#bc the episode opens with evil morty proving he knows how it feels first. with his rick. and thats how we know theres an honesty in it.

[homophyte]

okay since i am literally just sitting here waiting for like 45 minutes for my meeting to start. i am so so so hesitant about the episode

the real fear i have is that the self awareness is going to end here if that makes sense? like the disappointment the hollowness of the ending is just going to. not matter and ultimately rick is just a badass who does whatever and. all that. i kinda doubt it but fully honestly i dont 100% trust the writers to commit to the ideas theyre laying down if only bc the show has for so long been averse to commitment of any kind. its just a sitcom. the next episode will always be a reset of the status quo. etc.

and what really needs to happen for this to be pulled off well is for that to not happen at all. nothing can be the same this needs to be as impactful as the dimension switch from season 1 which the show itself directly compared it to. and i hope that making that comparison means thats whats gonna happen. but i really dont know! i dont know. i have this sneaking sinking feeling its not gonna happen.

i wouldnt say i have like, problems with the episode so much as i have reservations with it. what makes prime work just, conceptually, is that hes an incarnation of all ricks problems. he is the worst rick he is the baddest outcome he is all of ricks vices in pure form all the hurt he can do to people and all the lack of care he can have for them. rick killing him IS rick killing himself for two reasons because of that fact. it is literally destroying that identity. and while i think the hollow ending definitely grappled with like...something in rick himself is different, did change because of it, im not sure it grappled with it in the specific way of rick killing his worst self and therefore making himself better. by making prime less of a character, by flattening him, were actually flattening ricks ability to interrogate himself, and thats the number one thing thats a red flag for me. for this to work we need prime to be uh more than he was here. it was a deliberate anticlimax--which i did like to be clear, and to be fair i do thing it grappled w primes and therefore ricks cruelty--but there still does need to be a climax and a turning point, and its hard to do both at the same time. so, IF this is done well, its going to involve learning a lot more about prime and broadening his depth. i want to not be able to go 5 minutes without someone bringing him up for real. like genuinely there is going to have to be AT LEAST more ABOUT him if not more of him. thats not to say i dont think hes dead but like.........it would work. if he wasnt. its a narratively satisfying possibility, that it doenst end here, because to be narratively satisfying its going to have to not end here for one reason or another.

that being said i do really like this episode. nearly love it. i am just worried that like...this is so pivotal that whatever comes after is going to be more of the determining factor than what was in the actual episode itself yk. we have a dangling turning point and little indication of what the path forward is going to be, and it is fully possible they flub this. god i want them not to be its possible. Im Scared bc i want to love this i really want it to be good bc i really like this show. but. Man. im scared

i have . assignmence to do. but i wanna talk about rick and morty s7e5