THE COMET: The Meaning of Finn's Life (Adventure Time Analysis)
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2022
- The Comet is an Adventure Time Episode about Finn, Jake, Marceline, BMO and princess bubblegum. In this video essay I talk about the Existentialism tied to the video as well as the themes of Death, Life and The catalyst Comet.
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If you really think about it, Martin has lost everything, even most of his sanity, so it’s understandable why he accepts everything.
Martins philosophy is summarized in his final words with Finn. Finn says “well i guess there’s no changing you” which is essentially “it is what it is” and Martin says he’s glad they finally understand each other. Martin just goes with the flow because there’s no inherent meaning, it all just is what it is, it’s whatever, no inherent “answer that will satisfy you” as he says to Finn. So why not? Which can lead to a perceivably irresponsible or selfish way of living, as the follower of this doesn’t put weight into their action, they just do what they want without care. Finn sees meaning in all the worldly things and chooses to contour experiencing them, Martin doesn’t so the offer of trying something new is easier for him to accept.
I don't really remember what it was exactly, it's been a while, but there was something real poetic about Finn's dad just disappearing out of existence after all the emotional labor Finn put into him.
I think you're referring to when Martin says something along the lines of "if you burn all the bridges, then the only way to go is forward" high lighting his care free, unresponsible lifestyle. To which Finn responds about how he will never understand or have his father be the father he expects, so he learned to accept how different they are.
They both agreed that they'd never agree, which was very sweet/poetic 😁
Martin was always interesting to me. The lack of responsibility, stemming from his fear of losing freedom, is why he is more of a child than Fin. And why his story ends when he becomes… nothing. Nothing is… the ultimate freedom?? Idk. Martin and Fin’s relationship and as individuals will always be so interesting to me.
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He's also a tragic figure as its heavily implied if not outright stated that something happens to him after him and Finn get separated if the flashback from the island miniseries is to be believed. He was a con man but never wanted to leave the island and had a good life that he enjoyed with Finn and his wife. He makes no mention of his wife to Finn and doesn't recognize Finn despite him being his first son and arguably his most memorable son.
He didn’t become nothing though
He merely dipped out of one construct of time to make his way into an alternate one and he will continue existing ad infinitum until he decides he no longer wishes to exist
It’s sort of like our own situation since art mimics reality.
Adventure Time has recently found it's way back into my immediate life somehow and am glad I found your channel! Also, your voice is very soothing and familiar somehow, nostalgic almost. Anyways, I hope you continue to do more on this series and perhaps even branch out to just as entertaining and thought provoking media.
Strange how we all decide to revisit old shows are the EXACT same month. I started last month and couldn’t stop hunting down adventure time vids ever since. This show made me, I was just to young to understand. We were meant to come back when we were older and mature to fully understand this show and it’s message. The end
mg why is this show so deep...i could cry cuz i miss the innocence of the show
the innocence was never really there, but ours was lost along the way making us see more...
2:07 I kinda always saw that as just Orgalorg acting like “yeah I’m bigger and cooler than you and you can’t do anything about it”
Cuz every single being in the adventure time universe other than The Lich and Golb always have this kind of go with the flow vibe casual dialect sometimes it’s hard to tell whether or not they’re being serious
i think the reason orgalorg didnt know what he was doing or why at first was because his consciousness was squished down into a lesser form that couldnt comprehend the timescales and plans of the true orgalorg, but orgalorg still has an affect on the decisions and actions of gunter
This is one of my favourite episodes. Existentialism has been a big part of my life for a while and this episode really was a nice way of thinking about it, your video presented the ideas very clearly. Not only the ideas of existentialism but also of the use in Finn’s life. How a character at the point of existential conflict has to make choices based on their outlook of their life, how they view meaning, of at all. Thank you
This episode is absolutely great. A great cap off for Season 6, and also a great analysis on how Finn goes through what he's going through in that episode alone, even when he is separated from Jake.
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I enjoy listening to these analysis. It’s soothing, and in a way mind opening.
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There’s a kaleidoscopic breadth to scenes like this in AT that’s almost impossible to sum up from any given angle.
They’re like Yin and Yang both explorers, one bound by the love of his friends and family, the other free but in the end, alone.
Finn chooses to return to the existence he knows, Martin to the one he doesn’t - both choices being commendable.
It really reminds me of that soliloquy in Hamlet -
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause-there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.”
Any way I view it, it’s beautiful
Pendleton Ward really gave us something special with this show
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Adventure Time is one of those series close to me; from being so fun to being extremely meaningful in many ways. Thank you for your videos!
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Your essay style is soothing and easy to digest! Keep going 🎉
This is great
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I really love lava mans videos because not only does he take symbolism in art (like tv) but also things like morals and philosophy and puts them together and its so interesting to watch them cause it makes you think
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i never thought about the episode like that, i mean, i understood finns view, but ive never understood what is martins meaning
now i do
Beatiful video. Very intelligent analysis.
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When I was a kid adventure time was just a nonsensical, funny show to entertain me. Now to my more mature mind, it explores so many facets of life and our individually and the duality of it all. Peak show
I don't think it has anything to do with existentialism, rather cynicism. Nothing matters because of predetermination or the global consciousness or whatever its referred to as in this show. Existentialism really is a branch off of cynicism, and says that the true meaning of life is the harvesting of your own life's victories and losses; friends you've made and the impact from you to other people, the work you've done, the mark you made on the world down to the most minute detail.
