#also i find it so funny in this episode that at the end rick and summer actually work out

[thosewildcharms]

towl 1x03 thoughts

rick is REALLY going through it trying to keep michonne alive by out maneuvering jadis AND thorne AND michonne herself because she fails horrendously at acting like she's not the most impressive person in the world AND trying not to have an aneurysm about all of that at the same time

speaking of rick you can't tell her to lie low and then eyefuck her in public every time you see her you are equally bad at this

equally you should probably stop kissing her every chance you get if you want her to believe you want her to leave lol

by contrast michonne screaming at him with her eyes while simultaneously giving him the silent treatment because she's actually too pissed off to yell at him? danai the actress you are!!!!!!!

also!!! the fact that rick thinks he can say "if you love me, you'll go" would actually make her leave is crazy. he has no idea how much that woman loves him! that's why she just smiled angrily at him because ACTUALLY. the reality is that she loves him way TOO much to ever leave him behind. that's WHY she's even here, in fact!!! he's not used to people fighting for him like this :(

michonne ripping that helmet off his head so hard i thought his head might come off with it had me cackling but also rick is stronger than me because I'd be on my knees

"you're a hero. with a shit haircut" I screamed he hates jadis so much it's so funny fdjaslkf

speaking of which I wonder if the freaks who think there is genuine sexual tension between rick and jadis caught his look of absolute disgust as he physically recoiled from her when she sexually harassed him for the 100th time. girl he's not gonna fuck you

CARL MENTION HELP

"He told me he'd find you. He found you." "Now I'm looking for him." MAYBE STOP MAKING ME CRY PERHAPS

one thing about rick and michonne they WILL find a minute to make out for a bit. and because andy and danai are EPs now they will do it with tongue while extremely well-lit! it's like they heard the complaints from the mothership and addressed them by kissing at least once per episode in broad daylight they love us

rich and michonne effortlessly fighting side by side and getting shit done after almost a decade apart because they are ACTUAL soulmates

the parallel between pearl aiming her gun at michonne and shane aiming his gun at rick in season 2 because they both feel threatened!!! big difference of course being that rick is there to literally put himself in the crosshairs to protect her

michonne staring rick down in a a turbulent helicopter and then abruptly yeeting them both into a raging storm because she is fed up with his shit is the funniest, most unhinged thing I've ever seen I love her so much

this show is fucking insane I love it. I'm still wary of how it will all end but I'm enjoying the hell out of it until we get there

[thesoftboiledegg]

I wasn't sure what to make of "That's Amorte" before it aired. When signs pointed toward "the spaghetti comes from aliens," I wondered if we had a rehash of Futurama's "The Problem with Poppers," where the crew finds a delicious treat on a planet only to learn that the "popplers" are underdeveloped alien offspring.

Rick and Morty's take on Soylent Green also seemed likely. Everyone knows the twist: Soylent Green is people! A dark sci-fi concept like that could be a ripe parody for this series.

However, "That's Amorte" adapted a concept that other shows have referenced a thousand times and took a right turn. No one's angry at the humans for eating their suicide victims: in fact, they love the spaghetti and turn it into a corporate product.

This is an obvious shot at capitalism and how companies will destroy the environment, brutally slaughter animals and turn cities into concrete wastelands just to make a buck. And I mean--chowing down on this spaghetti isn't that different from eating meat. I'm an omnivore, but I kept thinking that at least these pasta producers chose to die.

The suicide element gave this episode a poignant touch instead of turning it into an edgelord slog where the humanoids kill people and throw them in a meat grinder. Admittedly, the clones leaned in that direction, and that scene also shows how Rick struggles to understand the world outside himself. He doesn't react when the clones kill each other, but one of his daughters is a clone, and he'd be horrified if anything happened to her.

On its own, "That's Amorte" is a great episode. However, when you take the whole series into account, the plot retreads the same old Morty narrative: Morty tries to do the right thing, it backfires, Rick dodges responsibility while antagonizing Morty to be petty, Rick gets stuck fixing everything and Morty tries to pretend it never happened.

I keep waiting for something good to happen to Morty. Rick has plenty of episodes where he makes positive changes: going to therapy ("Analyze Piss," "Air Force Wong"), improving his relationship with Jerry ("Final DeSmithation," "The Jerrick Trap"), trying to do right by Beth ("Bethic Twinstinct"), being kinder to Morty ("Full Meta Jackrick"), etc.

Season five doesn't emphasize his character development as much, but plenty of scenes show how much he's changing. Even season four has moments where he's gentler.

Rick's being his petty season-two self in "That's Amorte," but even here, he does the right thing by showing the world exactly what--and who--they're eating. In earlier seasons, he would've done that just to be an asshole. Here, I don't think that he was trying to torment people as much as he just knew that this spaghetti shitshow had to end.

Same with the spaghetti itself. He didn't feed it to the Smiths, then show them the dead body just to torture them. I think he genuinely wanted to share the spaghetti because it was delicious, but he also figured that they don't want to know where it comes from.

On a similar note, I enjoyed Rick's moments of physical gentleness. Great animation detail.

So Rick gets a little character development and saves the day again, and Morty gets...nothing. Just a rehash of old storylines. "Mortynight Run" in particular has almost the same plot, beat-for-beat.

"That's Amorte" touched on Morty's depression and his family's coldness toward him but didn't go further than that. Morty keeps cycling through the same issues with no resolution. He blows up in one episode, then shuts down the next. His attempts to do the right thing go astray. When's this kid going to catch a break?

Again, this episode isn't bad. It's funny, original and well-written and has a lot to say about ethics and capitalism. Still, I don't understand why reviews on other sites keep emphasizing Morty's character development because I didn't see much.

I will say that everyone's horror at where the spaghetti comes from was a great takedown of the meat industry. Everyone loves sausage, but nobody wants to see how it's made!

Still, next time we get a Morty episode, I hope that it says more about him and less about the world outside his cartoon.

[spacenightwing]

Guys… I just have to… okay listen

I picked up the Lighting Thief while in was at a Target with my mom while I was in 8th grade. I hated reading. I hated it. I’d rather do a multiplication table test then partake in popcorn reading (if you know you know, and if you know how much I HATE math that means something).

I’m sitting here right now post-episode 8 (yes I did cry like a baby thank you for asking) watching the behind the scenes documentary A Hero’s Journey.

8th grade me could have NEVER imagined the journey PJO would take. Or the journey I would take in the years of The Lightning Thief to the Sun and the Star, all the way to a freaking faithful series adaptation.

