Film Theory: Rick REBORN? (Rick and Morty Season 6)

Hi Rick, the

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6 premiere was really good, but thematically what is it about and where does the show go from here? No time to explain, here we go, so there was time to explain who took so long to disappear. I'm going to start the episode now, okay, stop digging, look for hidden layers and I'm impressed. Hello Internet, welcome to

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Theory, the show that knows that what people call curiosity is just a chemical that compels animals to seek knowledge, ladies and gromplamites. Rick Sanchez and the rest of his dysfunctional family are back and they came back strong last week.

The sixth

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. The premiere of Solaris did not disappoint. I know there's been a lot of discussion lately about Rick and Morty losing its way during the last season, but if this new episode is anything to go by. It looks like the show is making a comeback with some big story reveals. Look, my original Rick killed your family. You seem to understand. Well, Morty, that was a plus. Re-piping Hilarious Moments. Double check. Hey, remember a second ago when you pretended not to know who. Iron Man was who that was for the introduction of a new villain, check again oh you found me.

I also photographed the first monitor, but there is also something else hiding beneath the surface of this episode, something new, something that gives me hope for the future. The series is healing well, there is certainly a lot of plot in this episode, something that many other networks have talked about exhaustively in recaps and explanations. At this point, I'm seeing a lot less discussion about the themes of this particular episode, I mean the plot. Wise wise, the show did more than enough to bring everyone up to speed on what they needed to know. I explained it well.

Morty, your spoon feeds spoons, but thematically this episode is a pivotal moment for the franchise, as the characters not only perform a complete dimensional reset but also a complete emotional reset, so consider this lesson's analysis of what happened in episode and more a breakdown of what I think this episode is actually trying to tell the audience what themes Rick and Morty will explore throughout season six because between all the Sci-Fi Mind Games and Gunless Portals Skip Dimension This program is doing something else, it is showing us two different and apparently opposite strategies to deal with pain.

I know, I know that animated therapy is everyone's favorite topic to talk about when it comes to their favorite mad science. Comedy fiction cartoon, but what Rick and Morty, the show and this episode in particular, have shown us is that traumatic experiences, like seeing your wife and daughter murdered in front of you, are things that will have consequences, not only consequences for the Lord. The history of the franchise, but also the emotional consequences that affect who these characters are and what they want moving forward, so reset your Portal weapons and your expectations, loyal theorists because let's go in case you missed the episode, This is what you need to know.

The episode picks up exactly where season five left Rick and Morty stranded in the destroyed remains of The Citadel with the Portal technology completely inoperable. They are eventually saved by Captain Marvel. I mean space. Beth Rick accidentally resets all the Portal Travelers to their original state. Dimensions that send Jerry back to a failed season 2 marriage with Beth Morty back to Cronenberg's monster universe from when his Jessica Love Potion went wrong and Rick back to the garage where he lost his wife and daughter, this moment is finally confirmed once and for all. Rick's backstory is that he was actually blue pants Rick, he was built differently, he wasn't interested in being the smartest guy in the universe, sorry rich bro, don't let this slide, it also makes me wonder if the Evil Morty was also restored to his original.

The dimension of this movement, but that remains to be seen anyway, we see the prison of pain that Rick has created for himself, the voice of his late wife Diane, always a room away on a day that will repeat itself infinitely as Morty meets his original Jerry. who is not happy to see him in summer and Beth have died, so Jerry moved on with his life, he is a survivor, he will do anything to improve his chances, this includes stealing things from Morty, refusing his help and letting him die during this faster process. I had to set a trap, I thought you'd have coolers in the meantime in the summer.

Beth and Space Beth embark on a mini-adventure to set up portal navigation beacons for Rick to follow back to his Universe, resolving their own issues of family and identity while fighting off alien space squids with inter-dimensionals. Traveling Just Got Easier Rick jumps into the Cronenberg Universe to save Morty and then searches for the Rick of Morty's Dimension, the same sci-fi Rick Prime who killed his wife and daughter, setting in motion the entire series following Rick Prime. to its invisible space. base, our Rick goes on a suicidal rampage in an attempt to kill him, but is stopped when Morty convinces Rick that his new family is more important than getting revenge.

