#RNM speculation

[onion-morty]

Yeah the portal bit has been niggling my brain for years now like. Rick was apparently the only creature in the known universe who's discovered interdimensional travel and hogs the information on how to create it, but in the pilot he calls the blue portal place "interdimensional customs"

it would make sense if he called it interplanetary or intergalactic customs. We know that in the show, in-universe portals can be created by other people (The president had a giant minecraft recreation one) but interdimensional travel is what made a Rick a CFC Rick.

Maybe a retcon would be that he travelled outside of the CFC for those specific megaseeds, and Interdimensional Customs exists outside the CFC. However its already been established that no one could escape the curve unless drastic measures of massive proportions are taken (Evil Morty CFC escape), but whos to say our Rick couldnt do that? Maybe it takes a lot of portal charge to go outside of the curve. Maybe his gun's a little different. (I mean he was one of only two Ricks and three people in the entire CFC to actually invent interdimensional portal travel, but I guess that goes against the theory that one of the CFC's functions is to trap Rick Prime).

We've seen that megaseeds could come from within the curve cuz the Citadel has them. Although one could speculate that the Citadel has a Megaseed farm that Farmer Rick is super protective of because you cant get them anywhere else inside of the curve. Maybe the Ricks got a handful of seeds to create the farms before the wall was built. Much to think about.

TLDR, Maybe Rick travelled outside the CFC for Real Megaseeds not cultivated by the Citadel, because theyre not available within the curve. And since Interdimensional travel can be invented by anyone outside the CFC, they have to travel back to the Prime Dimension through Interdimensional Customs.

okay so what’s the community’s thoughts on the pilot? it’s been so long and i’m not sure what the discourse on the continuity is- even though pilots for shows are usually strange and disjointed because the show is still figuring itself out- there are still some intriguing parts to me at least?

where did rick go when he was grabbing broken leg serum, how long was he gone that his portal gun charge died? how did he implement mega seeds into his work? the galactic federation had a blue portal device thing? and that airport-esque place where aliens were traveling because ricks portal gun died, was that public portal travel? anyways might delete later

[autisticricksanchez]

i think rick would fucking love the tumblr culture that’s been built around him, it’d boost his ego so much. conversely, morty would see one rickfucker post, close the laptop, and walk away.*

*unless he found @sorrelpaws’s blog. i think that blog would make him really happy

[invisiblegarabgetruck]

2, 7 (hermit jerry), 15! :)

my god, I'm so sorry this took my ass so long to finish 😭

2. OT3?

don't really have my most faves at the moment but I do think it's funny most of 3p ship in this fandom are [me / my wife / my alternate self ] lol

7. Is there a piece of clothing you think (hermit jerry) is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

clothing that Hjer is fond of : this is just a speculation... but i think he like coat/cape? both S3&S6 has something to cover himself / his back. (still wondered why he went from half-naked to full-clothed lol)

clothing that I imagine him wearing a lot : really like thinking about Hjer wearing modern clothing... Like, if he is no longer in the Cronenberg world. although it usually boiled down to' I want to draw him in a V-shirt'

15. Have you noticed your style change over time?

yes! tbh RnM style was pretty hard to draw for me in my early days of this fandom lol. I was more of 'drawing anime girls' kinda guy. I wasn't made to draw middle-aged men U_U now I draw only these guys and not anime girls. truly a tragedy.

[dreamweaversfavsandthoughs]

New episode title drops (sort of) part 1

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

After reading up on the SDCC panel I'm fully convinced this is going to be a "bust birdkid out of jail" episode but I don't know how it relates to the title if it is.

The Parent Trap

Easy guess for this is that this will be a "Beth and Space Beth switch places for day" episode but I feel that would be too obvious. I had an idea awhile back that they might do something based on this movie that would introduce a variant of RnM we have not seen in the wild yet...

Air Force One

Aww yiss a President Curtis episode!

That's Amore

This is the first time they've referenced a song title before I think. It's a romantic song so maybe someone falls in love. There are also a lot of comparing love to Italian food so maybe that's where that image of Rick with the casserole dish of spaghetti comes from. Hope they pronounce Parmesan correctly.

Unforgiven

This might be a Rick Prime/ Rick C-137 showdown episode. Very interesting that it's coming in the middle of the season. Very interesting...

