I watched this show pretty religiously until midway through Season 5. It never really dropped off for me, just a slow kind of lulling? Is it worth finishing?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
it's definitely worth finishing. it's just that the lore gets SO crazy and sprawled out that it's impossible to remember everything covered in this video
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
Seasons 5 and 6 have many of my favorite episodes, and 7 has "The Hall of Egress" which might be my single favorite. After that you could probably skip to the last 6/7 episodes and get enough of what's happening to enjoy it. But yeah at that point you might as well watch it all.
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Hmm yeah I think I'll pick up from the beginning of S5 again, I LOVED the trilogy that kicked it off
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Watching that video made me respect all over again the series' sense of scale and zen approach to cataclysm - constant cycles of rise, ruin and renewal in different forms. Actually much more grounded than most series of any kind.
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
all of it is on hulu i believe.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
I've been going back and rewatching select eps including some I missed, partially inspired by this list
https://ew.com/tv/adventure-time-30-best-episodes/
...which is still missing a ton of my favorite episodes. I hadn't seen "The Other Tarts" and I almost died of laughter at the conclusion
Anyway for all the flailing about in later seasons it really is amazing how many killer eps there are, and all the format-busting and alternate timelines really help with that. I might end up springing for the DVD set, which is really pretty reasonably priced considering it's 22 (!) discs.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
I got Jen the Blu-Ray of the second half for Christmas - six discs for five seasons. We started with filling in gaps in what we saw for season 6 (we'd seen them in the more-or-less random order that Cartoon Central broadcast them) but we've been going through the rest in order, even the ones we saw before - we finished it all yesterday, by coincidence.
We'd actually seen the final episode but none of the rest of the last season (because CC thought that was a good idea?). Which is to say that I don't really think the back half has that much flailing? All three of the multi-episode stories are there, for a start.
The episode ranking notably has as its top two episodes with Rebecca Sugar songs at the center - I thought her playing the non-spoily song from the finale at Comicon is lovely, particularly the extent to which John DiMaggio can't keep it together.
https://youtu.be/Xr53S9vIbCE
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 March 2020 08:04 (four years ago) link
awwwww DiMaggio <3
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
aw man, damn
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
New Special on June 25 on HBO Max
HBO Max be releasing Show dates pic.twitter.com/uvEdav3S2B— Scitoons | May 15th (@SciToons22__) May 13, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
the first special was really good I thought! nice blend of cuteness and comedy, good lil cameos, and a lovely ending.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
I've been watching through the entire series from the start. Considering that season six was the point I dropped off (at least watching it regularly) the first time, I'm a bit surprised at how much I've enjoyed it now. There's a lot of experimentation and expansion of Ooo lore, though it does drift off a bit too much from the show's core; there isn't very much, you know, adventure time with Finn and Jake (they even joke about it on one episode). I don't think I even understood the ending/resolution to at least three or four specific episodes. S7/8 have struck a better balance overall.
My most recent episode was the one where Tree Trunks is revealed to have alien hybrid offspring. I wonder if that painter who believes he lost his virginity to aliens was the inspiration for that one.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that Adventure Time: Distant Lands is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
RIP Tree Trunks :(
Polly Lou Livingston, The voice of Tree Trunks on Adventure Time, passed away recently. She had a wonderful and unmistakeable voice and was always a joy to have in recording sessions. Polly Lou really liked playing TT and she'll be sorely missed. pic.twitter.com/0rUql0gKFP
― Duane Barry, Friday, 5 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
:(
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
oh man that actually hits hard. her voice meant a lot to me.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link