Galactic Theorist

𓃠OᑕTOᗷᗴᖇ 2004𓃠 ☾︎𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍☽︎ "𝑶𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒔𝒉, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚!" "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔!" ❥︎𝒔𝒉𝒆/𝒉𝒆𝒓ఌ︎ 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐈'𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤?" (ʰᵒᵖᵉᶠᵘˡˡʸ ⁱ ᵈⁱᵈⁿ'ᵗ ᵘⁿˡᵉᵃˢʰ ᵃ ᶜᵘʳˢᵉ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵘʳˢᵉ ʷᵒʳᵈ) -𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉-

[galactic-theorist]

(Rick and Morty go to hell #5)

[galactic-theorist]

Que singing voice:

"The kind of dark that haunts A HUNDRED YEAR OLD HOUSE."

(who's really haunting the house here?)

[i-will-cry-you-a-river]

Rick: *takes a deep breath*

Rick: I hat-

Jessica, fed up: Yes, you hate Morty. You hate Morty so much you annoy me to death to call him. You hate him so much, he is a fucked up turd, an idiot, a fuck up, a constant annoyance. I KNOW! You fucking hate Morty, hate that he is being successful and independent and alone, okay? I GET IT. You fucking simp.

[i-will-cry-you-a-river]

Rick "I'm A Slut But I Will Cry If You Touch Me Like You Care About Me" Sanchez

and

Morty "I Care About You And I Want To Be Cared About In Return" Smith

[galactic-theorist]

Okay, so in "The ABC's of Beth" (I think it was this episode) (season 3 episode 9) Rick says this:

Rick: "look at some of the shit you were asking me to make you as a kid"

How? Rick C137's daughter died... Was he faking that moment or did he recreate Beth?

[jerrysbeestruther]

I think he just.. did all that before she died? It's hard to estimate cartoon ages lol, but it makes sense to me? like she wasn't a tiny baby in the flashback, she was old enough to want a bunch of cool weird toys tbh

[dwippingbun-deactivated20240422]

💊

We can infer she was about 4-8 when she was a kid in the flashback, small enough to be small old enough to understand concepts. All toys that were made adhere to the demographic of "I want to play and learn about the world around me" which is again a thin line within storytelling.

But yes it was before she died. My partner even pointed out how when you see the flashback there's a robot by the desk that seems as though it was being made for Beth, like a Voltron one.

Rick was kind of irresponsible to say the least when it came to feeding the homicidal urges of his daughter.

[jerrysbeestruther]

Yeah - irresponsible is the word tbh. Like... a child of 4-8yrs may be old enough to understand... with help. But NOT all on their own, and especially not when there's an important adult in their life actively failing to give them any guidance (aka encouraging them by default). Even adults still struggle with similar things sometimes!

Her wanting that dangerous stuff isnt some sign that Beth's "secretly evil" or whatever tho, or even that she was like, mentally unwell/homicidal/whatever. She was just a kid, and ALL kids are super weird sometimes, and they adapt to strange environments in strange ways.

Rick throwing that stuff back in her face now that she's an adult (who presumably had to learn right from wrong basically all on her own!) was SO cruel, especially when she was going through a massive self-reassessment after her marriage fell apart.

Fwiw I don't think he meant it to be cruel - it was defensive rather than deliberately hurtful for no reason - but still extremely painful and shaming for her. And definitely contributed to her eventually losing her sense of self enough that she ended up going back to him (as the only help she could find) and putting the choice about if she should stay or go into his hands.

From her (probably mostly subconscious) perspective, he knocked that confidence out of her when she was already struggling, then they worked together and healed that hurt. So it made sense to risk it again because... maybe he FINALLY understands what she needs now?

But unfortunately he fucked it up. Rick didn't connect those two events (being shitty about who she was as a kid and so making her feel like she was inherently bad, and her asking what she should do with her life), and didnt understand that even Beth, someone he admires a LOT, can't be 100% independent, and shouldn't have to be.

So in choosing to remove himself from the equation (to keep her free from his own bad influence), he missed an amazing opportunity to just accept that people need each other.

But. Well... It's Rick. If he ever figures that out, it better be when the show ends otherwise it would be very boring lol

[jerrysbeestruther]

Oooooh @ff-12 I'm snatching your tags cos they add SO MUCH TO THIS

Because you're RIGHT!

And that means that, while from Beth's perspective, this episode was all about Rick failing to be there for her as a kid, for Rick it was about unexpectedly uncovering a way they could be closer - a shared weird-but-kinda-nice history he didn't know they even had! And then finding out that actually... he couldn't allow himself to be happy about it at all. It wasn't wanted - he's too much of a fuck up to be loved or forgiven (weird how he always "learns" that same lesson lol. almost as if it's just what he already incorrectly thinks??)

