The Huge Changes of Rick and Morty's Season 5 Finale

[@captainmidnight]

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[@ZacV47]

Least Favorite: Sperm episode Favorite: Until the finale it was the first episode, now it’s the finale

[@infinitemorty8207]

Love your reviews. Would you say there were atleast 4 Episodes this season you didn't like? The Finale was my favorite

[@gameboypunk660]

@@ZacV47 I hear you but Rick rolling barrel of horse 'material' and Beth and Summer riding the giant Morty sperm is hilarious

[@magic75450]

Space Beth was really missing in this season. Adding her as at least a secondary character would've done a lot for making this season fresh and unique.

[@deathsoul2478]

The First Episode: A Good Start The Second Episode: Meh The Third Episode: Nice The Fourth Episode: What? The Fifth Episode: Guys Night!! The Sixth Episode: Turkey Revolution? The Seventh Episode: FUCK OFF SUMMER!!! The Eighth Episode: Welcome Back Old Friend The Ninth Episode: Okay The Tenth Episode: THIS CHANGE EVERYTHING!!!

[@RationalOrc]

I think the big take away is that we now know that's rick's depression is deeply rooted in his metaphorical and literal self-loathing. He knows beyond any doubt that there is a version of himself willing to kill his own wife and child

[@reaper_exd7498]

I think this hatred extends to the citidel. When he found it in it's early stages he found Ricks who never appreciated their families. This could be why C137 is so attached to his Morty. Also could be that our Rick, like is suggested of Killer Rick, is a Rick from outside the central finite curve. A common theory why Rick never found Killer Rick was because Killer Rick is from the outside of the CFC. Im wondering if C137 is as well. It would explain why he is such an oddity compared to the other Ricks. It would also explain his own levels of introspection that seem lacking in all the other Ricks. Just my opinion though. Who knows.

[@Mrllama-ui5ke]

@@reaper_exd7498 Rick Created the CFC after he had already given up on his search to find the killer rick

[@giovanniormesi8052]

Dude ur fucking nick lmao

[@zachmason868]

Wait did C-137 create the CFC or did the citadel with C-137 create it? Is C-137 the smartest person in the all of the CFC or is it the case that in every universe in the CFC a rick is the smartest person in each universe. And If C-137 the smartest person in the all of the CFC then that must mean that in every universe that is outside the CFC there is someone smarter then C-137.

[@christinademps374]

And that’s so dark

[@gabrielpasquino4270]

I think the biggest reveal of this finale is Rick never found his wife and daughters killer. That explains all the cynicism he has with him; knowing that killer is still out there, their deaths never avenged, broke him.

[@thechemistamvs5033]

I must have fucked up. It looked to me like he found and killed him but found no peace in it. Didnt his picture flash green the last time?

[@maxh276]

@@thechemistamvs5033 nope, he never found him. I think he's beyond the central finite curve. He'll probably be taking Evil Morty's place as the recurring "canon" villain

[@lMexicanSuperFriends]

@@thechemistamvs5033 yeah the other ricks found him and looked like convinced him to built the citadel and he just got distracted with that

[@joetoaster447]

I took the reveal to mean that he'll never find him, and he knows it. What makes him the "Rickest Rick" is that he never got what the other Ricks have. There were Ricks and Mortys living and dying while he was off fighting with Birdperson. When he finally decided to find the Rick who killed his version of Beth and Diane, the other Ricks already had theirs, and a proto-citadel to boot. Her came into a multiverse that had moved on without him, and he only became one of them after the truce, when he found a Beth whose father never came home. There's this, along with the question of who he replaced. Did their Rick really leave? If that's true then they walked out on the one thing C-137 wants the most. If not, then he died out there, and c-137 appears to have killed more Ricks than anything else in the multiverse. There's every chance that he's looking for someone who never lived. I don't necessarily think the show is going this way, but it is a fun way to think about why Rick might be so miserable.

[@jeremydubeck4439]

@@joetoaster447 My theory is that the Rick who never came back in current Beth's life, is probably the Rick who killed C-137s Beth and wife. Season 6 will be interesting.

[@technocore1591]

I think all the changes with Rick over the past 2 seasons are rooted in the creators dislike at the idea that people admired Rick

[@Kujakuseki01]

Correctly. People admiring/perceiving as the hero characters like Rick, Walter White, Light Yagami or any number of other narcissistic evil people is a bad thing. You are not meant to admire these characters.

[@packet4382]

No because they made rick nicer ,yk what would’ve been really cold blooded if rick refused bird persons wishes to die and brought him back against his wishes hiding the fact he had a daughter. They gave rick a sad backstory which I think makes him more sympathetic when if they wanted to make him cold hearted they would have made his backstory absurd , pathetic and nonsensical. Rick shouldn’t be normal smart person gone rouge by sadness he should be sociopath with no remorse who feels that he can do anything he likes because nothing matters and in his eyes everyone is bellow him

[@technocore1591]

@@packet4382 I don't think they minded people being sympathetic to Rick, it was that they admired him for being a horrible person because he so affective at it. The last two seasons have been about deconstructing him and make him a lot more flawed and in a lot of ways pathetic. The kinds of things people who admired him would admire him less for.

