I don't think we're meant to approve of TV, and I think we're meant to take him finally moving out as character growth continuing from "The Diary", even if it's incremental.

Adventure Time is all about growing up. Bearing that in mind makes it seem a lot less random.

Alright, I'm intrigued: what do YOU view Superman as, and what do you want out of a story focusing on him? I'm genuinely curious, and not trying to be confrontational. I'm interested in hearing more about a viewpoint I disagree with.

I forget who, but someone involved with the show said that this season would have about the same number of episodes as the last one. That season had 42 episodes, and we're 30 in, so you could very well be right. Of course, if this were pre-season five, the season would already have been over four episodes ago, so I'm…

Well, Adventure Time has a tendency to subvert some of the more saccharine cartoon tropes. There's a princess made of bubblegum who rules a kingdom of anthropomorphic candy, but she's a really conflicted, layered political figure, and the kingdom is riddled with urban decay. There's a place called The Crystal…

I like Important Lessons For A Character To Feel Angst About.

I think the subtitles were necessary for giving her character the depth this episode obviously set out to do. The Korean-without-subtitles thing is great because it's very funny, but it was also somewhat hindering to doing anything more with her character than just being amusing and somewhat charming.

Spot on, Liv. Which provides an excellent contrast to Lady, who seems to naturally be enemies with nobody. Notably, she starts out the episode by going to have lunch with Princess Bubblegum, an authority figure, and a controversial one at that. It demonstrates a maturity on her part to see further than, say, the…

This is kind of the perfect backstory for Lady Rainicorn: the most consistently positive and measured character on the show, to the point of that appearing to be her only personality trait, used to run with a pretty bad crowd. That makes total sense, because a lot of really positive people are like that: they…

Anyone else really annoyed about the CN logo covering up some of the subtitles?

See, here's the problem: he didn't depict Superman as being somewhat tortured and conflicted, because he didn't depict Superman as anything. Superman isn't in these movies at all, Snyder and Goyer just created a generic "Dark" super-hero and then slapped the Superman brand on him and marketed him as such. You can put…

The difference is that The Dark Knight is a Batman film. Batman represents a darker side of justice, so his stories tend to be darker. Superman is supposed to represent a brighter, more inspiring vision of justice, and stories in which he and Batman are in conflict are supposed to show the contrast between those two…

Fair enough. I disagree, and I think part of it stems from the fact that I don't think we're supposed to agree with Batman's perspective on everything. Batman is and has always been an example of an extreme; necessary one given the circumstances, but an extreme nonetheless, and that lends itself to a very one-sided…

And now I don't see how that relates to what you said in your first comment.

…I don't see how this is disagreeing with anything I said.

I don't like cereal anymore!

That's a fair point, but it would be nice to at least have an adaptation that is solidly really good all the way through.

Good.
I mean, the thing I most hated about Pan was that I thought for certain that it would scare Hollywood away from the property for a long time. Peter Pan is a really, really extraordinary book, and there really hasn't been a proper, definitive adaptation of it. That one from the early 2000s came close a few times,…

Mystery Inc. already did it. As well as absolutely perfect Scooby-Doo to the point where any and all future iterations of the franchise will seem like pointless footnotes. Hot damn, that show was amazing.

If I may abandon every scrap of human decency for a moment, perhaps this whole detestable ordeal will inspire her to create some more meaningful music. It's happened before, and it would be a bit of a silver—though grossly inadequate—lining.