PJO introduced me to fandom. I remember seeking out PJO fan fiction because The Lost Hero came out, there was no Percy, and it was going to be a year long wait to figure out where this “other camp” was. I remember finding every Viria fan art I could find. It’s not even funny how many times over I’ve watched the Viria “How Far We’ve Come” music art video since the drop of episode 1

PJO taught me to love reading. PJO lead me to Hunger Games, Legend and The Young Elites, Rot & Ruin, The Hate U Give, An Ember in the Ashes, Born A Crime, Island of Sea Women, Alex Rider, A Woman of No Importance, Skyhunter, Eragon, Barrackkn: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, The Sun is Also A Star, Revolution for Dummies, and so so so so many more. It’s because of PJO that I have flown on the backs of dragons, won and lost revolutions, been to the ends of Tartarus and Isihogo (Twice!), saw the world through a spy’s eyes, been the villain, been the hero, and lived more lives than one is allowed to live in one life.

That 8th grader in Target had no idea what she was getting herself into. And I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Thank you Uncle Rick. Thank you to the whole Disney+ Team that made this season reality.

Uncle Rick. Thank you for a million of your stories, and a million more that you opened up to me.

(Every title and author is tagged below if you want to see more 🩵)

[no0t2]

@checkadii

I literally just woke up so this is the worst time to post this but ngl I have this problem where I wanna talk about it but I blank so fucking hard and fall flat on my face that I end up not talking about it anyway out of sheer embarrassment.

I'm not good at structuring my thoughts properly either because of ADHD, but here goes I guess.

I usually gotta segway into the topic if it's relevant to the conversation usually via,, friend convo, I don't know how people do deepdives of characters and whatnot I can't do that. I'm not sure why that is, this always has been a thing for me where I've got some level of understanding and my own HCs and such but they're not written or anything, so I can't express them.

To me Postal is just a silly series (minus P1 and Redux), not to be taken too seriously. So I don't really think about the "lore" that it has so much. I can ramble about Postal: Brain Damaged tho, that's probably my favourite cos of gameplay... And the designs as well as the soundtrack. It's just such a good game, I never thought shooters would ever be a genre I'd like to play, as I was so against playing them (thanks Half-Life for opening up my eyes). I can say definitely with confidence that retro styled FPS are especially something I find fun? Not on intense difficulty or anything either, I usually can't go above normal.

I've listened to "Straight Outta Suburbia" for like over an hour straight, I'm pretty sure even during while I was drawing one of my BD sketches lol

Back to Postal in general, I frankly haven't done enough "research" on it where I can properly speak about it aside from the games I've played (P1, P2, Paradise Lost and P:BD) And they're all games that are super different from each other (aside from P2 and PL, but even then). I'd also say I'm still pretty new to the series, speaking as I haven't played all of the games yet. Frankly, I was planning to just stick to P2 and that's it, glad I didn't.

Postal 1 I remember making me feel all sorts of weird things when I both played it and after I finished it. The load up intro scared the shit out of me the first time I opened the game, to where I had to pause for a minute. And it kept spooking me each time I did open it. I think that was kinda the point of the game as it's pretty dark compared to it's counterparts. I won't get into the lore of the 1st Dude cos I've seen people pluck at each other's feathers over the interpretation of him. But essentially, guy looses his shit during an episode, starts killing everyone. (Or just, "hostiles", depends how you play the game.)

P2 is so wildly different (aside from the fact that you can shoot people) that when I first opened it I was so confused how I was met with THAT Dude. I was surprised to hear him talk more beyond than just "BLEED" or "Only my weapon understands me". At the time I was also wrangling personal fears and feelings(which I don't know if I wanna get into, let alone if people would even wanna hear it lol) over playing the Postal series, so my initial expectation towards the game was:

"Okay, I know this is going to have some offensive shit in it, there's parts that won't be fun probably." And hoped for the worst, surprisingly a lot of the stuff in it I didn't find that bad, most of it is definitely fucked up, but nothing I couldn't handle, surprisingly. I played neutral-y, so I only attacked whoever attacked me, but I'd bail if I had the chance.

Paradise Lost plays similarly to Postal 2 (as it's literally the same branch of game just in the form of DLC). But I've found myself enjoying it way more than Postal 2, mostly cuz I found some of the jokes in it actually funny.

P3 I haven't played because I got rick rolled by RWS on the website so I'm not gonna play it out of spite </33 (But I've seen gameplay)

Postal: Brain Damaged is like, even more different than the previous entries as it's a retro styled shooter. But it has the charm of a Postal game and MAN is it good, I think the fact that it was released more recently is what made me enjoy its humor more. And it just!! Is so fun in general like wow, I'm still processing playing the game and I've already been thinking of replaying it because of how much I've enjoyed it. Definitely recommend trying it out.

AND WOWWW this has gotten long oops. Sorry.

I wanna note tho that, although there are aspects of Postal I enjoy, there's a lot of them that I don't, namely the offensive bits, some of them are genuinely fucked up where I can't go past them even in a comedic sense. Which I think is OK. I still enjoy other parts of it :^]

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

I don’t think I have massive amounts to say about this new episode that hasn’t already been said better by someone else but I’m very autistic and incapable of shutting up about my special interests so here we go anyway

I love the exploration of Beth’s character through her two selves and how we get to see things that are the same/intrinsic to both Beths but also how big some changes are even from one split essentially.

I’m glad we’ve got confirmation that Rick has also fucked other Ricks because you cannot tell me that Rick of all people wouldn’t have done that. Also I love that he reassures Beth that it’s OK and tells her he’s done the same.

Rick and Jerry canonical bonding/drunken shenanigans is my favourite thing

Also Rick just pissing about with Summer and Morty is great as well

Also Summer and Morty’s little discussion about both seeing and trying not to think about the Beths

I know a lot of people didn’t find this episode funny but I actually really did? I might be in the minority here because I honestly also found a lot of parts of the infamous sperm episode funny when I know others hated it so maybe I just have a very stupid and childish sense of humour but I love the Beths sneaking around to not get caught, Summer and Morty being traumatised by what they see, the ‘ultra-realistic video game’ just being realistic in ways no one wants it to be, Rick and Jerry getting drunk and getting tattoos, Rick arguing with Morty over the controller, Rick trying to make Summer and Morty have a normal dinner within earshot of the role play uostairs

Also I know a lot of people weren’t keen on the ending (not the post credits stinger but the ending threesome) because they felt like it was ‘I have two wives’ thing but personally I felt like it didn’t come across like that too much since the episode was focused mostly on Beth and her relationship to herself and her as a person? And we’ve had Beth and Jerry have a threesome with Mr Nimbus before, as well as Rick calling out Jerry for asking which Beth was ‘his’ in S4, which Jerry also acknowledges here ‘Beth? My Beth? Well not my Beth but’). Also with Jerry’s father enjoying being cucked I honestly took it much more as Jerry enjoying being cucked and the Beths getting into the roleplay.

