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I think the nihilism fits very well because if you could travel to an infinite possibility of dimensions you would see the world as a very different place. All

I think the nihilism fits very well because if you could travel to an infinite possibility of dimensions you would see the world as a very different place. All the things people argue and worry about mean nothing.

dragontamer 9y ago
Traditionally, the great people who have seen infinite possibility and understand the world for what it really is have been guiding figures. IE: Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or the original "Doc" Brown from Back to the Future... or Dr. Who. Basically characters who have grown to understand the world and guides the other characters through the craziness of the world. I recognize that Rick is purposefully inverted from the standard and typical trope here... and perhaps there really is too many Gandalf / Dr Who / Dr. Brown types in media. But still, I find the standard Gandalf / Dr. Who / Dr. Brown type to be more enjoyable to watch than the incarnation brought about in Rick and Morty.
- jerf 9y ago
  It doesn't appear that Doc Brown, within the scope of the movies that we see, ever came to grips with just how horrifying the universe he lives in is. It's got many of the same issues that proof of and access to an infinite multiverse does. Doctor Who fits somewhere in the middle, where the universe is more mutable than you might like but still is supposed to have some general flows and rules about what can't be changed, albeit presented as being so complicated than only the Doctor can even hope to understand them. And when writers process this properly there is always a sort of manic, edge-of-sanity element to the Doctor which makes sense. Gandalf doesn't live in the same sort of universe, though. He lives in something more like our real universe, where actions have consequences and can't be undone, or sidestepped by just shooting a portal gun and stepping across to the next universe. And also, perhaps even more importantly, he lives in a universe where it is not possible for a time traveler from the far future to suddenly appear or for Rick to step out and just start killing people because he's in a bad mood and who cares about fantasy-era bumpkins? I don't think Rick is too far out of line, in terms of the universe he lives in.

dragontamer 9y ago

Traditionally, the great people who have seen infinite possibility and understand the world for what it really is have been guiding figures. IE: Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or the original "Doc" Brown from Back to the Future... or Dr. Who. Basically characters who have grown to understand the world and guides the other characters through the craziness of the world. I recognize that Rick is purposefully inverted from the standard and typical trope here... and perhaps there really is too many Gandalf / Dr Who / Dr. Brown types in media. But still, I find the standard Gandalf / Dr. Who / Dr. Brown type to be more enjoyable to watch than the incarnation brought about in Rick and Morty.

jerf 9y ago
It doesn't appear that Doc Brown, within the scope of the movies that we see, ever came to grips with just how horrifying the universe he lives in is. It's got many of the same issues that proof of and access to an infinite multiverse does. Doctor Who fits somewhere in the middle, where the universe is more mutable than you might like but still is supposed to have some general flows and rules about what can't be changed, albeit presented as being so complicated than only the Doctor can even hope to understand them. And when writers process this properly there is always a sort of manic, edge-of-sanity element to the Doctor which makes sense. Gandalf doesn't live in the same sort of universe, though. He lives in something more like our real universe, where actions have consequences and can't be undone, or sidestepped by just shooting a portal gun and stepping across to the next universe. And also, perhaps even more importantly, he lives in a universe where it is not possible for a time traveler from the far future to suddenly appear or for Rick to step out and just start killing people because he's in a bad mood and who cares about fantasy-era bumpkins? I don't think Rick is too far out of line, in terms of the universe he lives in.