Why is Rick's ship necessary? - Rick and Morty (2013) Discussion

[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

true, but they still need to fly in space sometimes, you don't need a car either if you have a grocery store around the corner but it's nice to get to places

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[–] jcdugger (261) 4 years ago

Why would u need to "fly in space sometimes"? Just take your portal gun and instantly transport yourself to wherever you want to go. Wherever you want to go, you can portal gun yourself there. No need for space travel, ever, so no need for a ship.

JD

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[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

yeah but we don't even have the technology like in the cartoon. If you're into science and stuff i'm sure it's a necessity wither it's convenient or not.

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[–] jcdugger (261) 4 years ago

Bro, you're not that bright. In the show, these technologies exist. And all I'm saying is -- one of the things is useless if you have the other. That is all.

If you invented a portal gun that could instantly take you anyplace, anytime...why would you ever need a car ever again, right??? Why would you ever drive to the store if you can instantly be transported there? You would never need the car again. Right? Same thing here...he would never need/use a ship if he had a portal gun.

JD

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[–] UncleRuckis (2548) 4 years ago

Maybe portal gun fluid is hard-ish to come by and if he's in a situation where it runs out, he'd be fucked, whereas he has a whole micro-verse full of slaves powering his car. Just a thought.

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[–] jcdugger (261) 4 years ago

Thx for a reply that at least used a little brainpower, unlike the last guy! :) But I really don't think that would be the case...he freely uses that gun without hesitation. I can't remember which episode it was but Rick and Morty were being chased and Rick made like a dozen transport holes right next to each other to fool who was chasing him. Plus, as his daughter said..."Rick doesn't need anything from anybody...if he needs something, he just makes it himself." Rick made himself a toilet on another planet. He turned himself into a pickle. He's the smartest man in the universe. I hardly see him needing some fluid.

Just a design flaw in the show I believe! My favorite comedy right now though, great stuff.

JD

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[–] crc32 (2584) 4 years ago

Agreed. If the show used the space ship for like say transporting cargo in with the help of with a portal gun (If the space ship uses a portal gun to jump betweeb points) then it would make sense but we haven't really seen the ship used like that. Instead we just see the ship being used as a narrative setting to brief the audience on what the current adventure is all about before the actual conflict is set up.

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[–] VodkaPopinski (125) 4 years ago

Ha, I've thought about this too. My guesses are:
- the portal gun doesn't have coordinates to everywhere so physical travel is still needed, especially to unknown places where he might portal right into something deadly;
- sometimes he needs the extra utility of the car (cloner in the trunk in case of death etc);
- or maybe he just likes driving sometimes for leisure. :)

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[–] twinA (4826) 4 years ago

You could say the same thing about the use of Starships throughout the Star Trek franchise when they could just use their teleportation devices to get from one place to another.

It's explained that the starships use much less energy than their transporter beams even though the former, for obvious reasons, take time.

Sometimes, using lower-tech may actually be more functional from a practical standpoint.

~~/o/

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[–] Burk48917 (10966) 4 years ago

The same reason some people still ride horses, it's fun.

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[–] crc32 (2584) 4 years ago

Some episodes seem to require them to operate in space via an enviornment bubble. IE fighting other alien ships but other then that why wast time going from point A to point B. I'm suprised we don't see them portal gunning and moving through the portal with the space ship,

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[–] SolarisPatchwork (210) 4 years ago

When they started writing the show they envisioned the spaceship as Rick's "thing." Note that the now-famous billboard in downtown LA featured the ship: https://i.imgur.com/kDI4EZ3.jpg

As the show progressed the show-runners started having more fun with the portal gun concept and that became Rick's "thing," but without any real in-universe explanation as to why it wasn't previously important. Consider, for example, the first episode of Season 3, that features a fake flashback that nonetheless implies Rick has had both teleportation and inter-dimensional teleportation for a long time. This backstory is a bit of a retcon of the importance of the spaceship in Season 1: there's no in-universe explanation as to why they wouldn't just always use the portal gun.

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