#dr sanchez

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey’s the cover star of EW’s 2023 Pride issue! Check out his interview at the source link!

[neverscreens]

— BLUE BEETLE, trailer.

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[mortysmith]

[thesoftboiledegg]

I wish we saw more of Rick's therapy appointments on screen, but the brilliance of the writing is that his behavioral changes help you infer what they talk about. He's definitely processing his old trauma--he tells Summer that she reminds him of Diane and chooses Morty over a fantasy version of the past.

Family relationships come up, too. He's more overtly worried about Morty's safety, keeps him out of the riskier adventures, has a new "touch my grandson and die" policy that scares alien mobsters, shows Summer affection and becomes more of a father/grandfather instead of a drunken maniac.

He's still Rick--rude, crabby, drunk, depressed, haunted--but he's starting to grow up and treat people like human beings. Dr. Wong isn't always the best therapist, but she's the best therapist for him.

It's the opposite of The Sopranos (which is the greatest show ever made, imo.) We see Tony's therapy visits, and he mostly stops having panic attacks and has a few breakthroughs, but he continues his downward slide until he's an irredeemable monster at the end.

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

this part of rick's character design

reblog. you agree.

stills yoinked from @rickandmortyscreenshots

[geetimesthree]

"being good is hard."

[central-finite-curve]

rick two-brains sanchez and his cheeseflask

[mjoriginals]

Is José Francisco Morales Rivera de la Cruz related to Guillermo de la Cruz or will Harvey Guillén only play a de la Cruz🤔🤔

[plumbus-central]

doodle dump #2

[cassowariess]

I loved episode 8.

Rick is totally an "acts of service" man. All he needs to see is someone's crying daughter and he becomes completely self-sacrificial.

In fact, a lot of Rick's moments where he does something good and selfless are when other people are not around.

Whether it's because he thinks being good is a form of weakness he can't let other people see, or because he feels he doesn't deserve to be praised for doing something good it's almost always a thing he does in secret. So being able to don Piss Master's disguise and project the good deeds onto him kind of rids him of all that baggage.

And Dr. Wong was right- Rick was doing good!

The problem is Rick is still trauma dumping his stuff onto Morty. He should have gone to Dr. Wong with the suicide note to discuss it but instead he's still treating Morty like a peer. He needs a friend his own age that isn't a member of his family to talk to.

It's really, really sad that Rick feels he can't be honest with his family though. And I get it. When you have a history of bad behaviour and a lifetime of people telling you everything you do is wrong, sometimes you're not sure if standing up for yourself is the right thing to do. Because you've fucked up so much, so maybe they're right?

[harveyguillensource]

Blue Beetle character posters by Millennial Lotería!

[fandomwe1rd0]

~ Rick at a therapy session with Dr. Wong ~

Dr. Wong: Rick, I suggest you let go of your need for validation, especially from Morty.

Rick: I don't need validation! Especially not from Morty! I don't care about him! He's a piece of shit!

.....

Rick: But also do you think Morty would think I was cool if-

[fried-eggs152]

I’m finished

I dunno how to make a context someone make one for me/nf

I FINALLY CANT SORTA DRAW HEINZ

[thesoftboiledegg]

Rick and Morty has got to be one of the best representations of therapy because we don't see most of Rick's appointments, but we see how much they're helping him. He's not just ignoring Dr. Wong or talking in circles. Every episode shows how much he's learned.

He's gentler with his grandkids, handles the Unity confrontation with more maturity, tells Summer that she reminds him of Diane, gets protective over Dr. Wong, tries to keep Morty out of his crazier adventures, backs down when he's about to go off on somebody, and, in the end, chooses Morty over dwelling on the past.

He also shows regular signs of depression, such as drinking, sleeping a lot and not leaving the house--which isn't healthy either, but it's better than dragging his grandson on lowkey-suicidal adventures across the universe.

And all this because he finally decided to get help.

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

i rewatched s7e3 and the weird sort of straight washing that happened with unity was worse than i realized in my first 1 and a half viewings. so im here to be a little bit more of a hater lol.

okay so like fuck this bitch in particular

now, i understand that unity has appeared in the comics which i haven't read so it's possible there's some lore there that idk about, but here's the deal as i understand it and why this specific alien acting like the face of unity bugs me so much. this alien is part of a species that, as of the episode in season 2, was very recently assimilated by unity. so like im not sure why there's so much focus placed on her specifically. having her act as a representative of sorts made sense in the first episode, she was a president on the newly assimilated planet that rick and the kids were visiting. but like, that's it, right? it doesn't make sense to me why she would be any more important than any of the other, what? trillions of life forms unity has under its belt? like the only reason for her to be here at all is to be recognizable to the audience, which like, fine. i think it's a little dumb, but whatever. the problem isn't having her as a symbol (personally i think it'd be cooler to not have an entity like unity tied down to being primarily represented through one body but i digress), the problem is that she's treated like more than that in this episode.

this is a part i didn't notice until my rewatch that really irked me.

these are concurrent shots from the scene when rick shows up and starts spraying unity. we see it in virginia telling rick to take it easy through the body of this human, then we see it continuing the conversation from its spaceship in the body of the alien. i am like super not a fan of the implications of that. this alien is not supposed to be unity any more than any one of my cells is me, but here it's depicted as though whenever unity does something in any of its bodies, it's coming from this lady. and like, that'd be super lame even if it wasn't an obvious womanification of a nongendered entity.

now im no english major so i don't have an elegant transition to put here, but yes, it is time to talk about pronouns. yeah yeah, ik, trans person gets hung up on pronouns, bite me okay, it's relevant. i went back and watched the first unity episode to be sure id remembered correctly, and yes, in that episode nobody uses gendered pronouns for unity. morty says "they" which seems more to be referring to a number of bodies, and other than that, people mostly say "unity" or "it". as for the new episode i noticed rick using nongendered pronouns twice

but after that he goes with she/her for the rest of the episode

and yeah, i think that is pretty disappointing. i didn't catch that "it" until my rewatch, but the use of "them" did make me really happy but then everybody started she/hering it. the combination of all that emphasis being put on a female body and people calling unity she so much makes for an episode that manages to be significantly less queer than the one that came out in 2015. it feels weirdly cowardly after that "we're all a little gay" bit in the last episode and doesn't inspire much confidence in me regarding rick's relationships with nonwomen. like stuff can be gay if it's for a joke, but there's more money on the line now than back in season 2, so rick's ex lover needed straightening up.

idk. i still like the episode because im easy and focusing on rick's mental health and relationships always makes me happy, but man, i am certainly not happy with how they handled unity. they really did it dirty, watered it down to being pretty much just another alien lady.

(also to be clear, i am not trying to shit on the writers here. obviously idk exactly what went on, but im pretty comfortable placing the blame squarely on execs)

[kleksky]

Crazy scientists/inventors with white coats and robotic prosthesis for both their arms who are trying their best to be better dads