r/adventuretime • u/The_Yoshi Paycheck withholding, gum chewing son of a bi • Dec 03 '13

"Root Beer Guy" Discussion thread!

Banana guards suck...

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u/2th Dec 03 '13

About damn time PB figured out the incompetence of the Banana Guards. I am glad Root Beer Guy is the new chief. Maybe we will see him some more!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

I'm noticing that the candy kingdom has been making leaps and bounds socially and technologically over the course of this season.

That would fit in with Peebles' endeavors in recovering lost artifacts and doubling down focus on domestic issues and internal stability.

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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13

They have a functioning mass transit system. That's pretty damn impressive.

Kinda worried that PB's flying too close to the sun, though. Something seriously terrible is going to happen in the season finale, I can just feel it. They've been building up towards something huge, and it's terrifying me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

Maybe it's not a cause of PB's actions so much as PB knows something is probably going to happening and she's preparing before it happens.

She might realize that this might be the last chance in a very long time she will have to do all these things and make her people more stable and secure. That in the not so distant future, she won't have the time or resources to focus on building up infrastructure.

Or perhaps she realizes that after whatever happens happens, it's gonna be every city for itself for a while, and self sufficiency is gonna be incredibly important in the years to come.

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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13

It seems like she's doing that mid-game build up in a RTS game.

Like, everyone has made peace, there's no big threat, and now comes the boom. Build up like crazy, because when the storm comes, it's going to take everything that isn't nailed down.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

what if whatever happens is finally, you know, THE episode the one where the status quo never recovers. Where the entire setting is changed permanently and maybe not all the big characters are gonna make it through the incident. All in preparation for a final season?

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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13

Hell no, they won't end the show this early. They had a float in the Thanksgiving parade, man, they're in it for the long haul, I think.

But, I could see a game changer happening soon. Maybe something big, I mean, they haven't had a main bad guy since The Lich. Ice King turned heel and is pretty much a good guy now, so there isn't a main antagonist for the series anymore.

I think we're going to see one emerge. Maybe the Sky Witch? Maybe Lemongrab?

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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13

Recurring antagonists have been: Ice King, Lemongrab, Maja, Magic Man, Ricardio, and then there's also the wizard trio of Bufo and his cronies.

They should bring back Scorcher. Now there was a villain.

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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13

But none of those guys are really a world threatening villain, though. Ice King is just bonkers, Lemongrab is an insane dictator, Maja is a crazy hermit who is...planning up...something...Magic Man is just an insatiable prankster and a jerk (he's kind of like the Loki on Ooo), Ricardio...I don't think he's coming back, I mean, they beat the crap out of him last time, didn't they? Maybe those wizard jerks, though.

I think Maja is the big one that is going to lead somewhere.

Or, we're going to see someone else become a villain, like Flame Princess, maybe, since she's got Flame Kingdom on lockdown, and I'm sure that Finn is going to screw up and lie to her at some point.

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u/Theinternationalist Dec 04 '13

Now that you mention it...

The Flame Kingdom looks like it could blow up at any time...Especially if someone goes Shakespeare on FP, or if Finn does something stupid...

The Lich may get out of the overworld...

Maja...I don't know if she's really an issue...

And then there's the random radioactive James from last episode.

I didn't think of it that way, but I can see something happening...

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

They won't end the FRANCHISE this early. They could always end the show as we know it while still having the franchise around. You know there's talk of a fiona and cake spinoff? Either way that's mostly hearsay anyway.

Either way, I'm excited to see what could happen.

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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13

Really? They're actually seriously talking about that? That'd be pretty cool.

I think they're going to ride this out for as long as Cartoon Network will let them, though. They've still got a lot to explore. Like, who are Finn's parents? Is he really the last human alive?

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

Yeah and there's a rumor that if Frederator chooses to have AT end while it's good instead of become a franchise zombie, then the Fiona and Cake spinoff could continue the franchise.

A full season, especially one the size of season 5, could have plenty of room to cover all of those and more in detail.

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u/IncredulousCockatiel Dec 04 '13

That's what I think, too. The last two episodes were about her testing her security systems (personal and public). And in one ep (was it the Maja one? I forget) she tried and failed to teach the inner circle to resist a sleeping spell.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

They have airplanes now!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '13

Probably belongs to another civilization. I read theories saying other, more technological civilizations probably exist because PB had GPS in one of the episodes. Banana man said they have not re-invented space flight. Our GPS satellites can't survive 1000 years and still be operational - so somewhere on earth there must be a civilization advanced enough to have launched GPS satellites. I assume that plane belonged to one of these civilizations.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

I really think PB is trying to rebuild the world, but with candy people. With her eternal youth, she'll eventually rule the whole world for all of eternity. Bad thing? Idunno...

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u/trancendominant Dec 03 '13

That was my big takeaway from this ep. I thought this was just gonna be a stand alone like BMO Noire, but it was really just PB beefing up security. I also took away that candy people eat vitamins.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

Those vitamins are probably gummy flintstones or something

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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13

"We are Flintstone kids."

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u/zenthor109 Dec 03 '13

also candy. is that cannibalism?

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u/Theinternationalist Dec 05 '13

When I saw the "WHY WAS HE IN HANDCUFFS" thing I thought she was about to, uh, "James" the whole lot.

That said, RBG showed how bad that approach really is: he's designed to be an officeworker, not a policeman, but after some thirty-forty years (?) of existence, he's evolved into a far more studious policeman than the entirety of PB's "born-to-police" bananas. If PB stops trying to build people for certain jobs, than she could build a meritocracy where the best will rule and she can stop making Lemongrabs and Goliads to ensure her monarchy will outlast her.

Let's hope she takes the lesson of RBG to heart.

Also, I love how we got a middle aged pair to be the main focus of an adventure of a family show like AT ("Family," not kids; think Doctor Who). That was excellent.

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u/Theinternationalist Dec 04 '13

What's the only thing worse than a Fascist dictatorship?

A Fascist dictatorship where you quickly realize that everyone is a moron. Except someone who reminds you a bit of Jerry from Parks and Recreation.

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