WordAssassin
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Link to what? Season 6 starting in April?
If you mean about Susan, no link exists to that knowledge. What I know might even change before it airs. But.. things are gonna get crazy.
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Link to what? Season 6 starting in April?
If you mean about Susan, no link exists to that knowledge. What I know might even change before it airs. But.. things are gonna get crazy.
So... Season 6.
Y'know, titles and synopsis for Season 6 episodes were accidentally leaked by CN's own website back in December. There's an old 4chan thread archived on foolz with the the relevant info. Don't click the link or highlight the text if you don't want to be spoiled:
http://archive.foolz.us/co/thread/56688040/
It is, indeed, happening. Guess we'll find out for sure in April.
Y'know, titles and synopsis for Season 6 episodes were accidentally leaked by CN's own website back in December. There's an old 4chan thread archived on foolz with the the relevant info. Don't click the link or highlight the text if you don't want to be spoiled:
http://archive.foolz.us/co/thread/56688040/
It is, indeed, happening. Guess we'll find out for sure in April.
That first one sounds like an episode of Magic Schoolbus.
Again I say, patience. Season 6 starts in less than a month.
I just want another Susan Strong episode. The last one was near the middle of season 3. It's going to happen, it's just been a long time, man.
Damn...that list seems pretty epic. Like really epic. Will this be the last season or will they air it out for two more? I've always felt like the end of Finn's story would be when he'd hit 18, which is fast approaching.
You're in for a wild ride. Watch everything from the beginning, it's worth it.
Wait, when was the last time we even heard anything about his age?
I feel like I have to now. Where is the best place to catch the show? Do any streaming mediums carry it or must I purchase? Its just so well done, I was really surprised. Its really weird...but in all the best ways! I saw the episode with the bubble pop machine knight who banished himself to the junkyard.
According to the Wiki, the last time it's been discussed was in Earth & Water as he's the same age as Flame Princess and she is currently 15. The last confirmation before that was at the end of Season 3, where it was stated he was 14. I'm guessing we'll be seeing either another birthday episode in season 6 or some sort of other confirmation that he is now 16.
Based on recent events I did think he was older, but no real confirmation on his current age. It is worth noting they are starting to clear up some of the mysteries and stories that have been floating around Ooo since season one. They could be gearing up to finish the series in the next 1-2 seasons.
metsallica
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Whoa. This show is on some next-level sauce, boss.
The final reveal seemed "weird" or "tacked on" for a lack of a better word since Billy, or rather the spirit of Billy, shouldn't have an easy venue to communicate with Finn. Maybe like if Billy had left Finn a journal with the revelation contained within it wouldn't have hurt my suspension of disbelief as much?
Regardless, the actual revelation is pretty heavy. SO MANY QUESTIONS I wanted answered and I'm looking forward to how things play out. I can't believe the next season starts so soon
Regardless, the actual revelation is pretty heavy. SO MANY QUESTIONS I wanted answered and I'm looking forward to how things play out. I can't believe the next season starts so soon
The first three seasons are available as box sets. Seasons 4 and 5 are part availlable on compilation discs. http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/DVD_Releases
Netflix has the first season and they'll add season 2 on the 30th of March.
A complete collection of seasons 4 and 5 can only be achieved with a PVR catching repeats on Cartoon Network, or by breaking the law (AFAIK).
I wouldn't worry too much about being completist about it. While there are occasional run-on stories or two-parters, the show doesn't really have any grand story arcs. Try and watch things in order, but don't get upset if you miss eps out.
In the episode where the Lich got free Finn was meditating and saw his older self as having a mechanical arm:
Seeing this I can't help but think of Susan Strong.
Those last few seconds open so many possibilities.
The creator has already said Finn is the only human so obviously his dad is going to have some fucked up twist about him.
Even so...
-What if his dad is an antiheroic gump?
-What if his dad is a complete letdown?
-What if he sees Finn as a letdown?
-What if his dad is evil/a villain?
Because the posted synopses are kinda leaning towards the latter. Or at least if not evil then a jerk. Since it seems his dad is involved in him being disarmed.
Even so...
-What if his dad is an antiheroic gump?
-What if his dad is a complete letdown?
-What if he sees Finn as a letdown?
-What if his dad is evil/a villain?