[@packet4382]

@@technocore1591 I think the show has always been about how destructive he is to himself and others around , like how morty attempts to kill him in season 3 for hows he’s treated and when rick tries to kill himself. It’s about how he pushes people away the problem with the show is the can’t ever properly convey this as they keep resetting to the status quo

[@Siksama]

@@Kujakuseki01 wrong

[@ScottFilmsThings]

“Tonight the quality of dialogue stops mattering. Tonight I do that thing i wanna do.” Might be my favorite line from the entire show. It’s really fucking funny, but also ominous in a way only this show can pull off.

[@ThorfinnStrife]

What

[@hdattila]

“Do that thing with the curve thingie.”

[@steveflow1332]

Lol fr that line got me. good way to put it.

[@TeeklGrey]

I didn't laugh when I first heard it because the dialogue is delivered so fast that I often have to back it up to catch everything, but reading it just now in the comments I cackled, thank you

[@Alastarian]

Terrible fucking line. It's the writers basically just saying "fuck you we didn't feel like finishing this scene but you'll eat it up anyway lul"

[@cipher2417]

5:45 I actually went to a convention where I met a comic writer of Rick and Morty and when I ask him to make a drawing of evil Morty he looked confused because he knows him as eye patch Morty. That happened while S3 was airing so they planned from the beginning that Eye patch Morty wasn't evil, just an enemy of Rick.

[@nikhiliyengar1510]

Yeah. It's only the fans who called him evil in the first place so.

[@saulgoodmanactionfigure]

nobody is truly evil or good in rick and morty

[@invisiman1250]

@@saulgoodmanactionfigure abdol hitler, the devil, meseeks, zigerions, cronenbergs ney i say more

[@FreshZCORD]

Yeah evil Morty is a fan name lol

[@carternorton2682]

These last two episodes almost felt like there was gonna be a twist because it actually gave so many answers people have been asking about for a long time

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

I wouldn't be surprised if the subversion came at the premiere of the next season. They've done it before.

[@Kujakuseki01]

None of that matters, and the writers don't want to give you answers because they don't care about the serialized story part as much as you do. They just include occasional mystery box hooks to trick people like you to be invested.

[@spec___]

@@Kujakuseki01 yeah, "people" like them 🙄

[@kiandinyari3740]

@@Kujakuseki01 I don't think it's a tricky. It's just their way of telling the story and it works really well. If the whole show was story and we got evil morty around all the time it would wear thin. By putting the story only in an episode or 2 a season they get to have the best of both worlds.

[@kevinnigins9488]

@@Kujakuseki01 I mean, my guy they literally did give us answers. Lots of them in fact

[@ComicalRealm]

This is definitely a massive change to the show, with the CFC broken at the end it essentially creates an escalation, there might be threats they face now that go beyond rick's intelligence and can outsmart him.

[@GhazMazMSM]

Imagine one of the characters being that Chuthulu character

[@Kujakuseki01]

I don't think the CFC is broken. Evil Morty was just able to pass through it.

[@joeraleigh9166]

In the last 2 seasons rick feels so much weaker in my opinion. Constantly being saved by morty or other characters, not saying its a bad thing but just thought id point it out.

[@Cernunnnos]

The thing is, the cfc was never a barrier before. They've talked about travelling to realities so many iterations off the cfc in earlier episodes. The cfc was just the infinite amount of realities with a being with enough rickness to be considered a rick.

[@jackhanson3856]

@@Cernunnnos They literally “built a wall around infinity”. There was a definite barrier. Which is why Evil Morty went so far to leave it. He didn’t even leave through a portal, he left through a black hole.

[@ShadowRaptor1O1]

I have a feeling Evil Morty is going to be dropped altogether since he achieved his goal which was literally just to get away, and the actual point of the episode was to set up the Rick that killed C-137's family as the next "Evil Morty"-type character.

[@returnosf5043]

Yeah, I think also Evil Morty was in danger of becoming a meme. There are only so many times you can play For the Damaged Coda before it starts to get old, and it's probably a mistake to go more than four on it imo

[@CharlieQuartz]

I believe we could see him come back in later episodes, but with a completely different relationship to our Rick and Morty. He was never out for revenge, he wanted freedom. And now that he’s achieved that, he could have a more neutral attitude toward our characters.

[@spreadwuvokay]

@@returnosf5043The evil Morty theme is a meme, and that didn't detract from it's impact in the latest episode imo.

[@DillonMaynard]

I think it's very obvious now that the writers never intended Evil Morty to be a thing, but the fans wanted it so much that they had to do it.

[@jackforrester4734]

Oh god I hope so I mean I really enjoyed his arc but I think if they left the story here it would feel complete no need to carry it on tbf

[@madnessoverload7824]

Rick chose to focus on family instead of science. The other Rick killed his family in order to force him to chose science, thereby perpetuating the cycle. We see this scene in more detail in S3E1, when Rick claimed it was a fabricated memory, but now we know it was an actual memory.

[@bruhnova8917]

Well there were slight differences, like Rick immediately made the portal gun in the memory

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

The memory they were in at the Time was Fake, the bit showing Rick make the Portal gun was fabricated.

[@ilonachan]

So Rick wasn't lying back then when he said he just changed a fabricated backstory... just the only fabricated part was when he made the portal gun immediately. He really pulled a sneaky on us there

[@merdemoiii-7589]

When he tore his own hand off, that was when I was almost slapped back to reality. To me that was the point where the show got tighter. Just thinking oh my god what would Beth think if she saw this? having her son nearly killed by some psycho fucking dude. I think when they take these crazy out of pocket cartoon scenarios and situations and make them human and real in a way is when the show is at its best

[@jmurillo_714]

I mean I feel like the entire family is already used to action like that.

