Rick: And Morty S01e06 Libvpx

Your heart would sink.

Rick would approve. He doesn’t care about authenticity. He cares about functionality. The replacement Summer pours cereal just as well as the original Summer. The replacement Jerry is just as useless. The replacement MP4 plays on your iPhone just as well as the original MKV. rick and morty s01e06 libvpx

So why does it matter for a 2014 episode of adult swim? Your heart would sink

The libvpx problem mirrored this. The solution to a broken video file wasn’t to fix the codec; it was to abandon the libvpx source and find a better copy—an x264 encode from a different release group, or a re-encode from the Blu-ray. He cares about functionality

The emotional gut-punch is the final scene: Morty, silent, watching Summer and Jerry (the replacements) bicker at dinner. He knows these aren’t his real parents. His real parents are monsters. He will never go home again.

Because nostalgia for the early 2010s piracy scene is now a subculture. And within that subculture, "Rick Potion #9" is a shibboleth.

The episode’s final six minutes are a masterclass in nihilistic problem-solving. Rick doesn’t save the world. He finds a dimension where the Rick and Morty there did save the world, but then died in a subsequent lab accident. He and Morty bury their own corpses in the backyard and slide into their lives.