By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Television is strewn with complex protagonists, and this led to a problem: namely, countless fans idolize the characters that we have never been supposed to admire. Walter White, Don Draper and even Homelander are all characters on whom fans have freezing themselves because they do not realize that they were written to be tales of prudence. Quite strangely, Rick and Morty is slowly looking for this trend by depicting the slow growth of Rick Sanchez, one of the most toxic protagonists in television history.
If you have never seen Rick and MortyThe premise is that Rick Sanchez is an aging genius who teams up with his grandson, Morty Smith, to go to increasingly surreal adventures through time and space. Rick has mastered multi -life trips, which allows him to discover the universe in a way that almost no one else can. But that has actually transformed it into a nihilist shock because he believes that nothing matters, an easy belief for someone who can always jump into different universes to see all the possible results of each possible event.
When the show begins, Rick is indeed worse than all the other terrible television protagonists. In the very first episode, Morty must convince Rick to disarm a bomb that would destroy the planet, what we would discover later is a fairly frequent event. Finally, it effectively destroys the world when it creates a sailing of sloppy love which transforms the whole planet into monsters straight out of a Cronenberg film. Rick simply transports himself and Morty towards another dimension rather than solving the problem.
There are countless other examples of Rick’s wrong behavior: he manipulates his daughter, Grenan weapons, transforms his grandson into a drug mule, etc. At first, it seemed that Rick would forever be a protagonist of evil television, especially because the worst fans of the show liked to compare himself to him. But then (after sadly – and hilarious – turning into a man of pickle), everything changed when Rick started to go to therapy.
Even if he became Pickle Rick to avoid a family therapy session, Rick started to see the Helen Wong therapist regularly. For fans who looked closely at the show, it was clear that therapy had a very positive effect on Rick. This was obvious in small moments (as when he apologizes for making fun of the beliefs of a Scientologist) and more important moments (as when he insists on saving the bird that he has always known rather than just going to seek a different copy of another universe).
All this culminated in season 8, which gave us a tender moment in “The Curricksous case of Bethjamin Button” where a rick ages admits to his two daughters of land landed (one is a clone) that he was not the Rick who abandoned them and that he is proud of them both. And in the final of season 8 breathtaking “Hot Rick”, he removes the last memory of his dead wife so that he can be emotionally open. At the end, he sends this memory and a memory of his young me (it’s a long story) in space so that they can have happiness forever after he can never have.
It was a powerful and carefree conclusion of the most recent season, but it was also definitive proof of the quantity of therapy that had transformed Rick for the best. He finally realized that his grief several decades sabothed his current relationships and used his wacky science fiction technology to eliminate trauma. He decided to keep the course even after obtaining several painful reminders that this choice would make him closure but would never bring him happiness.
This proves that Rick is a more dynamic character than most of his television brothers. Break the badWalter White has not changed his way, dying proud of what he had accomplished and how he had taken care of his family. Don Draper does not change either: in the Mad Men Final of the series, he takes the emotional ideas which he received from a spiritual retirement and transform them into an emblematic last announcement, effectively exchanging the illumination for another pay check.
In this way, Rick and Morty The worst trend of television is slowly anchored by showing his imperfect main character working continuously on himself. This development has been fascinating to look at, and fans who have always moved his worst behavior must now face the fact that Rick himself has recognized his faults and took measures (often drastic) in the name of self-improvement. He started this trip in the last way that fans of season 1 would have been expected: by going to therapy
Transformer TV And Disoriented therapy? Not bad for a character who started as a hot and unidimensional parody of Doc Brown.
