Mortys who's Ricks had died. Or they could lack the materials to make the portals work. Or any number of other things.
The whole thing is nuts and bothered me at first. Like, what they just all surrender their portal guns?
Apparently so. The fuck kind of Rick surrenders his portal gun? To me, the entire thing seems to be designed to contain Ricks and prevent them from Ricking things up. Which would mean several of them are on a govts payroll. No wonder Rick hates it. The entire thing reeks of bullshit, and no wonder they are all mooks. Far too many of them are so UnRick that they willingly stay there, giving up everything that makes them Rick.
Otherwise, we would have and should have seen most of the Ricks just portaling the fuck out once they got ported into a prison.
They do have portal technology, though. Just not a lot of portal guns, it seems. The ones they do have are heavily regulated. I'm hoping they do a plot or something for this since Rick's portal gun was a pretty big deal in the first episode of the season.
It's something that bugged me too. Best I could guess is they don't want to leave. The Citadel is a place where a Rick's intelligence wouldn't isolate him, as that notion usually goes, since most Ricks are his equal (minus the occasional Doofus or Tall Morty). It would be an interesting thing to get the backstory for, a bunch of Ricks deciding to create a place for themselves only to see it morph into a recreation of everyday life for normal people as they need Ricks to fill out a variety of different jobs.
I think SWAT Rick's words should be taken literally instead of metaphorically, maybe most of the Citadel's working class Ricks are clones or drones from assembly lines?
I personally think many of the Ricks come from realities where the Smiths are dead or emotionally distanced from them, the Galatic Federation won, or they fucked up their lives and/or universes so badly they simply don't give a shit anymore (and Ricks' natural state is not giving much of a shit to begin with).
You know, this Episode kinda got me thinking. We latched onto the idea that the rick we follow is the 'rickest rick'. but thats solely because thats what he said. but lets be honest here, thats the equiv of saying they're the realest dude. from what we seen in the citadel, most if not all Ricks have banded together in their own society and seemingly crave security that they only feel that themselves (even if its another version of him) can 'provide'. But protag rick goes the exact opposite route. So what if that 'throw-away line' was just that, a throw away line from an arrogant rebel.
You know, this Episode kinda got me thinking. We latched onto the idea that the rick we follow is the 'rickest rick'. but thats solely because thats what he said. but lets be honest here, thats the equiv of saying they're the realest dude. from what we seen in the citadel, most if not all Ricks have banded together in their own society and seemingly crave security that they only feel that themselves (even if its another version of him) can 'provide'. But protag rick goes the exact opposite route. So what if that 'throw-away line' was just that, a throw away line from an arrogant rebel.
You know that Morty that gets left behind with the frog monsters in the opening? Theory goes that's Rick's OG Morty, one who he was with since Morty was a baby (as evidenced by his flashbacks with baby Morty and the picture in Birdperson's place. Could even explain how attached Rick is to Morty, as seen with Toxic Rick and his suggestion to the final Vindicators test). Rick left him behind, presumed him dead, and jumped to a new reality with a fresh Morty. It could also give context to his line about how dangerous a cocky Morty or whatever could be, plus Rick kept the coupon or whatever for a replacement Morty. Then there's how casually he stepped into the life of his dead counterpart in Rick Potion #9, making it seem it's not the first time he's done this.
It's the kind of sappy backstory people love, the kind of thing people expect out of Rick (which he used to his advantage in Rickshank) to explain his self-destructive nature. But it fits almost too well, like that's what we're meant to believe so I've become more skeptical about it as of late. It seems too cliche, and we all know how this show loves messing with cliches.
