While Rick’s best friend has returned, he isn’t going to be around much - he’s got responsibilities now, starting with breaking his feral daughter out of prison. The two finally escape, with Birdperson resurrected, his body a little worse for wear. We’re treated to the backstory of Gearhead (who is just the younger sibling of a respected warrior), and a touching moment between Birdperson and Tammy, made all the more poignant by the fact that it’s all wishful thinking, not reflective of how Tammy really felt about Birdperson. Rick cleverly engineers an exit by utilizing shared memories, in a frenzied race to escape Birdperson’s mind before it’s too late. It’s a typically selfish action that doesn’t escape Birdperson’s keen eye - Rick’s feathered friend understands Rick’s genius, but also his toxicity. It’s not until Rick mentions an important detail, buried in Birdperson’s mind, that he is convinced to come back to the land of the living.īirdperson has a daughter, and Rick really didn’t want to reveal her existence unless he had to, lest his friend become too busy being a father to hang out with Rick. This episode certainly puts Rick and Morty’s relationship into context not only is Morty not really Rick’s grandson, he’s also his second choice - Rick settled for a young, easily influenced traveling companion, rather than risk being rejected again.Īnd Birdperson continues to be the strong-willed, stoic character that Rick so admires, choosing to die in the arms of his fondest memories rather than be resurrected. Birdperson, unsettled by Rick’s nihilism, doesn’t seem to be quite as invested in their relationship as Rick is. “Yeah, maybe Morty’s 15th birthday would be the catastrophic sinking of that Titanic.In a rare moment of vulnerability (and some strong homoerotic undertones), the two Ricks watch as Rick proposes a lifetime of adventure with Birdperson, only to be rejected. “It would maybe just be Morty turning 15 and finding a girlfriend that actually makes him want to be an independent person, so everything is kind of destroyed because Morty just wants to be a teenager now and start to grow up,” he says, and it’s clear he’s tickled by the idea. At least he did once THR posed the question. If not the final episode or final scene, he has considered what the final moment or moments could entail. Which doesn’t mean he hasn’t given thought to how the show might ultimately conclude. In fact, Harmon says, “it’s designed to.” If he has his way, Rick and Morty will run for 100 seasons. And by all accounts, there’s now a well-oiled process in place, which came as Harmon got a handle on his own workflow and, just as importantly, installed Scott Marder as the series’ showrunner. There are still several more seasons - two of which have largely been written already - before the show completes its previously ordered 70 episodes. “It’s best that way, because I don’t think it should be this canonical thing that relies on the series to do things and changes everything after that,” he explains, adding: “I think it should actually be the equivalent of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the idea was, ‘Hey, Indiana Jones already exists as a series in George Lucas’ imagination, so Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is simply his greatest adventure yet.”įor the record, Rick and Morty isn’t ending any time soon. Practically speaking, Harmon would prefer to work on the Rick and Morty film while the show is still ongoing. “Not to try to earn its feature status by virtue of canonical dramatic tone shifts or anything like that, but rather to just make it a super badass episode of Rick and Morty.”Īsked about it on another day, he adds: “I think less is more there because then we can let our animators go nuts, and the animation can be fancier and there can be crazy sequences and stuff.” “My philosophy would be to just take a Rick and Morty adventure, and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it 90 minutes long,” Harmon tells The Hollywood Reporter during an interview for a late Sept. Harmon walked away confident that everyone was on the same page about the “right conceit” for the movie, should it move forward. (executives, not Snyder) where, he says “it felt like maybe it was time to get the ball rolling.” Sure, Hollywood is big on having meetings, but this one felt different. There’s no outline yet, much less a script, but he did have one conversation with folks at Warner Bros. In all seriousness, Harmon is very game to bring his franchise, which kicks off its seventh season on Adult Swim Oct. Tom Cruise's Next 'Mission: Impossible' Movie Delayed a Year to 2025
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