Friday, October 05, 2018

Adventure Time and puberty?

Unpopular opinion: Adventure Times discussion and handling of puberty was executed poorly.

I am in favor of leaving the topic of puberty to shows that are willing to fully discuss it and explore it across gender and sex spectrums.

Having the representation of a  white male that doesn't even know what it's like to be human, with a misguided mindset influenced by recent breakups and the loss of a limb and undesirable revelations of a long lost parent is a huge discredit to the audience.

Finn is also surrounded by mutants and/or aliens. looking at that particular episode from different types of angles, isn't so much about puberty as much as it is about making misguided decisions based on emotional and mental trauma. It's about vices and addiction, but mixed with puberty because the protagonist is a teenager.

and it was really nothing else they could do, because Finn smoking and drinking would have been too much for the target audience. but we have such a basic and misguided and very understated view of addiction and vices. A person can be addicted to literally anything. but addiction comes from a feeling of isolation. Even though Finn wasn't alone he felt alone and empty. I wish Adventure Time had just gone for that and did something else, rather than mixing it into the puberty scheme. and I kind of did with the tower, but the isolating attention-seeking could have done more than just trying to make out with everyone which turned into a puberty and underscored sexual thing.

Admittedly, there is no real PG13 way to handle puberty. It's an adult subject that adults don't experience. We experience things along before adulthood that we consider "adult content", and that's something we need to admit to ourselves and abolish to be able to properly educate people going through it and make the point clear.

Or maybe it would have been better if they had handled puberty singularly, and not mixed in the other heavy mental and emotional things that we're going on at the same time. But, with the way Adventure Time usually handled certain things, I feel like they should have left it alone completely.

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