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Before everyone hates on me for this opinion let me explain. Rick and Morty have seen a ton of character development over the years and while Rick has maintained his hilarious sarcastic personality it seems like Morty has become even whinier and more annoying. On the contrary it's Summer who has taken the best parts of Rick and used it to become a hilarious and enjoyable character. Her storyline in this episode is proof of her growth as more than just Morty's sister that occasionally joined in on an adventure. She is consistently having fun whacky adventures of her own and she easily has the most "Rick" in her compared to Beth and Morty. Gotta say she is having a better character arc than most of the others in this show. I loved the Die Hard concept being lived out by someone who has never "seen a Die Hard" but simply kept shouting out "Die Hard" while going badass on all the alien terrorists in the arcade. Call it controversial but I think she has become the best part of this show.

This is a very fascinating episode, as it features Morty being divided into 5 billion people in a video game and Rick has to get them/him out. Meanwhile, Summer is told to pull a "Die Hard" without having seen it. Yeah, the description was not misleading. They seriously say "Die Hard" that many times. I was afraid the plot would mostly be about Summer. I'm glad it was really mostly about Rick and Morty.

I do in fact love "Die Hard" and consider it one of my favorite action movies. Maybe it would have worked better if the plot was more about Summer? I still thought this episode was amazing, with tons of jokes constantly coming at you. I was wondering why everyone sounded like Morty in the beginning. I mean, Justin Roiland doesn't really have that many distinct voices anyway. It's still an original concept that gives us the laughs and creativity. ****

This ep is a 10. Firstly, we enter a world where Morty's mind is fractured into 5 billion pieces, and so we get 5 billion slight variations leaning into the character make-up that is Morty. Of course, ruled by 1 central figure, Rick. Morty having to convince himself life is better with Rick, despite the lack of emotional reward, to which an aged Rick finally succumbs. Even Morty as president and having the highest regard for himself, and then having an internal 'holy war' to battle this meta feeling within Morty...wow.

The plot line and story structure is genius, brilliant dialogue, the characters are comical and endearing, the relationship dynamic is something you hope for, ridiculous religious and die hard references are mockingly intertwined.

What's not to love about this clever and warm episode.

It was fine. Morty being split into 8 billion pieces inside the video-game Roy and Rick having to bring all of those people together into one location in order to combine them was hilarious. But the jokes fall flat and so does the pacing. They have 2 running gags throughout this episode: Summer and the alien saying "do a die hard," and Morty or Rick saying "it's not a religion," at least once every minute. These 2 jokes get very repetitive very fast to the point where it feels like a Family Guy bit. It truly does just boil down to Summer battling aliens and all of them trying to match it to the events of the movie. Rick and Morty get similar treatment, when Rick is trying to convince the Mortys' to combine themselves back into the 1 true Morty, but they all assume it's a new religion. Overall, episode is fine, interesting concept, but the jokes may annoy you like it did me.

Give me a sitcoms from any galaxy that has a Die Hard and inception parody, but sewn together as one, I'll wait. Had a glimpse of a parallel universe entire served by "Mortys unimind" but rather reflecting back on a previous canonical element, gave me shivers. For me, the half backed, non-conventional, cliffhangeresque pre credit ending was cherry on top. Marta definitely left room for a sequal, which would be Roy's third installment (hopefully we might witness Jerry with Mortys signature attire).

Waiting eagerly for Prime Rick v the OG one.

Nothing to brag but, I am a non American seventeen and yep right around the Christmas week did finish all the die hard installments (makes me insecure if I don't get a pop culture joke, for anyone wondering why would anyone watch the 5th Die Hard as well).

This was an improvement on the first episode of the present season, and for the first time in awhile there were a couple of laugh-out-loud scenes (particularly the Jewish dad bit), but once again the Summer side-plot was very weak, and the whole 'Die Hard' premise/"homage"/ whatever was tired, misjudged and overdone. The references to other films no longer feel at all done out of love for those films, but rather convey the strong impression that a list is being ticked off of classic sci-fi/action movies that workers have been instructed to work their way through.

