Will Morty EVER Be the Same Again?! | Rick: A Mort Well Lived BREAKDOWN

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I think you're missing the biggest point in the episode: Marta was who Rick was trying the hardest to bring out. Who Rick enabled to lead. And who ultimately let stay in the machine because she wanted to, and Rick enabled her to. Rick wanted Marta's aspect of Morty so much that Rick let Morty's world/personality destroy so much of itself just to wait for Marta. Marta's also the only one that Rick says he loves and respects. This wasn't a story about Rick not loving and respect Morty, it was the level of effort and work Rick would do to keep Morty as his own person and individuality. Even when ultimately, he couldn't.

Not sure how you missed how important the Summer/Rick situation is in this episode. Rick literally left himself completely open and free for her to take care of. He wasn’t worried and gave vague instructions because he fully trusted she would handle it. And she did. No zinger of how she goofed it and he had to figure it out last minute or change the plans. No bit where she’s begging for extra approval. Just smooth interactions between the two.

It is crazy to think how much effort Rick did put into his morty. 50 years of effort

One thing I think everyone is missing when they talk about this regression is something Johnny touched on at the end. Rick intentionally preserved the Marta piece of Morty. I think this is undervalued as a display of caring for his whole grandson and I'm also inclined to believe the pieces of Marta might return to Morty one day. Heck, it may even be that Rick figures out the old "agree to everything" Morty annoys him or isn't as fulfilling a relationship. It would be really cool to see Rick admit that the part of Morty that doesn't bend to his wishes is a part that he (Rick) needs around. Finally, I think there's even evidence of this previously: when Morty detoxifies he's much more capable and confident, and Jessica openly tells Morty that Rick was lamenting his absence. Rick needs Morty on more than one level and I think this is just a slow burn to him realizing it.

Something I really liked was seeing the moments where Summer is at her most confident, coupled with the last episode. Where she wants to be independent and impress those who she think are cool (Rick, Space Beth), but flails & drops the mask a bit when she's on her own, and becomes confident again when she feels like she has an upper hand (others are playing too by the book) or has someone to show off against. As someone who hasn't seen Die Hard, the B-plot didn't feel like a standard R&M parody to me, being more about that dynamic of 'Summer can stand out where others play by rigid & defined expectations', which landed super well for me! It's a moment where everything being meta helped define each character's method+worldview, rather than just being references to or critique of some other piece of media.

Yeah I don't think Marta staying in the game was meant to be the writers "getting rid of" Morty's defiance. I mean, she's only one five billionth of him, and a tiny fraction of that "8%". I think it was meant to reflect on Rick's character more than anything. How he grew to value something despite it's insignificance. Marta was the one "part" of Morty that was the most defiant of Rick. She's like what Evil Morty was to the citadel. And Rick lets her live her own life, which is a surprisingly emotionally nuanced decision for him to make.

Remember that when rick and morty purged their toxic traits it was shown toxic rick was upset about toxic morty being harmed by real rick, basically outright saying rick considers his love for morty toxic.

"He's the one true Morty" .... technically very true. If his bio grandpa is Rick Prime, that would make Morty Morty Prime :/ wouldn't it?

I personally think that its a bit more of a set back as we see mortas daughter rebelling against her. So mortys rebelliousness is not completely gone just lessened.

Didn't Marta's daughter get on the ship? There is a possibility that her defiance of Marta is part of Morty's personality and a new development of it. Maybe that is the key to allowing him to become the one true Morty or even the mortiest Morty

I never really considered the fact that our rick doesn't have a biological morty since his Beth died as a kid and never had the chance to have him :/ and on the other hand, the morty he is going around with is the direct biological grandson of the rick that killed his wife and kid 😬 but I guess it's nice that they're together, since neither would have had the other if they had gone on with their lives normally. I hope that our Rick sees that without the Marta part of Morty their dynamic is kinda messed up, and he sorta misses it. And maybe he goes back to try and reconcile with that part of Morty.

I don’t think that Marta being removed from Morty will effect him long term. I do think it’ll effect him pretty heavily in the short term. Morty is a person who has proven time and time again that he’s capable of growth, and I think that part of Morty is inevitable, he might just need a bit more time to get there than he would’ve before.

In my opinion Season 6 feels like a return to the glory days of seasons 1,2,and 3. The first two episodes have been fantastic and have me hooked on the show again :)

Before watching, my theory is that this episode was a background story for evil morty. There's a ton of resentment for Rick, all three of the characters seem closer to their earlier seasons' traits than the recent ones, Morty's personality has been partially erased because of Rick's inability to be vulnerable (leaving the door open for major hatred for all Ricks), it had no ties to the Season 6 opener

I don't think that marta staying in the simulation will impact morty's personality at all. I think that fundamentally all of the MPCs (morty player characters) are morty. The traits we see in marta are also in all of the other MPCs, but for one reason or another they didn't manifest. The differences in the mental states and therefore the differences in behavior of the MPCs are a result of the game's code and the game's environment. For instance, the game encoded the existence of a jewish family, and the game programmed marta to believe she was jewish initially (but it could only use morty's knowledge of Judaism to actually create a jewish family). Additionally, the MPCs would be affected by their environment to change their behavior just literally everyone is. Again, the point is that this charismatic, empowered bit of morty's mind called marta being left in the game doesn't make morty any less charismatic or empowered because all of the MPCs had the same mind. It's just that marta's charisma and leadership was able to manifest because of a combination of encoded beliefs and environmental factors. The idea that all of these mind are the same mind makes all of the conflict between the MPCs trivial, because it's nonsensical to distrust someone who is the same person as you. This, in my opinion, points to the theme that all people IRL are fundamentally the same (because we all like people and all hate suffering) and our distrust of other people's differences is likewise trivial.

4:38 - This is so funny in hindsight, because the main Morty is actual Morty Prime.

I feel this segment of Morty is a big part of his identity as "The One True Morty" or "Morty Prime", Perhaps the device still running will have future implications.

I think what's going on in the writers want to have it both ways in that they want to realize both 'morty stuck with reformed rick' and 'morty realized without rick'. Like with Beth and Space Beth. It's another bifurcation of storytelling potentialities. Yeah I used Bifurcation in a sentence deal with it. Season 6 feels like they are embracing multiple potentials from one person in a different way with the characters.

This reminds me about that one episode of Jimmy neutron where Jimmy and Cindy switch minds. They emptied their minds and relied on their friends to put everything back in the right person, and at the very end there was one part that was thrown out. Which did end up effecting Jimmy.