Dang Emily, great insights on the paradox-of-communication theme!

oh also is the gatekeeper at the center of the grass maze just a giant tardigrade?

agreed, i did have to re-watch "Is That You?" to sort it all out

I have to take issue with your characterization of pre-Fern "Grass Finn" as "definitely not the real Finn" and with the notion that he adopted Finn's identity and falsely held Finn's memories. Until Finn revived Prismo, there was one Finn. Whatever wacky rules of Prismo's dimension caused multiples of each character…