i’ve been trying to understand my feelings about this character:
i HATE rick prime, which is funny because i don’t have much at all to go on other than he’s committed a grievance against the main protagonist. at the same time, i LOVE rick c-137, which is also funny because he’s objectively a pretty bad person.
they’ve both committed horrible atrocities, killed versions of their families, been absolute douchebags- but i just couldn’t come up with a good reason for my hatred of prime aside from the cartoon-villain trope he fills if i was going to compare it to my love of c-137.
finally, i realized that i initially didn’t like c-137 as a person, either. he was a compelling and funny character to have on screen (much like prime is now), but i didn’t like him. he was mean, abusive, callous, and acted with reckless abandon for the safety of his family.
there’s a little spark of something in c-137 that’s not present in prime, though. our rick has these moments (even from season 1) where we can see his visage crack a bit, and the real him slip out in some odd little way. there is warmth within c-137, even if it’s buried so deep beneath the surface that it struggles to claw its way out.
i think the moment i realized, “hmm… i might like this guy” was in “close rick-counters of the rick kind,” when we see him cry while watching that playback of his scanned memories of morty. then, we have these little moments that follow it up throughout the rest of that episode, the finale, and the premiere of s2.
“it would go without saying that the rickest rick would have the mortyest morty.” “i am in great pain.” “my new catchphrase is ‘i love my grandkids!!!’” “where’s your collar morty? i’ll fix it…” “i’m okay with this. be good, morty. be better than me.”
these moments were what had me deciding to root for rick after s1. not just for what he wanted, but for his healing, his growth, his bond with morty, with summer, with his daughter (shit- even jerry, honestly).
with prime… i don’t have anything to root for yet. he just seems cold, ruthless, and evil for the sake of being evil. completely self-serving. he seems like what we thought c-137 was in s1.
a comparison between prime and early-series c-137 also puts into perspective how different they are from one another, despite our rick’s efforts. prime would have never cohabitated with jerry. prime would have never bonded with morty. prime would have never play-wrestled with his grandson. prime would have never admitted to anyone he was “in great pain.” prime would have never carved pumpkins with his grandkids. prime would have never ended up going to family therapy. prime would have never hung out with jerry because he thought morty was worried about him. prime would have never gone out of his way to get his grandkids pizza. prime would have never taken his grandkids out for ice cream. prime would have never gone to get a drink with his daughter. prime would have never told his daughter that he loved her. prime would have never sworn to his daughter that he’d never leave her again.
he killed our rick’s baby. his baby. HIS. BABY. and he doesn’t even seem to care about it.
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