r/adventuretime

Disclaimer: No spoilers for s9 and beyond in the comments please!!!

Hey y'all, I started re watching adventure time (starting at s6) around a week-week and a half ago, and oh my god. I wish I kept up with this show.

I remember seeing the very first episode when it released, and falling in love with it. Adventure Time was my favorite carton network show, and definitely my favorite show at the time. How wacky it was, how serious it could be, the great characters and characterization it had. I remember wishing every night for an adventure time themed lego set, or staying up late to watch minecraft adventure time videos. When the first 2 seasons of AdvT came onto netflix, I binged them as a kid. Over, and over, and over, wishing for more haha. As a kid, (and especially as an adult now) I always wanted to live in Ooo. It was the perfect fantasy world in my eyes. I stopped watching around the time my mother died, which was around when s6 was airing. Unfortunately, I never came back to it, dealing with grief and all can make you forget a lot. Years went by and every now and then I heard the show was really good. I thought it was nice people enjoyed it, but I didn't have much interest since I always remembered it as a kids show.

2 weeks ago I listened to "I'm not your problem" after exploring some of my old playlists. I got flashbacks from the time that episode came out. It was (and might still be, tho I have to rewatch the first 5 seasons) my favorite episode growing up, and I had forgotten how much that show meant to me. I had watched the first 5 seasons enough to get a jist of what was happening, so I decided to start on the last thing I remembered: Sky Billy telling Finn his Dad was alive.

Today I'm going to start season 9 when I get home, but I couldn't wait anymore just to share my love for this show. It definitively is my favorite of all time, bar none. Episode after episode always has something important to the plot, with a lot of the actions having bigger consequences down the line. Betty coming back, and later becoming magic (wo)man and messing with ice king's crown was awesome to see unfold. I love that they give time to plot points, and how they develop so many more of their characters. Even Lemongrab had a character arc??? As a kid I remember yelling at the screen for Finn to defeat him thinking Lemongrab was so evil, but now he's so much more complex. My only issue is the existence of lumpy space princess. I've ALWAYS disliked her.

Discovering more about Ooo, the humans, and the backstories of so many more characters has been making this show everything to me. There's so much love and care put into each and every one of these creations that gives the show so much depth and scope. So much so they even have me feeling bad for that creature Finn and Jake's dad had a decades old beef with. No other show is like that.

I think what sold me on this show though was my favorite character: Marceline. She always intrigued me growing up, and I loved her ability to fly and her desire to be free and just hangout. She was extremely relatable to me but as a kid I refused to say she was my favorite, cause "girl characters couldn't be a boy's favorite." After going through another decade of life and transitioning (maybe kid me was onto something lol) I find a lot of myself in her, or at least that I'm maturing into someone similar to my childhood idol. Varmints, and evidently Stakes, confirmed this show as my number one favorite. I'm waiting until I finished the series, but I need to rewatch varmints and stakes a million times over. Between PB's development and learning about Marceline's past friendship with her and their dynamic, to Marcy's time abandoned in the wastelands of Ooo and helping other humans, I fell in love with this show. Deeper than younger me ever could. My friend said I'll enjoy and relate to Marceline even more pretty soon, so I guess we'll see how AdvT adds even more to my favorite character!

I don't think I could have asked for a better show. Characters develop over time rather than immediately; It runs deeper than just a few episodes or one season, but across multiple seasons. Some of the best writing and "show don't tell" thematic elements, I cannot fathom how they've done it. I cannot fathom how I missed all this too. Growing up, I could have used this show; It's themes, it's relatability of going through puberty or relationships or queer identity or dealing with trauma and grief.

Then again, I probably would have been too young to really appreciate those elements. That's why I'm glad I'm revisiting it as an adult now. There's so much more I pick up on and notice, and what messages are made for kids vs what adults can take away from it. I'm not ready to see how this series ends, because I just want more. (Though looking through these flairs there seems to be spin-off series??? Fiona and Cake got their own show too!?!?!) I think it'll wrap up nicely, I'm ready for what these last 2 seasons have in store for me. A binge watch 10 years in the making.

I'm glad this community exist, and I'm avoiding scrolling through the subreddit bc of spoilers, but I want to share my newly-awakened love for this show. Y'all have had that love for years, and that's what made it stay relevant. Hope to interact with y'all soon, but for now, goodbye!

hi I might be losing my cat, my girl, my baby, my rock, my little stalker, my boxing partner, my life friend of 18 years soon and I cant help but return to adventure time to think about grief and im curious if anyone else has something to share about it... thank you...