So what are some of your speculations, hopes, dreams?

[onion-morty]

Back when we thought Morty was stealing the portal gun to have solo adventures just for fun

but in reality he was picking up after Rick

Can we talk about how, in the promo for the S5 finale, it looks as though Morty has been sneaking out with the portal gun and doing solo adventures behind Rick’s back? He’s equipped with some scifi weapons and looks quite excited coming out of the portal, too, which I find very interesting. I wonder if he’s grown confident enough that he feels he can handle himself even on dangerous / exciting adventures, going on interdimensional adrenaline junkie rushes just like his grandfather, or if he just wants some time to enjoy fun adventures of his choosing without the pressure of Rick undermining or emotionally scarring him every five minutes. Probably both of those things, really. Either way I’m proud (and worried) for him, especially considering how this is going to backfire in his face once Rick finds out.

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Malex has said they love each other in so many ways through 4 seasons.

I'm very curious about how the vows are gonna be.

What else is left to say? 👀💜

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The happiest we ever seen Michael be.

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I think we moved on too fast from Alex calling Michael "my alien".

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[thirstghosting]

man I saw this rnm post a while back whining about how unity is ultimately depicted as a big tiddy alien woman despite being a hivemind "bc they have to assert rick is Big Hetero" or something and im like 🙄 first of all Summer referred to Unity with it/its pronouns To rick in autoerotic assimilation...second of all rick is canonically pansexual and the presence of one love interest *you* decide to code as female doesn't negate that. maybe unity just prefers to present as a femme with huge tits. they clearly are okay with any pronouns since they never corrected anybody on her/it/they. unitys gender presentation doesn't erase the fact that rick has had sex with multiple genders and species, including a clone of himself if "forgetting the ice cream" is to be believed; and it also doesn't erase the complicated homoromanticism of birdrick, a romance which is played straight rather than for laughs. he also has had a sexual history with mr nimbus. furthermore the only character of the sanchez/smith family who has never been speculated to be queer is morty. summer hooked up with a girl in that one episode, Jerry was in love with sleepy Gary, and both Beth and Jerry are fucking her clone AND mr nimbus. so maybe look for queerbaiting in other media because in my opinion rnm handles queer characters better than most.

[zeep-xanflorp]

old rnm was pure speculation bc we didn't have any of rick's backstory nor any of his motivations. and while i do miss the crazy stupid mattpat fan theories, i love how the majority of what we're talking about is like. "rick needs help" "morty deserves better" and thirsting for rick prime.

remember back in the early days of the rnm fandom when everyone was arguing over if rick cared about morty or not and now we have rick blatantly stating that mortys life matters? yeah that's a great payoff.

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[angrycowboy]

my mind has been going a million miles a minute since that episode. it was so good! i swear all i need to be fed some good malex scenes, less overt pop culture references, and i’m a happy camper. but of course, this meant i went into full speculation mode regarding what’s happening to alex...

the liminal space or “pocket dimension” is an interesting concept. but what i think we may actually be looking at right now, is some form of alex’s mindscape.

alex has spent his entire life in survival mode. first with jesse, then in the air force. and this liminal space reflects that. when we see him, he’s in survival mode yet again - this time from an unknown element causing his death. he assumes radiation because chemical warfare would match up with his military background and upbringing.

why the 1940′s? given this is the only instance of the liminal space we’ve seen, it might be because that’s when it all went wrong in alex’s mind. that’s when the ship crashed, that’s when his ancestors began their targeted genocide of the aliens. 

(could this also be indicative of theo’s hand, where the setting of the liminal space for anyone would be the same? it’s possible. when alex fell through, the “open” symbole illuminated on michael’s console. perhaps the liminal space only takes the shape of the mindscape of the first person dropped into it? perhaps that’s why nora and louise locked jones up - to make him the first one to use it?)

alex sets up the faraday cage trap at the drive-in. this is another method of his survival - gain the upper hand on anyone who may be dangerous. 

all of alex’s scenes take place at the drive-in. and in alex’s mind, his first date with michael was back in 1x03 at the drive-in. to alex, we learn, it didn’t matter that it ended poorly, he still has fond memories of it, and it holds special importance to him. 

