Season six of "Rick and Morty" concludes with an episode that is perhaps the most balanced on of the whole run. It's funny, it has a reasonably clever sci-fi plot, gives us a little more of the backstory we've been missing and resolves a theory I've seen online.
It's Christmas, and amongst the thoughtful gifts that Rick (Justin Roiland) has bestowed on the family is a true working Light Sabre for Morty (Justin Roiland). Unfortunately, Morty drops his weapon at an exact vertical angle, and it cuts through several levels of Rick's underground lab before starting to burn through the Earth towards the Core. The President (Keith David) arrives and offers Rick the chance to help save the world but he, and Morty, are engaged in an argument as, searching through the lab has revealed a truth.
The truth revealed, that the Rick we've seen recently has been a robot, programmed to be nicer than the real Rick, but also to allow him to focus on hunting Rick Prime, is a theory I had seen bandied around on the internet. I do wonder though if we've seen these episodes a little out of the initial intended order as, though he says he switched early in the Knights of the Sun episode, we had seen a nicer Rick in a few of the earlier ones. The episode also teases that season seven may focus on Rick's hunt for his wife's killer but delivering on a tease wouldn't exactly be on brand.
The President appearing again feels like "Rick and Morty" playing their trump card, as Keith David's delivery is uniformly brilliant and his commitment to the Star Wars analysis scenes were great. It helps that they were well written too just the sort of rant you'd read on an internet forum, or in an IMDB review.
The season overall was more consistent that the last run and had no particularly bad episodes, but that came at the expense of no really top-notch ones either.