[@aletanook]

Beth should scold her son for running off with a strange man from a mental asylum.

[@merdemoiii-7589]

@@aletanook true 💀

[@merdemoiii-7589]

@@jmurillo_714 which is what makes it horrifying

[@theleonpasta7336]

That scene shows Morty's growth in a way aswell, back in Season 1 breaking his legs realistically hurt him a lot and probably would have killed him if Rick wasn't there, but now he's able to adapt and overcome these challenges without outside help

[@rohitkashyap501]

this is a strong take but this finale made me actually like the show again. im actually excited to watch future seasons

[@maxh276]

Yep, feels like it opens a lot of new possibilities

[@lyricbot8513]

@@maxh276 I think the writers realised Rick had got too OP as it stood and he needs to face real threats in order to keep the comedy fresh again. It's going to be really interesting to see.

[@FreshZCORD]

I feel u

[@madlord124]

Yeah at first the season finale episode seemed at first rushed like the writers really wanted to get rid of the more serialized drama plots(which they do), but due to the writing and pacing of Eyepatch Morty backstory and ricks’s as well you don’t mind it. Hopefully in Season 6 or 7 they explore the concept that Rick isn’t the smartest man in the multiverse and he’ll have to deal with it. (Plus evil Morty’s theme that was done with a Orchestra touch was banging)

[@glendarjj3991]

Or even better, season 6

[@cosmiccomedy7394]

@@glendarjj3991 haha yeah I was like why wait a whole season..? Hopefully with Rick not being the smartest person in every universe now there will be some higher stakes and we wint have those episodes that feel completely meaningless.

[@madlord124]

@@glendarjj3991 oh I thought this was season 6

[@eorghergsgrosehg]

that would be great

[@grantklaassen2162]

Why do people keep saying this episode proved that Rick isn't the smartest person in the multiverse? He isolated all universes where his parallel self is the smartest from the universes wherr his parallel self isn't the smartest. That doesn't mean the CFC Rick's aren't the smartest beings in the multiverse, it means the Ricks outside of the CFC aren't. If there were beings in the multiverse more intelligent than Rick-C137, they wouldn't have let the CFC stop them from entering Rick's realities.

[@jabariwiththebois5765]

This finale really blew my mind. It really subverts your expectations by at first, showing what would be by itself a great Rick and Morty stand alone episode with Rick in his anime phase, but then completely blowing that to dust...

[@glendarjj3991]

I so thought rick would do a samurai jack style episode (thanks to the name) where he would go on adventures and parody the show. That would have been amazing. But I think they did everything they needed to with the concept in the first 5 minutes and managed to cram so much into 20 mins I'm actually quite amazed it didn't feel rushed.

[@janhenson9616]

@@glendarjj3991 well considering it was the finale and they’ve given misleading names before, you should’ve expected it was going to be canonical

[@janhenson9616]

I just wasn’t blown away at all. Tbh I’m quite disappointed. They didn’t need to give us all this. Then giving in to the needy pathetic fans is not a good sign. They should just cancel the show. Series 1 and 2 are perfect. Series 3 premiere was a good way to end it.

[@danny19283]

@@janhenson9616 you’re the only one man

[@jimgreenstein6875]

@@janhenson9616 just don’t watch the show you’re not happy with anything so just don’t watch the show.

[@Caseyjbl]

They hold back the story, and then when we get it it is sooooo satisfying.

[@eddy5562]

While Eye patch Morty’s end goal wasn’t evil, his means to that end most certainly was - look at most evil people in modern history: they all believed that their goals justified it.

[@chongwillson972]

Eddy Elsagh i would argue he is done the right thing and trying to escape the rick's baby crib...

[@eddy5562]

@@chongwillson972 He did the right thing for himself….by sacrificing how many other Mortys?

[@PlanetZoidstar]

@@eddy5562 Exactly, these days people are far too ready to forgive or excuse the actions of purely evil people - simply by giving them a sappy crybaby backstory or a sympathetic motivation. Eyepatch Morty is evil in the same way Thanos is evil - but countless fans will defend or even agree with Thanos' Snap Plan. Going by D&D alingment rules Eyepatch Morty is Neutral Evil, wholly selfish with self interest being his main goal and motivation. What he did to the Citadel of Ricks and the CFC may count as Chaotic Evil for all the chaos it did, and will, unleash.

[@saulgoodmanactionfigure]

@@eddy5562 that was the only way

[@herec0mestheCh33f]

Thinking about it, him killing Ricks and mortys via rigged Phoenix protocol vat isn't even that big a deal, since we know that anyone connected to the Phoenix protocol will just reincarnate to another one if they die again. If anything his biggest crime was having the political power to put an end to the Morty harvesting and then doing, in his words, "jack shit".

[@harrisont2004]

I really hope the show takes a little more of a direction now. I know the writers like episodic episodes but the moves they made at the end of season 5 were a good one (especially for what is likely the midpoint of the entire show). And hopefully there’s still a lot of juicy plot threads still, between BP’s daughter and the Rick gang leader. Also it’d be nice if the premiere picks up where this episode left off. Maybe Morty and Rick have to go on more of an adventure to get some portal fluid. Or maybe the episodic episodes will centre around people coming from beyond the central finite curve.

