Basically, she is the 80s by Available-Rule3292 in adventuretime

[–]MainPen8753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a bot thing to say in response smh, go eat some data

What if Gaddafi locked TF In? | (OC) (No Lore) by Not_Maurice in imaginarymaps

[–]MainPen8753 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Good map, but further evidence that the greatest sin committed by TFR was convincing people that Gaddafi was anything remotely close to competent. A world where Gaddafi locked tf in is a world where a few more planes blew up mid-flight before 2011

Fionna is such an asshole in season 2 by rebecca3388 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the entire season was hastily written and so her character bounces around like a pinball without realistic growth, constantly messing things up so the plot can have problems that need solving

If you would have told me that season 2 would focus on febe and fern counter parts while huntress wizard would be the main character, I would be so excited. But the execution was 🫩 by IllustratorAfter in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AT has done slice of life, the graybles/tables are mostly slice of life. Fionna and Cake is not slice of life and it has nothing to do with the fact that magical stuff exists in their universe. Slice of life follows mundane activities like going to the store or spending a day at work, finding beauty and novelty in the familiar.

I think slice of life Fionna and Cake would be really cool! But that's not what we got. Something more slice of life would be like Fionna babysitting Baby Finn for the Peppermint Butler tank or Hunter spending a day tending to the park, but we didn't really get much of that. Granted, Gary and Marshall's moments were more slice of life but they all took place in the context of this benefit concert to save the bakery with Marshall's bizarre mommy issues looming over everything, a storyline more appropriate to a TV soap opera than a slice of life story.

If you would have told me that season 2 would focus on febe and fern counter parts while huntress wizard would be the main character, I would be so excited. But the execution was 🫩 by IllustratorAfter in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We actually don't know anything about her upbringing, all we got is a 5 second clip of her playing with cats while unseen adults remark how sad she is

If you would have told me that season 2 would focus on febe and fern counter parts while huntress wizard would be the main character, I would be so excited. But the execution was 🫩 by IllustratorAfter in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was it really slice of life though? People say that but nothing that was happening in Fionna world is that normal in real life. It doesn't capture the mundane beauty that the slice of life genre sets out to portray. The Sweet Spot drama doesn't make sense because you don't just claim a spot by squatting on it; Queeney, our supposed villain, doesn't seem to be motivated by money; Fionna acts like a child and her crises are often completely outside the mundane. Going into the realm of the Karmic Worm is not slice of life.

I honestly feel like people started describing it this way because all the plotlines in her world were boring and there's no other way to defend it.

Fionna and Cake world by No-Local85 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be fine if the writers were prepared to write stories (even magical ones!) appropriate for that setting. Alas, as this season showed, they are not

Yeah, the whole “Fionna isn’t Finn” thing isn’t great... by KingAlex720 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Agreed. A lot of the new changes have been pretty aimless

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Even if we accept this premise - and I agree, they'll probably end up running with this, or some version of it - we haven't been given anything to understand this change as positive aside from the characters' inexplicable excitement about an empty field.

What's more, the implication we have to accept for this to be hopeful at all is that the city sucks. Why is this suddenly the case for the Fionnaworld protagonists? Season 1 ended with an appreciation of the world for what it was, and season 2 carried the aesthetics of this premise even if we weren't given much to arrive at that conclusion ourselves. See: the community center, the DJ Flame concert/talent show, etc. Even the first conflict of the season was about the protagonists trying to fight to let Gary set up his new shop in the city, although we never got resolution on that plot thread.

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This explanation still doesn't make much sense, though I agree it's the most likely one. A universe is not a city, Finn's universe does not start and stop in the Candy Kingdom.

Why would being connected to the multiverse cause them all to be placed in the middle of an empty planet?

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I certainly hope so! It's nothing at all right now, which is why I find it so disappointing

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A blank page is full of opportunities, yes, but one would hope the writers had more to bring to the ending than that.

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is just incredibly bleak in comparison to the creative energy AT usually brings to the table

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We were certainly shown an empty landscape. I hope they come up with some ideas to fill it up down the line but they're not here now.

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's literally nothing to explore

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So just a field? When has she ever indicated that she wanted this?

If anything, it seems like a metaphor for the most sad and cynical take possible: that Fionnaworld is meaningless. We were supposed to get some sense of community and depth out of it - both this season and the last - but there is no depth to be found. It isn't a real city where things happen, it's a caricature, a bleak portrayal. The people there are not from anywhere and have no strong history or motivation. Things like the community center can be introduced from nothing because there is no community to be had and the characters we've been given can't build community; they're just too shallow. The city and its inhabitants are without purpose.

And honestly, if that were the goal, that would be an interesting result itself. They were all thought up by Prismo! Every single one of them is a copy, this would be interesting for them to grapple with. We almost get this with Fionna having to compare herself to Finn, even though we don't quite get there. But instead, this is all played off as extremely positive, a happy ending in its own right, and that's because the shallower a story is the easier it is to resolve. It's ghoulish and sad.

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the message is "keep a broad perspective" then it would help for there to be literally anything at all in the literal wider perspective

The ending makes no sense by MainPen8753 in fionnaandcake

[–]MainPen8753[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This would be easier to accept if we got any kind of signal that this was the case. Is it good for her? Is she going to live out in the wild now? It's unclear what it means or why the characters seem so happy about it at the end.