![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “That episode would have been a series finale on a lot of shows, and I liked that it was just an episode in the middle of one of our seasons. “It’s something I love about this show,” said showrunner Scott Marder. But the writers liked the idea of placing “Unmortricken” in the middle of Season 7, where it’s more likely to come as a surprise. Other updates on the saga of Rick Prime, Evil Morty and the multiverse have tended to come at traditional TV inflection points like a finale or a premiere. “That invigorating energy that they bring to the table as people that are able to remain fans of the thing that we’re working on - I really needed that in my darkest hours.” I had to look at the show as a job,” Harmon said.īut younger writers could push for more of what they already admired about the show, like its master narrative of Rick’s (now literal) self-destructive streak and the emotional attachments that separate him from the nihilist, amoral Rick Prime. “I think now it can be said that there’s been so much turbulence going on behind the scenes that Season 6 kind of represented me those wires from my heart and my obsessive brain. Harmon credits the duo with countering his impulse to keep stories as standalone as possible, which he says was exacerbated by the show’s highly publicized turmoil - culminating in the termination of co-creator and lead voice actor Justin Roiland earlier this year. Lundy and Siciliano both began on “Rick and Morty” as writers’ assistants before working their way up to executive producer. After a brutal, bloody confrontation, Rick C-137 kills Rick Prime with his bare hands, but at the expense of letting Evil Morty escape with a device that could murder any character in an instant. (“Rick and Morty” has since revealed that the Beth we know, along with the entire Smith family, are actually related to Rick Prime, who abandoned them before C-137 took his place.) A bored, jaded Evil Morty tags along as they discover Rick Prime has rebuilt the Omega Device, a super-weapon that terminates all versions of its victims, like Diane. Meanwhile, Rick C-137 - the main Rick of “Rick and Morty” - is on a mission to track down Rick Prime, the Rick who originally invented portal travel and killed C-137’s wife Diane and daughter Beth. After previously ruling the Citadel, an interdimensional hub of Ricks and Mortys from across the multiverse, Evil Morty is now settled in his personal fortress of solitude, an entire arc compressed into a four-minute cold open. Co-written by Albro Lundy and James Siciliano and directed by Jacob Hair, “Unmortricken” opens with what appears to be a standard “Rick and Morty” adventure - until Morty goes on a rampage, dons an eyepatch and becomes the figure fans know as Evil Morty, a super-intelligent version of the 14-year-old protagonist who reverses the typical dynamic of Rick domineering his more docile sidekick. ![]()
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