The first in season 8 of “Rick and Morty” is a dark and twisted affair, and at the beginning, it seems that everything is Rick’s fault. During the past seasons, Rick wreaked havoc, forgetting to label all the dangerous things of his garage, but this time, he ruined things to fall asleep at the wrong time. It’s a shame, because his plan to discipline his grandchildren – throw them in a matrix simulation designed to teach them not to steal Rick’s phone charger – was quite decent parenting according to “Rick and Morty” standards. Unfortunately, he fell asleep and accidentally let them live 17 years there in a few hours.

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However, similar situations have already occurred in the show. In season 2, Morty spends a lifetime in the VR Roy game, and it’s horrible when he wakes up and realizes that the last 50 years of his life have never occurred. In season 6, Morty plays Roy again, but this time The dysfunctions of the game and its conscience are fractured throughout the digital society of the game. Once again, several decades of Morty’s life are going here, but “Rick: died well lived” is happy to brush the implications of this.

“Summer of All Freats” of season 8, meanwhile, plunges into the question of how this kind of experience would affect someone. When Morty and Summer wake up from their 17 -year stay in the matrix, they changed and grew up. Summer has the minds of a confident, educated and semi-mature woman in mid-Tentaine, and Morty has the spirit of a hardened Vietnam veteran.

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But their time in the matrix was even darker than it seems for the first time: not only was Morty was pushed to commit suicide again and again in a war against Osama Bin Chargen, but it turns out that this war was a fictitious orchestrated by summer itself. Summer knew how much she inflicted mental damage to her brother, but that never prevented her from passing him through.

Is summer wrong to torture his brother for years? Well, yes. But to be fair, she did it for a good cause. She thought that this manufactured war was the only way for her and Morty escapes the matrix, and for all that we know, she was right. We have no idea how long Rick should have been asleep, and we know that an hour in real life is equivalent to several years in the simulation. Pump probably would have lived long enough to take out the children from there before they wilt severe old age, but summer had no way of knowing it with certainty.

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But unpacking the ethics of the actions of summer comes second to unpack the implications that this has towards its future. Summer was ruthless in this episode, channeling his interior rick much more than we have never seen this version of Morty. It is a character arc that raises the question: We have already treated with Mort Morty and Evil RickBut what about Malédise? Where is it in the multiverse of this program?

At the end of this episode, Summer had his memory of adulthood and returned to normal. But even if she does not remember what happened, We Always do it. We have seen what she is capable of, so what are other sums more capable of? The program has established that there are endless realities, when it is the realities where summer is not wiped out? How is this reality exactly?

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Evil Summer is such a convincing concept because his presence in the series has always been underestimated. Rick and Morty take the main objective, so that most of the determining moments of summer occur in B intrigue B or in the occasional episode of the spotlight. Whenever summer has the chance to shine, she almost immediately turns out to be both competent and ruthless. She manages to Out- “Die Hard” a fanatic “Die Hard” in “Rick: Death well lived,” And it effectively leads a whole planet to fight against the face in a golden age in “Promortyus”. It is someone who couldIf she wanted, causing massive problems for the whole world around her. So why didn’t the show give him the opportunity?

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Even feed the theory of evil summer is the small apparent indices for it to be sprinkled in the series. There was “Night Family” in season 6Who revealed that summer houses a deep resentment towards Rick in his subconscious. Then there is This promotion for season 7, where summer raises the idea of ​​a “summer citadel” where it “invokes[s] A summer battalion to crumble the intergalactic patriarchy. “The line was a joke, of course, but it shows that the idea of ​​a summer citadel is at least in the minds of writers. While the program is shaking, it does not seem to be a matter of time before the writers decide to take the summer citadel seriously and to realize that it is in fact TV gold.

But the main reason why the bad summer remains such a convincing idea is that it simply seems fun. Even in this first of season 8, The Diabolical Place Summer takes us is lovely to watch. Just like the way Rick was more fun when he was a carefree fool in season 1, summer is more fun when she is allowed to put his moral aside and become fully nasty. The first episode of season 8 gives us a little taste of how a diabolical summer bow could be fascinating, and we hope that by the final of season 8, we obtained the full meal.

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