It’s then mentioned again in the fifth season episode “The Suitor” by (unsurprisingly) a suitor who wants to go there with Princess Bubblegum.īut in neither of these episodes do we get any idea of what it is beyond an afterlife paradise, nor do we get a sense for the variety of dead worlds that are presented in Together Again. The 50th dead world was first mentioned in the 3rd season episode “Ghost Princess” when Ghost Princess finds peace and says that she will ascend there.

The most significant of these of course being the dead worlds. The special introduces a huge amount of detail to things off-handedly mentioned in the show. To say the least, Together Again is one of the most lore heavy episodes of Adventure Time, Distant Lands or original. New Death seeks to end the cycle of reincarnation and wants to collapse all the dead worlds into one inescapable eternity. Jake has ascended to the 50th dead world and a New Death has taken over from Death who was friends with Peppermint Butler. Being dead means that he gets to be with Jake again. Shortly thereafter, Finn learns that he’s dead. The world then begins to change, Jake melts away, the sky wobbles and Finn begins to flash between his young self of the show and an old adventurer with a long beard and mechanical arm. Jake crawls towards it and tells Finn it’s where he’s supposed to be. The special continues to feel like any episode of the original run of the show for the first few minutes as we join Finn and Jake in their classic designs for some classic adventures (stealing ice cream from monsters, saving princesses, etc.) before they arrive at the treehouse where an open grave sits empty. It’s the first of the specials to open with the classic Adventure Time opening sequence (albeit after the Distant Lands opening sequence) including the opening credits on worn pages as if this were just another episode of the show. So far the Distant Lands specials have done a surprisingly great job of this by giving BMO their own special that doesn’t intersect with any of the other characters of the show (until the very end), and by focusing Obsidian on Princess Bubblegum and Marceline’s lives before and after the original show’s timeline.īut from its opening, Together Again is different. This means that the Distant Lands specials are in a strange place, they need to cater to fans’ desire for more Adventure Time, without messing up the narrative conclusion that the finale so beautifully delivered. As I noted in my review of Obsidian, Adventure Time came to a perfect conclusion with its finale in 2018. This review includes a spoiler for the first 10 minutes of the special.Īdventure Time: Distant Lands could easily have been just a cash grab.

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