The episode ends with Rick and Morty stripped of the portal gun and Evil Morty escaping to another dimension. Or as Evil Morty puts it, “an infinite crib built around an infinite fucking baby.” Seeing the macabre, inner workings of The Citadel is interesting and typically creative, though it’s hard to escape the feeling that there’s not much of a story being told here, just fan service. This exists to cordon off the universe from realities where Rick isn’t the smartest person within said universe. We learn that The Citadel was actually designed to breed Mortys, which in turn powered something called the Central Finite Curve. Then he created The Citadel before starting a new life with a surviving Beth. ‘Rickmurai Jack’ ties up so many loose threads that it’s quite possible that regulars like The Citadel and Evil Morty won’t be seen again – there’s no need to if Rolland and Harmon now decide to leave things are they are.
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Justin Rolland and Dan Harmon might not have created their hit series with a view to world-building – but they can’t back out now without haemorrhaging viewers who watch the show as much to debate theories on Reddit as they do to laugh at it. Perhaps they hope it might silence the naysayers and give them their show back. It’s almost as if, irritated by the fanbase’s consistent clamouring for more canon-based content, the show’s writers have decided to provide almost all of the answers to almost all of the big questions in one episode. We get Rick’s “stupid crybaby backstory” (his words) learning that it really was another Rick who killed our Rick’s family (confirming Cornvelious Daniel’s vision back in ‘The Rickshank Rickdemption’ to be legit, despite Rick suggesting it wasn’t an authentic backstory at the time). Is Rick and Morty better when it’s telling epic, series long stories? Or when the episodes are short and contained?Īll of this debate is contained within an example of the former, as Rick and Morty – quickly reconciled after the events of ‘Forgetting Sarick Mortshall’ (as well as a fun anime inspired cartoon within a cartoon opener) – return to The Citadel and resume their conflict with Evil Morty, referencing events almost as old as the show itself.
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On the one hand, this is a continuation of episode nine – there’s plenty being said here about the parting of ways, toxic relationships and of reconciliation – but it’s also an extremely meta comment on one of the fandom’s most constant concerns. But there is much to enjoy too, despite this being arguably the most lore heavy episode to date. It’s stuffed with answers to some big questions – and is far too dense to absorb in one sitting. Look, we’ve watched the Rick and Morty season five finale three times now and it made our brain hurt.