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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday “sneak around, crawl in some vents, do a Die Hard” [1]
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Date: 2022-10-21
Darn Xmas films.
Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well.
Alex Rubens writes scripts for the animated cartoon Rick and Morty on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, and deserves props for giving us kibitzers a.k.a. NPCs a chance in an augmented reality discourse where entire lives are lived under “time dilation”. Some episodes have been set in a mall arcade called Blips and Chitz with one game being a VR immersion game called Roy that allows the player to live though an avatar’s entire compressed lifetime, making life choices including work and family. Rewards are given in the game for risky choices like going off the grid, or in season 6, doing a dissociative personality’s immersive adventure while Rick’s granddaughter has an actual shootout resembling Die Hard, the iconic Xmas movie with Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. Yippie-ki-yay, Mother-Loving collective action problem.
Rick and Morty is now back up and running with Season 6, and after that major premiere, fans were surprised to see the series return to the Roy game with the newest episode of the series! Roy: A Life Well Lived was first introduced during the second season of the series as a strange game where players lived out the central character Roy's entire theoretical life. While Blips and Chitz has returned in the series before as a concept, this was the first time in several seasons where we actually got to see the inside of the Roy game once more. But it was plenty different this time around.
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"Get down! You're all under arrest for being religious in the wrong way!"
Roy: A Life Well Lived
"Roy" is such a memorable callback because of the way the show introduced it to us: Without much explanation, Rick throws a helmet onto Morty, and then we cut to a little kid named Roy waking up at night from a bad dream. He vaguely remembers an "old man" in the dream, but quickly forgets about it and moves on with his life. We see the kid grow up, fall in love, get married, have kids, get cancer, survive cancer, and live what feels like a very full 55 years before dying in an accident at the carpet store where he works.
That's when the game ends, and Morty realizes that none of that was real. All those years of hardships and triumphs, all those meaningful connections with his friends and family, were just a part of an alien video game. One of the first things Morty says in those disoriented moments back in the real world is a sad, stammering "Where's my wife?"
It's devastating. Or at least, it would be a devastating moment, if this were any other show. But because this is "Rick and Morty," it's just a one-off joke that has barely any bearing on the rest of the story. It takes only a few seconds for Morty to remember what he was arguing with Rick about earlier, and soon his fake wife and kids are firmly in the rearview mirror. It's hilarious precisely because of how messed-up the whole situation is.
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"Rick: A Mort Well Lived" (a new season six episode) throws Morty back into the game, except now the show has upped the ante…
In "Rick: A Mort Well Lived," the same game has malfunctioned as a result of a terrorist attack that happened while Morty was playing, and now Morty's consciousness has been splintered across the billions of fake people living inside it. Rick enters the game as Roy to spread this information to everyone within the world: their lives aren't real, and in order for them to return as one being in the real world, they all basically need to kill themselves.
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x Tonight's Rick and Morty episode was a terrific take on the collective action problem--and accompanied with a great, homage-to-Die-Hard side plot. — Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@RMCarpiano) September 12, 2022
USA = 8% of the world’s population.
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