So now the choice Rick made at the end makes even MORE sense: because the way he read it, Beth saw that shared past as a bad thing, something to be angry about (and to be fair she was right! Froopyland and all those toys weren't a great idea lol). So, compounded by the fact that she doesn't quite get brave enough to ask if he'd miss her (and in fact she questions why he'd even bother to help her at all), he "learns" that he's not capable of being there for her.

And he thinks Beth "learns" that too. He thinks that by the end of that episode shes written him off, at the exact same moment that Beth thinks they're now closer than ever. They basically trade places. By the end of the ep, from Rick's perspective, gaining that past relationship with his daughter destroyed the current relationship he has with the adult one, and she doesn't need him or even want to be around him any more.

And even in the face of his own happiness about getting a bit of his daughter back he tries to respect that. He tries to step back and not act like a dad any more because he thinks it's what she wants.

Very good episode. Very upsetting :)

[galactic-theorist]

Okay, so in "The ABC's of Beth" (I think it was this episode) (season 3 episode 9) Rick says this:

Rick: "look at some of the shit you were asking me to make you as a kid"

How? Rick C137's daughter died... Was he faking that moment or did he recreate Beth?

[primes-ass-on-glass]

It’s possible that all Beths have a sadistic side to them. Sure Rick’s Beth was killed but she was still a toddler when she passed. He had some time with her.

I think it’s a universal problem for Ricks to have Beths that experience murdering tendencies at a young age. The main thing I find fascinating though is that all Ricks actually enable Beths by making them murdering toys instead of getting them early psychological therapy/treatment for early development. Even if they didn’t discover portal travel yet/reaching their full potential.

Rick is a shitty father, not for leaving Beth but for enabling her at a early age in life to enjoy killing to some sick degree. He was basically raising a serial killer.

[galactic-theorist]

Okay, so in "The ABC's of Beth" (I think it was this episode) (season 3 episode 9) Rick says this:

Rick: "look at some of the shit you were asking me to make you as a kid"

How? Rick C137's daughter died... Was he faking that moment or did he recreate Beth?

[galactic-theorist]

When you haven't slept in ages, but you still show up to whatever it is you're expected to show up at like:

[galactic-theorist]

[galactic-theorist]

Imagine Morty wants to get Rick back for something he's done, so he partners up with Nimbus.

[galactic-theorist]

The wait for Rick and Morty season 7 is driving me ABSOLUTELY CRAZY

[galactic-theorist]

Imagine Morty actually just drops out of school... I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.

The fact that Rick says "School isn't a place for smart people" a lot, especially to Morty... (Yeah, Morty's "dumb" and Rick needs him to mask his brainwaves, pshhh, I think not, that boy's probably smart af) It makes me think that Rick thinks, knows, Morty's smart, he just doesn't want him growing cocky so he verbally abuses him instead, or he used to.

[thesoftboiledegg]

I could ALMOST tolerate Raising Gazorpazorp's bullshit because while the episode's portrayal of female Gazorpazorpians was obnoxious, the men didn't fare any better--which I think a lot of people overlook, to be honest. At least the women had built a polite, intelligent utopian society whereas the men were dumb, sex-crazed monsters.

But Rick's spew of misogyny throughout the episode is unforgivable. It's not even like he's supposed to learn something. We're clearly supposed to agree with him, especially when he's rambling that girlies are dumb at the end.

Who was this episode even for? Oh yeah, that's right--whiny incel dudebros who punch holes in drywall whenever someone breathes the word "Birdrick" in their direction.

[galactic-theorist]

Rick said "Hard proof that God hates me" (season 6 episode 8) ... Was that just a way of speech or does he actually believe in God?

Also ... Rick was able to use the orb's power to protect himself and Jerry from the blast.

[galactic-theorist]

Sometimes I wonder if Jessica might be part of the galactic federation.

I also think that Jerry, even though it seems highly unlikely, might be a part of something... Maybe it's all an act.

[galactic-theorist]

I feel bad for Rick C-137 - his current daughter (s) used to tell him that he's a bad father, and he accepted it, he also said that he was a bad father, but he never really got the chance to be a dad in his original dimension, and I don't think he'd ever leave them if they were still alive.

(tbh, I don't think they're dead, maybe just blown back in time or into another dimension.)

[galactic-theorist]

I believe I can flyyyyy...I believe I can touch Rick Prime

[galactic-theorist]

I think about him every night and day

I cock my gun and fly away

I believe I can flyyyyy

I believe I can kill Rick Prime