![]() Together, they remember what it was like when PB first came to power, skipping out on meetings with the Cheese Kingdom and managing her small candy territory with ease. They even stumble across a spray paint tag Bubblegum created because Marceline dared her to. They skedaddle off on an adventure to try to eradicate the pesky pumpkin-munchers, and find themselves down below the Candy Kingdom, where they used to hang out when they were just kids. The lead-in to Stakes is a Marcie/PB solo episode called “Varmints” that aired a few weeks earlier. In it, Marcie finds out PB has been throne-jacked by Princess King of Ooo, so she tracks her down to an isolated cabin near Lake Butterscotch where she’s sitting on her front porch with a shotgun, trying to keep her pumpkin patch safe from varmints. Princess Bubblegum is actually going through a similar struggle. I don’t want to spend eternity like this, with this emptiness. Now it’s a thousand years later and I’m still messed up. During the first episode, she tells PB, “I was just a messed up kid when I became a vampire. “Stakes” elevates Marcie’s story - and her relationship with PB - by bringing her into the coming of age conversation the other characters have been having for the last two seasons. The more we know about her, the more we want to know about her - but the cryptic nature of her character is one of the things that makes her so enchanting. Over the years we’ve seen glimpses of her past, and those impressions have asked as many questions as they’ve answered (in a good way!). That method of storytelling has served the writers well, especially when it comes to Marceline. “Sublime art is unframeable: It’s an image or idea that implies that there’s a bigger image or idea that you can’t see: You’re only getting to look at a fraction of it, and in that way it’s both beautiful and scary, because it’s reminding you that there’s more that you don’t have access to.” It also explored the loneliness and listlessness both PB and Marcie have grappled with as they’ve moved from childhood into adulthood.įormer Adventure Time story-boarder (and Steven Universe creator/showrunner) Rebecca Sugar one time summed up the brilliance of Adventure Time by saying: Season seven, which kicked off in early November, has focused much of its existential storytelling on Princess “Bonnibel” Bubblegum and her gal pal, Marceline the Vampire Queen, culminating in Adventure Time‘s first mini-series, Stakes. The eight-episode endeavor colored in some of Marceline’s past, answered lots of questions about her relationship with Bonnie, and promised her a richer future. Finn is 16 now and as he wrestles with what it means to grow into an adult, so do his friends. “What does being a hero look like in a world where good and evil aren’t black and white?” And, “What makes life worth living?” And, “How do you find your purpose?” And, simply, “What does it actually mean to be a grown-up?” Adventure Time started with 12-year-old Finn, the only human boy who survived the Mushroom War in Ooo, and his best friend/foster brother/shape-shifting dog/roommate, Jake and has evolved into a show about their chosen family. Not “grown-up” like “sex and violence” grown up like asking enormous, subjective questions. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian CinemaĮven though it boasts a dozen slang terms for the word butt - hams, patoot, buns, stumps, beans, funky junk - Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time is one of the most grown-up shows on TV.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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