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The latter features one of my favorite moments on the show. The former can be seen as Finn and Jake navigate Marcy’s memory in the use of high-contrast scenes (including the striking black and white sequence when Finn hones in on Marceline’s memory bubble). The other important thing to notice is the quality of animation in terms of style and subtlety. Like, what was the initial apocalyptic event, and how did people survive, and in what capacity? Little Kid Marceline is clearly not a vampire here, but she’s also half-demon, so how does that work? None of those questions have been answered yet, by the way, but the unknown quantity is a way to keep the sense of wonder alive. First, it begins to fill out the backstory of one of the principal characters, and it does so while asking as many questions as it answers. Two things about this episode are significant. Finn then uses his memory to inform Marcy of what happened, thus the title. As it happens, the wizard is Marceline’s doofus ex-boyfriend who has gone through a lot of trouble to make her forget the break-up. While in there, Finn and Jake get to relive and/or interact with younger versions of Marcy (including adorable child-Marceline performing impromptu surgery on her stuffed bear, Hambo). This episode features Finn and Jake being sent into Marceline’s memory by a mysterious wizard in order to retrieve a memory that can undo a sleep spell that she is currently suffering from. So far in her character progression we’ve learned that she is not evil, suffers from social anxiety, has trouble making new friends without being a jerk about it, and can lay down a sick bassline. Marceline the Vampire Queen is 1000 years old, but is still essentially a moody teenager. A couple, like “Holly Jolly Secrets,” I don’t particularly love, but still contain significant character/world building moments. “Thank You” is an episode that is almost entirely absent of known characters, and is a story told mostly without dialogue it’s a pretty vignette. There are episodes that focus on ancillary characters, such as Lumpy Space Princess and Tree Trunks and an assassin cat. Some are silly one-off adventures, like when Finn and Jake fight some ghost gladiators, or fend off adorable would-be conquerors. This season is quality almost all the way through, and features a wide variety of stories.

Still, just because I don’t go out of my way to talk about most of the episodes of the season, doesn’t mean they’re not worthwhile. Season three, as it happens, includes some of my very favorites, so that’s fun.

Adventure time jakes death dream series#

I still believe it’s the best way to break up the series for the purposes of discussion, but I think it might make more sense to talk about significant episodes rather than an overall appraisal of the season. Meanwhile, the final episode introduces Flame Princess and the beginning of a new phase of Finn’s development (while simultaneously building F.P.’s character both within and outside of her relationship to Finn, but that comes later).Īll that said, I think the best way to discuss the rest of the series is to eschew talking about a season like a cohesive whole. However, it’s still an important character who is missing but not forgotten. For instance, The Lich, who is dealt with in the finale of season two, doesn’t make an appearance here. As the show progresses, narrative arcs begin and end, and are not necessarily constrained to a particular season. Things that happen have consequences that linger throughout the life of the series. Obviously, most of the episodes are self-contained. However, I would still argue against classifying the series as purely episodic. Meanwhile, Adventure Time is proving to be a show without an overarching narrative. The world itself, the most whimsical of nuclear apocalypses, continues to be given a history. All of the main characters and most of the minor ones are fleshed out to the point of feeling like actual people.

Starting pretty much right away, this season escalates all of the positive aspects of the show while simultaneously shedding the more blatant kid-show conventions that it previously managed to hang onto. I’m not sure if season three is the absolute best season, but if not that’s only because the show somehow manages to get progressively better.

Here we go with the third season of a deeply strange, thoroughly wonderful series, and this is the point where the show fully comes into its own. Television * Pendleton Ward * A Wasteland of Delight * 2011 Synopsis