Name: Is Nostalgia the Reason for Adventure Time's Amazing Awesomeness? | Idea Channel | PBS
Uploaded: 2015-06-30T05:10:38.000Z
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"Adventure Time"-- come on and grab your friends--

is a kids' television show on the Cartoon Network.

and was created by bearded human Pendleton Ward,

pictured here wearing some awesome glasses.

and its many kingdoms which are home to Candy People, animals,

and a whole cast of generally weird but also

As one might suspect, the general thrust of "Adventure Time"

on all manner of moral, ethical, and totally

They rescue princesses, fight giant monsters,

protect the innocent, and have a strong dislike of evil dudes.

And they are very popular, amongst not only kids, but also

a huge contingent of honest-to-Glob growed-up

probably looks a lot like the inside of your head--

exciting sights, magical objects, and impossibly

constant encounters with new and unfamiliar challenges,

For many adults, the core appeal of "Adventure Time"

Not like Instagram filters or cassette tapes post-irony nostalgia,

a pain of an ache for a time past that you can't recreate.

nostalgia was actually born in 1688 as a medical diagnosis

for Swiss soldiers wishing to return home.

It's this wily emotion that's a mix of good and bad.

At the same time that you're fondly remembering something,

From its origins, nostalgia weaseled its way

into everything from art to politics to industrial design. You name it,

someone thinks that the thing that came before it was better.

Along the way, it transformed from medical nostalgia

from a disease that could be cured with leeches

In "Nostalgia of the Future," Svetlana Boym writes,

must be beyond the present space of our experience,

somewhere in the twilight of the past or on an island of Utopia,

where time has happily stopped, as on an antique clock."

I can definitely remember a twilight of the past

treehouses, magical weapons, and if given the chance,

"Adventure Time" is perfectly, romantically nostalgic for childhood.

But so are a lot of other shows, like "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends,"

that makes it so well-liked, especially by not-kids?

Here's where it gets a little complicated.

It's because at the same time we the audience are experiencing nostalgia,

so too are the characters in "Adventure Time."

There was a mysterious devastating mushroom war.

Marceline and the Ice King, have this unexplained evolving

"wish it were still the good old days" past.

The landscape is littered with human remains and technology.

see a partially destroyed planet Earth in the sky.

I mean, Finn is the last human, for Glob's sake.

That is, unless Susan Strong isn't a fish,

and you count the Ice King as-- uh, uh, never mind.

"Adventure Time" is a fun, adventurous kids' show

with a history, a potentially very dark history.

Pen Ward has even said his favorite emotion is feeling

So that's a reaction he tries to elicit in "Adventure Time."

It means you're holding onto two usually conflicting emotions at the same time.

And "Adventure Time" does it on two levels.

So that's four total emotions, for the folks keeping track at home.

You see it in the settings and the relationships,

but also in the cute but disturbing creatures,

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