And speaking of the post-credits stinger, I love the receptionist telling Jerry that they don’t allow Jerrys to fuck each other and him then sneaking off to find another Jerry in the alley only for them to have an extremely chaste kiss and handshake and thank you. The most Jerry interaction ever.

Overall I really liked this episode, I found it funny but also liked that it did explore some more serious issues (Beth’s conflicting thoughts on things/the differences between the two Beths, Jerry being manipulative and acknowledging it and apologising) and also the little slice of life moments with Rick and Summer and Morty.

[disaste-npc]

Why does every series have to be so dark and deep and meaningful for it to be considered "good" and "worth watching" and if you watch anything other than deep, dark shows and movies with like an art teachers analysis level of meaning then you have bad taste and shouldn't have the interests you have?

Personally I love silly animations with comedy and a little bit of dark jokes/dick jokes. Yk adult cartoons.

I like watching Rick and Morty, not necessarily because I like the jokes but because I enjoy having something light in the background with the occasional actual funny joke that makes me chuckle.

I like watching helluva boss and hazbin hotel because the plot isn't too heavy, sure they throw some deep stuff here and there and the characters have actually backstory. But at the same time it's overall light and with bad jokes that makes you blow air out your nose and roll your eyes. ALSO THEY GOT AMAZING SONGS

We need silly stuff in television and on streaming services, if you're not in the mood for watching a lot of gore of people being brutally murdered in a movie about revenge or the apocalypse. Or you're extremely tired and just wanna unwind your brain from everything going on for a moment and don't wanna watch loud high action stuff. Or is just tired of scrolling for stuff to watch and have already moved past 30 different movies and series that's essentially just the same plot copy pasted of a romance between a white straight couple with no dynamic that ends up together despite being a "forbidden romance" even tho no one forbids it.

I'm tired, I just want something to relax to after the terminus episodes of the walking dead and the only light, silly stuff I can find is children's show and movies, and I don't wanna watch that as the only way to avoid serious, dark TV.

We need silly ideas, we need original ideas

And I'm not saying the deep, dark series aren't good, there's just so many of them that are alike that it drowns everything else and it gets tiresome.

[magnumdays]

Magnum PI 5.12 - Three Bridges review

Little bit late this week because I had trouble finding the ep and well this new mid-week airing time, it's at a pretty inconvenient time of the week for me.

Anyways...

The promo for this episode was misleading as (when is it not) but in this case it was a really good misleading. We did get funny sting-ray case but that was just a side plot for laughs.

And for me it worked so well because it gave us more Miggy scenes and man, do I love how they're doing Magnum and Higgins as a couple now. It's established, comfortable but still sweet with that hint of sexy they always had and IDK, why can't we just have 10 seasons more of this?

The Case

Seems like a semi-straightforward "trusted the wrong person and got my money stolen" case. But this being Magnum PI, there is of course a huge trafficking ring behind it and the bad guy is actually a good guy and everyone (except for the Triad) gets a happy ending. (Brushing over the trauma of trafficking and being used as a human sheild at and also sort of betrayal of trust and stealing lots of money from people, and all that jazz. Because goodness will win out and happiness reign supreme -that's just how we roll in Magnum PI land.)

I liked it, even if finding the hotel (which granted took the combined power of Kumu and Higgy) and then just getting walked straight into the heart of the Evil Overlords organization was a bit convenient. Like if I was a boss bad-guy I would have just told my underlings to walk potential spies and cops and other interested parties off the property. And then just moved my operation.

Just saying, a bit sloppy for a 97-million-dollar operation...

The end bit with findning Haun (Han?) after he'd been sold off again, maybe that should have ended sadder or more dramatic. Like Haun could at least have gotten shot in the arm or something... just a little suggestion.

Or Higgy should have gotten shot because she was just walking straight into the path of this guy's bullets...

The Miggy

What took you so long?

I was about to ask you the same thing.

They are so adorable and just maybe the ultimate modern battle couple of all time.

Seriously was there one Miggy moment when the banter was not on point?

"Get where it's going and intercept it!"

Side note: does someone on this show have like a drowning kink? I feel like waterboarding is the to-go torture method of choice for all bad guys. I mean Nuzo was water-boarded before he died, Higgy was, then she almost drowned and now we got TM getting all drown-y.

And love the look Magnum gives the guy when the bad guy is all "This ain't gonna work - go get his friend". Like from mildly smug (above) because hey, Mr. Navy Seal "I can hold my breath for five minutes" isn't worried about anything to 'not amused' in like a second.

(I mean of course Higgy being all kick-ass going to get her Hubby, also lovely.)

TC - Sometimes you just need your mom

So TC pushing everyone away after last week when he seemed to be opening up and doing a bit better with Shammy and Kumu felt like a step back, but also very real. Because rehab and progress is not linear nor does it "make sense" for most people in a logical way.

Mommy-TC showing up and both showing him that she not leaving because she loves him and wants to be there for him and talking to him about weakness and stubbornness, was the right play. Because when life sucks sometimes you just need your mom right?

It's also a nice call back to last "season" which they've been so good at during season 5. Like with Higgy and the Mandarin and just little references to stuff (still waiting on the tattoo though...)

Rick and Love

So I guess Piper was only in the picture to push Rick and Suzy together then? Maybe? I kind of hope she sticks around and has some other nefarious purpose. But if she's not in the next episode or 14, I guess she was just there to get the Suzy/Rick ship to sail.

Which, I mean, we did all want that and it is sooo very cute and I'd want to see happy-family feels! Let Suzy or Rick have a birthday and we can end with a surprise party or something this season (and bring a real baby this time).

Overall + I'm on a break next week

I enjoyed this episode so much, possibly a bit more than last week's ep even, and I'm a bit annoyed with myself it took me like 4 days until I could watch it. I guess, part of why I postponing watching is because each week means one episode closer to the last one. Urg, why did they end our show!!! It's such a freaking shame because it absolutely feels like they've found their groove with the Miggy relationship and just the whole vibe of 5a and so far 5b!

Next week I'll be traveling so I might not be able to get access to the episode at all before I return home, which sucks because it's my favorite plot-device: my faves going undercover.

But yeah, 13+14 might end up being a double episode for me (+ double review!) in two weeks but we shall see!

[nekobami]

HUGE SPOILERS. (Screenshots I took w some comments & thoughts - not too hight quality however)

Oh wow. Long text.

I mean, finding out that everything was a plot fanficed by the demon and Morty's mind alone couldn't have been a better plot, I mean, It's really funny how Morty sees the random and insane things that happen to them.

Even though it's always something really out of the ordinary, I don't know how to explain it, but... Like, I can't help but feel like everything is too convenient. Because the focus is on fear, I mean at the end, it's an unconscious fear-focused narrative built using Morty's worldview as bricks. So that he didn't even know that this was really his fear at the end of the day.

