This makes Birdperson's rejection of Rick at the end even more painful to bear - and that's true for both him and us watching back home too.īy venturing back into Rick's past like this, the tragic events of this episode actually bode well for Rick and Morty's future, if not for Rick himself. Unless he also hails from Rick's original dimension, wherever that might be, this Birdperson would only know about Beth's death if Rick actually revealed it to him. Does this excuse any of Rick's selfish cruelty? No, not really, but it does provide us with way more insight than we've ever been privy to before.Īnd the fact that Birdperson even knows any of this proves just how important he is to Rick as well. If anything, he cares too much, which means that he'll do anything to stay close to his dead daughter, no matter how "creepy" that might be. That means Rick's reckless behaviour and seeming disregard for life doesn't actually come from a place of apathy. That Beth is gone, and he's never going to be able to bring her back. Because to him, neither Beth is his Beth, not really. This could also help explain why Rick thought it was ok to clone Beth in the first place, and also why he didn't keep track of which one is the real one. Even before he fought to bring back his Birdperson, the only version that really matters, he also clung to other Beths to cope with the loss of his own daughter. Although Rick loves to make out that he no longer gives a squanch about anything, that's just not true. But that doesn't mean he's stopped caring completely. Rick's bitterness, the nihilism that seems to define him, does come from a place of hurt, like fans have long suspected. ![]() ![]() And that means the two Beths we've known since then, including Space Beth, aren't his original Beths either. So Rick's original Beth, his actual daughter, isn't the one we met at the very start of this show before her world was Cronenberg-ised (for want of a better word). The episode quickly moves on from this, but Rick clearly hasn't. "You live with a version of our dead daughter," he says, matter-of-factly. "You're one of those creeps who moves in with abandoned adult Beths." Our Rick says, "It's more complicated than that," but Hippie Rick doesn't agree. When Rick clarifies that Morty is a "hypothetical grandson we go on adventures with", the Younger Rick's tone immediately changes. Whether that happened or not, a brief scene that takes place later on in this same episode hints that these "sci-fi Ricks" might be referring to a different, and perhaps even more painful casualty.ĭuring a discussion about Shrek, Rick mentions Morty, much to Hippie Rick's surprise. Rick & Morty feeds into troubling fan obsession Her absence from the show continues to be a question mark five seasons in, and the only thing we have to go on is a (possibly fake) memory from season three that suggests the Council killed Diane by throwing a bomb through a portal. Without more context, it feels like these Ricks (who likely hail from the now-deceased Council of Ricks) might be talking about Diane Sanchez, Rick's ex-wife. And it turns out that some of those memories are quite painful because it's not long before they encounter two Ricks with "sci-fi haircuts" who shout: "Killing us won't bring her back!" Hippie Rick, as he will be known from here on out, is comprised of the memories our Rick and Birdperson once shared. ![]() And that soon turns out to be far more important than you might think.Īmidst all the "Charlie Kaufman bullshit", Rick quickly encounters a younger version of himself in Birdperson's mind. But for once, Rick chooses to hold onto the original version of someone he loves. Sure, there is an infinite number of Birdmen across infinite realities that Sanchez could hang out with instead. Things kick off when Rick dives into Birdperson's mind to help bring him back to life.
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