So the Rick and Morty season finale aired last Sunday and I'm beyond confused.
Season three finally led Beth and Jerry to get a divorce, and thank god. Jerry is such a whiny child and isn't capable of any healthy emotion, but we'll get back to that.
It also teased the Szechuan Sauce from McDonald's and got the creators to get actual sauce from McDonald's.
During episode nine, Rick mentioned that Beth should leave and "travel the cosmos" with little to no consequence because he can make her an exact copy of herself that her family would never know was different.
The last line "Beth" gets in the episode is "Okay. I know what I want to do." AND THAT'S ALL WE F***ING KNOW.
I put Beth's name in quotations because the Beth we know could be gone. The first hint to this is when Summer and Morty come back home after their adventure and Beth asks, "How was Jerry's?"
Now, Beth and Jerry loathe each other, but they would never let that affect the kids, at least intentionally (because let's be honest, if you watch the show you know Summer and Morty have millions of dollars worth of therapy to do once Rick and their parents die).
In the season finale, Beth has her own separate story after calling Rick where she tries to find out if she's actually the clone. He denies it to no avail because he wouldn't tell her if she was actually the clone or it would become self-aware and things would get messy.
Still with me? Probably not, I don't even know what's true.
So Beth goes to JERRY—of all people!—to help her figure out if she's a clone or not. This is the biggest piece of evidence that Beth is really the clone.
As much as Rick will deny it, he has a soft spot for family. This could have caused him to set the clone with a few less bad memories about her family and Jerry so she could live happy, something that he will never get to achieve again.
Jerry brings back the memory of their first kiss and ends up thinking she's the real Beth. Beth remembers "hating that memory" but has a different feeling now, bringing back my previous point about changing some of Beth's feelings and memories.
They decide to get back together and not get a divorce and bring the kids into hiding from Rick. Rick, being Rick, finds them and brings a gun to kill someone. Beth steps up and tells him that she knows she's the clone and that she's better than the real Beth because she stayed and everything is fine so he needs to leave.
Rick tells Beth she's real (again, not like he would tell her if she wasn't) and adds the gun was for Jerry. Honestly the Rick and Jerry storyline could be a novel or a thesis in itself.
The episode, and season, ends with Summer making a clone joke with the family laughing as the camera zooms in on Rick's face.
I promise watching it more than once won't make it any more clear. I had to have used the words Rick and Beth at least 30 times in less than 600 words. Oh well, until next time.
