Some fans might feel shorted by this approach, understandably - they’ve been promised a story about the end of Ooo. The Gumball War is transitory, like the sort of plot that would come in the penultimate season before the real showdown. There’s just no way he could carry the weight of the entire show’s history, and “Come Along With Me” doesn’t ask him to. Though he’s mentioned as early as the second season, Gumbald isn’t fully introduced as an antagonist until the season eight finale, with only 15 episodes left to go. Princess Bubblegum’s war with Uncle Gumbald is a decent fantasy conflict, but it doesn’t have anything approaching the sweep of Finn’s battle with The Lich, or the apocalyptic sense of the catalyst comet. For the most part, the finale was just another adventure.Īdventure Time showrunner doesn’t see the finale as a happy endingįrom one perspective, that story seems a bit small, especially for a goodbye. There are slightly higher stakes than normal, but Adventure Time had done a “fate of the world” type plot before. Led by BMO and the power of song, the heroes prevail and avert the apocalypse. Betty’s attempt to cure Ice King dovetails with Maja the Sky Witch to summon GOLB, the closest thing Adventure Time has to an evil god. Here’s what actually happens in “Come Along With Me”: Princess Bubblegum’s war with her Uncle Gumbald reaches a fever pitch, until some dream-based struggle allows the pair of candy people to realize they don’t need to resolve their differences through violence. So it makes sense that while “Come Along With Me,” the four-part series finale, engages with a few of these questions, it’s content to leave many of them unanswered, which feels like the right choice.

The final season of Adventure Time does have a valedictory feeling in that it addresses a few of these running plots, but the show was never leading to a real “conclusion,” at least not narratively. Would Ice King ever find his way back to being the unmutated scientist Simon Petrikov? Would Finn and Princess Bubblegum ever get together? (Or, more importantly, would Finn ever be in a healthy relationship, period?) Was Sweet P ever going to need to do battle with The Lich dwelling inside of him? In retrospect, the thought that Adventure Time might have had an actual, definitive ending feels silly.īy its fourth season, the show had rapidly lost interest in telling a single story about its central quartet of Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum and Ice King, and sprawled outward to the point where no single episode could possibly wrap up every ongoing thread.

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