Write in front
At the point in the far side of adventure time when there was only one episode left, I suddenly wanted to write an Am Liwen, mainly for friends who have never watched this excellent animation, slightly spoiled, watch it with confidence.
1. A little bit of author background
"If you can only choose one work, I really want to give you Amway an animation, if you believe in my taste"
This is what I said to my good friend Amway's "Adventure Time".
Beginning in 2009, a Japanese animation called "Monumental Story" opened my way to chasing fans. I was not too nervous in junior and high school, so it was a new series with a capacity of 12 episodes almost every night, which lasted for about three years. The amount of reading is a bit scary, and the concentration of the second dimension is also very high, and gradually he is reluctant to watch big tome, and his preference has gradually become the bone society, Jin Min, Yuasa Masaaki, and "Great Sword" and "Legend of Sword Wind" "The Knights of Cydonia" is a small piece of youth-oriented work. At that time, I didn't expect that I would fall so crazy in love with an American animation that at first glance seemed to be a sub-forum...
2. Opportunity to enter the pit
Many years ago, I often saw the heads of yellow dogs or green game consoles on the Internet. I thought it was very cute, but I didn't check the source until I saw a girl with a pale face and vampire teeth holding a guitar. At that time, I was hopelessly fond of post-shaking, post-punk, staring shoes, indie rock, and the goddess was Rachel Goswell of the band staring shoes slow diving.
Having no resistance to this kind of girl, I immediately searched for this character and found that she came from an American animation called "adventure time", the vampire queen marceline. In order to watch this character, I turned on the AT of the subtitle group of the rehabilitation center and watched it.
3. First experience with AT
At that time, my knowledge of Mei Man was the Simpsons, and then after watching the masterpiece "Rick and Morty" that everyone who appeared in the first three seasons at that time, I found that it was not particularly appetizing. It was indeed dense and super-expanded. The brain that talks about it, I fully understand the reason why it is admired. Maybe I personally don't like Kitsch, or the kind of destructive core that puts up the middle finger and says "fuck" to everything. It makes me feel a bit of nihilism. (Personal feelings, I just want to elaborate on my impressions of some American comics at that time, and have friendly exchanges).
And I just watched the first half of AT's first season, the unit drama format can not see the context of the story, it seems to be very nonsense for children, and from time to time there is a heavy taste or beauty, I am confused and even feel myself Did you miss a few episodes? Almost all of the friends with low stars in the short comment were dismissed in the first season, and I felt exactly the same as them. However, my purpose is to watch the role of Marceline, and her appearance is very late, so I look forward to watching her role slowly. Perhaps what really caught me was the "main storyline" that appeared from time to time in the third season, that is, the past line of the Ice King and Marceline. It seems that this world is not a typical fantasy as seen in the first two seasons. Adventurous setting, but AT does not have the abruptness of other works. Everyday ends and suddenly turns into the main line of the serious story. Instead, the most attractive episodes containing the core world view are interspersed with the daily episodes, often I just got interested, the next episode suddenly became another little story that has nothing to do with it. It’s this kind of occasional teasing, like a little surprise hidden one by one, which makes me look forward to the main line at the same time as the side story. After reading it, in hindsight, this is really necessary. For example, when playing a rigorous and rich open world game like "The Witcher 3", after advancing each side mission, the understanding of the entire world view and the entire game experience It is a qualitative improvement.
Similarly, the characters that appeared in the early independent episodes of AT will also appear from time to time in later stories, or act as a key role in a certain plot, or become a funny stalk. In short, each of them is very important and necessary. These green leaves According to my own logic, I live three-dimensionally and vividly on the continent of Ooo. The same as the protagonists is the reason why I fell in love with this animation.
Probably starting from the fourth season of the third season, the main storyline has gradually increased, including the Simon Marcy line, Jack’s life line, the Lich line, the Finn growth line, the MPB romance line, the lemon country line, and the BMO line, including the later coherence. Very sexual vampire crusade line, island line, and candy war line. One is better than the other. At this time, I already have a certain understanding of each character, and I also have an understanding of the world in my heart, so from the fifth season to the final season, I almost watched one or two episodes a day carefully, because I couldn’t stop. I'm afraid I'll read it all. This may also be the fact that AT’s audiences are basically divided into two categories: those abandoned in the first season, and those who have watched them all.
4. Charm beyond the plot
What I have to mention is the value orientation and aesthetic orientation contained in this drama. The protagonist Finn’s growth curve is particularly obvious. To be honest, I didn’t like the protagonist at first, but the boy slowly grew up (even the voice actor is also growing up, and his voice has changed in the later period). The little kid who is adventurous and fighting begins to experience friendship, family, love, jealousy, broken love, revenge, and reconciliation. In the ten seasons of super-capacity, the creators have plenty of space for the characters to constantly change. I am surprised that an animation can portray the emotions of the characters so deeply and realistically. And the protagonist Finn is not the only one with the character arc, BMO, cinnamon bun (really super god in the later period), Earl Lemon, each character is growing, and the group portrait is doing very well.
Then, the music part is also remarkable. I really care about the music of any work. The brisk electronic sound similar to ambient techno is the most common daily occurrence. (The protagonist Finn’s screams even have an electronic sound). Of course, Marceline’s folk, the first classic, plays and sings from time to time. At the same time, this work is more or less integrated into the religious Zen (Frog Four Seasons, Pillow Kingdom, Caves That Never Go Out) Racial issues (the residents of the Ooo continent are strange, cross-species marriages, humans and magic dogs can They are brothers), politics (the dictatorship of Bubblegum Princess), sexual minorities (MPB and Lily CP are not a side ball, but a generous sugar) and so on. You can never imagine that an animation can contain so many precious qualities.
5. Finally
About 10 years ago, I used the "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" series as my radar, and I met a lot of good friends who were very co-produced. At that time, the animation hadn't been broadcast, and there were not so many ghosts. There is a high probability that the other party will like avant-garde rock bands such as pf and kc because of this work. At the same time, everyone has a particularly high acceptance and is particularly in-depth in the field of niche comics.
But as everyone knows, I lost this radar after the work became popular because of the animation.
"Adventure time" has become my new friend radar, because so far, I have found many common qualities and characteristics in friends who love AT. Patience (after all, I can insist on watching ten seasons of slow-heating animation), kind and gentle (it’s really not bad to like AT such a gentle and delicate animation), and there are many girls (from the proportion of women in the AT discussion group on Weibo)
High tolerance and acceptance (I mentioned the description of sexual minorities in the animation earlier, and AT audiences rarely have homophobic people). They have very similar preferences (friends who like AT are likely to also like "Weird Town" and "Bee Girl" With Dogs and Cats, "Hilda", "Summer Camp Island", "Flying Out of the Future", etc.).
Although I doubt that anyone would like to read such a long Amway article, I can throw this article to him/her during Amway's time. In fact, mixed cuts, fans, and peripheral products are all good Amway ways.
I don't really hope that "Adventure time" will explode. I just hope that it will meet more audiences who are suitable for it, because it is really rare to meet such an excellent work. I have always planned to do it twice and even show it to the children in the future. I believe that tears will fill my eyes every time.
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