This is a real gut punch out of nowhere until you place the context of not where they are but when, and as they walk around Ooo they come across Finn’s metal arm you get a different emotional reaction. However, in this the final episode we don’t open on the traditional opening credits, instead, we see the lives of Beth (Willow Smith) and Shermy (Sean Giambrone). Each side had been bringing their armies together while Finn (Jeremy Shada) and Jake (John DiMaggio) desperately tried to stop the conflict and Marceline (Olivia Olson) askes is this really what people want, but at the end of the last episode Gumbaldia there was no stopping The Gum War. So to set the scene, as Season Ten has been going along there has been a growing war brewing between Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch) and her Uncle Gumbald (Fred Melamed). So today I being a look at the end of a phenomenon that for many are their first real TV show love, and boy what an ending it was.

Unfortunately it got a bit hard to find the show in Australia and I was left to pick it up every time a DVD got released but a couple of months ago I found that Stan had the whole series and I binged about 3 seasons of episodes, to go to the end just in time to find out the next episode was to be its last. For me, I loved the world building that happened mostly through visual cues, and writing that was both emotionally resonate but also didn’t treat the younger audience it was targeted at as being unintelligent like so many other children’s focused entertainment both past, present, and future has/will do. However, it was also a show that was beautifully animated, well written, a touchstone for a lot of people, and actually grew up with the people that watched them. This was a short 15-minute show based in an absurd world of candy people, post-apocalyptic imagery, annoyed lemons, and lumpy space princesses. However, for me and many other people, there was one show that was the exception to the rule, and that was Adventure Time. I also found, like every generation before me and every generation from now on, that the next generation of animated shows from the 2000s never lived up to the same standard (spoiler alert it was because I was not a child anymore). I grew up in the 1990s and like any child of that era, I am deeply protective of our cartoons like Gargoyles, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, X-Men, Captain Planet, Beast Wars, and more. TL DR – This is a beautiful end to a strong series, it might feel a bit rushed at times, but it packs an emotional punch and is one of the best series finales that I have seen

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