Wednesday, December 5, 2012

My first new post

Hey, what's up everyone who is reading this right now! This is my new home because the people at blogger decided one day that "hey, Austin's old blog is interesting, lets take it down", so they did. Since this is my first post on this new blog, and that I haven't figured out how to tag posts yet, I decided to blatantly state that this post is one about me pondering/inquiring. "What am I pondering/inquiring about today?" I am pondering/inquiring about life, the universe and everything, or, more specifically, the universe of the popular cartoon Adventure Time! Now, at first you look at Adventure Time as a silly cartoon about a boy and his magical talking dog who go on adventures in the land of Ooo. What you are thinking is what I also thought at first, so I started watching it. As I really got into the show, I started noticing weird objects around Ooo. No, not the waving snail in every episode, but in each episode there were remnants of modern day civilization, and that Finn, the protagonist, is the only human in the world (other than possibly Susan Strong). Being bored one day, I checked the Adventure Time! Wiki and what I found shocked me! The show actually takes place in a post apocalyptic world after nuclear war. This amazed me, how a cartoon can be dark and in depth. While watching even more episodes the plot gets even more wild.  The Ice King steals princesses because before the war he put on the Ice King crown which gave him visions, which caused his fiancĂ©e to leave him. Marceline, Finn's vampire friend, was given a stuffed bear as a child, during the nuclear war, but the Ice King, due to the visions, doesn't remember giving her the bear, or even remember her or anything from before the nuclear war. While trying to take in these tragic stories, I realized that almost every episode has inner meaning. The Ice King and Marceline represents a granddaughter who has a grandfather with Alzheimers. An episode when Finn tries to get his frisbee out of a tree represents escape and fruits of your labor, etc etc.
My point is that a kid's cartoon is really not for kids and has in depth inner meaning. I have learned a lot from this "silly cartoon" and it continues to give me artistic inspiration.
Until next time...........

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