But I'm surprised he doesn't even suspect how convenient and quick everything is. Like, "HOLY SH#T, A YOUNG RICK JUST ENTERED THE LIVING ROOM BURNING TO DEATH HOLDING A DIANE." JUST LIKE THAT. IN THE SAME SPEED YOU RED IT

But in parallel, I love how Morty sees the partnership between him and Rick. In the end, despite all the lore, all the narrative burden that should separate Rick from this family, Morty still sees them as the two weird friends who isolate themselves to talk to each other when something sinister happens. I also felt something in Rick's expression during this episode, but I talk about that in the screenshot

(( Marriage working out sounds ))

I also loved the "anti-aging thing" and the "Dad, stop! you're traumatizing her." I mean, For Morty, everything is so convenient for Rick that he can simply inject a blue liquid into his vein and become young again. CASUALLY. Not that it doesn't exist. It's probably something exactly like this.

WAKE UP, SUNSHINE! YOU HAVE A VIRTUAL EXISTENCIAL CRISIS TO LIVE!

By the way. I agree with other opinions I've seen recently. All of this is completely set up from the beginning, and it certainly wouldn't be so easy for Diane to simply ignore her grandchildren and her thirty-year-old daughter just to casually hang out with Rick. I mean, it's part of it. But bro. I'm sorry, I know Rick is a silly and romantic guy when it comes to it, even more so with HIS WIFE, the woman of his life, BUT, a breakfast bot? It still sounds too much like Morty's vision of Rick's flirting skills to me. Anyway. BREAKFAST BOT.

OHHH yeah, look at them. They're not real, but will make you feel good.

Oh, also. About this... this... thing. Like, I have to agree that it was a very wise choice to have only Morty go into the hole. Like. That demon devours your fears clearly means he enters your mind, he knows you by what you fear. He will use everything you know to taste your fear and suck everything out of you. He won't kill you, I guess. He was probably just making fun of Morty about his fear thing being able to actually kill someone. But he is a demon. Supposedly that's what he does. Unless maybe he has adapted to feed himself without actually needing to kill someone, or if he casually lets people live just for the sake of it. I don't know... I can't help but feel like this guy never needed them to go into the hole to build the narrative.

He's already managed to find out about everything Morty knows about Rick. Now imagine what we would have seen if he knew everything Rick knows about himself and others? I'm sorry, but it would obviously be too heavy. I know, it hurts. And you cannot compare the extent of people's fear, after all it is completely individual. But, my friend, imagine what this guy would discover about the multiverse as it is, just by getting into Rick's mind? The recourse he would have in this here is above tolerable. HOW DAMN POWERFUL CAN THIS GUY ACTUALLY BE? Hihi. Fear hole demon. I'm totally not attracted by him.

Also. Holy sh#t.

Cursed as f#ck, damn, ew, it wasn't even necessary, please don't do nothing similar to this, I'm begging you. I can't see this again in any context.

About Rick's expressions. (Yes. Yeah, yeah, the whole narrative load of this interaction between them, and Rick coming back after hearing that Diane was there, Morty afraid of Rick hugging him still being a hole thing, Morty afraid of being replaced, Rick coming back to put up Morty's photo, photo of Morty in the wallet, yes yes, extremely nice, lots of cool stuff, of course. But I would like to point out something.)

I could be wrong, after all I didn't watch the episode again. Like, I know Rick being with his wife must have exacerbated that factor, but throughout Morty's fear-centric narrative, Rick's features are softened, I don't know how to explain it. But in that moment, when Morty comes out of the hole, what really is Rick as an individual comes in, and not just the Rick built with Morty's vision of him and their interactions. Like, he just got that totally tired annoyed-like expression, since, after all, he's still affected by the recent events, and his face... Uh, I can't explain it perfectly, but around him is still heavy, while in Mortys narrative, things seems... lighter, since they've SUDDENLY, VERY CONVENIENTLY got another worries. And even if he was romantic with her in the narrative... I can't explain, but he was still very... cold and insensitive at times. Something that I find very difficult for Rick to do, as an individual and being extremely affected by all his experiences.

Anyway. Nice episode. Definitely. Merry Christmas too. HAHA. Christmas.

[stficblog]

The New Girl (part 6)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Description: You find Eddie after the events of episode 1.

Pairing: Eddie Munson x fem!reader

Warnings: Idk, swearing?

Word count: 1.5k

A/N: Ok I guess I’m not ending the series with part 6. This story keeps going in directions that I wasn’t planning and I’m just along for the ride. Also thank you to the handful of people who have left me kind words about this series. I appreciate you more than you will ever know.

You lay on the couch at home, finally feeling better after two days of being ill. The TV chattered in the background, but you weren’t really paying attention. You were worried.

Eddie didn’t show up last night to tell you how D&D went. He didn’t even call. For the last two days, he had come over after school just to sit by your bed while you slept. It wasn’t like him to disappear like this.

“We don’t have a lot of details right now, but we can confirm that the body of a Hawkins High student was discovered early this morning.”

You turned towards the TV with a frown. The Hawkins curse had struck again. But wait… that was Eddie’s trailer.

Panic gripped your chest. You couldn’t breathe. Eddie couldn’t be dead. It couldn’t be him.

~

Wayne Munson knew you as “Eddie’s girl,” although Eddie had insisted multiple times that the two of you weren’t dating.

He liked you. His nephew had a tendency to put up a theatrical front around other people, but he never did that with you. Now, he studied you as you stood before him.

“Eddie,” you panted, “is he…?”

“Eddie ain’t here, girl,” Wayne said, grinding his cigarette butt out on the table, “haven’t seen him since yesterday.”

A wave of relief washed over you.

“You mean… he’s not dead?”

“Not yet,” Wayne scoffed, “but he will be when the townsfolk find him.”

“What do you mean?”

“Everyone thinks he did it. That he killed that poor girl in cold blood.”

Eddie wasn’t a violent person. He wasn’t even an angry person, despite what he always said about hating society.

With renewed hope, you rushed away to find him.

~

You checked everywhere. Jeff wasn’t home, and when you found him with the rest of the band in Gareth’s garage, none of them knew where Eddie was. You wracked your brain for ideas.

Reefer Rick’s. Eddie had brought you there once to buy weed with him, and you knew he sometimes crashed there when the two of them hung out together.

It was already night by the time you started heading to Rick’s. Oddly enough, there was another car going the exact same way as you, all the way to Rick’s house. You grew tense, thinking that this could be a hunting party of angry town citizens.

You got out of your car, brandishing the umbrella that you kept under the passenger seat. Gripping the umbrella with both hands, you braced yourself for a fight.

It was Dustin Henderson, the freshman that had joined Hellfire Club at the beginning of the year. Three other people climbed out of the car with him, all carrying flashlights that they now trained on you.

“Y/N? What are you doing here?” Dustin lowered his flashlight.

