i feel like bc of the other stuff in the episode people forgot about how good the r&m stuff in get schwifty is. the way rick lies to morty about the portal gun not being able to go back to get the rest of the family because he literally only wants morty to be there with him. he’s the only one he actually wants to be around. and when this backfires on rick after morty finds out and he runs away with the portal gun in a blind rage and rick can’t get him back he’s INSTANTLY so much more visibly nervous and uncomfortable around people and in general when morty isn’t around. he can barely focus and he doesn’t know to deal with anything without morty. the kid was his first beacon of hope and happiness in his life since he was 20-something years old so
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I think what really gets me about Maul post-TPM is that he’s the only Star Wars character with true agency. Because of the way the films were made, every character in the prequels is already predestined for a role—Obi-Wan must go to Tatooine, Anakin must become Vader, every person they care about must be lost to them, and every villain but Sidious must die. Maul isn’t constrained by the narrative because he’s already played his part. He killed Qui-Gon; his job is done. He was never meant to be anything more than a one-off villain, so when he’s brought back, he’s without a destiny in the way that so many other characters are not. He has nowhere he needs to end up, no one he needs to be. He alone has the power to escape from the narrative—but he doesn’t. He buys into the narrative, buys into the conflict between light and dark, buys into the idea that he has to participate in it. Maul dies to Obi-Wan on Tatooine because he makes the mistake of going back, of trying to put himself in a narrative that has no place for him anymore.
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