Finn still has no luck with the ladies. He's getting shot down all the time now.
Finn: "Jeez, did I just get shown up by Cinnamon Bun?"
I'm wondering now if Finn x Flame Princess is going to happen.
I didn't catch the beginning of that episode but cinnamon bun was certainly not acting or talking like his usual self by the end of the show. I wouldn't be surprised if Finn has to come to FP's rescue later on.
Finn still has no luck with the ladies. He's getting shot down all the time now.
Finn: "Jeez, did I just get shown up by Cinnamon Bun?"
I'm wondering now if Finn x Flame Princess is going to happen.
I didn't catch the beginning of that episode but cinnamon bun was certainly not acting or talking like his usual self by the end of the show. I wouldn't be surprised if Finn has to come to FP's rescue later on.
Edited, Feb 12th 2014 8:58pm by Criminy
He's been acting oddly (not.. stupid?) ever since he joined Fire Princess.
Come to think of it, wasn't he recently being used as a vessel for one of Peppermint Butler's dark rituals? Back in the episode where Princess Bubble Gum is finding a suitor? Maybe something is up with that..
And I'm all for FP and Finn getting back together. I'd prefer that over him finding a new interest.
Cinnamon Bun got zapped with some fire in the last scene, and it finished his baking. Prior to that, he was "half-baked," explaining his developmental disability.
However, even prior to that zapping, he had been gradually gaining cognitive ability. I thought he actually advanced too fast in this episode, and didn't like it that much. Although, I did like the fact that even as a simpleton, he could realize that Princess Bubblegum was of questionable ethics.
I did kinda have a new thought about the overarching plot. PB has increasingly been a ***** or slightly amoral, but she does have pragmatic/practical reasons for the actions she takes. It would be a cool twist if it was revealed that part of the reason why she's shut Finn down romantically is because she knows there is a human female out there, and she wants Finn to procreate with her and perpetuate the human species. Just a random thought...
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I kind wish this show would just switch to a 30-minute format already. A lot of these episodes that aren't just a one-off whimsical episode could benefit from less rushed storytelling. And if they just want to do a short story, they can cut the 30-minute block in two and air two short episodes instead.
A note about "Betty": Even though we've seen many adult themes in Adventure Time already, it struck me that this episode had a character who was pleading for death, rather than live another eternity of tortured existence. Heavy stuff for a kids show. And Simon's request for euthenasia goes along with how his earlier backstory episodes were seemingly a metaphor for senility, and Marceline was tasked with letting go of her still-alive but no longer himself parental figure.
And if they just want to do a short story, they can cut the 30-minute block in two and air two short episodes instead.
They did with "Jake the Dog" and "Finn the Human". Those were probably my two favorite episodes. Along with "The Lich" leading up to it. And I think the episode before that was "I Remember You".. I really enjoyed the song that the Ice King sung using the notes he left Marceline during his lucid moments as Simon.
Even though we've seen many adult themes in Adventure Time already, it struck me that this episode had a character who was pleading for death, rather than live another eternity of tortured existence. Heavy stuff for a kids show.
Funny, over the Christmas break, I was sitting at my Grandmother's house and a few of my cousins, ranging from 5-7 years old or so were over, and Cartoon Network was on. Their mother came in and commented about them watching Adventure Time, I assumed she was making a comment about it being childish, her kids too old, etc because the episode on was the one with the kingdom of cats in boxes. I said "I'm 30, and I watch it." She explained that is what she meant, that it was more mature. She didn't stop her kids from watching it, but felt it was more for the teenage years.
PB doesn't believe in magic, and since Simon was able to cast a spell to enable time travel, she tries to show that time travel is scientifically possible. Ends up doing it Primer style, but it also kind of teleports people to some alternate dimension that can watch the world when used incorrectly.
Then a two-parter, but it's above Lemonhope. Not really interesting in terms of the world of Adventure Time.
I think there is only one episode left in this season. About the hero Billy. Hope it offers more to the world.
Finn finally lost his arm. And it was his dead beat dad's fault. His cursed grass sword turned his arm into a large thorny trunk as he tried to stop his Father from escaping, and was ripped off as the crystal ship escaped through a void portal.