“What,” you fired back, “are you doing here? And who are they?”

“I’m Robin,” one of them piped up.

“We’re looking for Eddie,” Dustin explained.

“So am I,” you said cautiously, “but I’m not reporting him to the police when I find him!”

“Neither are we!”

“You don’t think he’s guilty?”

“No! Eddie could never kill someone!”

You lowered the umbrella. You knew that Dustin looked up to Eddie. He was an honest kid, too.

“Alright,” you said, “we’ll look together.”

~

“I know you think you’re being funny, Henderson,” Steve said as he jabbed at the tarp with a wooden oar, “but considering everyone in this room besides Y/N has nearly died about a hundred times, personally, I don’t find it funny in the slight-”

Suddenly, Eddie burst out from under the tarp, pinning Steve to the wall with a broken beer bottle at his throat. There was a moment of chaos as everyone tried to figure out what was happening.

“Eddie! Eddie, stop!” Dustin stood back, trying to show Eddie that he meant no harm. “It’s me! It’s Dustin! This is Steve! He’s not going to hurt you. Right, Steve?”

Steve dropped the oar. The sudden loud noise further aggravated Eddie, causing him to press the broken bottle harder against Steve’s throat.

“Eddie,” you said desperately, “look at me.”

Your familiar voice pierced through the haze of Eddie’s fear, and he slowly turned to you. He had a crazed look to him, like an animal caught in a trap, but his eyes softened when he saw you.

“Y/N…?”

“It’s me,” you breathed, “let him go, Eddie.”

There was a moment of silence as Eddie seemed to process what was happening. Finally, he released Steve and slid down against the wall. You noticed him shaking and crouched in front of him, taking his free hand in both of yours. Next to you, Dustin crouched down as well, watching Eddie with concern.

“Eddie,” he said quietly, “we just want to talk.”

“We want to know what happened,” said Robin.

Eddie looked up, still shaking.

“You won’t believe me.”

~

You stayed with Eddie while the others left to get groceries. He had tried to convince you to go home, but you wouldn’t budge.

“My parents will be fine! A little worrying won’t kill them,” you argued, “and I’m not leaving you to deal with this alone, pendejo!”

Eddie battled with his conscience. He wanted you by his side more than anything but allowing you to stay could bring serious consequences for you. In the end, it didn’t matter what he wanted because you were hell bent on staying with him.

You never left his side and he was grateful for it. The two of you lay curled up in the boat, covered by the tarp. It was cramped and you were practically on top of each other, but you both secretly relished the closeness.

You weren’t quite sure when it started, but over the past year you had found yourself getting butterflies every time Eddie touched you. Your heart skipped a beat every time he said your name. You couldn’t help staring at him sometimes, as if he was the most beautiful thing you’d ever seen.

Slowly, quietly, you had fallen in love with Eddie Munson. You never meant for it to happen but now that you were here, limbs tangled with his while you hid from the world, you were glad. He was the one person who made you feel the safest.

Gravel crunched outside as a car pulled up to the house. Instantly, Eddie threw the tarp aside and snatched up the broken bottle that he had left on a nearby table. He peeked out the window, gripping the bottle with white knuckles.

In your shock you remained sitting in the boat. Eddie glanced at you, then at the window. If someone attacked, he would do everything in his power to protect you.

The door slammed open to reveal Dustin and the others with their arms full of grocery bags.

“Delivery service!”

~

You and Eddie sat squished together in the boat, passing a box of Honeycomb cereal back and forth. Eddie hadn’t eaten since the day before and was ravenously stuffing handfuls of it in his mouth.

“So we got, uh, some good news and some bad news,” said Dustin, “how do you prefer it?”

“Bad news first,” Eddie said through a mouthful of cereal, “always.”

“Alright, bad news. We tapped into the Hawkins PD dispatch with our Cerebro,” Dustin started, “and they’re definitely looking for you. Also, they’re, uh, pretty convinced you killed Chrissy.”

“Like, 100% kind of convinced,” added Max.

“And the good news?” You piped up.

“Eddie’s name hasn’t gone public yet,” said Robin, “but if we found out about him, it’s a matter of time before others do too and once that gets out, everyone and their shallow-minded mother is gonna be gunning for him.”

Eddie stiffened next to you.

“Hunt the freak, right?” He had a bitter look on his face.

“Exactly.”

“Shit.”

~

Dustin and the others left to investigate a commotion down the street, which turned out to be another death. This time it was a boy who worked with Nancy for the Hawkins Tiger. Robin relayed all this information to you and Eddie through the walkie talkie.

Eddie had a hollow look in his eyes, and you could tell he was remembering Chrissy’s death. You took his hand in yours and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

“The way she hung there,” Eddie said shakily, “and the sound… the snapping…”

You pulled him in for a hug and he buried his face in your shoulder, holding you tightly as if he was afraid that you would start floating toward the ceiling like Chrissy had.

“I’m not going anywhere,” you whispered, “don’t you worry.”

Little did either of you know, you were going somewhere, and quite soon too. You’d had a headache for the past several days that wouldn’t go away, and you kept waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. You had attributed all of this to your illness, even though that had only lasted two days.

Your days were numbered. In blissful ignorance, you held your best friend, wishing for his nightmare to end while your own nightmare was just about to begin.

Part 7

Tag list: @totallynotkaibiased​ @hurricane-abigail​ @slytherinintj13​ @are-y0u-sirius​ @ttyrannosauruslex​ @f0undations-0f-decay​

[pleasantphantomtragedy]

The whole “Morty hanging out with cronenberg Jerry” was such a good little scene that is a “someone criticises Morty” that worked for me

I’ll be clear, Jery is a bad person here, he’s evolved into a spiteful angry person who’s justified in his rage but also Morry is a kid

Granted, a kid who sometimes somehow operates as an adult but cartoon logic I guess

I also find there’s a point where people in the various stories are unreasonably cruel to Morty for no reason but jokes or harshness

But this one works. Cronenberg Jerry has lost everything through very awful means, and Morty is one of the central figures as to why that is. Like the first time was just dumb kids stuff that’s on Rick, but the second time was Morty using them as a physical example with no consideration that these were people(even as he was making that point)

And Cronenberg Jerry is so genuinely awful. Usually Jerry’s big flaw is the way he avoids any and all problems refusing to confront them. It’s Ricks one true justified issue with him. But here Jerry has embraced Ricke philosophy to the best degree he can. And as the end of the episode shows, without the sci-fi nonsense, this is what you get: a sad lonely angry man, who abandons his son because of his own bitter rage. Heck at the end, he’s fully willing to do a team up with Rick just to hurt Morty.

