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After this episode it's become abundantly clear the theme of Season 4 is deconstructing Lore Narrative and tearing down their OWN lore to get back to basics
Rick Die Repeat ended with the usual season monologue about how things are going to be a bit more fast and loose from now on, only occasionally getting heavy which we see in Old Man And The Seat
One Crew Over picked apart the heist genre and complicated schemes and plans in general (Evil Morty usurping the citadel) and Morty's pursuit of a deep story ultimately leaving him burned out because it's formulaic and predictable and he ends up jaded by it; all this orchestrated by Rick so Morty can keep going on one-off adventures
Claw and Horder's B-plot was right up front with this: The Talking Cat repeatedly drilling in that Jerry/The Fans should just stop asking questions, accept things/the show at face-value, and that trying to dig too deep wouldn't really be satisfying anyway
Now it's all come to a head in Never Ricking Morty: Ripping into storytelling in general and giving us all of those tasty big payoffs we've all been craving only to yank the plug on all of it in the biggest anti-climax possible and flip off the audience for ever getting invested in it.
It's like Rick always says: Nothing matters and everything you think matters doesn't matter. Ricks Past? Evil Morty? Tammy? Phoenix-Person? It doesn't matter anymore, fuck you, this isn't that kind of show anymore
My working theory is that after Season 3 was so badly recieved and that one being the biggest in terms of story and lore, they went back to the drawing board and decided they needed an out
So yeah, fuck you if you wanted a deep story out of Rick and Morty; it's just some asshole and his grandson doing silly sci-fi shenanigans