Because the posted synopses are kinda leaning towards the latter. Or at least if not evil then a jerk. Since it seems his dad is involved in him being disarmed.
Owlowiscious
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From The Tower synopsis, Finn loosing an arm doesn't seem to be much of a big event and it will be back to business as usual.
Hope it's true because that dude needs as much of a break as he can get.
PB has no romantic interest in him and he got his ex stolen by a giant cinnamon bun. :/
Hope it's true because that dude needs as much of a break as he can get.
PB has no romantic interest in him and he got his ex stolen by a giant cinnamon bun. :/
Oh wow, that one scene reminded me a shitload of Skyward Sword.
I hope
God I love this show.
I hope
Billy's ex takes him under her wing and trains him to become super awesome. Also why do I get the feels that he'll fight CB as his final test to become the realest hero???
God I love this show.
The next logical progression is that Finn would end up dating Canyon, as she appears to be some sort of water elemental. PB is completely out of the question now (until he's 18 at least matures some) and so is Flame Princess. Training would be a decent vehicle for that to blossom here.
According to the storyboard that had a missing scene for the final episode of season 4 Billy told Fin that his father was wrongly incarcerated in the citadel and that he's actually a hero. Of course that was the Lich talking so he might have been lying.
Isn't Canyon also way out of Fin's age group? And unlike PB I don't think she likes to consider herself younger than she is.
I may have read way too far into the conversation and any subtext while Canyon was there, but it seems like she's got a thing for hardcore adventurers like Finn and that age/size/species(?) doesn't really matter to her. Adventurers just get her motor running and Finn's pretty much the only one in all of Ooo at this point.
I understood that as a clever jab towards Finn, seeing as he's been getting kind of bad at adventuring, like in the ep where Cinnamon Bun oneupped Finn's efforts. Hell, the only thing he's got going for him right now is his grass sword. Who's to say it hasn't acted on its own all along? I think he's in for a rude awakening.
Extra Sauce
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I'm gonna be honest, finding out I only have a few weeks to wait until the next season (and not 6+ months) was at least as shocking as the dad reveal. It's a great time to be an Adventure Time fan.
Also I accidentally read the post at the top of this page before watching the episode and thought Finn would lose his arm!
Also I accidentally read the post at the top of this page before watching the episode and thought Finn would lose his arm!
Or you can buy them on iTunes.
The Hermit
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and so it ends Season 5
It was wayyy too big, but it was worth it.
It was wayyy too big, but it was worth it.
At least based on that leak
Finn's Dad steals his Arm by magical means, rather than actually hacking it off and being "dead" with blood and guts, so it's probably as the Cuties falling apart
Owlowiscious
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CB = ?
Rrongfield
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PaulExcellent
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He isn't the ONLY human. He was at the beginning of the show, but not so much anymore. Betty is human, too.
real_slime
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Anyone know the deal here?
He obviously wasn't absent all season, I only noticed that episodes were becoming pretty Jake-light in the last 10-15 or so. Earlier on he seemed to be around as much as ever. Was he busy with another project recently?
Hope Jake returns as the second lead in April.
That would explain
the tower episode? Since what the episode description says Finn doesn't like any of the arms PB has for him so he goes to the citadel to retrieve is old arm back from his father
WordAssassin
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It wouldn't have been anything recent, these episodes were all recorded at the beginning of last year, if not earlier.
I'm basing my speculation on that description only.
Why would Finn need to get his arm back if it's wasn't magically stolen?
real_slime
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It's weird cos, at first I was thinking, the episodes seem to air in a haphazard fashion at times so maybe we just got a bunch of no-Jake eps all at once by coincidence. The show has been lampshading his absence for a few episodes now though, i.e. this one where Jake isn't in it past the opening because he is in denial about Billy, etc, or Finn asking for Jake to get involved in an adventure a while back and Jake just being like 'nah' and Finn saying 'no help from him I guess'.
So I was wondering, since they are obviously aware of it, whether it was a scheduling issue they are making some jokes about, or if they're doing a kind of Finn and Jake drift apart storyline which will come to a head. Characters do tend to disappear for long stretches on this show, though. LSP was nowhere to be seen for ages until the last little batch, and Marceline only seems to show up when it's a Simon-centric story these days. I just thought Jake was immune to that.
