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I remember watching the pilot for adventure time back when I was just seven years old in 2010. I remember seeing the first episode for this amazing show. It's crazy to believe how much backstory and lore there is about this show. Every episode was important because it either gave us more information about a character or it introduced a new character. What I liked about adventure time was that no matter what happened there was always an adventure going on and this show has so many References that its amazing how much I know about this show & the new series is really good I mean I understand it's only 2 episodes but its Amazing. I honestly feel like Im 7 Years old again witnessing a new show for the first time. But the show grew up with all of us like its crazy that we get to finally hear the characters curse. Its honestly something that I should cherish. I'm happy that I get to watch a sequel to this show. I'm currently 20 years old and I am Happy that its still relevant. So I give it an 11/10. Thanks Pendleton Ward for making this show what it is today.

I love this. I think everyone who watches this has watched Adventure Time. Fionna & Cake? It's everything we loved from AT condensed and elevated, bloodier with more personal and heavy themes to keep up with the aging audience, and a familiar cast of characters in a new light, in new variations and closer insights into them.

The humor is on point, the action is krisp, and I love the new directions they're exploring with the multiverse. I truly hope that this will be as long, if not longer than Adventure Time. Because the potential is there, the quality too, a hit series better than its predecessor is in the making.

Please, keep it up. We love Adventure Time. And this? It's AT², truly mathematical!

I absolutely love this series! I never really liked all of the Fiona and Cake episodes in original adventure time since they seemed rather cheesy but this series has done an amazing job fleshing out their characters. Every character in this series is now more nuanced and mature. I love exploring what has happened during the time we've been absent from this series. I can't believe they were willing to take such a risk as making adventure time more adult and I can't believe the transition worked so well. It's an exciting new perspective for adventure time to take and I feel like this is something more shows that were originally targeted at children that also captured a more mature audience need to do. It's rare to see a show grow with it's audience and also very rare for a show to be so in touch with it's fans' opinions and desires as Fiona and Cake is. I believe this show delivers for any fan of adventure time. 10/10 can't wait to watch more.

I was a bit skeptical when they announced there's going to be a spinoff of my much beloved show Adventure time.

Based on the gender swapped versions of Finn and Jake.

I honestly kept my expectations low but this show exceeded them and I can't wait for the finale.

A great use of the concept of multiverse for people who's having multiverse fatigue.

It's really captures the essence of the original show while reaching new heights with the level of animation,writing,voice acting and pacing.

I am so glad it didn't got cancelled.

Cartoon network studios is cooking up great stuff and I can't wait to see what's next.

This is getting really difficult to watch as a lot of intense emotions surface watching these episodes and I can't remember a show that ever felt like that, let alone for a reboot. But seeing all those memories, references, things I've been wrestling with in my mind that left me a bit touched, a bit scared, with sweet and bitter tastes. And the writers know how deep the imprint of Adventure Time still is in our soul; so they genuinely sparkled that rebooted world with everything that made it successful and have great talents to suggest it to the spectator at a proper pace to intensely enjoy those memories.

Gosh I don't think I've ever been that eye-blurry throat-coated about any other show. This is starting really well.

Its so cool that theres more adventure time! This is really good so far. First episode reminds me of Bee And Puppycat a lot. If you've ever seen that show same vibes but way better, plus you get to look for and identify all of the normal-universe versions of the Fionna and Cake characters. Its kinda confusing at first what universe we are in and how they connect but i'm sure that will be explained over the course of the show. I was worried at first that this show would state that all of the original adventure time was just a dream but i think its gonna end up being more complex than that. Grown up Finn is so cool and funny! I love him. Its cool to me that the story arcs have gotten longer overall from standalone 10 min episodes to 8 episodes arcs to an almost hour long finale and distant land episodes. Now this series builds on all of them and looks to be a continuing arc with 25 min episodes. So excited to see where it goes!

I enjoyed watching this for the most part, but it often felt like watered down Adventure Time fan fiction. There's a good chance that that's what Fionna and Cake is supposed to be, so I'm not going to be too harsh on it. I just didn't feel as much of a connection to it as I wish I did.

Adventure Time is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, animated shows. I remember seeing the first few commercials for it ages ago on Cartoon Network and honestly thinking that it looked stupid. But when I watched it, I realized just how wrong my perception had been. The show undisputedly had a soul, and was unlike anything I'd seen up to that point.

