The ENTIRE Story of Summer Smith in 103 Minutes - Video

Summer Smith across nine seasons: the day she was not invited, the kitchen conversation about her own conception, the Death Stalker world and the marriage that lasted two weeks, the arcade she cleared alone, and season eight, where she was handed a whole adult life.
The question people ask is whether she is the real heir to Rick. That question is set up wrong on both sides, and the show says so out loud in season one.

Nine parts. The first adventure, where she is refused, and what Rick says after she saves it. The turn she takes twice in the goggles, and what her brother tells her about her own grave. The one time her grandfather rules in her favour, which is her worst minute rather than her best. The young body, the head cult, and the two diagnoses she delivers accurately and is told she is overthinking. The C grades everyone repeats: the line exists, it is spoken once, in the second episode of the show, and never returns. Everything she has actually won. The case against her, built at full strength before it is answered. The arcade. And a phone charger in season eight.

Half of this argument stands on absences, checked by exhaustive search across all ninety-one episodes. The findings are real and one of them contradicts every reference work. An argument from an absence has a built-in weakness, and the last part is about naming it.

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Nobody in nine seasons has called Summer smart. By design, or an oversight? Tell me in the comments, I read all of them.

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
04:28 The Day She Was Not Invited
14:25 The Turn She Takes Twice
24:20 The Grandfather Rules for Her
34:53 The Young Body and the Diagnosis
51:57 The C Grades Everyone Repeats
1:16:33 Everything She Has Won
1:22:41 The Case Against Her
1:40:54 The Arcade
1:41:54 It Started With a Phone Charger

Sources:
— Kenneth Dodge, on hostile attribution bias and its early predictors
— Verhoef and colleagues, on sibling differential treatment
— Shanahan, on which sibling registers differential treatment
— Spencer Grammer, on fourteen years in the role