Name: Breakdown of the Elements Miniseries Opening Theme (Adventure Time Theory)
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A new Adventure Time miniseries awaits us called Elements, and that means we get a fresh

I’m not just going to break down the new intro, I’ve also got a theory as to what

The intro starts with us descending down through the clouds,

and then we traverse the sea, which makes me think of Finn and Jake returning to Ooo

In fact, there’s the freight ship they used.

I wanna rewind though to discuss this choice of bird’s eye view perspective for the opening

I’m about to give away the titles of the episodes in the miniseries, but I think they’re

The first and last episodes are called Skyhooks.

This is most likely a reference to Ice King’s coat hangers.

These were what he used to free Patience St. Pim, and Finn and Jake hang from these at

We also see Finn, Jake, Simon, and Betty up in the clouds at one point in the intro, and

one of the episodes is called “Cloudy.”

Also Patience is flying in the sky due to her little helicopter hat.

To go even further, the title card for the episode that will precede Elements, called

“Orb,” shows Finn,, Jake, and BMO atop teeth either falling from the sky or floating

Being elevated in the sky is a very common motif here, it seems very likely to have significant

plot importance, and that’s why the first opening shot has us drop down from above the clouds.

I’ve got a theory as to why that’s the case.

The bright pink used for the intro is immediately striking and puzzling; the ocean and land

Something has colored the world a bubblegum-y hue.

A lemon camel, and a lemon carriage, things that are supposed to be yellow, are also pink.

Plus mountains have cherries at their snowy peaks.

Something has gone out of control and caused candyfication of organic and inorganic matter.

We see the likely culprit, the amorphous mass that attacks the tree house, and it reminds

me of the life-seeding gunk Princess Bubblegum was trying to send off into space in the episode

Whatever this is, and I’ll discuss some possibilities later, it seems to spread by

And that’s why there’s a motif of being in the sky.

Because it’s how you escape the contamination happening below - running away probably won’t

cut it (though who knows, perhaps the Grass Sword might).

Patience is in the air too, though I think her advanced ice domes are also shielding

whatever they encapsulate from the infectious candy.

What about Cinnamon Bun and his trusty steed?

[Patience: “Gonna start some crazy biz, man.

She was working toward unlocking PB’s powers, and had a grand scheme involving all the Elementals.

I think Patience has done something to further awaken the powers of the Elementals, but these

powers surged out of control and caused stuff like this.

Not just for Princess Bubblegum, however, but for the other Elementals too.

Princess Bubblegum does not appear in the intro, but she is the one who sings it.

Listen to this part in particular: “We’ll go to very messed up lands.”

You should have noticed that the background scenery has slime coating the land and weird

As for fire, the only normal orange fire we see is the flame above Cinnamon Bun’s head.

The fire wolf has blue cracks on its body rather than red ones, this flying creature

has blue flames running down its body, and even Jake in the form of a fireball is blue.

It’s common knowledge that blue fire is hotter than orange.

Well, in real life not always, the material being burned matters obviously, but in certain

In fiction though, where magic is involved, blue flame is hotter than orange - that’s

The kingdoms are being supercharged by their corresponding element, and the boundaries

to these kingdoms might even be vying for territory and trying to conquer the other.

Now this next idea might be a bit of a stretch, but I think this mass of pink might just be

Too much elemental power has transmogrified PB into this creature that transforms the land.

Perhaps this happened with the other princesses too, as none of them appear in the intro.

This would explain why Cinnamon Bun is confronting Patience; he wants to return Flame Princess

If this hypothesis is correct though, why is Patience fine?

She did not get supercharged with elemental power in the first place.

She was able to control it better and maintain her form.

And this last one I like the best: Patience is a human incarnation of the Ice Elemental.

However, Princess Bubblegum is made of candy, Slime Princess is made of slime, and Flame

Perhaps whatever Patience instigated caused a drastic change in the other Elementals who

are physically composed of their element, but not to her whose body is essentially that

So that’s my theory as to what occurred to the Land of Ooo.

Let me know how plausible you think my idea is, and share your own if you’ve got ‘em.

I’ve still got segments of the intro I need to dissect though, so let’s get back to that.

Inside one of the ice domes is the snowman from the episode “Thank You.”

He’s now an iceman rather than a snowman, and he’s got a frown on his face.

Perhaps he’s simply super-charged from magic, or perhaps he is under Patience’s control.

In the Cloud Kingdom we see our crew for this miniseries: Finn, Jake, Simon, and Betty!!