Fionna and Cake, however, seems to be lacking some of that soul and imagination. It's not totally without it by any means, but it isn't able to match Adventure Time. It also feels strangely depressing in a way that is hard to describe. It's like it knows that it's depressing, but doesn't want to admit it. Maybe that feeling is intentional, but I can't say it improved the experience for me.

I am floored by the positive reception of this show, and I'm convinced the fans of this show are genuinely disconnected from the original. Not only do the characters behave in a way that is not true to character, but they frankly regress from lessons that were shown to be learned in the original Adventure Time-from Marceline not giving Simon her time, Finn being irresponsible in his care for Simon, and for Prismo not only failing to do his job as Wishmaster, but also being recast after what seems like a less than half-hearted attempt by the studio to contact Kumail Nanjiani to reprise his role. In an effort to make Fionna and Cake appeal to an older audience, with added mature language and genuinely needless violence, it deliberately distances itself from Adventure Time, a show for everybody, to become a show just for a mature audience. To see this concept being executed properly, we only need to compare Steven Universe to Steven Universe Future, the latter of which is still accessible to kids and adults alike, in contrast to this show. The irony is not lost on me that the show is premised on a time auditor trying to capture the protagonists because they shouldn't exist, which is proven as they travel through each universe within this series, they are destructive and careless, hurting people and damaging the environment with no regard for anyone but themselves. This is a massive departure from the wholesomeness and "life-lesson" learning style of Adventure Time, damaging the canon that existed prior to this series and a careless disregard for rewriting characters in such a way that they are hardly recognizable to their Adventure Time counterparts. To not see the shortcomings of this show and what it has done to disrespect the legacy of the Adventure Time universe is to be blinded by the selfish efforts to canonize an inter-world fan-fiction that had little business existing in the first place.

Having been a huge fan of Adventure Time since I was 12, this one is pretty nostalgic to me. I remember watching an episode of Adventure Time back then on our family television (I think it was "Trouble In Lumpy Space") that lured me and the whole family into the series. It's got everything a child could ever dream of: adventure, princesses, and all things mathematical!

Other than that, Adventure Time had always been so great at telling their stories, with character arcs that just make sense and are so raw that gives the antagonists of the story their own character development which makes you love them more. Each and every character are unique in their own little way.

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake tells the story of the two titular characters who gets stuck in the multiverse that is told so perfectly and alters infinite realities massively. The creators are never afraid to test our their abilities to further expand the stories and how literally anything could happen. So far, "The Winter King" and "The Star" are my favorite episodes of the season -- and I am craving for more. I already love Gary and Marshall Lee's storyline, as well as Simon and Fionna's dynamic.

Fionna and Cake is a masterpiece and I Will prove right now, Adventure time is one the most loved Cartoon network show and I haven't watched Fionna and cake until I started getting alot of Fionna and cake posts on Twitter and I was like "should i give this adventure time spin-off a chance" I finally watched and it's really good

Tbh I though Fionna and Cake should not be that good as The original adventure time but It did Fionna and Cake is amazing and near a masterpiece for sure, I got The hype for this Animated serie because it's so good and I love to see adventure time back with another characters.

I'm loving it, I remember watching some episodes of adventure time lot of time ago and recently got invested into it again, and woah, the whole show is a ride from start to finish, you can really see how much love was put into it, about this new spin-off, it's different, but in a good way. The first 2 episodes that came out are a total banger and they differ a bit from the adventure time episode formula, but still keeps it amazing.

From now on, there'll be some spoilers, so you'd better go watch the show before reading the rest of this review.

The show is rated TV-14, there aren't lots of swear words (there's some gore in the 2nd episode) but what makes it more "adult" are the themes in the show I think.

I sit here writing this review hours after somewhat reluctantly watching the first two episodes, but oh man, was I in for a treat!

For a massive Adventure Time fan who has seen the base series more than a few dozen times and was a little disappointed with HBO's distant lands, I am awestruck how picture perfect the series (so far) has continued the story of the world and characters we love in the fashion of the later allegorically complex adventure time episodes while introducing new characters and worlds which intertwin perfectly together.

Upon hearing about the Fionna and Cake series that was announced I was reluctant, to say the least, that such a series could deliver the fans of adventure time a universe that was as exciting and relatable as the original and build upon the universe which we have grown with from children to adults. Not only was I wrong but It has gone one step further and placed the main character (Fionna), based on the character we love(Finn), into a more relatable world from the beginning.

