now we have a thread about ADVENTURE TIME! mathematical!

Sad to say it but this has mostly sucked since finn's dad showed up

Hall of egress would be the last one i can think of that really shined, that was like a borges short story

not a fan of the minis? i like them, feels like they're really wrapping up the show with these little sagas

i couldn't even get through the "elements" one. marceline's was okay.

We sat down to watch Islands, thinking it'd be good knockabout fun like Stakes, and were knocked sideways by how heavy it was.

Also I said at one point "I've no idea who they've got to do Minerva's voice, but it sounds a lot like Sharon Horgan.."

Also the numbering is kind of off, because this is parts 3-10 of a bigger story with Preboot/Reboot - my girl hadn't seen those and there was a bit of babbling to fill her in, which probably sounded like a kid making up a story - which tbh is one of the best bits of Adventure Time.

i know i'm a broken record here, but the new batch weren't much good... with the exception of the PB mythos ep which provided some helpful background on her character. very much ready for this to be let go.

I'm confused about how many eps/seasons are left to go.

Two more episodes.

The end draws near:

#TheUltimateAdventure awaits. pic.twitter.com/ro6H2mWJ8n

— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) March 19, 2018

i still have like 20 episodes to catch up on this show

Plot ideas: Finn and Hunter Princess "hook up" but their differences lead Hunter Princess to ask Jake and BMO how to be more civilized. Among other things they teach her how to dance.

The recent New Yorker cartoon caption competition episode was A+ imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJ8YYl7q-A
Nobody does it quite like Roilland.
Also, "Over the Garden Wall" is on Netflix and you should watch it right now.

I'm looking forward for the minecraft episode

The end is near. Enjoy an oral history.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-adventure-time-oral-history-20180823-htmlstory.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLdWXLXDeA

still have much love for this show but it's sooooo clear when the universe went off the rails in that video. but i stuck with it to the end.
I want Peter C. to watch it and cry at the amount of lore

I thought it brought off the ending quite well, but my problem is that out of the final season I've literally only seen the ending.

same, but tbh if I had a kid I would def gladly sit through the entire run despite the quality dropoff in the last couple seasons

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?

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

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.

Hmm yeah I think I'll pick up from the beginning of S5 again, I LOVED the trilogy that kicked it off

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.

all of it is on hulu i believe.

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.

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

awwwww DiMaggio <3

aw man, damn

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

the first special was really good I thought! nice blend of cuteness and comedy, good lil cameos, and a lovely ending.

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.

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!

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

— adam muto (@MrMuto) February 5, 2021

:(

oh man that actually hits hard. her voice meant a lot to me.