Rick and Mort already pick up Summer Beth and make room for Beth before saving Jerry from the unhappy marriage in their Original Universe they return home together as a happy family unit until season 2, Jerry releases a cute Abomination that ruins everything. Jerry indicates that the family has to find another new dimension, although here they will have to deal with an annoying trait. Actually, it was a rush job, so they say parmesan. It's weird, how do you say parmesan? So I guess everyone got the bigger theme throughout this episode: Rick's grief for his dead family, the whole thing haunted by the digital ghost of your dead wife.

It's not exactly subtle when Rick returns to his original Dimension, we, as the audience, see that his past strategies for coping with the loss of his wife and daughter have been as unhealthy and exaggerated as would be expected of a man. Like Rick Sanchez. Unable to fully accept the loss of his wife Diane Rick recreated her as an AI, a literal disembodied voice that follows him throughout his house, always out of sight and a room away, you thought that if you could see me or touch me, I could give you a level of comfort but of course, because this is a creation made by Rick destined to torture himself, the AI ​​is also eager to raise young Beth, who tragically never made it out of childhood.

Did you find out that you will find it? You always do everything you set out to do. You care about agreeing to keep your family alive. All this may seem cruel. Remember that it is self-inflicted cruelty. Rick created this Ai and everything he does is ultimately something he programmed. You are not her, you are something I built. Torture Myself in This Dimension Rick lives in a mental prison of his own creation and he is not the only one in pain, he is also forcing everyone around him to live in a physical prison. Rick is unwilling to let go of the In the past, he has kept his house in a state of perpetual stasis by pulling a magic wand by locking his real-life neighbors in a cycle that repeats the same day over and over again for the decades Rick has been away.

His trauma has trapped innocent bystanders. in an endless Loop all because it is unable to leave the past behind they say that my mind is captive in a Loop of Time trapped on the day of a traumatic event by the agony of a formidable intelligence that my body spoils and longs for death So, in Rick The Show presents us with a man who clearly cannot let go of the trauma of his past. A prison has been created. He immerses himself in suffering every day. Clearly this is not the healthiest strategy for coping with his pain. Something that the program emphasizes repeatedly. home or weirdo, I pity you, I wish you could let go and move on sounds healthy, it sure would be, but while that is already a powerful commentary on the power of pain and what it can do if it consumes you, this episode also shows a completely different way for a father to react to the death of his wife and daughter and no, we're not talking about Rick anymore.

Look, Rick isn't the only man who lost his family in this episode when Morty returns to his home. Dimension, now a jungle-covered Cronenberg publication. -Apocalyptic wasteland, we meet its original Jerry. Life in Hell hasn't been easy, unfortunately, it was more than this universe's Beth and Summer could survive. We've spent a lot of time on that ice. A gentle mutant licked us, but Beth got sick and Summer. I didn't think that when our Morty finds him, this Jerry is alone against the world as a hardened survivor, but unlike Rick, who has been trapped in the past, Jerry is a man who has chosen to let go to move on and overcome the loss of loved ones.

Your mom and sister died, Morty and I stopped worrying, and that's the best deal you'll ever get, so take it. Jerry has worked so hard to overcome this pain that he ultimately wants nothing to do with his own son and a long-lost Morty. returns to the Dimension of origin, so the show very clearly presents us with two different parents, both confronted with the horrible reality of a dead couple and a child who react in two seemingly opposite ways: one Rick is trapped in the past while the other Jerry is watching. Moving forward Rick desperately clings to what he's lost, while Jerry would rather forget it all and completely give up everything he had in his old life in the process.

Now, every time Rick and Morty shows us this kind of contrast in black and white. The way the Creator is trying to tell us something is almost as if the Rick and Morty writers are pitting these two opposing coping strategies against each other to see which one works, but instead of choosing sides here, Solaris is actually telling us that these methods are not Everything is very different, although it seems that Rick and Jerry are dealing with pain in opposite ways, the truth is that they are making the same mistake, no matter how much Jerry talks about leaving the past behind, looking forward and moving forward. with his life.

Haunted by his past as much as Rick is, we see this at the end of the episode when Rick Prime appears in the Cronenberg Dimension. Jerry sees this as a chance to get revenge on the people who ruined the world he knew you hate. them too, now it could have ended with a little teamwork, admittedly that could have just been a fakeout on Jerry's part to t

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Rick Prime into letting his guard down, but for the rest of the episode we see that repeatedly while Jerry says they let him go. He clearly hasn't when Morty shows up.

