Spoilers for Field of Dreams (from the Chris Parnell interview) under the cut
I guess I should’ve expected it but I’m sad that (presumably) the Jerry we see in the teaser image is going to turn out to be shitty to Morty. My poor son can never get a break.
I wonder how different the timeline itself will be? Will this be a timeline where Jerry prevented Rick from harming Morty (and maybe Summer) but ended up becoming the abuser himself? Maybe it’s a timeline where he became more and more controlling until Beth left him/took the kids much sooner? Maybe even a timeline where he never had kids at all?
I think it’ll be interesting if they explore the parallels between Rick and Jerry as well if we’re going to get a more controlling Jerry, especially since this episode is meant to really explore the toxicity of Rick and Morty’s dynamic (so it could show us kind of the initial development of their relationship through the alternative Jerry pretending to be nice at first). I wonder if the finale might do the same kind of thing they did in Hot Rick where Morty starts out the episode wanting a different version of his family but then ends up appreciating the version of his family he does have? Idk, there’s lots of possibilities.