The newly released S04E01 is narrated by two lines:
A line describes Morty holding the death crystal and looking for a way to grow old with Jessica;
The other line tells that the dead Rick constantly clones himself through the Phoenix Project and wants to return to Earth;
When S04E01 first mentioned the Phoenix Project, I thought that there was an episode of Tiny Rick who also mentioned this plan, so I rummaged and found that it appeared in S02E07. The following will briefly review S02E07 and talk about the Phoenix Project:
One of the lines of S02E07 tells about the appearance of vampires in Morty School. Summer hopes that Rick can become a teenager and help them catch vampires:
Then Rick turned himself into a tiny Rick joined Morty and Summer's high school, hunted vampires, and opened a party, winning the school's welcome:
But because the old heart is locked in the young body and is extremely uncomfortable, Rick actually feels very uncomfortable, which is reflected in his song:
Summer discovered this first and combined with Morty to rescue Rick:
Next comes the Phoenix Project:
After this incident, Rick realized that copying his consciousness to another body would not work, so he personally smashed the high-pressure quantum liquid tank and terminated the project.
But we know that there are many parallel universes in R&M's cosmology. Rick also developed the Phoenix Project in other parallel universes, and did not terminate the Phoenix Project in that universe. Here is the foreshadowing until S04E01:
In S04E01, Rick died because of Morty's actions, and Morty did not clone his own Rick for the first time, so Rick's consciousness was transmitted to other universes and was reborn due to the Phoenix Project:
So the entire Rick line of S04E01 is about the Phoenix Project: Rick is constantly reborn in other universes that have the Phoenix Project, and finally returned to his own universe with the help of Rick the Hornet.
First of all, it is certain that the Phoenix project in S04E01 must be the one in S02E07, which can be seen from the background of the basement and Rick's self-talk.
So the crux of the problem is that the Rick who has gone through the Phoenix Project is still the same Rick?
Since Rick and Morty transformed their worlds into Cronenberg and escaped to another parallel universe in S01E06, Jerry, Beth and Summer are no longer the original "original", so we will always think deeply in subsequent plots: drama Are the characters in "original"?
For example, in S02E02, Rick and Morty sent Jerry to the "Jerry Storage Center". When they finally came to pick up Jerry, Morty found that he had lost Jerry's certificate, so he exchanged a Jerry with another Rick at will;
Or in S02E04, all the characters in the episode where Mr. Banbiandong appeared are not the characters we saw before. They are from another parallel universe. The evidence to prove this is that Mr. Banbiandong appeared in that episode of the animation. The title, and Mr. Poopdong did not die as a result of Beth's shooting;
For example, since S01E10, someone pointed out that the Morty we have been seeing may not be Rick's original Morty either;
So is the Rick cloned in S04E01 still the original Rick? I tend to be.
First, the memory must be completely cloned, because Rick remembers every time he was born again, and when he met Rick the wasp, he tentatively said: Heil Wasp Hitler. It can be seen that Rick knew that he had died because he did not support fascism;
Second, Rick in S04E01 has no behavioral abnormalities, while tiny Rick in S02E07 obviously has abnormal behaviors: like a picture of "I'm going to die" and dancing "let me go". This is very important. Tiny Rick's consciousness has been confused. On the one hand, Summer asked when Tiny Rick became an old man, and Tiny Rick mocked her extremely. On the other hand, Tiny Rick was doing something he couldn't explain himself. Obviously tiny Rick has produced a young Rick personality. The young personality wants to abandon the old personality, but it is still affected by the old personality. When Morty and Summer rescued Rick, Rick expressed himself (consciousness). ) Was trapped inside. On the other hand, Rick in S04E01 did not act abnormally, which shows that Rick should still be that Rick.
Third, this point is purely my conjecture for justification and a certain basis: the reason why Rick in other parallel universes did not abandon the Phoenix Project is because they have resolved this side effect. From S01E06, we can see that the Cronenbergization problem that the original Rick could not solve was solved by the Rick of other parallel universes, so it is very possible that the side effects of the Phoenix Project will be solved by the Rick of other universes. Secondly, as such a proud species, it is impossible for Rick to be replaced by their own clones as in "Deadly Magic". They hate Rick who wants to replace them, and they even want to take the lead, such as S02E01. In the episode of Schrodinger's cat, Rick decisively acted on the other split Rick. Therefore, Rick, who has retained the Phoenix Project, must have set aside a retreat for this, to ensure that the cloned Rick still has his own consciousness.
From this point of view, the Rick is still the original Rick (if the episodes that are not released later are reversed, I will treat it as I did not say).
Finally, I share an egg that I don’t know if it is an Easter egg: Rick’s good friend Birdman was killed by his girlfriend Tammy in S02E10, but he was resurrected by Tammy at the end of S03E01 and renamed "Phoenix Man" ", I don’t know if it’s because of the Phoenix Project:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I really like to blacken Morty! ! ! I really hope that the evil Morty who has become the president of Rick City will have a big duel with this Morty! At this level of Morty's psychological depression (There was once an episode where Morty participated in a large-scale cleansing of a planet, but Rick lied to him that it was due to chemical agents; in S03E01, Morty did not see the small note that Rick gave him but resolutely asked Rick Shot), surely not to lose to that evil Morty!
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The girl who took me to watch R&M left for the second time. The last time we parted was at the airport, and we agreed on that day to break up, but it was only after two years that she really disappeared from my heart. The first episode we watched together was in 2016. It was S01E03. She picked the latest episode she found to come to Amway. I went into the pit. I only watched a few episodes to cater to her preferences. This drama is attracted. After we are together, our eating activities are often an episode of R&M, discussing the plot, buying peripherals, and having fun. At that time, I often thought that Beth and Jerry were together in every parallel universe. Are we the same in other parallel universes? Unfortunately, this is not the case. In this universe, we have already parted ways. She is brave like Beth, and I am cowardly like Jerry, but this is not a drama with us as the protagonist. Jerry couldn't find his Beth again, only crying incompetently day and night. Maybe Jerry can only grow up to the top if he leaves Beth. I comfort myself like this.
2021.8.2
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