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I really liked the Huntress Wizard backstory sequence (media.piefed.social)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/adventuretime@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Man, I was a few episodes into Season 2 of F&C and I made the mistake of watching a season 2 episode of the original series. It was a breath of fresh air. It was the sillyness that got me into AT, and it's hit me how much that's missing in the newer stuff.
I don't know much about how production worked, but I suspect it's a Pendleton Ward vs. Adam Muto thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    FC isn't trying to be AT though. That's why it works.

    The universe, and writing, has matured with the fans. So many shows like this use a spin-off as a excuse to reset that and appeal primarily and often only to kids again.

    An example that comes to mind is Clone Wars season 7 leading into Star Wars Rebels, and the tonal shift is just unbearable.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's definitely continuous in tone with the last seasons of AT, which is why I think it's an Adam Muto thing. But it feels like it's turned into Doctor Who. (Or what I imagine Doctor Who to be now; I haven't actually watched in a while.) Like, it's fine when you have a world with no rules as to what's possible (because of magic and/or advanced science) if that world is silly, but it makes it hard to generate dramatic stakes if every obstacle is magic bullshit and every solution is also magic bullshit.

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