[@Vikumax]

I'll still hold opinions until the next season cause I do remember back in the day when folks said the time Rick gave himself to the galactic federation was a game charger and then they sweep it an episode in. Hopefully this will stick as a more drastic change

[@sebastianmallon343]

that was a big letdown for me

[@Gabe7Gal]

@@sebastianmallon343 How was it not a game changer? It led to the divorce, which was a pretty big deal at the time and that in turn led to the other storylines. As for season 5 closer, I don't see how there's anything to sweep under in the first place. Evil Morty is out of Rick's reach, and the character development that resulted is not reversible. Rick in prison was a situation that needed a resolution, and it got resolved in 1 episode which makes sense. What we have now IS a resolution to the Evil Morty situation. There's nothing to reverse here.

[@sebastianmallon343]

i remember waiting for so long expecting some big developments, but it rather seemed like they looked for a way to go back on the cliffhanger of season 2

[@LizardSpork]

We've actually seen Rick being outsmarted a few times this season including the first episode where the cyborg birds strips out all his tech and his frienemy Nimbus has to come and save him. Anyways I think eventually they will dig into the stoey of Moby Rick - the Rick that he's obsessed with hunting. Makes perfect sense that Rick's ultimate nemesis is has always been himself.

[@spikeimus]

Been looking forward to this video since I watched the finale! love CM's breakdowns

[@glendarjj3991]

Congrats on the heart! Captain midnight approved comment.

[@magic75450]

Space Beth was really missing in this season. Adding her as at least a secondary character would've done a lot for making this season fresh and unique.

[@pright463]

How?

[@kmanthecoolest9304]

I disagree, I hate space Beth

[@awsome14619]

Maybe they will need her help tracking down murderer Rick

[@fildariusv7045]

@@kmanthecoolest9304 Hate or love her, she was a crucial part of season 4's finale, and another emotional conflict of Rick. By just adding her in a cameo it makes it all pointless... Like do we know why she just hangs out sometimes with the family!

[@magic75450]

@@pright463 Even just changing the family dynamic. Space Beth is sort of a combination between Rick and Beth, which would've created a nice foil for each one of them. Then it changes the way Jerry, Morty and Summer view normal Beth and Rick. Mabye Morty and Summer even go on an adventure with Space Beth in one episode. Season 5 felt stale and "safe". By changing the family dynamic a bit, it would've added something fresh to the show. She doesn't even have to be in every episode; just have her in 2-3 episodes per season.

[@legofreakninjago9513]

I really like the final episode because it shows rick is the only one who truly just wants to be with his family but had that ripped away. It gives rick a new depth from being just a self obsessed godlike guy

[@natstrickland5033]

Just realised, the Rick that killed C-137's family could've been a "Smarter Rick", which is probably why right never found them, now that the barrier is broken it allows all possibilities for C-137 to find this Rick

[@flowvis1193]

"i would argue he isn't really evil at all" after he hacks all the portal fluid to kill millions of ricks and mortys and then blends their rerouted bodies to break the central finite curve

[@chongwillson972]

@BlueRaspcherry rick destroying a microverse just to fuck with someone....

[@flowvis1193]

@@chongwillson972 ok good point

[@chongwillson972]

@@flowvis1193 honestly most of evil morty kills are very much like that no wonder why he wants out so bad...

[@uchihabomber1296]

Been waiting for this upload and this episode changed season 5 for me completely

[@emma_nutella58]

I feel like the Rick that killed C-137 family escaped outside the finite curve that’s why our Rick never found him

[@billybased64]

The curve wasn't created until Rick created the Citadel with the rest of the council.

[@masterzombie161]

Morty’s existence is indeed the most Tragic thing on the show. Morty is forever doomed to be just like Evil Morty sooner or later. As long as Ricks exist as the dominant force then it’s inevitable another Morty will rise amongst them.

[@evo2542]

Rick: "I don't get it why do you wanna know my backstory soooo bad?!?!" Morty: "Well how about it gives context to not only my existence, but also everything and everyone else I know, have known, and if I never escape the finite curve, will ever know." Rick: "Good point."

[@LightningMelon]

I loved the finale. As someone who was really disappointed by the start of season 3 teasing Rick's backstory only to throw it and the cliffhanger ending of season 2 away as nothing more than jokes, I was really impressed by the fact that the big twist was... nothing. Rick wasn't lying, other than by omission. The CFC was a great concept, and the show has tremendous potential to grow moving forward. As always, we'll see if it does.

[@Ukaris]

Soo… does that mean that Doofus Rick was still the smartest person in his original universe?

[@montanarandall3126]

what if doofus rick is the evil rick in disguise?

[@bruhnova8917]

@@montanarandall3126 evil Rick was murdered dude, bullets in head. plus he was being controlled by evil morty

[@han090]

Well it is the universe where everyone eats poop after all!

[@mrblank-zh1xy]

@@bruhnova8917 No, that wasn't Rick Prime. That was a Rick being controlled completely by Evil Morty.

[@richardfitzwell4618]

@@mrblank-zh1xy "Weird Rick" is what Harmon actually called him initially (the one that killed our Rick's family). "I made a compilation of all the Ricks ranging from good to evil. There's me, there's you. (flipping through a photo between Evil Rick and our Rick) And this guy? Super weird." - Evil Morty states to Rick while explaining his plan. Coincidence?

[@mrworldwide5811]

I like how after Morty cauterized his hand and put on his jetpack he looked down at the strap and raised his hands as if going to put on his strap, then realising he just lost his hand. Then looking defeated he just left without strapping in properly

[@mrfivegold]

I find it funny how the universe outside the finite curve has clouds that look like the ball of gas that Morty killed for wanting to destroy the universe of all physical life.

