And now, he fights against the people attempting to take that away from him because he wants to be better, for the sake of his family. He didn’t want to be held down by anything. In previous episodes, Rick’s lack of caring about the meta stemmed from a place of self-hatred and apathy. He can’t just be doing better with his family and putting in an effort as he has been he must face his own issues as well, which is what Story Lord ends up doing. (Everyone else thinks is derivative and kinda lame.) It's a weird episode where Rick is forced to face his own continuity. Story Lord’s whole goal in the episode is to discover a motivation, and he kidnaps the writer of his episode to write him a better motivation, which ends up just being that he’s looking for motivation. The villain of the episode is Story Lord, who returns from the story train episode (which was actually written by Ant-Man and the Wasp screenwriter, Jeff Loveness).
#A LONG WAY HOME RICK AND MORTY FULL#
In the following episode, “ Full Meta Jackrick,” Rick takes Morty to fight against these superpowered beings meant to represent different aspects of writing. Rick is legitimately just being a good grandfather to Morty. You spend the entire episode thinking it’s going to be some kind of “gotcha” and Rick was just messing with Morty the entire time, but the “gotcha” never happens. He spends the episodes trying to help Morty problem-solve and listens to him, and when Morty screws up Rick doesn’t even chastise him. In the most recent episode, “ A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort”, Rick actually gets a bit hurt from Morty calling him out for his more toxic traits. He helped Jerry with his fortune cookie curse, showing that he’s even growing to have a soft spot for the one person in the family he previously showed nothing but contempt for. He tried to fix the legacy of an enemy who died, so his family could remember him fondly. In other episodes, he put trust in Summer to solve an issue with the Night Family. In “ Bethic Twinstinct," he actually gave his daughter advice and supported her as best he could as she… fell in love with her clone… OK, yes, it is an uncomfortable situation, to say the least, but the moment showed a lot of character growth for Rick. Unlike previous seasons, just about every episode this season is either about Rick helping out one of his family members or other people, or being confronted with his own character faults.
It’s funny, but also anticlimactic, which seemed to be Rick’s goal all along. In the Season 3 premiere, he famously plays off his motivations as being about a discontinued McDonald’s dipping sauce from 1998 and dismantling the intergalactic governmental body that put him in prison by destroying their economy. Nowhere is this more noticeable in the Season 3 premiere, where Rick undid the downer (and surprisingly dramatically well-written) Season 2 finale that had Rick’s friends dying, his family being put in danger and forced into hiding, and Rick turning himself in and being sent to space jail. In prior seasons, anytime a major arc ended, the next episode would be Rick solving everything with relative ease. It’s a very strange moment of Rick being called out for being an obnoxious no-it-all, and it’s not the only time it’s happened. He’s so resentful about it that he tries to act as if he doesn’t know who Iron Man is, which Morty calls him out for. It even continues into the opening episode of Season 6, with Rick lamenting his cliché death in a parody of Iron Man’s opening of Avengers: Endgame. At points, it even came across as the creators and writers of the show having contempt for having to write those continuity episodes in the first place. Through the first five seasons, Rick has had an utter disdain for any overarching plotlines, preferring standalone “classic” Rick and Morty adventures. But that’s just the humor, there also has been an entire meta-layer of the show involving the ongoing plot.
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