watching rick beat the ever-living-shit of prime like that felt so real. each swing and hit felt visceral and caused me to flinch each time. watching an actual person take out their frustration, rage, turmoil, and grief in such a way stun-locked me.
seeing him lose his resolve felt so personal to where i felt like i was trespassing on something or watching something i shouldn't have been. it really emphasized to me that rick really is just a jaded, sad old man that's been stricken with ghastly amounts of grief and self-hatred for decades. he's pathetic and he knows that!
and to me he didn't look satisfied or content, he looked... gone. dissociated. like just so checked out. he looked so lost and dejected which made it worse. listening to prime's monologue and watching rick fully lose himself and see how fragile his mental state really is was so uncomfortable in such a good way.
I don’t think prime is unfeeling like we thought. he and rick are really sore. liiiike, here’s prime after evil morty wallops gutted rick in front of him
prime cares enough to put up a dirty fisticuffs fight with c137 (we don’t see him do this for any other rick). prime appears obsessed with teams, and having an upper-hand as to whether or not someone can join him. he laughs when he’s stood up. he kills hermit jerry much as he deflects his feelings of his past.
prime going, you’re so “sentimental” over your dead wife ; the guy is so obsessed over bringing diane up. it seems he expected c137 to make it through to him, enough to continue building these deranged diane terminator dolls. prime reduces diane to ideas of sex when he programs the diane head-a-majig. he used a personal bomb on c137’s diane and beth too, that I assume precedes the omega device.
rick talks prime up for ages, even smiling when he calls prime "the big guy" in this episode. they both reinforce their trauma/last memories of each other. I think it’s crazy they reduced themselves to the single motive of their traumas, even though they were both intelligent enough to invent something as incredible as interdimensional travel.
Honestly, I get why they did it. Granted, I’m also going to always be suspicious that either Prime tricked Rick somehow or Rick kept him alive for some reason since we didn’t SEE him die but also I could see it if that really is the end for Prime because:
I think the fact that it’s unsatisfying is the point.
If ending Prime was never going to satisfy Rick, why would it satisfy us?
I think Rick figuring out who he is and what he wants his life to be going forward will be more interesting than anything they could have done with dragging the Prime thing out.
I love how Morty runs up to hug Rick, then pulls back when he sees the blood...and then hugs him a minute later anyway. Rick doesn't know how good he's got it, tbh.
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