He voices a main character (Julius) in Saints Row 1 and 2, doesn’t appear in 3, then appears as Vice-President Keith David in 4. As well as showing up as Julius again. You can get the VP and Julius to have a brief but interesting conversation as well.
Does Rick care for his family, especially Morty? Has he had character growth through the series? He reminds me of a combination of Abed, Pierce and Jeff with Morty being most of the other main characters of Community.
Yes and yes, IMO.
He certainly has a higher opinion of Summer than he did in season 1.
Rick cares about Morty, as much as he can care about anyone. He did sacrifice himself to save him on the time split episode. The rest of the family? he abandoned them without a second thought in a world of horror when it would have been trivial to rescue them. Beth and Summer are not even worth one use of his portal gun, not sure how that can be reconciled with anything else he does for them.
He does seem to have a begrudging affection for Morty, and clearly expressed a preference for Morty over Beth as a traveling companion in, I think, the cannibalism/incest episode.
Well, in the entire Central Finite Curve, Rick was only able to find about 30 timelimes close enough for him and Morty to fit in, and only 3 or 4 where they died just in time for them to take their place. And then they used one more up after Morty fucked with the squirrels. A world where the entire Smith family could fit in? Maybe the universe isn’t quite infinite enough for that - you’ll keep in mind that Rick didn’t suggest going to another timeline when the Federation was after him, just Tiny Earth, Earth on the Cob, and Earth with a screaming sun and 42-hour days.
Sure, but there is literally infinite possibilities between “world where the whole family can seamlessly fit in and continue their lives as normal” and “nightmare world of cronenberg horrors”. The point is that Rick did not care, did not even give Beth and Susan a second thought or hell a first thought, rescuing them was not something he decided against it was something that did not even cross his mind. Beth and Susan are interchangeable pieces, he cares about this one specific Morty. He doesn’t care about other Mortys, he knew teleporting the citadel on top of the federation would kill thousands of them.
Summer.
Shit, i even edited to fix a typo.
You were channelling your inner Rick and showing how little he thought of her - can’t even be bothered to remember her name!
It was very meta and well done!
What seems to be Rick’s plan or main motivation?
In the first season, he did seem to only care about Morty although perhaps Rick bringing Morty with him across dimensions to flee the Cronenberged earth was only a question of cosmic camouflage at that point in the series. In the second season, he seems to care more about other family members.
What would you say is the genius of the show?
Here’s an interesting Vice interview of Harmon and Roiland: A Very Psychedelic Conversation with the Creators of 'Rick and Morty'
Fittingly enough, the interview feels like free association conversation between two guys who dropped acid. Harmon even makes a reference to the upside of depression and bad psychedelic trips and how R&M has a psychedelic/psychological/existential/Nietzschean quality to it.
It’s just very hard to reconcile that with leaving Beth and Summer abandoned in Cronenberg world. They are still there, he could go at any point and rescue them.
True. The ending of Thie Whirly Dirty Conspiracy leaves me unsure of how Rick feels about Jerry.
I’ve seen some noises about an R&M video game. It could be interesting to have some Bioshock Infinite and GTA/KSP hybrid of Rick and Morty with the player as Morty and Rick as more active and troublesome Elizabeth. The option of playing as Rick would be too much for both the developer and player.
I was watching tonight’s rerun, and I realized there were three bits of the title sequence we had not yet seen, unless I am Captain Unobservant.
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[li]Assface Morty watches porn.[/li][li]Summer and CyberSummer spy on Rick and a bug.[/li][li]Rick goes browsing at the Morty Shop.[/li][/ul]
Have we seen these scenes, or have my kids destroyed my memory more than.I want to know.
There’s more than just those three that we haven’t seen yet.
Yeah, we’ve also never seen “steal Cthulu’s baby,” for one.
Each season’s different intro sequence has had scenes that have never been part of an episode, like Jerry having a baby. They all end with the Cthulhu scene.
Just binged the series, it was great.
One question: at the end of “Morty’s Mind Blowers”, did anyone else catch what Summer said as she left after R&M berate her for letting them supposedly fall asleep in front of the TV - something about “No wonder you’re constantly fighting with each other and behind schedule.”. I know it’s a meta-reference to the showrunners’ own problems, but does anyone think there’s more to it in the context of the show?
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