There’s stuff there that’s earned, but also fuck that’s cruel

And Morty is faced with it, faced with the reality that the people you abandon are real, that your new Summer doesn’t erase the Summer you left behind in an apocalypse world. Morty could have pushed at any time to get Jerry, Summer and Beth back from there. He could have done that, Morty last season went from universe to universe fixing Ricks problems, but instead he just avoided his problems and moved on. Very much doing what Rick also does. Leave a universe behind and refuse to view anything as real because of your trauma.

All this has an effect on Morty. He goes to Rick and chooses to make his relationship solid, not meaningless. This Rick is his Rick. A real specific person that is his grandpa, same with summer, Jerry, and the Beth’s. Even as the cast does still abandon another destroyed universe, they still do it together. And there’s a clear indication that this is their family. No more replacements. If summer died, that’s their summer.

Cronenberg Jerry is an awful person, embracing a kind of tough macho masculinity that sure does sound cool and safe, but it’s lonely, with no family. A very Rick season 1 philosophy

Morty, Rick, Summer, Jerry, Home Beth and Space Beth are all embracing a more vulnerable life where they’re all real and they all have each other. Maybe it’s not as cool, maybe all of them will have their flaws seen. But they have each other, and that really creates a maybe more a weirdly more hopeful Rick and Morty

(Also it’s funny that the family has embraced Jerry’s best quality which is his love of family)

[invisiblegarabgetruck]

How do you feel about Cronenberg Jerry?

there are two sides to my feeling about him :

it's a shame that he died but at least we got to see many new aspects of him :)

and

I LOVE AND MISS HIM. PLEASE BRING HIM BACK I REFUSE TO BELIEVE HE'S DEAD--

but seriously, I was so disappointed about his short-lived cameo in S3 but S6 happened and is now one of my favorites in the series, (besides my general liking for jerry's) I find it funny that the show keeps surprising us with his re-appearance when we thought he dies and forgot about him lol (and i hope they still do that 🥺 pwease)

I think he's a very interesting character to see, he just has gone through so many changes! from S1E6 that he goes apeshit because he was so jealous to actually kind of badass at the end of the episode? (but I always like that you can see that he has always been a bit more aggressive than other jerrys in the show) S3E1 we saw that not only his and the family’s appearance have changed so much, but they also lost a bit of their mind too. (the way they talk, act aggressively, and tried to kill summer because she ‘stinks of rick’) make you wonder how long it takes until they lost it. we didn't get much of his personality during that time (but he seems more serious and confident.)

and S6E1 changes everything!! there are so many details to point at. his clothing looks less wild? he looks more blended into his surrounding now ( now that he didn't has anyone else to stand out to anymore- ) /love his way of using the Cronenberg (human) skins tho, like damn a cape and a backpack? lol his hair and beard are all grown out and grayed a bit (🤔hmmmmm)

^^^^ The 'badass-ness' is gone. all left is just a sad lonely and broken man(!!!!!) ^^^^

and he has the looks of someone who hasn't slept well in a long LONG time. I feel like Beth and Summer's death knocked a lot of senses into him because he no longer acted so feral like S3 now. like he is more calm and jaded now, kind of an asshole tho. and can you imagine how many survivor guilt he has to go through? I'm actually surprised he didn't go completely insane at that point. It is rather sad how much it cost him to develop to this point, I wonder if deep inside he regrets this life and would rather go back to being a simple lame dad instead?

/I've seen someone mention the contrast between Cronenburg Jer and our Rick. (since they suffered the same tragedy) how Cronenburg Jer takes on rick's mindset of letting go of everything and isolating himself from everyone while rick himself couldn't do that but instead never let go in the first place. and both are not good for them!!! (and tbh Cronenburg Jer mindset ended up being more parallel to Rick Prime instead!!!!)

//also, it kinda sucks that he always has developments off-screen. and we’re left with the aftermath and the end. but at the same time, i don’t think it’d be very fitting to insert the Cronenberg world episodes somewhere between the season? lol

so yeah..... that is kinda how I feel about him....... thank you for asking <3!!

[twdmusicboxmystery]

amc posted a video last night about daryl’s most heroric moments. it shows him saving alexandria, blowing up the saviours, leading the herd etc all very big and dramatic moments in the show. the first one was ‘saving beth from the walker’ which i found really odd for multiple reasons

1. why is this in daryl’s most heroic moments. he’s saved lots of people from walkers?

2. why is this the first one on the list? it’s like they want people to be reminded of it, when it doesn’t even fit on the list anyway

3. not being funny, but if beth is ‘dead’, then why is dayrl saving her from one walker so significant if she dies anyway

they’re so trying to get beth in our heads before the spin off, reminding us of her and dayrl and a theme of ‘dayrl saving beth’

As you can see, I got more than one message about this. And I totally feel ya. I totally agree with what both these messages say. I'll just copy and paste what I said to my fellow theorists about it. Our conclusions are right in line with what you're all saying:

@twdmusicboxmystery: On another note, AMC posted a reel of "Daryl's Most Heroic Moments." Some of them are what you'd expect--blowing up the Saviors in S6, carrying Judith in S11, etc. But the second one we see is him saving Beth from the walker in Alone. I gotta say, while OBVIOUSLY we love that moment because it's Bethyl, it's really not Daryl's most heroic or badass moment. Feels like it was placed in there for a reason. Because, Beth. @wdway: Your right saving Beth from the one walker wasn't that big of a deal. You know what, I think other Bethylers would absolutely kill me for saying this, but Daryl finding and carrying Carol out of the tombs at the prison was a bigger save than Beth, because Carol definitely would have died had Daryl not found her. Beth on the other hand had a knife, she might have had to fight more with the Walker, but I have no doubt that she would have saved herself. I do like that the two individuals shown being saved by Daryl was Beth and Judith. Especially when we know in the scene they showed going into the hospital with Judith, Daryl actually ends up on the floor in the same position as Beth at Grady in Coda, with his right hand extended out next to him. @twdmusicboxmystery: Exactly. I think all of these are super strategic. I'm not sure exactly how all of them connect to Beth, but in the writer's minds, I think they all do. Judith, for reasons you said. We've pointed out lots of times how killing the Saviors and then blowing up the lake in Alexandria have ties to her. (Fire, if nothing else, but also symbolic ties; the 6x06 storyline, Carl losing his eye at Alexandria, I could go on). When he leads the walker horde in 6a, there's the blond Beth walker at the front. And that was one of the first instances of Daryl "changing his mind." I'm not sure about the one from AOW, except, again, fire. And blowing shit up. And again, leading the horde really isn't the most heroic moment. I mean, it's great, but they didn't include all the times he saved Rick, or Glenn, or all the kids after Hilltop burned down. Or, as you said, Carol. If this was only and truly about Daryl's heroic moments, those would all have been included. @wdway: The one where Daryl is leading the herd away is Always Accountable, where Daryl ends up meeting Dwight, Sherry and Tina, Sherry's little sister. Lots of Beth symbolism and that episode with not only Daryl but Sasha and Abraham. That episode leads right into Daryl, Sasha and Abraham headed back to AZ and blowing up the bike saviors. Which then leads to them taking the fuel truck into Alexandria and Daryl setting the pond on fire. The one that doesn't make a lot of sense when you first think of it was with that Walker that he shoots and blows the bomb up but isn't that from s8 which leads into he and Rick searching the place where Daryl finds the room where someone had been kept prisoner and Rick finds Gracie and the TF member from s1. So there are connection to these, but the Beth one seems odd other than it was one of the more emotional ones for Daryl saving Beth. In Alone he both saved her at the beginning and lost her to kidnappers later.

