rick and morty season 9 episode 1
i like the cold open where we see morty walking in on rick texting, and rick's like "what's that. pal?" that's one way morty knows something's up lol. it's hilarious how rick and morty fight over morty trying to get a glimpse of rick's phone, i'm glad the season starts focusing on rick AND morty. just like the show SHOULD be i hope the rest of the season continues that. i'm mostly only going to focus on the rick and morty interactions. because all of season 8 i had to read reviews of mostly OTHER characters so guess what? season 9? IS RICK AND MORTY TIME
so, rick and morty wrestle and rick's phone drops revealing the screen, and a text from evil morty pops up. last time evil morty was in an episode it was season 7 "unmortricken" and the last thing he told rick before heading off to the finite curve was him explaining why he didn't destroy rick with the omega device then, and there. his quote was "you're different though rick, maybe i can use that someday" well…i guess 'someday" has come
in the season 9 premiere…anyway, back to this episode. so of course after rick and morty banter about rick texting evil morty. rick explains that evil morty threatens to erase the smith family unless rick helps evil morty with "stuff".
then after rick's phone buzzes and rick and morty are still bantering, evil morty shows up and this dialogue happens
"rick and morty for 100 years rick and morty doing rick and morty things" remember that? lol.no one else JUST RICK AND MORTY. morty was always attached to rick's hip...figuratively and sometimes literally *winks*
so, when rick evil morty, and morty prime go through the portal we see what rick was talking about, and evil morty explains to morty if anything happens to him then he will use the omega device and the smith family and rick will be gone forever across infinite universes. so, i'm guessing when evil mortysaid there was something different about rick he was referring to rick actually cares about his family. no other rick whent so far as to hunt down rick prime who murdered beth and diane c-137 but, rick c-137 did. so, now morty knows rick c-137's weakness is the smith family.. but, he can't include morty because if morty is wiped out that would include evil morty as well.
evil morty explains to rick and morty prime that the reason they are there is because evil morty wants rick to defeat a guy who calls himself the collective who is eating the multiverse, and is reaching the finite curve. i was kinda wondering if unity would show up lol. the collective vs the hive...that sounds like it would have been cool. ANYWAY. after that morty learns that this isn't the first time rick and evil morty teamed up together, and they all go out for space waffles.
i like their conversation at the waffle house evil morty and rick telling morty prime about their partnership, morty prime acting jealous, then rick goes to the restroom, and then evil morty and morty prime talk. i've seen plenty of lifetime psychological thriller movies to know evil morty is trying to get into morty's head, and trying to get him to reveal HIS weakness. because evil morty's done with rick, the collective is defeated, and evil morty found his new pawn...morty prime
my reaction: morty is always wanting independence from rick. but, the idea of rick no longer being part of his life is sometrhing morty prime fears the most. even though he chooses rick every time, but complains about it.
my reaction: and there it is. morty prime's weakness? his unconditional love, and unwavering loyalty to rick.
my reaction: a morty that grew tired of rick's crap, and another morty seeking to become more independent from rick.
my reaction: they both can do whatever they want. morty prime had a way out a few times. birdperson, the vindicators, evil morty himself, but he always went back to rick while evil morty snapped and murdered HIS rick . morty prime chose rick c-137 everytime.
my reaction: who still has a rick? who considers rick their grandpa? who cried over rick leaving? who yearns for rick to love him? who needs rick as much as rick c-137 needs him? that would be...MORTY PRIME.
