This is the reason why a planned Adventure Time TV movie was scrapped during the S6 production cycle. The show was a little too much of a sandbox for the free-reign individualist spirit that informs the show to really work together large-scale. But these guys seem to be pretty aware of how to write film-length stuff,…

Yeah, Adventure Time is the sort of story that throws out a lot of convoluted sometimes interconnected mythology and then doesn't feel the need to base the show around it. If they play with the stuff they've set up before, cool stuff could happen.

Maybe Rose had two gems and only one went to Steven.

On the horizon, as in it keeps moving away as we get closer and closer to it?

I was a little saddened that the episode basically ended with Amethyst taking all of Greg's junk. It'd be one thing if they fixed it up into a little living room sorta place, but just seeing the whole place empty made me feel lonely.

Yeah, "Cool Dad" does on some level describe Garnet's relationship with Steven. She's like the parent who would let you drive a car in an empty parking lot when you were twelve.

One of my favorite visual touches about this episode is how you never can actually see Li'l Butler on the television when Greg and Amethyst are binge-watching, just a white bleary glare. The show does a nice job of placing you in Steven's shoes during this episode, which I think is really what they were aiming at with…

Personally, I just stay indoors and listen to the Dismemberment Plan. But this episode was a good meditation on the same topics.

Adventure Time has become a lot more abstract. I loved AT's episode much more than, say, SU's this week, but the show has become a lot harder to say something about. There weren't really any quotable lines, the imagery was very pretty and unusually expressive but a little cryptic, and it didn't really end on a big…

Yeah. That called to mind that interview where Greg was talking about his favorite comic books and mentioned Heavy Metal.

This was a great episode. I loved the way the surrealism mixed together with the teenage drama, which was parodied but still taken seriously enough to fuel the story. You had this mix of the mundane, mysterious, and surreal in TV's dream reveries that felt like a more mature version of what this show ordinarily does…

Steven's ban from TV reminded me of how my elementary school had a "TV Turn-Off Week" where you'd pledge to not watch television. I remember during one my mom and I went over to my grandmother's house and accidentally wound up watching Emeril for an hour after she went to bed.

"Happy New Year, Steven. How's my volume?"

A lot of their early episodes are annoying, but I will say this: they're probably the only aspect of the show that has managed to consistently improve over time. They're pretty focal in "Sleepless in Ponyville" and "Twilight Time", my personal favorites from Season 3 and 4.

I wrote a review of Stormcock, Roy Harper's most famous album: https://rateyourmusic.com/c…

I've been exploring some old canon MPB/samba albums recently:

Upvoted for Charles Lloyd.

The Wrens - Boys You Won't Remember
Goodie Mob - Dirty South
Minutemen - Viet Nam
The Congos - Solid Foundation
Suni McGrath - The Star of County Down / Childgrove
Gillian Welch - I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
Guided By Voices - Chicken Blows
Tom Waits - Union Square
Lambchop - The New Cobweb Summer
John Prine - Pretty Good
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Are you sure you guys aren't going to switch preferences at some unspecified point in the future?

Fair enough. They probably are more like Ted, obviously.