A nice big two parter about Jake making sandwiches or something would be real good right about now.
So I was wondering, since they are obviously aware of it, whether it was a scheduling issue they are making some jokes about, or if they're doing a kind of Finn and Jake drift apart storyline which will come to a head. Characters do tend to disappear for long stretches on this show, though. LSP was nowhere to be seen for ages until the last little batch, and Marceline only seems to show up when it's a Simon-centric story these days. I just thought Jake was immune to that.
A nice big two parter about Jake making sandwiches or something would be real good right about now.
Pop-O-Matic
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I can't tell if this is a Gurren Lagann reference.
Believe in the Kamina who believes in you, Simon.
If it was Gurren Lagann, they would be red. Black means it's Homestuck.
Extra Sauce
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Agreed, it was the first time that Jake's absence felt a bit contrived.
Jake has had plenty of development and had his whole being a parent episodes. I am interested in Finn's background and why he is one of the few human's around. Jake is great but sometimes he can be a third wheel. Especially since he is lazy.
I am OK with Finn having some time to grow up and do his own thing as he get's older. They will always bring Jake back in for fun but for the extended story of Adventure Time Jake doesn't add much.
WordAssassin
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Yeah any kind of absence of a character is written into the show, it's not just something that happens suddenly. They had to pay DiMaggio for the lines in that episode, and for SAG the base price is $450 a hour, and I'm sure he costs a little more than that. Finn has been dealing with stuff on his own lately, chicks and his purpose and they've also been doing a bunch of episodes in the second half that barely even had anything to do with Finn or Jake. So it's not just some kind of arbitrary thing that recently popped up. Like I said, all of these Season 5 episodes were written, boarded and recorded well over a year ago. Season 6 started boarding in July of 2013 and the crew had been on hiatus after the completion of Season 5 for a few months at that point, so the majority of the work (before animation happens) was probably done in 2012, with maybe these last few episodes being done at the very beginning of 2013.
In all likelihood it could have been as simple as, when they decided to scrap the movie and do a double-season, they didn't have the budget to pay for DiMaggio to do a grip of episodes so they kept him to a minimum. But I doubt even that happened, I think it's just their choice to have Finn be doing his thing in his own little world and he needs to get back into a proper upswing which will happen next season.
IMO Jake being in denial over Billy's death isn't out of character for him. Yeah he accepted his own mortality but there's a difference between being at ease with our own demise and dealing with the demise of someone close to you or that you admire like they did with Billy. I know I'm gonna die some day and I can't do anything about that but thinking about my parents one day dying fucks me up and I'm gonna have a real problem when it happens. What he said about them getting back together and then looking right at the camera while he said it and going "Wwwwwoooooooop!" as he zipped offscreen actually felt perfectly in-character to me.
Plus there's that whole issue with one of Jake's daughters that was alluded to in the teaser for Apple Wedding, maybe we'll find out that he's been preoccupied with that.
In all likelihood it could have been as simple as, when they decided to scrap the movie and do a double-season, they didn't have the budget to pay for DiMaggio to do a grip of episodes so they kept him to a minimum. But I doubt even that happened, I think it's just their choice to have Finn be doing his thing in his own little world and he needs to get back into a proper upswing which will happen next season.
IMO Jake being in denial over Billy's death isn't out of character for him. Yeah he accepted his own mortality but there's a difference between being at ease with our own demise and dealing with the demise of someone close to you or that you admire like they did with Billy. I know I'm gonna die some day and I can't do anything about that but thinking about my parents one day dying fucks me up and I'm gonna have a real problem when it happens. What he said about them getting back together and then looking right at the camera while he said it and going "Wwwwwoooooooop!" as he zipped offscreen actually felt perfectly in-character to me.
Plus there's that whole issue with one of Jake's daughters that was alluded to in the teaser for Apple Wedding, maybe we'll find out that he's been preoccupied with that.
This?
Nah it was one where a character was eaten and it showed him getting dissolved by the monsters stomach acid :lol some extremely dark shit. It may have FINALLY not been an Adventure time GIF if noone recognizes it by description, which is sort of a good thing. Ive seen some weird shit from this show posted online.
Valjean Lafitte
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Best way to binge watch the show's earlier episodes IMO, and still my most relied-upon method of keeping up with the show.
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