7/14/2023 0 Comments Pixa club rick and mortySummer growing into the effortlessly competent one in the family is a fun evolution the show’s been steadily tracking for multiple seasons. At the outset of Season 6, Summer’s now at the point where the version of personal growth she’s most excited about is getting her own set of Wolverine hand claws. Yet, there’s something oddly sweet about seeing him get the dignity of not only knowing how to cauterize a wound with a heated blade but set a trap with some Rick-like taunting thrown in for good measure. Having a halfway-capable Jerry in any universe is a dicey proposition for a show that consistently shows him surviving almost exclusively by accident. His big discovery (aside from the supermarket shelves of adult magazines untouched by time) is Jerry, in full “Station Eleven”/“The Road” regalia and beard, living off the creatures that now populate his world. Meanwhile, Morty is trawling through the irradiated, Cronenberg’d home he left behind. To the Rick who’s had years’ worth of time to reflect on a family he stumbled into, “haunting” means something else entirely. To his nihilistic, vengeance-addled past self, having a Wife Ghost lurking around his work space probably seemed like a neat party trick he could amuse himself with. “Yeah, forgot I wanted to be haunted” is a classic example of Rick managing to outthink himself. Listening to Rick and Summer’s back-and-forth about how to get Rick and Morty and Jerry back from their homeworlds is so much more about the rhythms and timing than tapping into any long-standing mythology.įlung into his original version of the Garage (still with the explosion mark left from the events of “Rickmurai Jack”), Rick has to contend with the disembodied memory of his late wife Diane, mocking him for his failures and oversights. But “Rick and Morty” - with extra assistance here from episode writer Albro Lundy - has long since reached a point where it can delight in all those collapsing timelines without being overwhelmed by them. OK, well, when you put those all together that can seem a little daunting for the uninitiated. None of these concepts in “Solaricks” are really new for the show: alternate versions of characters from multiple dimensions, cloned parents, apocalypse survivors, trickster mad geniuses, living rooms riddled with corpses, shapeshifting aliens. In execution, it’s a distillation of everything great about a “Rick and Morty” lore episode, in the same way that “ Mortiplicity” was its own single-track, high-concept revelation. A portal fluid error sends Rick and Morty and Jerry back to their original multiverse branches while Summer and both Beths have to deal with the beings who come to try to take advantage of their absence. In broad strokes, “Solaricks” is a prelude to a family reunion. ‘White House Plumbers’ Review: Woody Harrelson & Justin Theroux Make Fine Stooges in Watergate Farce In a weird way, even with the sheer tonnage of plot this episode manages to fit into 22 minutes (all without feeling overstuffed), this is a decent starting point for any curious newcomers still wondering what all this “Rick and Morty” fuss is about. Rather than dwell on the chaos and carnage of the Season 5 finale or hit a convenient reset button, “Solaricks” chooses a satisfying middle zone in resituating where each member of the family is on this show’s dense, cosmic board. What follows in this episode is a breakneck parade of every reason why these two (and the show that contains them) have so much more still to live for. So in the Season 6 premiere - “Solaricks” - when our two title characters submit themselves to going no more a-portal-ing and fully embrace death, that’s also momentary at most. Characters seesaw between vengeance and reconciliation in emotional forever wars. Entire planets can wither away and transform in mere seconds. Nothing lasts for very long in the world of “Rick and Morty.” This family moves through realities like switching out kitchen trash bags.
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