one of the first things dallas asks about is the fruit, to which alex answers that he’s seen a grove of weird looking trees. it’s only after this that bonnie and dallas return later saying the grove has been burned down. this is information that had he known about, alex surely would have provided. 

alex mentions is that he’s noticed a drop in barometric pressure - something he’d also referred to in 4x01 right before the st. elmo’s fire happened. the presence of an electric magnetic storm is “new” he says, but it’s not the first time we’ve heard about one on the show - in 1x12 alex mentioned it outside caulfield.

the fractals on his chest appear similiar to the ones that appeared on liz’s arm in 4x09 while she was in her mindscape and under the influence of the mist. liz’s mindscape adventure was for her to try and work through her internal conflict regarding the science and max, and whether max was holding her back. in alex’s case, he’s faced with michael’s ongoing decision - stay on earth with him and give up seeing the planet he’s been looking for, or travel back to oasis and the home he’s been searching for since he first crawled out of the pod. the alex we’re seeing in the liminal space right now is seemingly making the decision for michael - alex gets the shred of happiness he believes he’s allowed, and he’s also freeing michael from having to make that choice.

so why would tezca need to throw alex into the pocket dimension as a contingency plan? well in 4x11 we learn that anyone with the triad symbol can’t make the jump to oasis through the portal. it’s entirely possible that jones found out not only about max’s tattoo but michael’s as well. so when jones found out about alex (”there is someone you care about as much as nora”), he realized if he was going to try and use liz to bypass theo’s lock, there needed to be stakes. trapping michael in the pocket dimension knowing he would go after alex means that liz will be unable to say no any longer.

and lastly, sometimes this show still gets music right. the lyrics playing at the end of the scene where alex begs michael to let dallas marry them? “it’s all in your head”

[mazzystar24]

Words cannot express how much I want (if they kill Alex temporarily) a scene where when Michael sees this and he just full on breaks down over his body and like his powers go CRAZY like I’m talking give me a season one type storm or a damn downpour give me telekinesis pushing and destroying everything and cracking the very earth give me a fucking fire I wanna see it soooo bad

This trope is absolute perfection and I live for the angst im not gonna lie

[stillcosmic]

so it sounds like alex was thrown in so michael would go in after and it would crumble?

[itsjustmouse]

Next episode theory.

When Michael opens the ‘portal’, Alex is there but neither can get through. They hold their hands up to each other’s at the threshold. This will be the cliffhanger.

Then in the next episode, they find out that the only way to free Alex/break down the barrier is to bring about the Alighting.

That’s why in the episode synopsis it says Michael fears that he’ll never get Alex back.

[lambourngb]

Hindsight is always 20-20 but when you’re in the moment, you go with the information you have.

I’ve seen a ton on this hellscape platform about how RNM could have handled TB’s absence better. But.. what if they didn’t know how much he would be able to film? What if... it was an episode to episode decision from Tyler about what he could handle healthwise since he got his surgery AFTER they finished filming? From 4x03 through 4x07 we all could see spaces where the gang could discover that Alex was being held in quicksand and maybe that was a deliberate choice by the writers and showrunner.

Anyway I’m working on a long WIP, that had a very general “here’s where we end” outline but as I write, other stuff starts to occur to me, so I add it in, I make room. I just feel like RNM season 4 plots did the same thing, they left room for Alex, but ultimately couldn’t reintroduce him to the story until the actor gave them a go-ahead. Script drafts become shooting drafts sometimes right up to the 11th hour. 

We’ve all see how much can change from a script draft to a shooting draft, look at the pilot of RNM - they had Michael as a foster brother to Alex ffs.

Anyway that’s my .02 on season 4. YMMV.

[youngsamberg]

what happens when alex is dead/dying and michael remembers “what i can’t live without is you so why don’t you put your hand in mine and we’ll start with that” and that’s what gives him the idea to do the handprint WHAT THEN

[letstalkabouttvshows]

So, if Bonnie was in charge of Eduardo, that means that Tezca might've put Clyde in charge of Alex?

I mean, considering Alex isn't dead or wrapped unconsciously in a cocoon of quicksand, buried deep in the desert.

I'm so here for Michael to find out that they quicksanded his boyfriend while they were luring him with tales of home.

I love you, Guerin, but I need to see you go ballistic on them and on yourself too.