A world which gives fans of the opposite gender a more relatable main character off the bat.

But don't worry like i did, characters from the regular adventure time world coexist in a way that is true to the adventure time world and more importantly feels natural and not forced. So Fionna and cake is as, or more so, relatable than base series Adventure Time and yet it is still a progression of the adventure time world.

This progression of the adventure time world which has been always changing and fluid over the series and grown with us as people from children to young adults continues to grow with us further into adulthood with Fionna and Cake.

Upon seeing Finn for the first time i was anxious and excited. Excited to see a character i love return but anxious to see how his character would be portrayed in his new future form. Following from his character progression into a confident man, who for the most part defeats his demons, he still has the adventurous spirit and a desire to help with nods to past episodes of Finn-development importance like 'The hall of egress' to introduce this new character. Similar struggles and concepts from our hero Finn are now developed further with his female counterpart and other characters we know and love in a similar way of allegorical storytelling and metaphor ambiguity with a more relatable mature world to meld it all together.

This mature world that has developed further with us now, to my pleasant surprise, introduces a feeling of greater realism and mortality with certain monsters spilling buckets of blood upon being killed for the first time in adventure time. Along with this mortality comes further maturity of 'sadness, madness and magic' with these themes of adventure time further developed in the sad, mad and magical world of Fionna and Cake. And while the maturity of adventure time progresses, so does the animation quality.

Something that was, as a professional artist, underdeveloped in HBO's last adventure time series; Distant lands, was the fluidity of the animation of the art which sold the magical world of adventure time as not just a stiff image transformed in an animation program, but the result of many frames of drawn animation. That is not to say it is the artists to blame, i know how and why these things may happen by working in an animation studio and more than likely it was underbudgeted and there was no reasonable time and artists to complete an animation epic with fluid like animation - cost saving would have compromised artistic quality.

But Fionna and Cake is anything but stiff animation. Every frame and movement has been more fluid and lifelike with more grandeur than before. Every frame is an artists hard work, every movement an artists dance of his digital pen. A natural progression of the quality of art in this show.

Fionna and Cake (so far) is nothing but an exceptional work of art. This 10 episode series is a natural progression of the adventure time universe with new and returning characters that are just as relatable to me as an adult as the first season was to me as a child. It's themes and allegorical storytelling continue to develop while remaining true to the fantastical world of Adventure Time while the technical animation quality and expressive artistic aesthetics further impress.

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is on the path to be nothing but 10 episodes of some of the best Adventure Time content around.

A week between episode is just too long to wait.

For real one my first reviews Maybe 19 is an over reaction, but for real this is the I've seen for a while, let alone a sequel to a beloved franchise For me the best sequel to an original IP I have never seen Don't know about the next episodes but I'm beyond hyped.

So far really made possible the mature twist to a children cartoon You liked Adventure Time you're gonna love this.

Now the rest is gonna be filler so I can get the 600 words for the review But honestly it's amazing that we get One Piece Live Action proving we can do LA anime right and then this, proving we can make a more mature take on a series without taking anything, just building onto what we already had.

As an adventure fan all time fan, I genuinely couldn't be happier. This show was perfect beginning to end. The treatment of the characters was by far the best thing about this show, like the amount of care and love that the makers put in this show is absolutely astonishing and the writing is honestly more than genius.

Everything about Simon and Betty was incredible, moving and exceptionally handled, the story was beautiful and everything built up perfectly for the final message of the show.

The action was amazing, the character and environment design was amazing, the stakes were high as hell and I just cannot be happier. For me, this is just at the same level as Adventure Time and Distant Lands (10/10) and yeah, I cried multiple times and I will do it again probably when I rewatch it. I'm just so thankful this exists and it didn't disappoint at all.

Fionna and Cake is my new favorite serie Growing up, I watched Adventure Time from the age of 12, and it was an absolute marvel. When the series ended, I craved more. Then, they brought in the 4 extra specials, and they were a delight to watch. I thought the show would never return with another season, but they did it. They brought a spin-off that, if the original series was already a wonder, this time they knocked it out of the park. It's an exceptional masterpiece that continues to showcase the show's unique blend of creativity, humor, and heart, leaving fans like me in awe of its enduring brilliance.

