Subject: Wambler-keeping advice and Adventure Time
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Posted on: 2013-03-12 16:15:00 UTC

Are Wamblers territorial? Or carnivorous? It's starting to eye my new tribble-eunuch in a way that's saying I'll need to keep them apart.

If you're going to watch Adventure Time, I'm not sure where I should tell you to begin. The first season is where all of the characters started off, and it sets a great tone for the crazy awesome land that they live in, but it's around Season 2 that it really started to develop. One of the show's strongest points is its characters, and a lot of Season One is testing the waters. When it hits, it's incredible. When it doesn't, we get bits like the Ricardio the Heart Guy episode that are just sort of confusing. (Though I'll be the first to say that his return in Season Four was epic.)
The show itself is one of the rare programs that has a great sense of humor but doesn't turn around and call attention to it; it's just part of their world, and it shows up everywhere. The background for the land of Ooo and the more enigmatic characters like Marceline is revealed little by little, through episodes that you wouldn't even realize were linked until after the fact, because info-dumping wouldn't be much fun at all, would it? (Take notes, practically every other show. They're right with that idea.) There's great dialogue, massive amounts of creativity, and constant subversion of the expected that makes the show enormously exciting and interesting to watch, and it's the first show in a long time that got me genuinely excited to see returning minor characters.

... Ahem.
That turned into fan-gushing really quickly, but there's just so much that I like about it!
Writing this made me want to watch Mortal Folly/Mortal Recoil again. I'll be back in half an hour.

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