My Thoughts/Feelings on the End of Adventure Time
So, Adventure Time has finally ended. I just finished watching the finale today. Sorry for being so silent and inactive, but I felt I had to say something about this. I have so much history with this show, it was a big part of childhood: I was there when it began and know I'm at the end. I was 10 when this show began and now I'm 18 and have now started my freshman year in college at the same time this series ends.
Adventure Time was one of the first cartoons that I became an avid fan for. Some of the first pieces of fanart I did were of Adventure Time. I remember back in elementary school how much I would look forward to a new episode coming out. I was obsessed with the show up until the episode Frost and Fire. I was such a fan that I made my own novelizations of two episodes using Composition notebooks and most of my time on the internet was spent browsing the wiki. Also, another thing I would do was always draw a doodle of Finn on the back of my homework packet with little words of motivation. I loved the songs, the world, the stories and the characters.
I stopped watching the show after Frost and Fire because of what it did to Finn. Finn was my childhood hero: he was a kid like me, he aged over time, and he overall I just thought he was fun and cool. It was because of this show that I developed an interest and love for romance and relationship building in cartoons. I even dressed up as Finn for Halloween with a costume I made myself. I felt that I grew along with Finn...which came as a betrayal to me when he did what he did in F & F. I think I was in sixth grade at the time.
I started watching the show again 2 years ago around the time of Stakes (I really enjoyed Stakes). It had been years since I had watched the show. Watching the finale it made me feel, I don't know... anxious and numb, as it was reaching it's end. I honestly don't know how I feel. I thought everything that has happened in my life thus far. There were moments in the finale that I enjoyed (one in particular), and the ending was heartfelt.
It's funny, as a kid one of my biggest worries was the show ending after 3 or 4 seasons, but never did I expect for it to last for 10 seasons and/or for 8 years. I am grateful for what a big part of my childhood this show was. Although it is kind of depressing and a bit scary to me, everything has it's end. Thank you, Adventure Time, for all that you inspired and for all the joy you gave.