So as you can see, we're on the same page as all of you. This is very suspicious, and seems to be strategically putting Beth at the forefront of the GA's minds. Right there with ya! Thanks so much for sending these in! Xoxo! ☀️🔥😋

[that-1-url]

my thoughts on the pjo tv show (spoilers for episode 8) pt 2

6. speaking of VFX, why. They took the time to animate Grover's legs (something mostly unnecessary due to the fact that he wears jeans, fake feet and a hat to hide his goat-ness) in favor of other small things such as Ares' eyes, or Zeus' "flashy" exit from the throne room, or the throne room in general, or the size of the gods (something that could be done with practical effects). 7. Percy's ADHD. It just simply wasn't there. I don't have the authority to speak on the dyslexia side of things, but it felt like they replaced Percy's ADHD with some sort of hallucination-like thing that everyone around him gaslit him into thinking he had. It felt very odd and jarring at times, and while similar events happen in the books, all of the adults around him seemed very determined to like, hospitalize him or something. (This is no hate towards anyone who has visual hallucinations, it just felt like a very weird and slightly ableist (?) approach to the matter that really didn't do either ADHD nor hallucinations any real justice in terms of how it was) [i can't word this correctly i'm sorry] 8. The timeline. They had Grover throw Percy under the bus (for literally no reason) and then immediately whisk him off to montauk in the middle of the school year. (in the books it feels more natural because its at the end of the school term. which apparently it's the summer in the show? but the whole thing is really confusing). It was even more confusing when they show Sally returning because first he goes to montauk in his dream and then she's suddenly there when he wakes up and it begins at the end of the summer i guess?? Not to mention the whole weird portal thing with Luke. He didn't even mention his quest or why he felt personally betrayed by the gods. Just that he hated them because he hated feeling weak? Also Hermes and Hephaestus' appearances didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I feel like the way they escape the casino didn't need to be changed, and in changing it they took away some of Percy's insecurity because in the book he's like "wow I'm having fun with annabeth and grover to find-? who? my mom! how could i forget my mom? something's up". Another quick thing I'm taking on the end is Annabeth getting left behind in the Fields of Asphodel didn't make any sense to me. 9. Annabeth and Grover randomly giving Percy their stuff? It didn't make a lot of sense and was never explained. 10. Percy's main focus at CHB being less of "I want my mom back and I want my dad to pay child support" and more of "so if i do something cool my dad will notice? hmm" felt very odd and out of character. 11. This is less of a critique and more of just a whiny complaint but the series could've been set in 2005 and wasn't. 12. I understand that the show was never going to be a shot-by-shot retelling of the books and i never expected that, but the way they cut out/added scenes felt very erratic and was heavily dependent on the audience already being familiar with the material that I guess we were supposed to fill in the gaps ourselves? and a lot of people have been like "Rick's improving on the story!" and while there were some add-ins I enjoyed, I feel like they cut or changed too many important scenes to really keep the main idea of both the plot and characters. Time for stuff I liked! 1. Dionysus tricking Percy so he would get him a drink was fucking hilarious. 2. Luke's voiceover before Percy fighting Ares being a parallel with Percy's "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood"? Poetic cinema. 3. Percy pushing Grover and Annabeth through the door at the Arch. Excessive personal loyalty anyone?

4. Grover and Annabeth dunking Percy in the fountain to heal his shoulder was really funny. Truely teenage dumbassery at its finest 5. I didn't like how there wasn't the lightning bolt that threw them off the road at the beginning, but I will give the scene points for looking scarily similar to how I pictured it in my head. 6. The raw quote from Poseidon in the throne room "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?" "No...sir." 7. AGE ACCURATE CASTING! This is something we all have been saying from the beginning, but I like acknowledging it again. :) 8. The layout of CHB. You can see just about everything from Half-Blood hill in the books and in the show it's all nice and spread out (as opposed to the Peter Johnson movies where you couldn't even see the next cabin over).

There's more things I have on both sides that I might think of and post about later, but for now that's all I've got. I really did try to approach the TV series with an open mind, but as a show altogether I didn't like it that much, and I really don't think it did The Lightning Thief justice. It's hard to adapt books to TV, but it is possible. I believe that if they had more than eight episodes it could've played out more smoothly, but there were just too many things that changed that didn't have to, and there was too many holes that were left because they cut out the wrong scenes. Kudos to everyone who worked hard on the show and I'm glad that other people enjoyed it. But please respect my opinion and if you have any point of discussion I'd be happy to talk about them with you in a polite, constructive way. Welcome new fans and hello again to old ones, go out and enjoy Percy Jackson and The Olympians, it's a great series (books and TV alike, even if i personally don't like the show)

[savedpeople]

didn’t liveblog at all but here’s some of my thoughts about tonight’s episode (spoilers ahead, including possible future spoilers)

It was great to see Negan and Maggie again, and even Hershel. I miss twd and its characters. It was also nice to see another familiar face in Armstrong (I’ve previously watched the actor in Grey’s Anatomy.) The Croat I’m not sure on yet, liked him this episode but it’ll depend on if they can keep him interesting or if he ends up being a “evil for the sake of being evil” type.

I’m loving the scenery, like it is such a nice change from the woods and dirt roads we had for most of the main show.

Writing-wise, having Negan take yet another kid under his wing feels repetitive, especially since Ginny basically feels like Lydia 2.0, and especially since Negan’s an actual father now and yet they’ve either killed Annie and their kid off-screen, or had something else happen so they aren’t together (I’ve heard they ARE alive and there’s some other reason why he’s not with them. If this is the case I’m very nervous of finding out why. I’ve heard theories and if those theories are right I’ll never forgive the writers.) THAT SAID, I loved Ginny and Negan’s scenes and I’ll never complain about getting to see Negan being Soft And Fatherly. Her being basically mute vs Negan’s naturally talkative nature makes an interesting dynamic too.

Negan actually feels like he regained the personality he kinda lost late into season 11. He feels very Negan again and hearing his snark again makes me very happy.

What we learned about Negan’s father more or less fits in with how I imagined their relationship/Negan’s childhood.

