![]() ![]() There is an island of humans hooked up to pods, living through a “Better Reality” virtual reality game, as tiny sweet-faced drones tenderly care for their atrophying bodies. There is the gentle, lone survivor living in a hollow tree. ![]() Each island offers a different variation of a dystopian human future. Finn, Jake the dog, Susan, and stowaway BMO then leave Ooo, hoping to discover the aircraft’s place of origin and encountering a series of the eponymous islands. The action starts with a mysterious aircraft landing on the beach in search of Finn. Islands does a dizzying amount of plot development in 80-something minutes. It has been a beautifully managed balancing act, but, as the show begins its seventh year and penultimate season, the scales are beginning to tip. In Cartoon Network’s lineup, it sits precariously in the 7:45 pm slot-the lone, 15-minute buffer between We Bare Bears and Adult Swim reruns of King of the Hill. While it shares DNA with beloved adult cartoons like Futurama and BoJack Horseman, it is not fully inside that tradition. As creator Pendleton Ward has said of his fictive universe, “It’s candyland on the surface and dark underneath, and that’s why it’s compelling, I think.”Īdventure Time has always been a thing of many pleasurable contradictions: it is silly but profound it is free-associative in form but intricately plotted it’s mature, but kind of innocent. But the “trippy” label is one of the great short sells of the show, rendering it as flat as its pastel landscapes. Google the show, and you’ll find no shortage of professional TV criticism focusing on Adventure Time’s technicolor aesthetic, which, to be fair, does make liberal use of rainbows. It was that association with psychedelia that very likely got the show from children to stoners, and from stoners to the broader audience of teens and young adults it now enjoys. If you liked this post, please check these 16 examples of Adventure Time fandom and the Game Boy-based Adventure Time BMO.When Adventure Time premiered in 2010, I was sixteen, and the first episode was widely sent around my high school with some variation on the line: Can you believe this kid’s show? It’s so *trippy*. One thing is certain, though: Adventure Time is not Thomas’ only obsession, since some of illustrations focus on Street Fighter characters and others on Link from the Legend of Zelda. The ones curious about Thomas’ other illustrations are recommended to check his personal website or his DeviantArt page. All of these Adventure Time characters went through the filter of his mind, and his creativity should be appreciated. Princess Bubblegum’s age might be used as an argument, but what some people are not able to understand is that Thomas gave these characters a personal touch. While some are bothered by the fact that Jake is some sort of a hybrid between a man and a dog in this illustration, others doubt the fact that Thomas has ever watched the cartoon series, since his character depictions look nothing alike the originals. Not all people who have seen his works are thrilled about them, but I like them, as they are quite unusual. The last two Adventure Time characters certainly went a long way from what the cartoon creators have accustomed us with. Pictured below is the Ice King, who looks rather grumpy. I’m rather sure that he is not wiggling his tail. What is really interesting is that Thomas Lishman managed to give human traits to some characters that are stylized in the original cartoon.Ĭonsidering that Jake the Dog is able to grow and shrink at will, imagine what would happen if the version pictured above would grow even further. The characters seem to be quite complex, and since I have yet to dive into the Adventure Time universe, I won’t go round and about, making assumptions. ![]()
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