This is, I think, the only time a real historical figure was used by the show he actually sticks around, appearing briefly in other episodes that touch on Mars, but this is one element I definitely imagine they regretted. One of the most awkward elements of the pilot is that Finn’s mind gets projected to Mars, where he meets Abraham Lincoln (who tells him to believe in himself). It’s interesting to see him without the character development he gets in later seasons. Jake and Rainicorn hit it off, and they will ultimately be married in the show of course!įinn’s characterisation is… well he’s a twelve year old kid lol. The kind of weird subtextual implied sexual violence of the Ice King kidnapping princesses to make them marry him is here - later on they try and tone that down as much as possible and the Ice King much more sympathetic as a character, but here he’s just a wacky villain. The character still bend and move in arcs but they’re less strict about 3D forms I guess?Īnyway a lot of the points of the future show are already here, or become established in this episode. The kind of ‘bendable tube’ animation style that would later become established is at this point only partly in effect. They follow her, and find the Ice King - already ‘always kidnapping princesses’ - has kidnapped PB! Then Rainicorn shows up: at this point, she belongs to Princess Bubblegum, apparently. Finn Pen is even more prone to dramatic exclamations - including, already, ‘Algebraic!’ - and I think he has a different voice actor. (In fact, in this episode, Lady Rainicorn does not yet speak Korean, but makes high pitched trills.)Īnyway, the plot is: in the first minute, Jake connects to the internet with his mind, and him and Finn do a silly dance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ‘internal logic’ has not really come into being at this point: it’s more a kind of 2000s-internet ‘lolrandom’ humour - I think what makes it work later on is that they stick to the joke and just kind of use those things, uncommented on, as the basis for future events sure, Lady Rainicorn speaks Korean, that’s just how it is. You can watch it here (not the best video quality admittedly, but the production values were much lower back then anyway). Well before we even meet Finn, let’s check out Pen, and the pilot episode that lays out the basic elements of the show. We’re going to be following the numbering scheme used by Wikipedia, where each episode number corresponds to one 11-minute segment. So one way of counting, Season 1 has 13 episodes another way, 26. For example, early on Adventure Time episodes aired in back to back pairs, which would get treated as one 22 minute episode. It’s worth noting that there are really rather a lot of episode numbering schemes here. At this point, Finn’s still very much a kid, there to have adventures. ![]() So we’re gonna be going a while.īut lets head back to the simpler times of season 1, when there was no question of ancient artefacts, the apocalyptic war was a background detail, and nobody knew who Simon was. Most recently it’s turned away from the most out there experimental episodes for long multi-episode ‘miniseries’ such as Stakes, Islands and Elements.Īnyway yeah like you probably know all that if you’re reading some girl on the internet review every adventure time episode.Īt time of posting, there are: a pilot, 278 main series episodes, a DVD-only short, four online episodes, five ‘frog seasons’ episodes, and as of a few days ago, a minecraft crossover episode with a different studio. In its later seasons, Adventure Time turned from wacky humour to favour of longer-term plots, character arcs and a suitably complicated internal mythology for people who like wikis and lore videos, as well as getting increasingly experimental in terms of animation. It’s inspired a ton of shows, of which Steven Universe is probably the most famous but also stuff like Bravest Warriors, Infinity Train, and Danger and Eggs, and you could also make a good case for shows like Gravity Falls and Over The Garden Wall having at least a similar target audience and sense of humour even if they stylistically diverged. Three years later, it became a cartoon - notable for its fast pace, unique art style and unusual idioms and a kind of odd internal logic underlying the wackiness.ĭrawing from old-school roleplaying games and post-apocalyptic fiction, Adventure Time probably started the recent comeback of cartoons with a huge secondary audience of ~nerdy~ university students. In 2007, a short pilot episode aired that could easily have been dismissed as some wacky nonsense (and probably was), but it caught the animation of us millenials or whoever.
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