[@vitorokuhara9007]

From the moment I watched the episode and how awesome it was to now, I was refreshing this channel waiting for captainmidnight video.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

And now we know why mister nimbus is his nemisis. He is a being who makes Rick feel dumb and helpless, one he is unable to simply isolate himself away from.

[@YelloWool]

Can't wait for season 6!

[@curlyhairboiakabaddude8922]

Me too!!!

[@shemidreamer8701]

Rick and Morty 1000 years! Rick and Morty doing things! 1000 seasons!

[@xFATMAN192x]

I enjoyed your perspective on the season, but I disagree that it was rough. Personally I thought it was pretty strong. The first two episodes were great and so was the last episode. The 'family'' baby thing was…. Yeh, and a few episodes in the middle were just ok. However, overall I mostly enjoyed this season and look forward to the possibilities season 6 and beyond now hold.

[@roguechlnchllla6564]

It’s rough when compared to other Rick and Morty seasons. Still one of the better shows on TV.

[@actuallyitsandre3771]

Favorite review/take/breakdown/etc of the finale I’ve seen so far! Thanks C.M.

[@daftbanna7202]

I think this season was the one where I actually cared about Rick and Morty relationship

[@jamielamie2229]

you have no idea how much I've anticipated your video on the finale

[@nightowl8477]

Looks like we're headed towards full serialization...which I'm strangely excited for. Just as I thought the show was dead (Season 5 being neither the best nor the worst; just boringly middling), it hits me with this finale.

[@Mrllama-ui5ke]

I think we are moving towards it being more episodic. The finale was the creators being like fine heres a backstory now stfu

[@nightowl8477]

@@Mrllama-ui5ke - no portal gun, an ending that demands immediate pay off for Evil Morty, and more questions than answers. We've just had two full seasons of episodic storytelling. They're giving serialisation a stab. Got 70 episodes, may as well.

[@Asidders]

Best Rick & Morty analysis video I've seen. Great job.

[@Darek_B52]

It's weird I've never seen a full or unedited season yet here I am keeping up with the series

[@619Gotenks]

Ha ha you're so quirky omg

[@pumpy7001]

I envy you fool. 1000 seasons

[@infinitylantern2]

In the flashback of Rick's history when he crashed into the house to meet Beth, the crack in the driveway was there.

[@mackeym10]

Is the council of Rick being really that goofy? when we have marvel literally doing multi verse stuff. Like the whole Loki show was serious and it was all about hunting other him.

[@Darek_B52]

Honestly I could see something like that happening. If one person discovers inter-dimensional travel and other versions do to with them all keeping it to themselves then why wouldn't they group up.

[@mahoganywolf8843]

The Council of Ricks is actually almost certainly inspired by the Council of Reeds, an organisation of interdimensional Reed Richardses from a Fantastic 4 story a few years before Rick and morty debuted. So the Marvel connection is even more solid than you thought.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

@@mahoganywolf8843 Isn't there also a Council of Kangs? In fact, I'm pretty sure Rick Sanchez is just an outright copy of Kang the Conqueror in almost every conceivable way.

[@Sayajin3321]

Also the show Loki was created by a Rick and Morty writer and producer.

[@mahoganywolf8843]

@@Kira1Lawliet Can’t say I agree. Kang’s a time travelling warlord trying to conquer the universe- Rick doesn’t do time travel and isn’t interested in ruling anything. Reed Richards (smartest man in the world, can make basically any technology, works with his family, prone to arrogance and being a dick) is a much closer comparison. Rick’s more of a nihilist asshole than Reed but otherwise kind of similar.

[@emma_nutella58]

The finale was great for me the final orchestra drop of Evil Morty and the beautiful colours I loved it, looking forwards to where they’ll go from there

[@retro-neon-bacon-369]

Overall I do agree, generally speaking this season of Rick and Morty was kind of a mixed bag, and overall not one of the best. The concept of "breaking the finite curve and entering the true multiverse" Is one of the best, if not the best, concepts Rick and Morty has ever done. I think had they spun it a little bit differently, that could have been a possibility for the series finale.

[@ebensennett3095]

I loved this. Especially the crow/portal episode. Morty just shoving his hand into the train tracks and tearing off his hand is such a stark contrast to the first episode where he cried when his legs broke (Which, to be fair, is a perfectly valid reaction) I just love it!

[@MonkeyMAnX]

I understand that this COULD change A LOT to Rick and Morty but people said the same thing about space Beth. Really the show has about 2 or 3 ep that is canonical (usually the first and last 2 eps in a season). But i think they will figure something out on the first next ep, do a bunch of one-offs and slowly move the story forward at the end of the next season like they have for the previous 2 seasons.

[@marcoscarrasco92]

I see what you mean. The show has never been and will never become a serialized drama. It's episodic in nature, unchanging for the most part. It's only some plot elements that sometimes return for the big season events. My guess is that this will continue to be the formula going forward.

[@MonkeyMAnX]

@@marcoscarrasco92 100% agree

[@thebarnabator69]

As a long time fan I absolutely loved the finale. Scratched so many itches but also created new things for us to theorize about until the next season. Well done imo.

[@l0renz015]

Morty went from a kid being in school to being a big part of the show

[@0RecklessAbandon0]

The look of the citadel ejecting one of it's pods has some straight up System Shock vibes.