Negan’s very first scene being him in the shower upset/crying (?) plus him seeming to believe he’s not going to make it back to Ginny has me Worried and Upsetti.

I like that Negan apparently worked on a farm for a bit.

I’m sorry but Armstrong knowing about the line-up, that happened like 15 years ago in a totally different state is dumb and not believable at all. If he’d just somehow heard about the “empire” Negan once had, I’d still raise a brow but it’d at least be a little more plausible (aided by how unique Negan’s name is.) But “he once lined up a group of unarmed folks and bashed in a man's head with a baseball bat in front of the man's pregnant wife”? How tf would he know this? None of the people in Rick’s group are around to tell him, and none of the Saviors there knew Maggie was pregnant. Even Negan didn’t know she was pregnant or that Glenn was her husband until AFTER he killed him. Plus calling Rick’s group “unarmed” as if they did nothing to provoke the Saviors, or like they weren’t previously armed and threatening the Saviors before they were captured, is very... lmao. Also they once again left out/forgot about Abraham. Funny that they heard about him killing Glenn but Abe is nowhere in their story even though he was killed first and just as brutally. Also interesting how the line up continues to be talked about as like The Worst Thing Negan Ever Did and not like... everything else.

The continued “Negan has to pay for what he’s done” storylines are old, and the way it seems like we’re going to have TWO characters after him on top of whatever Maggie does/says to him, has me groaning. 

Yes Maggie never has to forgive him etc etc but her repeated attacking/insulting him is also prob going to get old (it was already was in the main show) especially considering the only reason he’s with her is because she asked for his help. like. maybe don’t overly antagonize someone you need? Makes it feel like a lot of the progress they made in season 11 just... doesn’t apply anymore, from either end.

The flashback to Glenn’s death was low key unnecessary. I promise AMC, no one’s forgotten.

I had other thoughts but I forgot them.

[hournites]

Rick literally started the show without a family (Matt does not count) and found a found family throughout the show and then ended the show days/weeks away from officially and legally starting his own family, one that we know will be filled with love and acceptance and joy because Beth is the matriarch of their family. That genuinely makes me so happy for that big loyal doofus . If anyone deserves to end on a note of impending family Rick does. Not that they weren’t already family unofficially.

Rick and Beth are going to be so happy. I'm so happy for them. I've been smiling for them nonstop since we saw the episode. Rick has gone through all of his lowest points in this show feeling utterly alone and now he has the most loving family to be there with him. It's beautiful that he won't ever be lonely, which was the theme that had actually brought Rick and Beth together in the first place. They really do deserve it.

I also found it so funny because Ultra-Humanite Sylvester basically told Beth in the episode before to "find legacies" and I kind of went ??? What an odd thing to say to a teen, it almost sounds like he's asking Yolanda and Beth to go forth and multiply lmfao. And then sure enough, next episode Beth and Rick are to be married. It almost implies like they're for sure a family line within the JSA that will have legacies...

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

What do you think is going to happen in the season seven finale?

Firstly, thank you for sending this and sorry it took so long to answer! I’m struggling to find the time to interact in this fandom the way I used to unfortunately. Answer under the cut because I am incapable of being either brief or concise 😅

I think it’s hard for me to distinguish between what I want to happen and what I think will happen so this answer might end up being a bit of both 😅

I think that the ending scene is going to be very hard hitting, since we’ve seen the trend develop over the seasons from the initial ‘haha funny’ drunken Rick rant while Morty suffers, to both Rick and Morty being equally excited, to Rick starting to realise he’s shitty and to heal, and finally back full circle to having Rick drunkenly rant at an unenthusiastic Morty but this time played straight and with Morty realising the horror of Rick’s abuse but still not being able to break free.

I’ve seen people mention the idea of having an equivalent ending scene with Prime and Morty instead of C-137 and Morty which I think would be very interesting, especially if we do get more exploration of Morty’s character and his perspective on his relationship with Rick in the broader sense of Ricks in general, rather than just with C-137. I think the show does a very good job of using sci fi concepts such as clones or different dimensions to explore characters and their relationships and I think it would be very cool to have this with Morty and Prime. However, I don’t know if the Prime stuff will develop that quickly, especially if he’s intended to be the big bad of the latter half of the whole series. Equally, Prime could turn out to be only a small piece of the bigger puzzle and maybe he’ll become relatively insignificant compared to other plot elements. Only time will tell I guess.

I think the most common complaint about S6 (from this corner of the fanbase at least) was the lack of Morty, so I hope this is something that gets addressed in S7 and that his character gets a turn in the limelight. At the same time, I appreciate that the show is trying their best to build off of pre-existing canon but also to complete a big tonal shift so I have faith that Morty will get his time to shine, especially since his dynamic with Rick was explored more in the final two episodes (and at the end of Analyse Piss). I definitely want to see the complexities of Morty’s feelings towards Rick and his family as a whole and I’m excited in particular for the Morty and Summer episode that seems to be about the mindblowers - we haven’t really had an exploration of the way Morty feels about Summer getting all these privileges. After all, he’s always tried to protect Summer from Rick and be a good brother despite being the youngest but now Summer is working with Rick and becoming like him. She also has that sort of power over him when it comes to the mindblowers, which is played for laughs in the episode itself but I’m interested to see them explore the darker side of this - after all, Summer is aiding Rick with editing Morty’s memory, and she clearly has a fair bit of power and control over this, given that Rick trusts her to restore both of their memories and wander down there at her leisure. Morty’s Mindblowers definitely marks a whole new era of Rick’s manipulation of Morty, where we start to truly see just how much Rick is deliberately and intentionally controlling Morty’s perceptions and memories.  I’ve spoken before with @hazelnut-u-out about how mindblowing is very much a metaphor for gaslighting - Rick is influencing what Morty remembers and how he remembers it, not only removing memories he doesn’t want but even editing them so Morty has no hope of ever getting the true memory back even if Rick does allow him to keep any of the memories permanently. It’s not hard to draw the parallel between this and the way that trauma can permanently shape the way you view things, even if you are able to remember them or process them. However, Summer is clearly aware of this and seemingly makes no effort to stop it or tell Morty. Obviously she is also being manipulated by Rick (‘I don’t get paid enough for this shit’), but she’s still involved and I can imagine that affecting their relationship a lot. I would like to hope that this episode has Summer choosing to tell Morty and trying to heal, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he finds the room accidentally and is discovered by her instead of Rick, or maybe they’re forced to take shelter from something and Summer takes them into the mindblowers room since it’s the only safe place, leading Morty to question how she knows the room exists and has a key to it.

On a lighter note, we had better see Birdperson again (and hopefully his daughter). I would definitely love Rick having to help look after her and she absolutely hates him.

I’m very excited for S7 and I wonder how much my thoughts on this will change when the trailer drops Monday but these are my thoughts for now!