s9 ep10 as an exploration of morty's trauma is just so fucking good and perfect and needed and i love this fucking show
it's tied the themes of the other s9 episodes in so fucking good i can't put it into eloquent structure as the thoughts come to me so i've highlighted those ideas in blue
a show built on such an episodic premise - this nature emphasised again and again even by it's own characters (the repeated rick stumbling into morty's room drunk rambling about their next adventure scene. side note id be so interested to compare the particular episodes where that scene is used) - playing with the idea of what lasting effect the episodic nature can have on all of the characters - rick in ep 1 when he mentions in exasperation the indefinite number of seasons r&m has been greenlit for - is just so fucking good and kind of an unexplored idea
rick simultaneously being the smartest man in the everythingverse and him being mentally well is legitimately impossible - there has to be one or the other. we SEE rick realising this and struggling with this in previous episodes (s9 ep2? i think? the one where rick deletes his memory to go on camping trips with his secret buddies). we SEE the impact it's had on morty and the rest of his family - i wasn't super attentive when i watched the episode about empathy (8? 9?) but the sanchez family's lack of empathy and care for what's going on around them is literally the reason anything happens in this episode so i'm assuming there's relevance.
the smith family being happy (somewhat. i'm summing up their unhealthy attachment to morty to the fact that he died) in a universe where they cut off rick, rick becoming a better person and sobering up in a universe where he can't live with his family/access to portal travel. is this big foreshadowing for an ending? potentially
also also the funeral hopping montage in most scenes rick is either not shown or visibly drunk/drinking/not well 😭😭😭 the implication that he'd turn even more intensely to drinking if morty actually died - the ep about rick's drinking
something something morty using portal travel and becoming the one to abruptly enter and intentionally destroy an entire family when that's the reason rick is why he is in the first place. something something cycle of abuse. trauma cycle... because guess where it ends for morty!!! - more trauma!! more reason to be disconnected from it all!
morty not being phased (actually if i recall correctly he's lowkey happy about it) by the other rick's behaviour after he becomes drunk again and pushes away his wife and loses all sense of empathy bc that's what his rick is like all the time. that's so expected and normal to him
also, an idea i don't have thoughts on now but will make another post about if it hits me - the title of the episode. field of dreams? it's possibly a reference to something like every other episode title is (unless it isn't in which case that's only even more significant) but how crazy to not have the "rick" or "mort" reference in there at all like other eps. ts gets real guys
i think (complete speculation let me clarify) we've entered the rick and morty era where justin "the idiot" roiland's writing has fully phased out and we're getting pure straight genius from a team of people that no longer have to worry about writing in another way for him to blabber in the same shitty whiney voice. it's really showing in how every single ep this season was a banger
season 9, in my passionate opinion, has been the best season in the whole series thus far and it's made me SO incredibly excited for what's to come










