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After seasons of strife, it’s nice lớn see the show’s vi xử lý core family back together (even if, let’s remember, it’s all a lie and Beth is actually a clone), & the show returning to lớn a thread that’s been a part of the show from the very first episode: Morty’s crush on classmate Jessica. At the breakfast table, Rick is chafing at the new family rule that he can’t just force Morty to lớn accompany him on adventures, though Morty doesn’t fight too hard when Rick wants company to lớn collect some “death crystals.”
Death crystals don’t kill you, it turns out — instead, they show you how you might die, based on your current moment of existence, which means it’s ever-changing, as Rick explains: “Anyone who knows how they’re definitely going lớn die is either boring as hell or about to get shot.” For Rick, death crystals are tool lớn fight off folks who are trying khổng lồ kill him, but when Morty grabs hold of one, he gets a glimpse of essentially two different futures: One where he dies a wide variety of violent early deaths as a result of hanging out with Rick, & another where, as an old man, he passes away peacefully while Jessica tells him that she loves him.
That second one is definitely the death Morty wants (and who can blame him?), so he holds onto a death crystal lượt thích his life depends on it (because, well, you know) and starts making every personal decision based on whether the crystal says he’ll end up with Jessica in the end. That’s bad news for Rick, because one of the first things that happens is Morty taking the wheel of Rick’s ship, and thanks khổng lồ the crystal’s guidance, causing an accident that kills Rick.
Rick, of course, has plenty of failsafes in place should this sort of thing happen, including an onboard cloning machine, but per the death crystal, Morty realizes that maybe, just maybe, a factor in all of his violent early deaths is the grandfather who keeps dragging him into incredibly dangerous situations. So he ignores the holographic Rick who appears with cloning instructions, and instead returns to home and school, still clenching the death crystal & using it lớn guide him to, eventually và hopefully, the love of Jessica.
While Morty doesn’t try khổng lồ clone Rick, Rick still has other backup clone vats around in other universes (after shutting down his clone vat in his trang chủ universe). Unfortunately, those other universes have a bad habit of being hotbeds of fascism, also with a chance of being evolved not from apes, but from shrimps or wasps. Most of these universes don’t work out well for Rick — the wasp-verse turns out to lớn be the most humane và loving, despite the way in which they consume their food.
But it could be worse, because Rick could be facing off against a dying-with-Jessica-obsessed Morty, whose fixation on avoiding a violent death leads to the violent deaths of many, until Morty stops going full Akira (or, if you’re not fluent in anime, an “unstoppable science-fiction boy”) because the death crystal told him to. This leads to a quickly resolved trial, followed by Morty wandering into the desert to lớn become consumed by feral fluid. (This episode is a real treat for anime lovers.) But, thanks khổng lồ some help from Wasp Rick, Morty releases his grip on the death crystal, it gets destroyed và things … go back to lớn normal?
“I think you have to think ahead and live in the moment” is the Full House–esque message (literally called out by Rick) of “Edge of Tomorty: Rick, Die, Rickpeat,” which is, of course, no message at all. The final kick in the sack: In the post-credits sequence, Morty overhears Jessica explain her future career path — lớn be a hospice worker who tells elderly, alone strangers she loves them. Poor, poor Morty.
It’s a bleak beginning khổng lồ the season, và really, if you’re looking for a sign of how Rick and Morty has changed in the last two years, there is the brutal reality that fascism has become “the default” for most of the multiverse. There are four more episodes left in 2019, và while this has never exactly been a light show, the smart money is on them being just as dark. On the plus side, the show will always be self-aware enough to acknowledge that.
Dispatches From the Multiverse
• In honor of Jenny Jaffe’s previous recaps, I decided khổng lồ borrow her heading for these bullet points. It’s a pleasure to be here, y’all!
• “I don’t want to see any more anime stuff happening to lớn my son.”
• We learn some horrifying facts about wasps this week! They eat their prey live! Geez! Wasps are dicks!
• A joke that may be in poor taste: As revealed by the lower-third chyrons during the news broadcasts, the judge from Morty’s trial kills herself, after Morty “gives” her a message from her deceased husband. The follow-up headline — “Center for Suicide Prevention Calls Judge’s Death Tragic But ‘Judges Shouldn’t Believe in Ghosts’” — doesn’t exactly make things better.
• “Stop raising your father’s cholesterol so you can take a hot funeral selfie” is a solid throwaway gag.
• Hey, the Meeseeks are back! Look at them!
• Kirkland, for those who might not know, is the in-house “signature” brand of the Costco warehouse chain. There are many fine products sold under the Kirkland brand, but Kirkland-brand Meeseeks do, in fact, seem lớn suck.
• “As far as continuity goes, the reset button has been hit.” Always fun when this show plays with the audience desire for repeatable stories, which gets touched on more than once in this episode, especially when Fascist Morty demands that he và Rick go on an adventure “like the old days.”
• Producer Mike Mendel receives a tribute at the kết thúc of this episode. He won four Emmys before passing away in September, three for The Simpsons and one for Rick and Morty. (Specifically, the episode “Pickle Rick.”)
After a two-year hiatus, Cartoon Network’s Rick and Morty is back with new episodes for a shorter season. In Rick và Morty Season 4 Episode 1, Rick took Morty to gather death crystals, proving that knowing one’s fate can lead to lớn disastrous consequences.
Death Crystals
Rick took Morty lớn Forbodulon Prime to lớn gather death crystals. The crystals show whoever touches them how they’re going to lớn die based on that exact moment. Crystal poachers attacked them, và Rick taped a crystal to lớn his forehead, which allowed him khổng lồ see the moment the poachers reloaded. After killing them, Rick had Morty help pack up the crystals he gathered, và Morty pocketed one.
One version of Morty’s death was as an old man with his crush, Jessica, telling him that he loved him. Morty preferred that death lớn the million other ways he could die. He started directing his body to move toward the destiny of dying with Jessica. Unfortunately, this caused Rick’s death. When a Rick hologram appeared to Morty as part of a contingency plan, Morty opted to lớn not complete the Rick-cloning process.
Clones and Fascism
Because Morty hadn’t listened lớn the hologram Rick, a failsafe triggered so that a clone of Rick would be routed khổng lồ the basement of a Rick in a different universe. Unfortunately, Rick kept getting routed to fascist realities và dying. Finally, he made it lớn a wasp universe that wasn’t fascist. The wasp Rick of that universe took the new wasp Rick clone lớn the prime universe, where Morty had raided Rick’s weapons cache. Hologram Rick explained everything.
Akira Morty
Morty’s use of the death crystal started out small, but things escalated quickly when he used Rick’s weapons to lớn attack a bully. He went on a rampage and gave himself up to lớn the police. During his sentencing, he used the death crystal to figure out what to say khổng lồ the judge, who forgave him & let him go. Jessica met him outside the courthouse and invited him to lớn go skinny dipping with her and her friends. The death crystal made Morty decline & walk away. Morty went to a desolate area and resigned himself khổng lồ living in a cocoon of ferrofluid until he died with Jessica.
Newly bipedal Rick, wasp Rick, & hologram Rick freed Morty from the ferrofluid and the death crystal. When he touched the residual ferrofluid, hologram Rick gained mass and sentience, and wasp Rick killed him.
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Permission
The episode bookended with Beth’s insistence that Rick ask Morty about helping him first, instead of just forcing him along. When Morty overheard Jessica talking about her aspiration lớn be with the elderly when they died, it explained the vision he received from the death crystal. Morty no longer cared where Rick wanted to take him.
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