Still, the Space Beth connection certainly implies that the final family is ours. So if the decoy was wrong about that, then perhaps they were also wrong about other things too. Early on, a decoy Rick claimed that decoys couldn't create other copies of themselves. And the decoys weren't always right either. So "our" Rick and Morty are fine, right? Probably, although it's worth bearing in mind that this "rule" was established by another decoy. Rick and Morty s5 fixes show's biggest problem Countless decoys have been made by countless Rick decoys who believe themselves to be the real deal. Eventually, it turns out that even the squids are just decoys in disguise. And on and on it goes.Įach time we start to think that we might finally be with the original Smith family, death comes again. Another Rick is then alerted to their demise, explaining that the first group were just decoys designed to die in their stead. In the very first scene, the entire Smith family is shot to death by alien squids. But even so, none of that quite prepared us for the relentless onslaught of death that 'Mortyplicity' brought us just two episodes into season five. Think of the Council of Ricks or that Cronenberg Earth from season one. This show decimates entire planets in the blink of an eye and even alternate versions of the Smith family have perished before too. Poopybutthole's cat, Rick and Mortyis no stranger to death. And yet even after proving that none of this is real or consistent and that it’s ill-advised to care about any of it, “Mortyplicity” makes you care anyway, pretty much in spite of itself.Rick and Morty season 5 episode 2 spoilers follow.įrom Crocubot and the Amish Cyborg to Mr. That’s funny as a joke but it’s near-genius as a storytelling conceit because it really does prove something that Rick and Morty has always claimed to be about but never quite 100% committed to. The final moments imply that this might have been going on forever and might continue to go on forever, and we might never know who’s who. It’s like a game of tag, but instead of someone becoming “it”, they become dead.Īnd it doesn’t end, really. Every time we think we’re grounded in the perspective of the “real” Sanchez family, another Sanchez family kills them off and we follow them for a while until the same thing – or a similar thing – happens again.
And it’s able to do so because it genuinely doesn’t care about the basic, fundamental aspects of storytelling that other shows couldn’t get away with overlooking. Rick and Morty season 5, episode 2 is very happy about how deliberately complex and confusing it makes this premise. The show has never been shy about exposing its artificiality, but here it’s insisting that there aren’t even concrete, “real” versions of its characters within their own universe. We have no idea who the real versions are, or if there even are real versions at all. But it quickly becomes apparent that the decoys don’t know they’re decoys, so all of them get alerts that the other decoys have been targeted, and they all think they’re the “real” Rick, and on and on, with the big “twist” being that the show never bothers to establish a legitimate POV for the audience. The hook is that Rick has created various clone versions of the family since someone is always trying to kill them, and this is set up innocuously enough, with Rick being alerted that one of the decoy families has come under attack.
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