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BobbyDrake posted:I just finished watching the first season on Netflix yesterday. Is there a non Edit: Ok so yeah, use iTunes or Amazon MojoKingBee fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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Netflix only has season 1 iTunes has the whole series edit: interestingly, iTunes calls the current season 6
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You can also get them on Amazon, which streams to more than just Apple hardware/PCs.
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  Well, that's another princess dress ruined. And how did she keep the confetti dry in that butterscotch? Also, someone gif Finn and Jake chasing the ogre with swords.
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Mr. Mojangles posted:^^^ Yeah they've basically introduced the latter-day capitalist rat race to Adventure Time, I mean the first few minutes weren't that far off of American Beauty, the tone couldn't be further from the first few seasons' CRAZY HYPERACTIVE ADVENTURES if they tried. It's going to be really interesting where they take this in the future, between PB being painted more and more as an detached utilitarian but also an actual empire-building benevolent tyrant I'm going to be pretty disappointed if Finn doesn't eventually butt heads with her in a big way over her Big Picture conduct. Not to mention that she's basically starting to preside over the same economic conditions that led to the Mushroom war to begin with.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:Not to mention that she's basically starting to preside over the same economic conditions that led to the Mushroom war to begin with. Oh man, I love that. Human society destroys itself, then another society takes its place to destroy itself again.
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Maybe next season we'll see the Candy Kingdom start to get into squabbles over natural resources with the other kingdoms. Candy Kingdom and Fire Kingdom go to war because of the Candy Kingdom's claim to a vein of (jazzhands) supergluberite on the border.
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I keep going back and forth on the ending shot, wondering whether to take it in a positive or negative way. Positive interpretations: he became the hero he fantasized about being, writing's not for everyone, if you suck at writing maybe you'll find something else that you're good at Negative interpretations: he abandoned writing once he found something else rewarding, he was a phony writer, writing is what inspired him to be a hero in the first place and now he turns his back on it Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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My interpretation is that writing allowed him to live out his fantasies in a somewhat depressing escapist way, turned from healthy distraction into unhealthy obsession when it was revealed he's been at it for years and years on a book he'd never be satisfied to release - because then he'd need to stop, and now he'll never work another day of his life by doing what he loves. He can always get back to writing, but now it would be non-fiction. Root beer in place of milkshake.
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Steve Yun posted:Positive interpretations: he became the hero he fantasized about being, writing's not for everyone, if you suck at writing maybe you'll find something else that you're good at Yeah that's pretty much how I feel. It's such an odd last shot because while everything in the ending is extremely positive, I still find something undeniably depressing about that shot. It's a happy ending but it's still a shot of a dream abandoned, forgotten and literally thrown into the garbage.
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I think the "no longer has to write about a fantasy life because he's living his dream" is the right interpretation. It seemed kind of clear to me that writing wasn't his passion, but his escapism, his way of forgetting his boring life. The ending for me came off as heartwarming and positive, and any negative interpretations of it didn't even occur to me until I read them in this thread!
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I seriously doubt RBG ever intended to publish or even finish his story. He'd been writing it for ten years, it was clearly just his way to get some shadow of excitement in his life. Hence only doing it at night when he is otherwise alone with his thoughts. He threw away the typewriter because he didn't need escapism any more; he'd become the hero he'd spend his nights imagining.
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Or maybe it's a rorschach test, deliberately ambiguous so that we debate its meaning. Who knows
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Who voiced Root Beer Guy's boss? What is he, anyway?
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Steve Yun posted:Or maybe it's a rorschach test, deliberately ambiguous so that we debate its meaning. Who knows I was confused at first, thinking he was giving up on his dreams, but it makes way more sense that he was only writing because his dream was being a detective and his failed novel was just a way of illustrating that. Him starting over the "kicking in the door" line over and over was probably meant to be a clue that he wasn't good at writing in addition to being a joke and later callback.
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Banana Guards, slightly less intelligent than actual bananas.
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I love the juxtaposition of the posters on his side of the bed versus her's.
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I can't see any way in which giving up his terrible writing could be a negative. He ignored his wife to stay up all night and write. And did you see that rewritten sentence? He was pretty bad at it. In the end he got to live a life that he actually liked, stopped wasting his nights on bad writing, and got back to "dancing" with his wife.
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Geirskogul posted:Who voiced Root Beer Guy's boss? What is he, anyway? No idea who voiced him, but he looked like a peanut. Not sure if there's a pun in there somewhere.
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The entire episode was good but that candy kitty ohhh my gosh  .
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Jesus Christ, Adventure Time. This show is the best show. Hands down, my absolute favorite part of this glorious episode was when Root Beer Guy is eating dinner and blandly notes, "hm. This is good. What's in it?" Cherry Cream Soda's timing on, "[lip smack]... Candy." absolutely SLAYS me "Listen," I said, "you say your not here for advice" ... RRRRRRRGH, I hope they did that on purpose  If for no other reason than to illustrate just one other way that he is no good at writing and shouldn't quit his day job (which is now as the police chief anyway, so win/win)
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I think my favourite little detail about the last episode was when Root Beer Guy was reading his book on the underground and one of the other candy people there was reading it over his shoulder. It was just like every public transport journey ever.
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Root Beer Guy and BMO need to solve a crime together ASAP.
