back to my roots

Rick pulling out a normal gun from time to time 😭

I can't believe this is canon

one thing i like about rick and morty is that they’ve really leaned into the domestic market for fan service. like yes, i want to know what photo each character has selected in their phone for each other character’s contact. please tell me what music they listen to in their free time. hmmm, you know what? i WOULD like to see the types of movies the smiths throw on in the background. now that you mention it, where are they having their family dinner outing this week? what nicknames do they all have for each other again? ahhh, okay. this is nice.

I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!

I don’t have ‘headcanons’ I just Know and Understand

Watching these later seasons and thinking about the earlier ones, I'm realizing just how much Rick needs Morty.

Rick has lost a lot of things, from family to friends. The only thing that's kept Rick going for several years was the thought of putting Rick Prime 6ft under. It was his whole life mission, and was one of the biggest factors to why he keeps his distance from his family. Why he doesn't really try to bond with Beth or Jerry or Summer and Morty. That is until he started taking Morty on adventures. It was that moment that gave Morty a chance to get closer and not just be the grandson of the man who murdered Rick's family. Rick got attached the more he got to know Morty, and without even realizing it Morty gave Rick another reason to keep going.

Morty is someone Rick latches on to. He's someone he grows to trust and care for. Morty becomes one of the big motivators for Rick to dig himself out of the hole he'll sink into, because Morty's one of the few who reaches back. He's no longer the boy who could have been his grandson had Diane and Beth survived.

He is his grandson.

And his enthusiasm, his excitement for adventures, especially in the later seasons, give Rick his own enthusiasm back for them. Morty's the one who refuses to give up on him when he himself has already given up. His grandson is a constant, a shadow that follows him and keeps him company when he needs it. He's Rick's best friend, his partner in adventuring, and so much more.

Rick keeps going not just for his family, but for Morty. He continues on, because Morty is there and that's a pretty good reason to keep living. If it means being around your grandson, and extension your family, then it's worth it.

At least that's how I'm interpreting what I'm seeing from all I've seen. (I could be wrong don't quote me on this shdgdgdgdgdg)

Lawyer Morty is so stupid I love him so much

I really liked Beth, and when her Space version appeared my brain just blew up

“We need more complex female characters”

Ppl couldn’t handle THEM

Not to be annoying, but I'm still thinking about Hot Rick and how Memory Rick was genuinely horrified and Beth's desire to take her life. Like what really stood out to me was that although he caused her so much distress, it was, in fact, unintentional. I mean, we can not deny that he was clearly prioritizing reuniting with the memory of Diane, but I do believe that he cared about Beth, too. I think both Memory Rick and Memory Diane did.

I mean just look at how they are in the car when Memorick tells Beth that she's real and shouldn't do this, how Memory Diane is quick to attempt to reassure her that she and Memory Rick will be fine so that she doesn't drive off the cliff, and how Memory Rick literally pleads with her to stop ("Honey, please!") but it's obviously too late.

Their faces are also painted with anguish when they see her take Space Beth's gun. They're literally filled with regret even before the whole car chase when they are fighting off the Memory Beths, concerned that she's scrambling her brain.

However, her memory parents are just that ... memories. In fact, they are idealized versions of Rick at his most revenge-seeking and heroic and Diane at her most romanticized and pre-motherhood. They don't mean harm but they also can't help but cause it to their real daughter (like it's so heartbreaking to hear Beth tell Memory Rick that she can't live without him when they're in the car, poor baby 💔 😢) 

Obviously only real Rick can reach her in this state because the truth is that she can't rewrite her childhood with perfect romantized versions of her parents nor can fulfill the pressure of reuniting her father with dead mother ("This is how we stay a family").

She can only accept this very flawed but remorseful version of her father, who loves her, and they can try to move forward together. ❤️

It also stood out to me that as much as Rick still feels deeply for Diane, it becomes a bit easier for him to relinquish his memory of her after what happens to Beth. He saw how Memory Rick's desire to reunite with her negatively impacted Beth and how his own memory of Diane, although once again unintentional, was complicit in Beth's pain ("she hijacked my daughter")

It becomes easier for him to begin to let go of Diane once he sees how his romanticized version of his dead wife is different from how he knows she actually was ("your real mother loved you more than that") just like how BP's idealized version of himself is so different from how he feels about himself as well.

Some random alien: Jerry Smith! Here's a reward for beating up Piss Master.

Rick: Wait wha-

Okay I can get the frustration here when you're being harassed by people all the time and you beat them up only to get harassed more and then someone else does it one time and they're getting rewarded like I'd be irritated too if I was Rick lowkey

Not only that, the family had just been praising him for taking Dr. Wong's advice to stay out of fights with random strangers, and then the first guy that shows up says insulting and inappropriate things and they all immediately get angry when Rick says he isn't going to do anything about it.