For one thing, the art and character design is great, it feels like adventure time without just being a carbon copy. I loved the look for adult finn, and the different worlds they visit throughout the series each feel distinct and brimming with character just from the visuals. I also thought that the animation in all of the winter king's episode was delightful, not only his song, but also the action and designs for the new characters.

The music is definitely a mixed bag, but there were a few songs I really enjoyed and find myself revisiting now and again, namely "Baked with Love" and Marshal's rattlesnake song.

I also was a big fan of Donald Glover, Tom Kenny, Felicia Day, Olivia Olsen, and of course Ron Perlman. They all made the dialogue (one of my biggest issues) charming and enjoyable with their great acting,

Sadly, those are the only things that come to mind as net positives for the show. I think my general issues are mainly the plot and the characters/dialogue. The show felt very millennial, and at points out of touch. Now from being offensive, but rather the way most of the characters speak and interact was reminiscent of the worst of tumblr from around 2016. Something I love about the original series is that the dialogue feels timeless for the most part, but when I hear Fionna talking to Gary, fighting with cake, or on the bus, it's just a load of second hand embarrassment and feels like I'm scrolling through tiktok.

In general the character writing felt very weak and hamfisted, and I felt as though the show didn't trust my intelligence. For a project that is supposed to be more adult than the original series, the characters and lessons are incredibly on the nose, and the show feels the need to explain what the characters are thinking by having them explain it to another character in immense detail. That writing strategy lacks a crucial amount of subtlety, and it takes me out of the moment.

The biggest moment like this was when the lich explains to Simon how he feels like he has no purpose. When The Lich, the last scholar of Golb and the end of all life explains how he feels purposeless to Simon, it made me have to pause the show and come back to it in fifteen minutes. I found it interesting that the Lich won, and of course he would feel empty without his goal, but the way the writers communicated that with the audience was just terrible.

Also this is a side note, but I hated Prismo in this, for what I assume are obvious reasons. (Mainly voice acting, out of character dialogue) #notmyprismo

Other than the lackluster character writing, the plot was aggravating and made little sense. To properly explain why I'm so sour grapes about it, I think that I need to explain why I hate Simon being in Ooo.

Over the course of the series, Ice King basically went through a reverse flanderization, and by the time elementals came out and he told Betty that "Simon sounds great, but I'm Ice King! I'm a special person, and I deserve respect!" I was in tears. It's a small moment for most, but I found the metaphor of the person you used to love (Simon) being unrecognizable now, yet still finding a way to accept and love this new person, beautiful and unique. Then the finale came, and Simon was brought back, undoing the amazing character work that series put into Ice King and those who were close to him.

So when Simon explains that he must turn back into the Ice King, I genuinely rolled my eyes. Not only have the writers butchered one of the most tragic and complex characters, but now they treat him as nothing more than a plot device.

So with the main goal being to make Fionna's world more magical by turning Simon back to ice king, and then going back on that, it just felt like the show went nowhere. Also the scarab being held back by humans just made zero sense.

Rick and morty is better.

Gumball is better.

This serie is the worst qualified.

This series is either unnecessary or forgettable. It does not contribute anything that has not been seen. It's of no use to me. I hate this series even more for one reason: most people naively overrate it. It is easy to say which series are the most incredible and iconic: Rick and Morty, The Amazing World of Gumball, Bojack Horseman, Adventure Time (the classic series), even My Little Pony, even with few episodes that are not only just good.

I can't believe this is here. I had no idea this was coming out. Adventure time is one of the greatest TV shows to ever exist. I've watched up to episode 5 so far and while it doesn't hold all of the original charm of the original series it is bringing its own flavour to everything you loved about adventure time in, quite honestly, an extremely clever way. Just as you'd expect.

I löve the fact that it is a continuation from the same universe and not just a spin off. I am trying not to spoil anything for you so I'm not going to say what happens.

Each episode gets better and better so far. The nostalgia is almost overwhelming. Fans of adventure time, the adventure has returned!

I have been a fan of adventure time and was devastated back when it ended, I have been waiting to see more projects like adventure time and the fans have not been disappointed. All 10 episodes of Fionna and Cake give the adventure time feel 3/4 episodes of distant lands didn't give me. No episodes had any parts that weren't good. It had a huge chance to show what something like adventure time could be when allowed to do things that they werent allowed to do in the original TV show. Fionna and Cake gave me a feeling I have not felt from a show in a while and balanced the ideas of romance, adventure, and overarching story very well.