Jerry is only willing to talk to him on friendly terms for as long as it takes to steal all of his stuff. Jerry is actively running away from serious conversations with his natural child, leaving notes as a distraction. Technique to buy time and escape, even if they weren't related, this might be the only other normal non-mutated human left on the planet, but Jerry can't seem to accept any kind of future that involves accepting Morty's help. that will take him away from this nightmare of living if Rick comes back we can find you a new reality a new mom a new summer a job oh you don't have a camera except for this conversation my life is perfect Rick was always right everyone needs to let go, he has moved on Rick's advice to let go has taken him to his most unhealthy extreme, he has stopped being a father to Morty and a summer husband to Beth, part of society as a whole, all of that is part of the man Jerry used to be in.

On a surface level it might seem like you've run away from your past, but the truth is you're just blindly running away from your past and running away blindly from your past is still letting the pain control you. Our Rick and this original Jerry are both men. who never really process the pain of losing their families Rick chose to wallow in his pain while Jerry decided to run away from it these seem like different responses but ultimately both approaches have the same consequence the pain remains unresolved continues to torment them in Rick's case It is literally a lurking AI ghost and a nightmarish reality of his own creation and although Jerry might not have been directly responsible for creating this particular nightmare world, he refuses to leave it when the opportunity presents itself, choosing to stay there just the same. that Rick I.

I mean this here is not the face of a man who is happy or satisfied with his course of life. You see, the show presents us with a false dichotomy here where the only options seem to be to hold on to the past and drown in your pain or run away. from the past and ignoring your pain, but as is often the case, the real solution is to reject the false dichotomy and choose a third option to face the pain and resolve it and that is what Rick and Morty, both the show and the characters, are trying to tell us In this episode, this is how you resolve Rick's character, Arc.

So what does a healthy approach to dealing with grief look like? According to Dr. J. William Warden of the School ofHarvard Medicine, a mental health expert who specializes in grief counseling, the solution to negative feelings is. It's not to lull them to sleep like Rick so often does nor is it to run away from them like we see with Jerry here. No, the solution is to accept those emotions to feel them so that your body and brain can move on with the best parts of your life while you leave them. behind the painful remains now that doesn't mean you should look for your green, even inflict emotional pain on yourself.

I mean, we've been watching Rick do that to himself the entire show looking for pain because that's what he thinks he deserves. but accepting pain is not the same as seeking it and Rick seems to be overcoming that phase of his grief; In fact, Rick seems to be adopting one of Dr. Warren's recommended methods for processing grief in a healthy way, learning to trust family, you know, I guess. It doesn't matter where we're from if we're together, huh, good final moral, this is everyone's original Dimension. Now it's a great wrap-up for the kids for all their attempts to push.

In the end, Rick realizes the importance of family, even if the family he has now is a found family put together from variants and clones he's put together. throughout the Multiverse and when Mr. Frontales escapes containment and puts everyone at risk, look what happens. he hastens to abandon the entire Dimension. Notice that the only thing he doesn't abandon is his family. He could have left you guys. Do you think the concept of family is important to me? I'm not even their Rick, that's right, Rick, they could have left. them behind, but you didn't because, unlike Rick Prime, you care, I promise you don't, you know fate will make Rick come back to make you bait, the guide has to value something, in fact, I think that we see the moment in which the change occurs.

It turns around in Rick's mind when Morty doesn't let Rick continue with his mission to kill Rick. Prime goes down there, he's still good, how good he takes care of you, he dies, why do you care if I die? Yeah, when you get it from him, not me. I don't know him, you're my grandfather Rick, Rick and Morty, a hundred years old at that time. Rick realizes that protecting Morty's living family from him is more important than avenging his dead family, although Rick does not give up his quest for revenge just yet. It's another big step in his personal healing process throughout his most recent seasons.

Rick and Morty has grappled with the tension between the classic Rick and Morty adventures versus the show's Canon and the persistent narrative of episodic sci-fi hijinks that make the show fun to watch versus the plot and character arcs that actually They elevate the show to another level, but I think what the Season 6 premiere does is make it clear that the two things don't have to be in conflict. Both are significant and important in this episode and I suspect this season is. It will be about how Rick deals with his grief using classic style adventures, but now, embracing his newly found and chosen family, the creators of the series are combining these two parts of the show and in doing so, they suddenly come up with something important, sometimes not.

Sometimes I don't realize that when you're healing it's only after you look back and see how much you've grown and if you ask me, making this season a bunch of episodic sci-fi adventures while also secretly being the art Rick's healing is how you move forward is it a prediction? It is an illusion? Well, for now we'll just call it

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