Film Theory: The Old Rick is Dead! (Rick and Morty)

Gonna miss you matpat. 💗

Rick not going in the hole after Diane and instead praising Morty (even tho it was silently) was very nice to see

Honestly is kinda charming how Matpatt acknowledges that he is leaving, he sound very proud that the channels are continuing with the people that are just right for the job

Actually now that I think about it, suicide IS a common theme this season. Rick LITERALLY kills another version of himself. And shoots himself as Jerry. And that whole spaghetti episode

11:55 Summer saying: ”Pass the parmÈzÈan” is a cool detail and showes that they are still in the same universe.

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I’m surprised they didn’t mention that short side plot of the time lady who literally begins to go down the exact same path as Rick but actually ends up living a better, healed life instead. Someone had mentioned how the music that played during that scene was the same as the one that played when we first saw the montage of Rick’s rampage that lead to the creation of the citadel, except that the lady’s music ended on a major chord whereas Rick’s ended in a minor chord

I hate myself for not noticing it earlier, notice the way they said Parmezan in the spaghetti episode. A throwback to earlier episode when the whole family jumped realities to almost the same new reality with the downside of wierdly saying the name of this cheese.

If you think Evil Morty is going to disappear, you haven't been paying attention. MattPat makes a good point, but he forgot something...Evil Morty recognized Rick's emptiness immediately. Why? Because he is experiencing it himself. EM destroyed the Citadel, killed thousands of Rick & Mortys, and escaped to a distant universe to get away. But when we see him this season, he is dull and lifeless, relaxing in boredom, no goals or reason to keep going save survival. And now he can erase any being from all of existance. He has no support system, no one to call on. He is eventually going to try and fill that hole in him, no matter the damage.

A nice little detail in the episode "A morte" is that the machine rick used to display the old mans memories is the same machine used in the memory waffle back in the citadels of rick. Meaning that another approach was to either make a psuedo product or a replacement but he chooses to end the cycle of violence instead.