What was nice about the episode was its imaginative premise, of a videogame constructed from the fragmented mind of Morty, but, except for a couple of decent jokes, almost nothing of substance was done with it and it ended up feeling a very poor imitation of The Ricklantis Mix-Up.

It's hard to precisely know where to lay the blame for the dramatic drop in quality the past couple of seasons, except that it must obviously lay somewhere in the writing. I've not checked, but have heard other people online say most of the original staff writers are no longer with the show, and that new writers who aren't funny, aren't anywhere near clever enough, don't like the characters, or get what made the show work so perfectly before, have been drafted in instead.

Rick now seldom feels like Rick, and Morty seldom seems like Morty, and the whole thing feels made by committee, with clumsy plotting, chaotic pacing, and lots and lots of loose ends that don't add up to anything. Whereas in the old episodes, each story was full of loving detail that was self-contained and complete, and one could dwell upon the fictional worlds and lives they presented, and imagine all sorts of other developments taking place offscreen. There's none of that here, just a bunch of half-thought-out pop culture references, awkwardly and joylessly clashing together.

Like I say, this one really wasn't all that bad, and still better than most cartoon shows out there, but the magic is still gone and I now don't believe it's coming back.

I really like it, it was funny, the idea was good.

I didn't liked that ut was kinda slow, but it was just like a s2 episode, which is great.

I hope that this season is going to be great, let R&M be great again!!

But, I didn't got the "Die hard" part, I didn't watched the movies tho.

Now, Morty will trust Rick more?

Their relationship will be stronger now.

Buut, maybe not, the last part where Rick puts a battery for Marta to save her it was very nice, but I think that if she dies, the game will restart and Morty will be like he was before.

The start got me confused tho, I didn't liked the episode from the first time I watched it, but the second time got me, I really like this episode and I hope for many more episodes like this!

Overall, Good episode!

The Rick and Morty story was good and very unique, it gave me season 2 vibes, but it doesn't make sense the part where president Morty said that he want to stay there because Rick doesn't care. Even though at the end of season 5 he obviously started caring and Morty wanted him back even if he didn't. So for me it's 9/10 and could be even 10/10 if there was more time to develop the plot but they had to put the "summer die hard" plot that looks more like a parody of "Rick and Morty die hard parody" than a real episode. They said die hard at list 50 time in 10 minutes and it seems rushed and boring.

With episode 2, I feel pretty confident that this season might be a return to form after the lackluster, very weird season 5.

In "Rick: A Mort Well Lived", we get what made this show great: a silly parody of a pop culture classic in "Die Hard", a sophisticated high-concept in simulation theory where we get to see everything from cults, radical religion, and the resulting existential turmoil. The Die Hard stuff was pretty standard humor we've come to expect by now, so either you're with it or against it. I think it's a nice way to show how beloved that franchise is for some people, hence the overreliance on mentioning "Die Hard" in every other sentence.

However, the main part of this episode was the video game "Roy" storyline. That leans more towards the relationship between Rick and Morty here, where we see Morty's different fragments of himself as fully fledged people capable of voicing how they feel which I thought was an ingenious way of showing how complex a person's personality can be; Some of him is stupid and silly, some a pacifist, some compassionate, and some rebellious. The takeaway from all this being that in a way, within all of us, a tiniest fragment of the world exists of every kind of person.

In the ending, we see some Morty's choose to stay in the video game because it's better than the "hell" outside where all the 5 billion parts of him will be condensed into one single being. It's disheartening to see the primary disciple, Marta, aligning with Rick because she trusted him and then falling apart upon realizing he still struggles to say "I love you", which hilariously causes a holy war by all the Morty's. It's moments like this which are funny yet painfully accurate - because sometimes we do see holy wars over slights like this. In the end, we get to see Marta forgive him yet again but stay in the video game where she will presumably live the rest of her days as Rick made sure of. So, Rick does come out with a greater appreciation for Morty, but is the Morty that came out lacking from the Morty from before? How will this impact future adventures? Is the 8% that stayed behind/died significant? Only time will tell, but this one's a classic!