The first two episodes of the new Fionna and Cake show just dropped, and I really enjoyed it! Go watch it if you haven’t already!
Below are my thoughts on the two episodes. Please watch before hand, spoilers below!
Spoilers for both Episode 1 and 2
Overall thoughts
Honestly, this show exceeded my expectations. I love that it has taken on a more mature style; Adventure Time really does grow up with it’s fans. I don’t think I have a single gripe, both episodes were just such a great time.
The intro sequence for the show is so cool. I love the glitch effects!
Episode 1
I loved seeing all the humanised versions of the Fionna and Cake characters; it was super fun trying to spot and recognise the different counterparts. I loved Cake POV, super fun.
DONALD GLOVER IS BACK AS MARSHALL LEE WOOOO! I hope to see some Marshall Lee + Prince Gumball action later on.
The Betty statue in the park was interesting. Is the dimension we saw a wish dimension? We see that Simon accidentally summons Cake into Ooo, did he create that dimension with his ritual? Or did it exist beforehand?
LSP was great. Just as LSP as ever. Never change LSP.
Episode 2
Firstly, I just wanna say: poor Simon. Jeez.
Why did he take a job living in a museum? I get he’s a nerd but like damn, seems like a tough life.
I am hoping he will eventually sit down and tell a story for the little Fionna and Cake fan, seems like something the both of them need.
I am loving seeing how the humans have set up in Ooo. I hope we get to explore more of their city.
Seeing Simon and Finn finally just hang out together is so great. Looking forward to more Simon + Finn action going forwards.
Unfortunately, it seems Jake is be dead by this point. I wonder how the shot from the trailer works then; might be another universe.
Hoping we get to see some Huntress Wizard + Finn in a future episode.
I thought it was truly incredible, and something I’d recommend to long-time fans & newcomers alike. It hits the right notes for the aging crowd & I cannot wait to see where it goes! I would highly recommend checking out Uncivilized Elk & his analyses on the first episode & the intro, as he’s been doing AT analyses for a very long time & knows a ton
I love Uncivilized Elk, he’s great!
That first episode was trippy. The vivid fantasy of the dream juxtaposed with the grimy normality of the messy apartment, Cheers on every channel and having to deal with a sick cat and job you hate, surrounded by the inverted world gender swapped character that used to be so familiar- was haunting.
The feeling of ‘something is wrong’ and putting it together was fun. Knowing Ice King stopped existing and Betty saved Ooo by taking the crown wishing away Golb from the inside- and then seeing this Fionna world and hoping Simon is ok and wondering how this world now lives inside him now (it must be as it’s now mirroring old earth from well before the mushroom war) when it was made by Ice King and the crown tech that no longer exists in Ooo.
I really enjoyed spotting and naming all the background characters, the little bus dictator was an un-gender-swapped but shrunken Patience St. Pim, right? Or one of the vampires also un-gender-swapped? She looks so familiar!
AbracaDaniella made me laugh and the Banana Guard was cute (but I was genuinely hoping to see them doing a street corner acapella of “Mama Said” or some kind of slapstick security guard routine).
Also it took me a moment to figure out if the guy in the park was Hunter or Shoko, and I was sure the bubble gum bus driver was LSP before we saw actual LSP (who is exactly how I would have made a gender swapped human LSP, lmao). Marshal-Lee was cute too.
(About to watch episode 2, will comment again once I’ve processed it!)
Oh wow, I need to do some rewatching of the old episodes.
Bus dictator was Queen of Ooo btw, gender swapped King of Ooo.
It’s Amazing, really well put together, definitely aimed perfectly at the now 25-30 year old crowd that watched AT from the start and grew with it. Both the kids who aged alongside Finn from age ~10 onwards, and the depressed late teens, early 20’s that watched as adults for the escapism.
Looking forward to seeing more in the weeks to come.
Theory
My theory here currently (mostly seems confirmed by the end of Ep 2), is that Fionnas world is inside of Simons head, and as he has become more and more depressed feeling out of place in the world of ooo, so has Fionna become depressed and out of place in her world, in Simons mind. Every TV station plays cheers, because that is all simon can remember.
Cake escaping from Simons head (who will definitely get the dog translator that simon still has in the next episode) and the extra button (purple is always important in AT lore) appearing on Prismos multi universal remote makes me think they have just created a new universe branch where simon can somehow enter his own world in his mind and find peace, which probably involves his death in finns world of ooo.
Glad I saw this post as I didn’t even know it had started! I started up the first episode right after seeing it lol.
I actually hadn’t been following the show too closely so I just figured it’d be a small spin-off series following Fionna and Cake, so with what we got in the first two episodes I’m totally onboard. First ep was bizarre in a really good way, and the second episode was both depressing and deeply satisfying.
It is promising, seems to start off at the same story depth as AT left off. Or its just all deception, we will see.
What service are they on?
HBO Max
I did not realize this was not for kids.
it’s aimed squarely at the now 25-30 year olds who watched AT as it aired.
Yes, and I’m there for it. Just wish I’d have known before I watched the first two episodes with my 6 year old who loves AT.
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