Rick and Morty Showrunner Explains How the Series Revisits Older Plots

By Nick Valdez

Rick and Morty Season 6 will be premiering on Adult Swim in just a few more days, and one of the minds behind the series has opened up about how the team chooses which of the older plot threads to revisit in the new episodes! In the last few seasons one thing that fans have realized is that there is now a greater attention paid to the more serialized elements that fans had enjoyed seeing sparsely in the first few seasons. This includes returning to some older ideas for new angles and stories, and thus is created a pretty unique place to be for the team producing the series.

Scott Marder, who joined the series as the showrunner during the fourth season, opened up about potentially revisiting older ideas and plot threads in an interview with Inverse leading to Season 6's release. As Marder explained about the writer's process in the approach to taking on these older elements, the team is making more of a concerted effort to imbue more connectivity between episodes with the sixth season and beyond. Even the team is excited to pick up and flesh out some of the previously dropped plots and ideas. 

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"There are always characters and pieces of previous episodes that writers are personally interested in," Marder began. "Sometimes those up on the board that we're looking to maybe hit on again. In general, after Season 5 — which I'm really proud of — we wanted to move forward and tweak the show so there's a little bit more interconnectivity where it's better able to look backward and forwards. We want the episodes to feel more self-aware, in a sense, rather than standalone the way they primarily did in Season 5." 

Elaborating further on this new direction for Season 6 and beyond, Marder explained that we'll see even more of these picked up ideas as the series continues to build towards and even bigger serialized story, "So that's why you're seeing us pick up some things that we may have put down previously. We're fans of the show as well, even though we get to work on it, but we're excited to pick up those really cool threads and nurture them and keep them moving towards the bigger story goals."

What older character or story are you hoping to see return in Rick and Morty Season 6? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!

via Inverse

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