[@Joe_-tf8is]

Finally some continuity, finally something interesting. I have been saying how the last two seasons were mediocre, but this two last episodes were fun, and we can hope for some well deserved good plot in the next season.

[@FrameRage]

I like how Rick is basically He Who Remains and the Central Finite Curve is basically the Sacred Timeline, the last episodes of Rick and Morty and Loki are basically the same

[@Ughstopped]

"They finally acknowledged the plots i made up and was mad didnt show up so now its a great show!!!"

[@captainmidnight]

That is what I said, yeah

[@joecattoggio3180]

I liked Evil Morty’s yellow portal. Kinda sets up a Sinestro/Green Lantern dynamic between them. Evil Morty’s whole plan was running away from Rick, so it plays into the “fear” dynamic of Sinestro’s yellow lantern core.

[@garyjaffe9845]

the "rick" who murders Rick's family has to be from outside the curve, some reason needed Rick to be created so did the unthinkable.

[@undead_corsair]

I really liked this last episode and enjoyed season 5 overall. I know the writers like to poke fun at the backstory and serial drama stuff, but the show does often hit its best beats when it directly confronts the development of its characters. I hope they do use this season finale as set up to shift the status quo a bit, put Rick and Morty on equal terms or just change their dynamic in an interesting way.

[@lenzzzzzzz]

I don’t know I’m not has harsh on the season as most people. I don’t think Eyepatch Morty is coming back. Why come back to the universe you know is controlled by the Ricks. It wouldn’t make sense to go thru all that, and find a new universe without any Ricks, just to return back to the R&M universe. He already beat all the Ricks and he doesn’t care about the other Mortys so why return?

[@NerdMiGerd]

Yeah it's probably best if they just put a pin in the Evil Morty stuff for a while, if they don't just leave him off here.

[@RRustyyy]

The Planetina episode really gives you the real insights on Morty's growth! I recommend to watch episode commentary in the last minutes of the episode to learn some more about this masterpiece of a series!

[@Shleggo]

This was a great finale and I enjoy having a conclusion of sorts to the Evil Morty plot line. Although there are two things I noticed that could change the show in a massive way. First, Evil Morty's theme this episode was a lot more dramatic. Having an orchestral theme could be a grandiose way to send off this character and remove him form the series altogether. It's possible he will return in future episodes but I'm not sure what else they could cover with him. Evil Morty no longer cares about Ricks, and he's achieved his goal, so there isn't really a point to exacting 'vengeance' on other Ricks or on our Rick and Morty. The second thing was that when Rick and Morty were escaping the Citadel, only other Mortys (mutations and regular) made it onto the escape pod. This may be coincidental, but it could mean we won't be seeing other Ricks from different dimensions for a while. It also seems to highlight that even though the Mortys were considered the lowest order of the Citadel, they were the only survivors. Every Rick, including those who thought they were powerful and better than others, has presumably died. Everything they did on the Citadel to maintain their status was ultimately pointless. Thus, the power now seems to be in the hands of these Mortys, disrupting the original relationship between Ricks and Mortys. Maybe our own Morty will be treated better as Rick accepts that his standing has slipped. Incidentally, he is no-longer an all-powerful being as his portal gun appears to be useless. This could be a massive shift in the dynamic between the two and result in more team-based adventures like in previous seasons. It's possible I'm overthinking things again, and equally possible these are all coincidences. What I love about R&M is it leaves you with these open-ended questions and hooks you in. This season wasn't the best, but this final trilogy of episodes explained a lot and set up a really interesting premise for Season 6. My biggest concern is if the next season starts as if everything is back to normal. With implications this big, though, I'm confident they have some big plans in mind for Rick and Morty going forward.

[@nathanmonka5958]

Yea honestly that’s what I’m hoping doesn’t happen I’m hoping that Rick and morty won’t just do two things one rush every through to get thing back to normal or just try to start off back to normal and act like nothing happened

[@Imsleepeebruh]

I really can't get enough of these in depth analyses of the last episode.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

"Morty, I'm not responsible for every fucked-up Rick out there." "They literally all say that. They all have that excuse. It's part of their system. None of them have to be responsible, they're all victim of themselves. Oh, it's so hard to be a genius. Couldn't you just die?" Looks like Season 6 will be about Rick turning into Bojack Horseman, and learn to take responsibility for his fuck ups, because at some point, his alcoholism and whatever shitty thing that happened to him when he was younger is gonna stop working as an excuse

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

I saw Morty cutting off his own hand as him becoming more like Rick, particularly with how blase he just sears it shut. Rick just doesn't give a shit about his own body (or that of others), not to hammer a dead horse: but he literally turned himself into a plant as a bit, and there are several glimpses at how his body isn't human at all (like the episode where he goes through the detection gate).

[@headedbeefer1511]

He also said in the finale something along the lines of «my body is practically Inspector Gadget”

[@taha_boy]

There could be a really good twist of eyepatch Morty actually being the one who blew up Rick's Family.

[@skeletonskelly5075]

Ehhhhh I don’t think so..

[@llarmstrong783]

I think he could be the original Morty of the Rick who did

[@sofiantz2142]

So time travel? That would be crazy

[@rexeshd5759]

The pocket dimension in S5E1 acually shows an example of a dimension were rick is not the most powerful entity

[@alexforce9]

Well after all that happened to him, Morty grow up to be pretty badass.

[@kavanasama4365]

500k subs coming up really soon for you, You deserve it. Here’s a like and a comment for the algorithm.