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Did anyone get the significance of the ladder when Cherry Cream Soda wakes Root Beer Guy at his typewriter? I thought maybe they just needed it to reach the table but it wasn't in any other scenes. It's such a random thing that I feel like I'm missing something here.Geirskogul posted:Who voiced Root Beer Guy's boss? What is he, anyway? I think he's one of those candy circus peanuts and the voice sounds like Tom Kenny to me.
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Robot Jelly posted:Did anyone get the significance of the ladder when Cherry Cream Soda wakes Root Beer Guy at his typewriter? I thought maybe they just needed it to reach the table but it wasn't in any other scenes. It's such a random thing that I feel like I'm missing something here. guy probably drew a picture of her looming over him then figured due to their proportions she'd need a ladder to be able to do that and it was funny so in it went
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Robot Jelly posted:Did anyone get the significance of the ladder when Cherry Cream Soda wakes Root Beer Guy at his typewriter? I thought maybe they just needed it to reach the table but it wasn't in any other scenes. It's such a random thing that I feel like I'm missing something here. I thought it was the only way for her to get into frame properly with the perspective. Like they had to figure out how to frame her in the shot, and they could only do it this awkward way and said "why not" because it was funny. To me at least. (I didn't see a lightbulb in her hand or anything so I don't know what a better answer was, other than because it was just funnier that way).
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BobbyDrake posted:I just finished watching the first season on Netflix yesterday. Is there a non The entire series is up on cartoon network.com if you can get someone's cable login info.
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rawdog pozfail posted:The entire series is up on cartoon network.com if you can get someone's cable login info.
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I love that the ladder has five steps in one shot and a dozen steps in another shot Also, RBG and CCS have springform pans in their cabinets. Graham Falk likes to bake? Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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Dec 4, 2013 19:47
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JazzFlight posted:I think you can only watch the last 5 episodes. I just checked, you're right. Balls, I didn't want to spend money. Eh. I have a Kindle Fire HD, Amazon here I come.
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Growth entails irreversible loss in the gaining of something greater. Root Beer Guy lost Joe Milkshake, but he gained self-actualization, and became better than Joe Milkshake could ever have been.Steve Yun posted:I think it was Bongo Bill who pointed out that there's some "big picture" characterization going on with PB this entire season, and he's looking more and more right all the time. It wouldn't be out of line with this show's ambitions to use Princess Bubblegum to demonstrate the difference between Machiavellianism and immorality. They haven't shied away from really complex ideas before, and "The best thing for a ruler to do is what's best for the state, regardless of their personal conscience" is one whose complexity has kept it in currency for 500 years. (Fun fact: exactly 500 years, as the earliest known version of Il Principe is dated to 1513.) But where does Root Beer Guy fit in to all of this? Well, it's another example of the problem Princess Bubblegum faces: her creations often fall short of her hopes for them, but she knows this and tests them (because she's a scientist at heart). The Banana Guards failed her more spectacularly than most, but she found she had a competent detective anyway in the form of Root Beer Guy. Maybe she's also expecting to need better security in the future. Also, Finn and Jake still trust her and she them, and she is capable of swimming in butterscotch. Not much new, but then, she wasn't in it much.
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Have we ever seen an airplane in this show in a context other than that one squadron of bombers during the mushroom war?
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It should be noted this isn't the first time Peebles has tried to improve Candy Kingdom security. Remember making your mind into a fist back in Sky Witch? edit: Can I just say how much I love that even his wife calls him Root Beer Guy? It's like PB names all of the candy people herself, and after the first thousand she just kind of gave up. Chexoid fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Mimir posted:Have we ever seen an airplane in this show in a context other than that one squadron of bombers during the mushroom war? I wonder where the Candy Kingdom airport is located and where the flights go to? Also where does the subway goes to? I guess there's a huge suburban sprawl on the other side of those mountains.  And why is it called a kingdom when it's ruled by a princess? It's a principality!
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Yeah, part of me thinks the urban sprawl might actually have just been a one-off plot device to better frame the story of Root Beer Guy, and not some sort of deep reflection on how civilization repeats itself and Ooo is doomed to another candy-themed mushroom war. Edit: Although there is a strong case to be made for the rapid expansion of the Candy Kingdom theory with all its parallels to the modern world. They've introduced a ton of new candy kingdom stuff (helicopters, candycane guns, roads, PB's line about starting a new colony in "James") over the past season while simultaneously exploring the whole PB "benevolent tyrant" arc, so who knows? S w a y z e fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Say Nothing posted:I wonder where the Candy Kingdom airport is located and where the flights go to?
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Say Nothing posted:And why is it called a kingdom when it's ruled by a princess? It's a principality! This is almost certainly not correct, but: I always took it to be 'Princess' in the sense that she's just a young female monarch. I have heard (someone correct me on this) that in Japan it's common to refer to a young (and so unmarried) queen as 'Princess'. So I always just took it to mean that...
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Say Nothing posted:Just candy copters during Princess Cookie.
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"Princess" is a special term in Ooo. Its full significance is not known at this time, but a princess isn't just a young female ruler there. Remember the crowns with the gemstones in?
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Bongo Bill posted:"Princess" is a special term in Ooo. Its full significance is not known at this time, but a princess isn't just a young female ruler there. Remember the crowns with the gemstones in? Remember how LSP's was useless and not needed so they took it for no reason? 
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