In seasons past, the smartest man in the Central Finite Curve would destroy an entire planet’s population just to prove a point about heist movies. Now, Rick Sanchez can’t watch a couple of blue-bloods get knocked around in a bloody workers’ revolution without blowing a fuse.
One day after the premiere of Rick and Morty Season Eight back on May 25th, IndieWire published their conversation with series creator Dan Harmon and show runner Scott Marder in which the latter Rick and Morty head revealed a little bit about Rick’s personal arc in the current era now that his character is no longer anchored by an age-old hunt for revenge. During the talk, Marder mentioned that Season Eight has “a nice light arc that touches on Rick dealing with being home, figuring out what’s next, and what it means in terms of his relationships with (the family).”
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Well, in tonight’s new episode, “Cryo Mort a Rickver,” the amoral master of the Rick and Morty universe develops an out-of-character affection for his new family — well, a new family — as he adopts a pair of “golden retriever” parents in his quest to rob a colony ship blind.
In “Cryo Mort a Rickver,” Rick and Morty sneak aboard a colony ship full of cryogenically frozen refugees and attempt to hack into their vault full of invaluable hyper-coal to no success. Rick attempts to blow a hole in the ship to steal the very vault itself, but Morty saves the colonists to Rick’s chagrin, forcing the duo to go undercover as aliens themselves in order to secure the payload.
While Morty is stuck as a “Makey,” a member of the civilization’s worker underclass, Rick enjoys the pampered lifestyle of the ruling class while posing as a rich couple’s artificially aged delinquent son. Doug and Karen Jamerson, the pampered, wealthy parents of one James “Jimmy” Jamerson, endear themselves to their elderly, alcoholic progeny, who, upon finally gaining access to the vault amidst a Morty-inspired proletariat revolt, lambasts his grandson for excessive use of force on his fake parents.
“Doug and Karen’s only crime is naively benefitting from systemic inequity!” Rick shouts with understanding fury after Morty knocks the couple unconscious.
Thus far in Season Eight, Rick and the many Ricks in the multiverse have been unusually empathetic toward their relatives, genetic or otherwise. In “Valkyrick,” Rick played the role of a real supportive father to his possibly cloned daughter Space Beth, who once tried to assassinate him in her debut episode. Then, in “The Rick, the Mort & the Ugly,” the former cloning expert on the Citadel of Ricks sacrificed himself to save an entire town of cast-out clone Mortys.
Now, Rick is even taking complete strangers whom he was in the process of scamming under his wing, making us wonder where this caring, protective Rick was when Rick annihilated an entire mini-verse out of petty rivalry and destroyed civilized planets just to teach Morty that heist plotlines are completely played-out.
Perhaps, without a Rick Prime to stoke the flames of his rage, Rick C-137 is finally coming back into contact with his — what’s the word I’m looking for here — humanity.
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