![]() And those arcs have developed in concert with Finn and Jake’s gradual but distinct coming of age. Through the show’s long-lived characters, like Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, and the Ice King, we’ve seen a slow-burn study in different ways of processing and living through past traumas. It’s a post-apocalyptic story where the pre-apocalyptic events hold significant emotional heft, rather than being a generic piece of background lore. This has always been a show with its mind on the past, present, and future simultaneously. This isn’t a source of cheap nihilism Adventure Time has never been about that. But more importantly, it emphasizes that regardless of how events play out, Finn, Jake, and everyone else will eventually die anyway. On a purely functional storytelling level, this creates some wonderful suspense, as various red herrings and ambiguous narrative leads in the future segments suggest a wide variety of possible outcomes for the current-day scenes. Similarly to the various “Graybles” anthology episodes, this forms a wraparound device wherein our heroes’ battles are recontextualized. The episode opens not with Finn and Jake confronting Gumbald, but with a flash-forward to a distant future Ooo, featuring the entirely different adventuring duo of Shermy and Beth. But the “Gum War” doesn’t play out as many viewers may have expected or hoped it might (resolving with a mass session of enforced introspection instead of a fight), and the whole thing is given an unusual framing. The show also smartly brought back Rebecca Sugar to do one more original song, deployed perfectly at a tremendous emotional crescendo. Certain long-simmering subplots get their payoffs, with the definitive confirmation (and resumption!) of the Princess Bubblegum / Marceline romance being the biggest bit of fanservice. ![]() There’s a wealth of callbacks to moments, catchphrases, and in-jokes from the whole history of the show. “Come Along With Me” has some of the elements you’d expect of a series finale.
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