Turns out that Finn's father is a dead beat and a thief, Prismo was the dream of a sleeping old man, now deceased, and the Lich, embodiment of Death, is undone by a healing salve from the blood of some Crystal Guardians. Treetrunks and Mr. Pig now have a baby Lich to take care of. And I'm pretty sure that the baby Lich is voiced by the kid that does Catbug.
Treetrunks and Mr. Pig now have a baby Lich to take care of.
Bet that's the reason he goes evil, then time travels. F'king time travel!
I was actually kind of thinking Lich would be Finn's dad. That would have been, well, a twist. Dunno about interesting. Steve Universe's dad is Finn's dad wasn't that interesting.
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Treetrunks and Mr. Pig now have a baby Lich to take care of.
Bet that's the reason he goes evil, then time travels. F'king time travel!
I was actually kind of thinking Lich would be Finn's dad. That would have been, well, a twist. Dunno about interesting. Steve Universe's dad is Finn's dad wasn't that interesting.
I did kind of expect as the guy Finn thought was his father was escaping, while the Lich was regenerating, that it would be a twist, and the guy would just be some random thief, and the Lich would regenerate into Finn's real father. But then Jake came around the corner carrying a baby horned thing.
I thought the Season 6 opener was amazing. Though I kinda wish I could have watched it without knowing that Finn was inevitably going to lose his arm, because it was easy to see it coming. (I learned about the ominous clues from reading the discussions on AV Club...I probably would have been oblivious to the clues otherwise).
I thought the Season 6 opener was amazing. Though I kinda wish I could have watched it without knowing that Finn was inevitably going to lose his arm, because it was easy to see it coming. (I learned about the ominous clues from reading the discussions on AV Club...I probably would have been oblivious to the clues otherwise).
It wasn't exactly a secret, or hidden. I can't see you being oblivious to them if you hadn't discussed them before.
They hinted back in like, the second season. And then around the middle of the fourth season they start up again. I think it becomes really obvious about the time of the "Puhoy" episode in the fifth season.
I'm impatient... I want overall story progression. This week's episode with the Jameses was funny (Banana Guards vs Jameses), but as far as story progression goes, the only thing I could see coming out of this is having the Jameses come back at a later time as more zombie creatures from the past are revived. And somehow bringing the one gooped up James that was absorbed into he other Jameses into play.
Finn still harbors some resentment for his father, even after this episode. His manifested arm didn't really disappear. When he approached Jake at the end of the episode, his shadow still showed both arms intact.
"We're taking this to the deep end." "But... I'm not a good swimmer."
I like Finn's vault moments. "How's it going guy? Is any of this helping? *petal falls off* I'm going to forget you did that... right in the vault."
That was great. I like that even though his arm grew back quickly, his mental health issues continue to realistically weigh on him - he still relies on supressing things in his vault.
Today's episode... didn't progress anything, but was definitely fun. Big-bird-Finn trying to convince little-bird-Jake that he really wanted to get eaten was funny. Then Finn tries to get it on with a caterpillar named Erin.
Goddamn it I missed it the first time, and was keeping an eye for the Other Coast replay and it's half over already. Guess I'll wait for the special release in an hour or two.
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Goddamn it I missed it the first time, and was keeping an eye for the Other Coast replay and it's half over already. Guess I'll wait for the special release in an hour or two.
Cartoon Network's new lineup has all the shows on Thursday afternoon starting at 6pm EST, all in a row. And then they replay them all in the same order on the same time slot on Sunday.
I'm not 100% sure why they moved all their shows to the same day in one big time chunk rather than spread out like they had before. Maybe they figured Thursday afternoon was relatively open on other networks?
Charter recently upgraded their cable lineup. Added a ton of HD channels, and made it so that if you tune into an SD channel on an HD box with HD TV, it automatically plays the HD channel. It's nice, but in doing so they renumbered most of the channels and moved them all around, I can't remember where half the **** is anymore, luckily the DVR remembered it all and automatically shifted channels.