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Tuesday 4 September 2018

Adventure Time Series Finale / Full Series Review


Eight years spanning ten seasons that's long this show has been running and finally the show that gave everyone hope for Cartoon Network has ended and yes i'm counting this review as a review of both the series finale and the show itself because like I just said there's ten seasons worth of episodes so here is my review of the series finale to Adventure Time.

The plot for the episode is it's the day of the Gum war and in one last attempt to stop the war from happening Finn and Jake take PB and Uncle Gumbald to the dream world and have to try and convince them not to go to war. Yes this summery is as vague as I could possibly make it and honestly the story goes places that I never thought it would go and for me that's a very good thing because I couldn't tell what was going to happen next and the fact that it's a forty minuet special makes this feel more of an event then it already is.


Starring in both this episode and the series are Sean Giambrone , Willow Smith , Jeremy Shada , John DiMaggio ,  Hynden Walch , Olivia Olson , Tom Kenny ,  Niki Yang , creator Pendleton Ward , possibly Justin Roiland among many others. Yeah i'm cutting this of because there's alot of characters in this episode and I have to say that as a fan of The Goldbergs I was surprised to hear Sean Giambrone in this episode.

Acting wise everyone just kills it not only in this episode but in the series as a whole and that's very rare and I can honestly see alot of these actors going on to be voice acting legends because not only do they do great voices but most importantly they can also act and that also makes me miss this series even more.


The animation for both this episode and the series was done by Cartoon Network Studios and I have to say that I have a feeling that the budget for this show and this episode must have been pretty big because the animation is so freaking good it's unreal everything in this final episode looks so good you can tell that the team have a lot of love for the product and that they want it to be the best it can be.

It's hard to do an ending to a long running show and that's something that alot of shows can agree with because you have to A) please the fanbase and B) give us an ending that makes sense and the ending here to me is more focused on pleasing the fanbase then giving an ending that makes sense i'm not going to spoil the ending but tho while it does make sense for a kids show in my eyes and I think many others things are wrapped a little two nicely so there's no wiggle room.


I'm trying not to say or post pictures of anything spoilery but I can say that disregard pretty much everything that was in all the trailers because most of what was shown in them doesn't even cover half of this special and most of it is a lie and im unsure of how I feel about that on the one half it's genius because then we have no idea what's actually going to happen but on the other hand they promised us a war and yet they don't really give it to us.

Now i'm not from America heck I don't even live there but from what I gather of various Youtube videos Cartoon Network really havn't been pushing this episode nor have they been pushing this series for a long time and to me that's not a good thing for them to do because this was one of there best shows and yet they choose to promote shows like TTG over good shows like Steven Universe or Adventure Time in my eyes that should be the other way round because the only reason why TTG is as big as it is is because it's shown all the time but it's also promoted more then there other shows.


I don't really think that this is a spoiler but Rebecca Sugar returns to the series with this final episode she wrote a song called "Time Adventure" and I have to say that it's a perfect fit for this episode and like a certain cast member who was a wreck when they recorded his part I myself was close to being a wreck when hearing it it really is such a good song and it goes to show that even beyond this episode Adventure Time will live on in all us in some way shape or form.

For making this episode over forty minuets long makes sense because that's the only way you could make an ending to this show anything shorter then that wouldn't do this show justice and since they made it over forty minuets long it means that we the viewer get to soak in this world of magic and wonder for one last time.


Now then if you guys think that this is the end of Adventure Time your wrong because Boom Studios aka the guys behind the fantastic power Rangers series are producing Series 11 in comic book form so it will be interesting to see where they go with the series now that the show has ended but tho according to producer Adam Muto since no one from the show is working on the new comic books all of what happens in that series will not be canon.



Overall this was a great way to end the series even if the ending it self wasn't that good and the series itself was great and will forever live on in those who not only watched it but also by those who worked on it and those who take it's messages to heart so for me the finale scores a 7.5 out of 10 while the series scores an 8.5 out of 10.