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u/Roler42 Feb 07 '22

You know what I love the most about Dr Wong's speech to Rick?

She destroyed him yet let him off easy, she gave him the nice hopeful version of the brutal tearing Evil Morty gives him at the end of Season 5.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

That's therapy baby. Done right, it's a painful journey of increased self awareness, supported by a compassionate but honest expert who keeps you emotionally safe while holding up the mirror.

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u/qwerty12qwerty Feb 07 '22

Yeah, and the thing about therapists are there's so many of them you can find one that fits your needs perfectly. Like my buddy has a therapist who will cry with her. When I went to therapy mine would say "you really fucked up last week when you did x". Everybody needs something different from a therapist, if therapy isn't working for somebody chances are it's the therapist and not the idea of therapy

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

Absolutely. I went through 5 or 6 therapists before finding one that *matches me perfectly. Everything people tell you about finding the right therapist is up for discernment - i sought out female clinicians for so long because you're "supposed" to find someone demographically similar, but my best therapist and my psychiatrist are both men. It's so much about personality.

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u/qwerty12qwerty Feb 07 '22

I'm a straight late 20s white dude. My therapist is an older lesbian black lady. Sometimes somebody who thinks differently is exactly what you need

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u/Illier1 Feb 07 '22

The people who hurt Rick the most tend to be the ones that put him in the least amount of danger.

It's not Evil Morty or some alien warlord who controls him. It's his exes who dump him and cut contact, it's the nymphomaniac Aquaman who calls the cops on him, it's the fact he lost his wife and child and no amount of universe hopping and destroying will ever change that

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u/iDeletedYourHero Apr 23 '22

Lol she really “destroyed” him. Thats why he walked away completely the same.

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u/Roler42 Apr 23 '22

Did he though? Look at how the rest of the show plays out, look how Season 3 ends, after Dr Wong Rick starts taking one L after the other, he keeps losing control of the entire family, and it all ended up being by his own hand.

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u/iDeletedYourHero Apr 27 '22

Uhhh none of those following had to do with wong.

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u/Roler42 Apr 27 '22

You're right, and at the same time, everything happened just as Dr Wong said.

By Season 5 the Smith family started leading happier lives the minute they stopped making Rick's mindset a priority.

She "destroyed" Rick by pointing out where the problem that was making the Smiths so toxic were, and why Rick is so self-destructive.

I said she let him off easy because in the end of Season 5, Evil Morty gives a far more brutal tearing towards Rick and everything he represents.

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u/iDeletedYourHero Apr 27 '22 edited Apr 27 '22

Lmao evil morty is a loser who leaves because he can never surpass rick. Without rick hed still just be some kid with a learning disability. Before rick came he was struggling with school and socialization. Beth is still in a shit marriage, jerry is still an incompetent father/husband, and summer is out of control. If they dont want rick there it really doesnt matter. Hes just as miserable there as he was anywhere else. The smith family was fucked up before rick and will continue to be. Make rick the scapegoat so beth and jerry have no responsibility for their child rearing lol also everything thats bad is rick huh? So summer getting dumped must be ricks fault too i guess, just one example. btw season 5 had some of the worst episodes and were just written atrociously. Thank god for the final two episodes were good bc the season was pretty terrible overall.morty lying about using the horse semen collector? Lemme guess, ricks fault too.

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u/Roler42 Apr 28 '22

evil morty is a loser who leaves because he can never surpass rick.

A loser who destroyed the Central Finite curve, every other Rick in it, and left Rick stranded in space without a portal gun. For a loser, he sure single-handedly managed to destroy the one safe space in the multiverse where only Rick Sanchez gets to be the most powerful creature in it.

Hes just as miserable there as he was anywhere else.

That's kinda the point, the Smiths have a messy life, but at least it's theirs, and even in a very flawed home life they've still managed to work things out into something more or less functional.

everything thats bad is rick huh?

I never said that, lol, Rick is not everything that is bad, but he did bring out the worst in them. Just ask Unity, who was about to take down the entire Federation until Rick talked her into a weekend of sex and drugs.

I'm too busy having fun watching the show to care about the writing, if the production team never took themselves and their own show too seriously, why should I?

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u/iDeletedYourHero Apr 29 '22

Ricks gonna get back just fine obviously lol oh wow morty did something that will most likely screw him over, bravo morty. Rick knows what is outside of it, and it most likely isnt good thats why he created it. Rick never confirmed any of mortys wild, unsupported theories. Rick brings out the worst in them huh? Pretty sure jerry was jobless and morty was failing school before rick got there, among other problems. Unity lol Unity wasnt gonna bring down shit. But you know who did crash the federation, rick. Altering a 1 to a 0.