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FLCL should explain in great detail.
It could be an Easter egg for Teen Titans. I always though its taking out the Adult (Robotic) form from the kid.I think it's cause back then there weren't much regulation for what makes it onto the tv for our kids.
Oh, and can someone (you maybe) explain what 'pulling a robot out of people's heads' means? I still don't know what it implies.
Oh, and can someone (you maybe) explain what 'pulling a robot out of people's heads' means? I still don't know what it implies.
Okay. Okay. I'll rewatch.
Adventure Time is pretty multi-layered. On the top-level, it's a retro-feeling sword-and-sorcery adventure set incongrously in a post-apocalyptic candyland inhabited by radiation-spawned candy people, mutants, monsters and fantastical creatures. On a more basic level, it's about a teenage boy, his dog and his life as grows up, finds love, loses it and finds it again over long story arcs. On another level, it's nearly pure randomness... but it's interspersed with some very serious bits, some very emotional bits and there are a lot of subtle hints and clues to the entire world's backstory scattered throughout the various episodes.
Wife and I actually watch it with our kid. It's surprisingly popular with young (and not so young) adults, with a good fanbase and even entire fan-made fan-animated episodes online.
The worst criticisms I've heard are of the simple art... but honestly, some of the most memorable shows, like "Dexter's Lab", use pared back art to better concentrate on proper character design and story-telling. To be clear, though, Adventure Time's art direction is much tighter than DL or PPG, and it's been remarkably consistent from episode to episode. Also, the simplistic art-style allows for very dense world-building detail and a rich variety of design. Lots of fans on Deviantart for this series.
The more valid criticism is that it's scary for younger kids. There are zombies, brain-sucking ghosts, soul-sucking demon-overlords, the undead Lich-king, who kills a character in one episode and wears his skin and various monstrosities and mutant oddities. For adults pretending to be kids... it's a nice distraction.Some of you will probably not like it, but I say, watch a dozen episodes or so before making up your mind. (Later episodes get deeper and better scripted, though they're still random at heart) Nickelodeon must be kicking themselves in the nuts for losing this franchise to Cartoon Network.
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