The season 8 premiere of “Rick and Morty” is a dark, twisted event, and it’s probably Rick’s fault at first. In past seasons, Rick wreaked havoc by forgetting to label all the dangerous things in his garage, but this time he ruined things by falling asleep at the wrong moment. His plan to discipline his grandson – his plan to throw Rick into a matrix-style simulation designed to teach him not to steal Rick’s phone charger, because it was a fairly decent parenting by “Rick and Morty” standards. Sadly, he fell asleep and accidentally let them live there for 17 years within hours.
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However, the same situation occurs at the show. In season 2, Morty spends his life in the VR Game Roy. It’s horrifying when he wakes up and realizes that the last 50 years of his life never happened. In season 6, Morty plays Roy again, but this time he’s broken his consciousness as the game accidentally fades in all the digital society of the game. Again, while decades of Morty’s life flys here, “Rick: Mortwell Lives” is delighted to see what it means.
Meanwhile, Season 8’s “All Horror Summer” bodes towards the question of how this kind of experience affects someone. When Morty and Summer awakened from their 17-year stint with the Matrix, they changed and grew. Summer has the heart of a confident, educated, semi-mature woman in her mid-30s, and Morty has the heart of a veteran Vietnamese.
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But their time in the Matrix was even darker than it first appeared. Not only was Morty pushed to commit suicide over and over again in the war with Osama bin Chargen, the war turns out to be a fake organised by Summer herself. Summer knew how much mental damage she was causing her brother, but that didn’t stop her from passing through him anyway.
Was Summer justified by breaking Morty’s brain? it’s complicated
Was Summer wrong to torture her brother for years? Well, yes. But to be fair, she was doing it for good reason. She believed that this manufactured war was the only way for her, that the death was to escape the Matrix, and that she was right for everything we know. I don’t know how long Rick has been sleeping, and I know that an hour in real life is equal in several years in a simulation. Rick probably They would have lived long enough for the children to come out of it before they withered into severe old age, but in the summer there was no way to know for sure.
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But unleashing the ethics of summer’s actions is the second time I unravel the meaning this has on her future. Summer was ruthless in this episode, channeling far more ridges than this version of Morty has ever seen. It’s a character arc that raises questions: we’ve already dealt with evil dead and evil Rick, but what about evil summers? Where is she in this show’s multiverse?
By the end of this episode, Summer had wiped out her adulthood memories and returned to normal. But she doesn’t remember what happened, we Still, that’s the case. We saw that she is capable, so what other summers can do? The show has established that there is an endless reality, so what about the reality that Summer doesn’t wipe out her edge? How accurately does that reality unfold?
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The possibility of evil summer has long come close to the series
Evil Summer is a very convincing concept, as her presence on the show has always been modest. As Rick and Morty have gained a main focus, most of the defining summer moments occur in B-Plots or occasional spotlight episodes. Every time summer has a chance to shine, she quickly proves herself capable and ruthless. She manages to be fanatic in “Die Hard” and “Die Hard” fanatic Rick: Mort Well Live,” which effectively leads the entire face-hugging planet into the golden age of “Promortius.” She’s someone I did itif she wants, it will cause great problems for the whole world around her. So why didn’t the show give her a chance?
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Fueling more of the evil summer theory is a small obvious hint that it’s scattered throughout the series. Season 6 features “The Night Family,” revealing that Natsu has a deep responsiveness to Rick in his subconscious. Then there That promotion for season 7, Where Summer raises the idea of a “Summer Citadel” that she summons[s] The Line was a joke, and certainly a joke, but the idea of the Summer Citadel at least shows that it lies in the writer’s mind.
But the main reason for the evil summer is that it remains such a persuasive idea, because it simply looks fun. Even at the premiere of 8 this season, it’s fun to watch as summer summer brings us along. Just as Rick got more fun when he was a careless drunken jerk in season 1, Summer is more fun when he’s allowed to put morals aside and make them completely evil. The first episode of Season 8 gives us a little flavour about how persuasive the evil summer arc is. By the season 8 finale, we hope to get a full meal.
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