[QUOTE=LtKyle2;51028144]Hold up this show is still going? I remember discussing it during high school four years ago and around that time season 3/4 were about to air.
I never watched much past the first season, has it really become that stale?[/QUOTE]
It took a turn for the worse after season 3 IMO.
It started taking itself way too seriously. It took on this weird shift from a silly, innocent show about two best friends into something about a whole lot of other "mature" things and a bunch of complex plot points for no apparent reason.
I've never been so disappointed with show like Adventure Time. When they have so much potential in their story arcs, they were just like "Fuck It" and drop it too early or whenever they feel it. No progress, just things that happen. And even that gets really [B]really[/B] boring. Why would I invest in your show if you don't give us some satisfying resolutions? Or at least have permanent risks, change something for longer and not play safe.
The true winner of the vid for me was the ending. It's perfect.
I enjoy Adventure Time and still do. Season 7 is fucking awesome, and is way less philosophical and heavy than the last one. I can't say I remembered the last time that "lol random" humor or overly gross scenes were used though. Like, 3-4 seasons ago?
That being said I can get what the OP video is saying; the lack of resolve in story arcs is frustrating, and the show's been eclipsed by others in recent years.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;51028403]I know this guy already got banned for obvious trolling and shitposting, but can someone explain to me what this means? I watch my share of anime and I'm 1000% sure they have seasons too.[/QUOTE]
probably just some nonsense. everything has seasons.
[QUOTE=abcpea;51027451]It is weird to me that people even discuss the seasons of a kids show[/QUOTE]
Do you know who makes shows, kid friendly or not? Adults. So is it really that weird that other adults discuss it?
Yeah, I used to be a huge fan of Adventure Time. I stopped when Season 4 ended, because the episodes in Season 5 felt like useless filler with no real ending or conclusion to them, along with those stupid "lovey dovey" bullshit episodes. I watched a couple episodes of Season 6 to see if it was still boring filler, and yeah, it still was. I'm not gonna bother with Season 7.
It's a real shame, Adventure Time was my favorite cartoon. I wish it still was, but just like every good cartoon they can only last for so long.
I really wish Ward still worked on Adventure Time. I miss the mood he brought to the show in Season 1. Just a very relaxed, chill mood. It's just gone on for too long. I think my main concern is that it started out really relaxed and carefree, much like childhood, then developed into this deeper thing, which represents puberty and the changes most go through. And it would've been great if that had some closure, but they couldn't just leave it there, and Finn's emotional baggage got too heavy as he bounces around people with no closure. then they just kinda stopped, but started piling on more and more emotional subplots and it got to this point where it just felt like too much. I remember an interview he did awhile back where he said that it was meant to be a pleasant show, but I really don't feel that anymore. And that's a shame, a nice relaxed show with the occasional wackiness is something a lot of kids need, but instead it's more the opposite, and usually those relaxed moments just fall flat on their face.
The cold endings are a good example of this. Where it was once a staple for the show to give an abrupt close (but still feeling like you had some closure), there became too many questions to be answered and they simply don't have the time to do it.
[QUOTE=LSK;51028234]It took a turn for the worse after season 3 IMO.
It started taking itself way too seriously. It took on this weird shift from a silly, innocent show about two best friends into something about a whole lot of other "mature" things and a bunch of complex plot points for no apparent reason.[/QUOTE]
really? i have like the completely opposite opinion. i thought the first few seasons were just outright terrible, but that it started getting better and better later on
season 5 iirc was a bit of a weak one but other than that it has been really enjoyable. i'm digging the more philosophical and dark themes
I feel the show would appeal to people more if they had one episode per block instead of two it would allow more freedom to make overarching plot lines instead of rushing out mini plot lines because of run time.
I loved how Adventure Time started out; a happy-go-lucky, pretty much literally "Adventure of the day" style show with bizarre and morbid things constantly licking at the edges, but never [I]quiiite[/I] reaching center stage. Yeah, if you were paying attention you could notice modern looking ruins (sometimes actually littered with skeletons) in scenes and similar hints that the world mutated into this 'fantasy' land, but that was as far as it went. No one actually mentioned, say, a war named after mushroom clouds or anything like that.
Like, the episode I most remember vividly was Finn and Jake staying in their house because of a knife-storm outside. As in, knives falling down from the sky in torrents. That was funny, but also kind of disturbing since that was apparently normal weather. Then they made up imaginary friends to play with, then the friends got out of hand and they were actually fighting invisible imaginary people. A scene during that was one which sold me on the series; Jake screaming to Finn "Quick, snap his neck!" and Finn flying through the air miming twisting something as a crackle noise rang out. [I]That[/I] was something which really got me. A dark but lighthearted joke which worked specifically not because of what was there, but what [I]wasn't[/I] there.
If they stuck to just that, I would have watched it forever. But they just had to 'fill the gaps in' so to speak; tell me about the war, have flashbacks to Marceline as a child and the Ice King before he was the Ice King, just pull that veil away completely and answer all the questions I never really was asking. I finally tapped out when they started up melodramatic love triangles, knowing at that point that the careful balance of whimsy and disturbing implications which drew me in had unbalanced itself past the point of repair. I just wanted fun little standalone adventures where the last line said is something like "Alright, let's go eat Cinnamon Bun". Save your heavy handed shipping bait and philosophical pondering for some other series.
It hurts but I gotta agree with this video
TBH I used to like the show when it didn't try to make a huge story for itself in the later seasons (Some episodes in the later seasons were good though). Unlike Rebecca Sugar (Who planned out her story for Steven Universe) the writers who started making this huge story in the later seasons for me felt like they just made stuff up on a whim instead of actually planning stuff out for their stories.
I was a big fan of Adventure Time because it had some cool messages for boys an' shit.
Then they turned Finn into the punching bag and I just gave up.
[editline]10th September 2016[/editline]
Also what made the original episodes so charming is they were basically planned and old stories from DnD and Pathfinder sessions.
the first season was the best one tbh
[QUOTE=Eric95;51031325]the first season was the best one tbh[/QUOTE]
It really was.
I stopped watching when I realized they stopped going on adventures.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;51028403]I know this guy already got banned for obvious trolling and shitposting, but can someone explain to me what this means? I watch my share of anime and I'm 1000% sure they have seasons too.[/QUOTE]
My guess would be he's referencing the trend in anime to make a "([I]anime name here[/I]) 2" instead of a second season, but that's really just semantics.
Fucking saltspolsion in the youtube comments. I noticed quite a few people complaining about how he was harsher on this show than Steven Universe. Are CN fandoms known for hating eachother or are they just throwing eachother under the bus?
Steven universe fandom is the bus, and Jello legit hates this show, so he was actually harsher on it than SU.
Neither instance should dissuade anyone from making up their own mind what to watch.
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