[@universalcollective427]

rick lost his arm, morty lost his hand, they're doing the star wars losing arms/hands bit. rick developed the portal gun fluid, there's no shortage, it was used along with food processed rick/morty blood/parts to fuel the citadels engines for evil (he's evil) morty's escape from the finite curve. rick made portal fluid originally he can and will again. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[@dwayneedwards513]

Definitely more confident ever since he went in the detox machine. I feel like even though he was brought back to his same self, the knowledge stuck.

[@cameronross8812]

I'm fairly certain that shoving Eyepatch Morty into a completely separated set of dimensions is Dan Harmon's way washing his hands of the chacater completely. If we see him again I predict it will be in the finale as a twisted joke to the people who continuously predict his reemergence.

[@Drekromancer]

That's possible, but I certainly hope it's the opposite. Finally, we see a world of fresh possibilities, not constrained by the idea that Rick has to be a godlike being. I'm fascinated to see what Eyepatch Morty will seek out first in his new freedom.

[@cameronross8812]

@@Drekromancer Every single time Rick says anything about his disdain for serialized drama I fully imagine it coming directly from the thoughts of Dan Harmon. :D

[@lorettabes4553]

I kinda want to rewatch the show, just to see how much has changed. I liked the season finale, it was very good though the stakes weren't that high for me. The only thing I was eye-rolling at was the meta writing jokes. I love 4th wall breaking and meta jokes, but in the last few episodes it felt a bit on the nose. It went from a joke, to characters pretty much describing their own writing and the reason they are doing what they are doing. Explaining a joke/action like this takes the out of it for me, so I hope they take a step back

[@random3rsifO_O]

I really want to see a citadel of smart jerry's I think rick would be very suprised.......

[@darealkrishpykream8559]

I was waiting too impatiently for this video

[@godthegods8998]

now rick c-137 can really prove he's the rickest rick

[@positiveproductions6699]

That was a great finale I just watched it and was not disappointed excited to see where to show goes next because that finale literally blew my mind I did not expect any of that

[@Me99999_]

Episode rankings: Ep1: Great Ep2: Got boring quickly Ep3: Good Ep4: Pretty good. You guys are blowing it out of proportion Ep5: Meh Ep6: Great Ep7: Terrible Ep8: Great Ep9: Decent E10: Best episode of the series

[@LordTyph]

A couple of additional notes too. First, the switch Rick throws with Morty's help stated you needed a _partner_ to operate it. Yeah, it's likely the two will slowly move towards equal grounds (with some possible false starts). Second, I'm pretty sure that the Central Finite Curve was DESTROYED. The thing is though, those weren't 'universe without Rick', _just 'Universes where Rick isn't the smartest'._ It is very much possible that Rick Morty will _never_ escape Rick's shadow.

[@rdknio]

Could the realities outside the finite curve, be realities were Rick didnt invent the portal gun because Evil Rick didnt convince him and didnt kill his wife and daughter? so if he didnt build it then he didnt become the smartest guy on those universes?

[@AshG05]

I think C1-37 is the rickest Rick because he cares too little but cares a lot at the same time and I think that is what makes him special most regular ricks are arrogant

[@insertnamehere658]

This season was the most polarizing to me. Episode 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 were pretty good while the others were just so bad.

[@imanobody7911]

Yeah half of the season was just straight up garbage. But atleast it ended with the best season finale which arguably is one of the best episodes in the whole series

[@cyrussmith4744]

For me I'd add the second one, but yeah mid season it felt like the writers didn't know what to do and they just dumped whatever they could think of in the writing room

[@awsome14619]

@@cyrussmith4744 That's how every show is made

[@cyrussmith4744]

@@awsome14619 Yeah but this feels unfiltered, I mean that it seems like they barely tried to make it into a cohesive story and they just dumped their ideas on screen without stopping to think if they were good or made sense

[@bruno17289]

Those are some high standard, for me 1 to 3 where great. Episode 4 was legit the worst episode of the series, episode 5 was ok, episode 6 and 7 where good. Episode 8 to 10 where great. Favorite episode was the Planetina one for me, just a great spin on the series captain planet.

[@maxh276]

With MPB mentioning if there's an "evil version of him out there", I have a feeling they could circle back to that fake war with Evil Morty from the story train episode & make it real like they did with Rick's 'fake' origin story.

[@abrahamvieyra5730]

The Reason why that other(EVIL) Rick was never found. Was he was out there in the infinite universe beyond the Curve. Evil Morty Meets Evil Rick Very Soon!

[@SanaaJadeCruz]

You were spot on !

[@mr.gishere844]

The new evil Morty OST gave me chills when it played at the end of the episode

[@ishanbajpai6940]

You know, I was waiting for this video.

[@Darek_B52]

Same

[@CUniverse]

...could the Rick that killed Our Rick's family be the Rick to Eypatch Morty's reality?

[@zeecnla]

I was waiting for your video! Let’s go!

[@Abell_lledA]

One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates 🎈

[@clockworkdeity]

I was really expecting a giant rant review on the sperm episode from captainmidnight before season 5 ended.

[@XkuronekosamaX]

Everyone who is dissapointed with the last couple seasons of Rick and Morty should start watching Solar Opposites, is what Rick and Morty should have been.

[@Darek_B52]

Really? Thought that show was largely disliked save for its side story about the wall.

