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thesoftboiledegg · 2 months

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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.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #summer smith #dr. wong #season seven #the sopranos

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geetimesthree · 1 year

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"being good is hard."

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #dr. wong #analyze piss #season 6 spoilers #i can't believe rick sanchez went to therapy without kicking and screaming 🧡

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ricksanchezbignaturals · 6 months

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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)

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fandomwe1rd0 · 24 days

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~ 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!

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

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #rick c137 #rick #and #morty #Dr. Wong #r&m

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beeclops · 6 months

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#adult swim #rick and morty #s7e3 #rick sanchez #funyuns #dr. wong #president andre curtis #Youtube

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faustiandevil · 5 months

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#Mad Love #Mad Love (1935)#Peter Lorre #Dr. Gogol #Dr. Gogol (Mad Love)#Keye Luke #Dr. Wong #Dr. Wong (Mad Love)#I'm the gay agenda and I'm queering up Mad Love #Faustian Fables #Faustian Fiction

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hesitationmarx · 6 months

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quick take on some of y'all's takes on Air Force Wong: Rick never told Dr. Wong about Unity, she only knows what was said in front of her in the episode in the context of a national crisis, which admittedly could've been mitigated had Rick checked his voicemail. not saying he shoulda, i wouldn't, but Helen doesn't have the context to know that. lay off her. also how the fuck do u turn down a super interesting mission that might be a date with au knockoff obama? why would she? i doubt rick told her he's in an undefined queer relationship with the president like she really didn;t know abt that boundary existing.

#rick and morty #r&m s7 #r&m #air force wong #rick and morty season 7 #dr. wong #president curtis #charli's constant meta commentary on r&m commentary #call it uh #fandom studies

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blue-rick24 · 6 months

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Post Season 7 Episode 3 reactions with friends

[lmk if you want me to take one of these down my good moots 👌 it’s no problem XD]

@yourprobnowdumdum @rickxation @venusaturneptunearth

#rick and morty season 7 spoilers #rick and morty season 7 #air force wong #rick and morty thoughts #rick and morty #rick sanchez #dr. wong #the president r&m #president andre curtis #unity #hivemind #emotophobia #my post #discord #dms open #minors dni #anons open #inbox open

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rootfish13 · 2 years

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Today I asked my therapist if she has ever watched Rick & Morty. I wasn't trying to be funny it was a serious question.

#therapy #therapist #rick sanchez #rick and morty #rick & morty #dr wong #dr. wong

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cassowariess · 8 months

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Sopranos references in Rick and Morty:

I mean, aside from the fact that both shows follow a family that is morally dodgy.

The song "Look On Down From The Bridge" by Mazzy Star plays during Jackie's funeral in The Sopranos and in the scene where Rick and Morty bury their own dead bodies in the backyard. In both shows the song continues into the closing credits and in both shows the last shot of the episode involves a young boy looking haunted.

In "The Rickshank Redemption" D-99 says "Hi, Rick. Bye, Rick" when shooting C-137's body. A reference to "Hi Jack. Bye Jack" when Mickey kills Brendan.

Dr. Wong is so obviously based on Dr. Jennifer Melfi:

If anyone can think of any more I'll add 'em.

#rick and morty #the sopranos #dr. wong #jennifer melfi #rick sanchez #tony soprano #would not at all be surprised at this point if the series finale of rick and morty ends in a diner

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mortysmith · 6 months

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#rick and morty #rick sanchez #dr wong #helen wong

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thesoftboiledegg · 3 months

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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.

#rick protecting dr. wong's honor is one of my favorite things in the show #rick and morty #rick sanchez #dr. wong #helen wong #air force wong #season seven

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ricksanchezbignaturals · 6 months

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i already touched on it in my post on the new episode, but i wanted to talk a bit more about viewing unity through a queer lense. warning this post is long and possibly incomprehensible because im sick.

ive always thought it kind of wild that so many people missed the memo about rick being pansexual when the first explicit partner of his we get to meet is unity (i say explicit because birdperson shows up before unity, and while i do believe rick is definitely meant to be into him, you wouldn't know that from his first appearance and it's not clear if c137 ever had romantic/sexual relations with bp or if it was purely unrequited). it seems obvious to me that there was queer shit going on in auto erotic assimilation, so rnm fans being all homophobic seems puzzling, because that episode came out in 2015. queer shit going on in this show is not new, why do people act surprised everytime it happens? to be honest, the new episode gave me a bit of clarity there.

so, a relationship with unity being queer might be obvious to me and my fellow gays, but it is played very safe. the majority of rick's interactions with unity are through female bodies it inhabits, and especially the main sort of ambassador lady. it almost feels like she is unity first and foremost, with all the other bodies it has being some cool power of hers, an offshoot of that one specific alien rather than equal parts of who unity is.

and yknow, that's clearly intentional, nobody ever went broke for appealing to straight men, but there is something there. i do think the choice to make the first serious relationship the audience gets to see from your main character be with a hivemind that assimilates regardless of gender is a cool one. because like i said in the other post, that makes being with unity a sort of pansexual microcosm. the first episode had a couple nods to rick not exclusively sleeping with the female bodies under unity's control, and i think this new episode was worse about making unity basically feel like it is mainly supposed to be that one alien. unity gets called she/her a lot in this episode, but there was that one line "don't talk to them like that" which i found... interesting.

it is possible im overthinking unity's pronouns. hell, i have multiple sets of pronouns, and im not even a hivemind. but that specific line did seem like, idk, intentional? yknow like when the pronouns were inconsistent in the first episode that was coming from morty and summer who were just meeting unity. i don't think rick even used pronouns to refer to unity in the first episode, but in the new one that's what he says to curtis, who's talking to unity through The Main Alien Lady. "don't talk to them like that" while later he uses she/her when talking to wong. unity's pronouns come across to me as written for the queer folks to catch the ~vibe~ and the straight folks to not have to notice at the same time.

honestly a lot of unity comes across that way. at the same time it can be this genderless entity experiencing life through many bodies, but also maybe more like one woman who happens to be able to control a planet's worth of people. and yeah, i get it. everybody wants to make the gays happy but nobody wants to lose the straights business. if rick's ever allowed to have a more explicit queer relationship than the referenced history with nimbus, that'll piss some people off. rick and morty fans in particular have a penchant for being intense and sometimes they're weird about minorities even though rick is one like 3 times over.

so like, i loved this new episode a lot, but i do feel like there was a missed opportunity to be a bit more ballsy with unity. i don't think it should've been represented by the same body as last time, that makes it feel like just another sexy alien lady for rick to have the hots for and i think it can be more interesting than that, yknow?