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Adventure Time's Producer Was Concerned Queer Representation Might Draw 'Too Much Attention'
gizmodo ^ | 4th September 2018 | Charles Pulliam-Moore

Posted on 09/04/2018 6:31:54 PM PDT by Ennis85

Though Adventure Time’s series finale brought Finn and Jake’s televised adventures to an end this week, the event also confirmed one of the most interesting and longstanding theories about the show that astonished and delighted many fans.

After multiple seasons of hints, clues, and varying amounts of queer subtext, Adventure Time’s finale confirmed that Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the vampire have romantic feelings for one another and are destined to be together. During a climactic battle against GOLB, a powerful and malevolent being from another dimension hellbent on destroying Ooo, Marceline watches as Bubblegum is apparently crushed, prompting the vampire to fly into a fit of rage before she realizes the princess is actually fine thanks to her armor.

The two embrace and Marceline admits that she feared she’d lost Bubblegum forever. After assuring Marceline that it’d take more than that to destroy her, the pair share a tender kiss. And it made “Bubbeline” fans very happy.

While the moment was sure to vindicate Adventure Time fans who’ve been shipping the characters pretty much since they first appeared on screen together, the show’s creative team was unsure of how to handle it.

In an interview with TVLine, executive producer Adam Muto explained how, initially, an explicit kiss wasn’t even a planned part of the episode—the script, he said “didn’t say that they kiss. It just said they ‘have a moment’”—and it wasn’t included until storyboard artist Hanna K. Nyström made a point of advocating for it. Though the two characters never state their love for one another, Muto insisted people’s assumptions about their romance are correct:

"There’s enough to draw a conclusion. I don’t want to lay out their entire future—what their relationship will be like after this,"

(Excerpt) Read more at io9.gizmodo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adventuretime; cartoon; gay; homosexual; lesbian; lgtb

1 posted on 09/04/2018 6:31:54 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Good riddance.

TV just got a little better.


2 posted on 09/04/2018 6:37:19 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Ennis85

Pervert cartoon characters?


3 posted on 09/04/2018 6:39:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Ennis85

Jesus, I mean how many cartoons has it been now that they been pushing an agenda?

Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Korra, Voltron, Loud House, Clarence. Do they think maybe thats enough representation at this point?


4 posted on 09/04/2018 6:48:23 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: BenLurkin

Young minds are more malleable.


5 posted on 09/04/2018 7:04:13 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Ennis85

Indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate. All must eventually bow to their homosexual god. That’s why we don’t watch anything done in the past 10-15 years. They all must eventually do so. Even the Walking Dead, a show about a zombie apocalypse, did it. Homosexuals aren’t welcome in my home. Theirs is a nasty, disease-ridden behavior that God will mercilessly torture for eternity. That’s really all I need to know.


6 posted on 09/05/2018 6:10:26 AM PDT by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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To: afsnco

Seriously Man?


7 posted on 09/05/2018 8:50:27 AM PDT by Ennis85
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