{"id":16092,"date":"2020-06-26T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/adventure-time-distant-lands-lets-one-of-its-finest-characters-shine\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:30:00","slug":"adventure-time-distant-lands-lets-one-of-its-finest-characters-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/adventure-time-distant-lands-lets-one-of-its-finest-characters-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Adventure Time: Distant Lands\u2019 Lets One of Its Finest Characters Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Adventure Time: Distant Lands\u2019 Lets One of Its Finest Characters Shine<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Note \u2014 Throughout \u2018Adventure Time,\u2019 BMO goes by both he\/him and she\/her pronouns. In this episode, however, he\/him is used exclusively, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to use here.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n
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Adventure Time <\/span><\/i>is a gift of a show that I\u2019ve <\/span>devoted<\/span> no <\/span>small part<\/span> of my life to <\/span>praising<\/span>. It premiered on Cartoon Network in 2010 and ran until 2018 when it ended poignantly and beautifully.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But part of what made the finale so lovely was its insistence that time is an illusion, and endings (even finales) aren\u2019t real. Now it\u2019s proving that point all over again by returning, this time on HBO Max, with four hour-long special episodes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first of those episodes is centered on the plucky little robot BMO as he travel<\/a>s the cosmos, befriends a rabbit girl named Y5, declares himself the sheriff of a troubled space colony, and bumbles his way into saving the day through sheer optimism. It is titled, quite simply, <\/span>BMO.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

And it is the most adorable\/mildly unsettling thing you can hope to see this summer.<\/p>\n

BMO began his tenure on <\/span>Adventure Time <\/span><\/i>as Finn and Jake\u2019s video game<\/a> system, somewhere between tertiary character and app<\/a>liance. But over the years the little robot (voiced incomparably by writer and storyboard artist <\/span>Niki Yang<\/b>) evolved into one of the show\u2019s most beloved characters, carrying some of its best moments with his childlike wonder, which sometimes overshoots innocence and rockets straight into charmingly bizarre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some standout moments include interrogating a chicken (and ex-lover) named <\/span>Lorraine<\/span>, hosting a <\/span>bikini babe dance party<\/span>, and taping an egg to his belly and singing a song about <\/span>being impregnated by an \u201celectric presence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BMO\u2019s a weird little guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also led the series<\/a> finale\u2019s song \u201c<\/span>Time Adventure<\/span>,\u201d a rousing, all-hands-on-deck Rebecca Sugar number that saved the day, while it simultaneously reflected on the fickle and arbitrary nature of the passage of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, BMO can, and should, carry anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s good because the main plot of <\/span>BMO<\/span><\/i> might not be able to hold itself up on its own. The story is straightforward to a fault, with a transparently dastardly villain and a young hero forging her own path in a dystopian space colony. It\u2019s very sweet, but it\u2019s nothing groundbreaking or unusual.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that seems to be deliberate. And this straightforward plot, with all the beats of an ordinary coming of age story<\/span>, might be deceptively simple. Some of those beats are even treated with a gentle mockery: called Y4 all her life, BMO\u2019s new friend admits she never liked the name and settles, after much deliberation, on the far more humanizing <\/span>Y5<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the episode might be telling a simple story, but it clearly knows what it\u2019s doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

And anyway, the plot is more or less second fiddle to the sheer delight of seeing BMO as the hero of a grand adventure. And to the return of <\/span>Adventure Time\u2019s<\/span><\/i> signature style of humor. And to the new, scattered bits and pieces of extended lore. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fine. It\u2019s the fourth fiddle.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s those bits and pieces of lore that are truly exciting. After all, one of the greatest joys of watching <\/span>Adventure Time <\/span><\/i>is sifting through the mythos and fitting together the pieces of a complex story that\u2019s spanned centuries, galaxies, and an alternate dimension or two.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it\u2019s difficult to get into this lore without taking a hard left into spoiler territory, so I won\u2019t talk about it at length now. That will probably be the job of a bigger breakdown after all four specials have aired. Suffice it to say, there\u2019s a lot going on. In the meantime, I\u2019ll only mention one thing. If you want to go in completely without spoilers, feel free to skip down to the red text.<\/span><\/p>\n

If not, check this out mild hint at a reveal:<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a couple of elements in the episode that feel a bit hard to place (not least of all a mysterious, suspicious character voiced by Stephen Root). But they\u2019re put into much better context at the very end of the episode with a great twist that\u2019s as informative as it is exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, back to the spoiler-free zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even without the smatterings of information to further flesh out the great <\/span>Adventure Time<\/span><\/i> canon,<\/span> BMO <\/span><\/i>is a sweet and hilarious standalone story, with a couple surprisingly shocking and inventive moments. At one point BMO is torn limb from limb. At another, Simone Giertz sings the closing credits song from <\/span>Frasier.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Thankfully, <\/span>Adventure Time<\/span><\/i> is still willing to surprise us and to get real weird with it when it wants to.<\/span><\/p>\n

BMO<\/span><\/i> isn\u2019t the perfect episode, but gosh does it do a lot of things right. Occasionally it feels generic, but there\u2019s enough weirdness, more than enough hints that all the pieces are still sliding into place, and way<\/em> more than enough BMO charm, that you can\u2019t help but believe it\u2019s all worthwhile. We\u2019ve been in good hands with <\/span>Adventure Time <\/span><\/i>for years. I trust us to keep being in good hands, even with a change of network. <\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, above all else, I\u2019m just thrilled to pieces to be watching Adventure Time <\/em>again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adventure Time: Distant Lands \u2014 BMO<\/span><\/i> premieres on HBO Max on June 25. Dates for the remaining three episodes have yet to be announced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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