The opening of episode 6 was a bit confusing, and I even wondered if the order of interdimensional TV was ahead of schedule.
It takes two more readings to understand that the story train is a fable-like existence, and what makes sense in the story train is the "story". Outside the train is a story that breaks through the meta-narrative, and has a completely different story background from the story that happened inside the story train. The two are in an either-or relationship (the story that happens outside the train will make people doubt themselves" existence"). There are various characters on the story train, and they are the clues that lead to different stories. The ad in the easter egg introduced in a very teasing tone that these characters have no self-will, but is that really the case? The story king absorbs the stories of rick and morty, hoping to reach the end of the train to break through the "fifth wall", but the train just keeps looping on the circular track as morty in the living room sets it up. If the "fourth wall" is the "invisible hidden wall" that exists between the performer and the viewer. Then the "fifth wall" may be understood as a hidden wall in the "presence" performance of the viewer.
Putting the concept of a "fifth wall" in the cognition of such a planned character is as ironic and tragic as the Matrix lets Zion build up again and again. When rick ripped off those untouchable buttons on the train console, all the previous efforts of the story king were like grinding bricks for mirrors and snow for food.
Like a prototype, "circle" appears in many literary and artistic works of fatalism. Unlike other geometric shapes, every point on "circle" is both a starting point and an end point. The text of the heptapod in "Arrival" is a circular symbol. In "Invasion", the prisoner Jingbo Qixing also has a similar train running on a circular track in his subconscious. In this endless dream, Over and over, she recalled the guilt of witnessing her mother's death. The poet Cindy's "Voyage" contains this passage:
from day to night
from night to day
We can't sail this circle
the next circle
previous circle
an eternity
And the endless circle
the vastness of life
Take off and the vast smoke and water
Originally, I felt abrupt when I saw that rick started to satirize capital at the end, but then I thought about it, who created such a train? No doubt a rick from some other world line, what was such a train created for? To spice up rick's boring adventures.
Story Train is nothing more than an entertainment industry product. Those "characters" (such as ticket inspectors) in the train who are thinking hard about the authenticity of their existence are just pawns for capital to promote rick or morty consumption.
Perhaps the same is true for us. Before being manipulated by the so-called fate, we have already become the puppets of capital.
Anyway, since this world might just be a nightmare for some bloody man, it's better to live at ease.
A little humble opinion, feel free to write, welcome to exchange.
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