[@nashwise4everGM]

@@Darek_B52 I mean you indeed correct, I just watch Solar Opposite because of the Wall. The Wall is serialize what the fans want, while the actual A and B storyline is what the showrunners want to create. Dan repeatedly said that he wants his story to be self contained and episodic through multiple interviews and it was shown in season 5 finale and the story train episode. Multiple times he said that he adores the heroes journey style of writing where the heroes reset every episode into the status quo and repeatedly learn from the mistake only to return back to the status quo of the show. Dan understand the viewers doesn't like episodic because there is no stakes, hence why Rick and Morty has this weird serialized and episodic cycle. Solar Opposite in other hand is different, it has both what the writers want and what the fans want from Dan Harmon.

[@NerdMiGerd]

Eh, I feel like Solar Opposites is just kinda doing its own thing, which I like. Seasons 4 and 5 have been a slight downgrade for sure, but I'm still having a good time with the show as a whole.

[@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506]

Unbelievable we went in this season from *ahum* "certain" space babies ..Which almost everyone hated... To this absolute legend of a finale.

[@mazimadu]

" ... I would argue that Eyepatch Morty isn't evil at all..." Man, your moral compass is really messed up!

[@GangOfVortex]

yeah that morty throwed at least several hundreds of his grandpas in a blender

[@Drekromancer]

@@GangOfVortex Several hundred iterations of his institutionally abusive, grandchild-cloning bastard of a grandfather. Idk. I feel like it might be excessive, but not unwarranted. He had to break the system that kept Ricks producing Mortys to systematically exploit. Thus, he had to get rid of some of the Ricks.

[@TheNwr1]

@@Drekromancer True but he didn’t have to blend them alive though. He could’ve locked in the chamber, shot them in the head, then did it. Seems pretty evil to shred somebody feet first

[@ptajimura]

He is a rat, he has no moral compass. And now he has a gun!

[@chongwillson972]

@@TheNwr1 oh honestly you really believe that is not worst than what any rick does on a whim destroying countless planets ,galaxies, universes ...

[@Surgery7]

2:38 honestly I thought the scenery was supposed to directly parallel his cliff scene in ep 1 where he breaks his legs by accident and is rendered completely helpless but now by this cliffside he willingly harms himself to take the initiative showing independence and competence.

[@ryanlovelock3024]

If Rick crash landed in the house of an alternate grown up version of his murdered daughter, does that mean the father that abandoned her and her mother could have been killed by Rick during his "Rick murder spree"????? Sounds like an amazing option for an arc!

[@Palepetal]

Could be, I think current Beth's mother probably died of natural causes. If she were murdered, it may have been a more sore subject for Beth whenever she was brought up in conversation.

[@ryanlovelock3024]

@@Palepetal I'm saying Rick's wife and daughter were murdered (or so he says, by that other Rick). He then went on a murder rampage killing countless Rick's before crash landing into the house of his grown up daughter from an alternate dimension. My theory is that one of those Ricks he killed was our Beth's father, and that's why she thinks he "abandoned" her and her mother. She thinks it's her father that finally came home, but it's our Rick. Am I missing something? Or could this totally be the case?

[@jefersonvilaede]

great video, really well done

[@thechazzler8934]

I’d be fine if the show went from comedy to just full sifi action stuff Which is good cause it kinda already has

[@TY-km8hj]

I agree i think they're trying a balance but it hasn't been done in the best way. I feel bad for them but the lore and story became unintentionally compelling and I hope it's quality continues. I'd prefer a more serialised version rather than the random episodic stuff we've gotten which in the early seasons was great but now has lost its spark and touch. honestly

[@steffanyschwartz7801]

My favorite part of this entire final episode is probably the new eyepatch morty theme, it feels like a mcu song

[@valordelink]

There is just a small but kinda big plothole with this episode and the one with bird person, and it all comes from Rick Potion 9, just because they scaped from that universe and saw that rick die, then we meet the bird person from that universe, but that wouldn't be our Rick's Bird person. Kinda weird and maybe there is a simple explination.

[@spec___]

not a plothole, Rick proved time and time again that he almost doesn't see alternate versions of his family and friends as different people and, considering that the new dimension is the exact same as the one he left, it makes even more sense that he considers this Bird Person the same Bird Person from his universe

[@valordelink]

@@spec___ but that bird person had the memories of a rick who's beth was murderer and had the same adventures as our rick. So that would mean that this rick was exactly the same as our rick, including the backstory, so there were two ricks looking for revenge but one happened to die in that explosion at the end of the Cronenberg episode? Maybe, like I said it's a small but it kinda can become a big plothole.

[@spec___]

man, things get really confusing when talking about the multiverse you're right tho, if there really are multiple identical universes going on then there are also a bunch of "Rickiest" Ricks going around and possibly even multiple Citadels, but I don't think that's the case, so yeah, possible plothole

[@raulmiranda737]

I think Evil Morty achieved his own Thanos story arc. Avengers Infinity War was essentially a hero's journey from Thanos' perspective just like Evil Morty won at the end of Season 5 which is also the end of first half of the show's run. I think EM's story might have already ended tho. But I wont be surprised if he comes back periodically up to season 10. Scattered thoughts.

[@aysitalownatlanch1052]

This finale finally killed will continue to kill the stupid criticism that “Rick is too invincible” well no shit this is his show, he eats life threatening situations for breakfast. I hope we see a universe where someone is equally as smart as c-137 but with the opposite morals and philosophical views (which is basically an optimistic philanthropist) and they meet up and forced to do an adventure together that would be hilarious and interesting