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Did anyone else notice that green comet had lich horns
The lich came from the comet so that makes sense
I somehow never even noticed that that was the last time we saw Martin. I don't think I even registered that he took up the comet's offer. I need to pay more attention, I think.
no I completely get it, it didn’t click for me either until I reflected on the series as a whole lmao
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His meaning is the same as our meaning, to pick and choose which moments we want to experience via the construct of time by partitioning ourselves into moments offered to us as if they were templates for us as that which lies in between mind and body.
That’s why he had the luxury of choosing to stay, and why his father had the luxury of choosing to leave. We all have the luxury of choice.
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Tight. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely excellent
Lmao the ending really did make me like
the ghibli music weirdly slaps for this video
I watched a whole episode upside down and didn’t even change a notice
I know what he’s talking about, but Finn is friends with like 3 demigods and knows exactly what happens to you after death… he isn’t afraid and wants to see his life though before he was to retire to the dead worlds or reincarnate.
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'goodbye dad' . love it
I like your videos that is all good day
God what a fucking good show
what was the music you used at the end of the video.
hey, do you have your essay in text form? I'd like to read it by myself and try to understand it. Also, this video is beautiful, I liked it so much!
Finn met god and had a good time, and decided that he wanted to see the universe play out as he'd put alot of time and energy into it through all these lives
How tf was i supposed to understand this as a child
What's the song? Piano in the background?
the minecraft music fits the feeling so well
Whats crazy is that finn did all this, only to lose meaning again. SPOILER!!!!!!!
After Jakes Early death (Implied to be sometime shortly after the end of the main series given finns choice to age himself down in the afterlife to be more "Familiar".
I wonder if adult finn would have taken that offer after losing Jake.
I don't think he would, cause all he wanted was to see Jake again, and if he can't die then he couldn't get to the afterlife to see him
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I know it’s just my spyware phone giving me adventure time videos after i watched it yesterday but none the less i appreciate this video.
you guys think martin is in a loop for his life after he dissapears he could create a cosmic crime or get framed for one and it gets him sent to a diff citadel where a diff finn and jake free him and it keeps degrading his memory with each cycle from the stress of it all
...Finn knows exactly what happens when he dies he's been to the dead worlds...He's been reincarnated like four times...
Please keep making vedios.
Martin came back
I wonder what would have happened if the comet was allowed to hit Earth.
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what is the name of the intro song
A Town with an Ocean View by Joe Hisaishi
Uhh can someone tell me the song name in the begining? I heard it before but i never knew the name
A Town with an Ocean View by Joe Hisaishi
Finn creates a god
what song is at the beginning
A Town with an Ocean View by Joe Hisaishi
Dry hands hit me hard jeez
There is no meaning other than what meaning you find, the show makes that implicitly clear
how is this a kids show
Perhaps all these oppositions, fate and free will, and meaning and meaninglessness are all a 'two different sides of the same coin idea'. Just like space and time are interdependent on each other, maybe other dualist concepts of reality work together in a way that is incomprehensible to the logical mind. We find ourselves trying to understand reality as having a singular truth, a single base, when maybe instead it is a bowl of well seasoned truth spaghetti all intertwined to create a fluid existence
I disagree that Orgalorg is a force of nature. The quote ascending in the ship always read to me as him transitioning from Gunther to Orgalorg. Orgalorg having just enough influence to convince himself to take these actions.
He realizes what he’s supposed to do in space because he’s no longer clouded by earth’s gravity.
I don’t think he’s a force of nature by saying “you can’t stop me, I’m orgalorg” We’ve seen in “gold stars” that Orgalorg has existed before there was nothing. He doesn’t view himself as capable of being defeated. I think he just has a massive ego. Compounded with seeing the comet, he might suspect that he’s the agent of change, making him even more confident he can’t be stopped
yo can somebody tell me the name of the first song?
A Town with an Ocean View by Joe Hisaishi
U dirty bastard, as soon as that Minecraft music kicked in it was over for me 😭
Evangelion anyone?
why does an universal intention negate any arguments you make around 7:30?
And sometimes their homeboys will treat these girls better than the og ever did. End up getting married too, ya know?
Honestly I think if one person in the relationship cheats then they never loved you and therefore shouldn’t give a fuck about, nor have a say in who you’re with after.
I really do mean this for men too, so if she cheats on you go tf ahead.
Okay but consider that you are not you but instead you are the one behind the eyes the thoughts you are the watcher this body this version of you is just someone you are experiencing who could only experience it in a way of being fully emearced in this is who you are this is it. But what if it’s not what if after you connect back to something n you go thru Multiple lives to fully experience what it is to be a being on earth
You’re not far off
damn, I don't know if it's just me but I feel like you're cutting you're sentence short, maybe I enjoyed too much and wish it was an hour long video ^^
Ehh, in that universe maybe. Maybe.
Uh Finn may have accepted how his dad is ,but for me he's probably my least favorite character in Adventure time
I’m really glad they showed Martin accepting it. All too often films and tv shows have an agenda to push, to not influence the younger generation, so the main character always has to take the nobler road or whatever is deemed socially acceptable of that period. And this in turn, to me, can seem like a propaganda of sorts, to never achieve immortality, harsh reality is always better than false virtual worlds, but sometimes people are just sick of real life and it’s struggles and may be I would just do what Martin did. Having another important character to choose that fate gives the audience validation that it is a valid choice
Fin is good Martin is neutral
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Magicka, there's an idea of wanting to achieve apotheosis, but on your journey, you realize it's not worth it for one reason or another. This theme is explored in SCP as well. Sarkics Aya trust the meat instinct and mechanites embrace the mechanical fate of the universe.
Amazing documentaries!! With all of the voice acting and jokes that goes on in the show I’ve never realised how *deep and philosophical* it can be!
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