ADVENTURE TIME 5X16 "Puhoy" Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-10-10 22:00:10 +0000 UTCHere is my full length unedited reaction for ADVENTURE TIME 5X16!
Streamer: Max
Comments
Yeah I caught the arm very late. I think I may have commented on it. I donβt remember π
mikeyventure
2024-10-11 16:09:07 +0000 UTCoh boy it's Puhoy. This is one of adventure times great metaphysical episodes First I love the whole festering lines by Jake. I will quote them to my wife any time she starts to do that. Especially the being crazy is hard. Your brain is what is making things bad. Second did what we see happen? We don't know for sure but probably. You could write a whole paper on that. Finally note that in the pillow world fin had a prosthetic arm.
cipher
2024-10-11 14:26:02 +0000 UTCOh boy... this episode. [APOLOGIES IN ADVANCED FOR THE REALLY LONG COMMENT] This is one of those episodes which a person could easily make a pretty lengthy analysis of (at least 30 mInutes long). it is filled with with deeper meanings and symbolisms. Starting for the name... "Puhoy" it's actually quite a simple break down.... it is merely the combination of the words "Pillow" and "Ahoy", which is used as a greeting in this new pillow world. Finn getting hunged up on an issue that is probably non-existent, or at least an issue that is completely trivial, that is the theme that resonates on the entire episode... Finn getting distracted my miniscule things that keeps him from facing his actual reality and what's really important in the moment. Finn finds a door on the Pillow Fort that magically transports him into a completely different world made out of pillows. Some people made the interpretation that Finn might just have fallen asleep inside the fort and that's the reason so little time passes outside the fort itself....... or that all what Finn experieced was real and he really went to another dimension..... we don't know, it is all left to interpretation. Sidenote... that pillow Dragon was really well-animated, like... super smooth, it was kinda off-putting to be honest. I really liked Roselinen, despite being a one-off character... her personality was really cool and memorable. Im kinda sad you didn't pick up on the "Pillows used for bedding" joke, that's one of the highlights of the episode for me, but oh well... don't get hung up on it, i enjoyed your reaction a lot anyway. Yes, the sudden time-skip to Finn being married to Roselinen and even having kids with her was very jarring, but in retrospect is really tragic... he found happiness in this pillow world and even formed a family, but the moment the portal door is mentioned to him he gets obssessed with it, desperately wanting to know more information about it while Roselinen watchess worried at the back. Foreshadowing the tragedy that is about to unfold. Jake's B plot also has a deeper meaning, centering on the lesson he taught Finn... but then getting back his favorite mug because he couldn't really give it up that easily. i would explain more of this B plot but if i do this comment would be too long. And then we get to older Finn, and we realized how many years of his life he has spent in finding the door, years of search that his family also had to endure, he is now hunged up on finding the door and didn't realize until now the importance of the reality in front of him.... he has a wife and kids that love him... and he has partially neglected them for the notion of going back home. People often missinterpret the flashback that Finn has of Jake giving him the lesson, it's not Finn "making shit up".... it's just that it's been soooooo long since he has seen Jake that even the things that he said to him have become blurry in his memory, Finn can't even remember how Jake actually looks (which flashback-Jake also remarks). from Finn's perspective he has spent more time in the pillow world with his pillow family than in the land of Ooo with Jake, he has a lifetime of memories in this new world while only having his first 14 years of memories from his "previous" life. Luckily... Finn takes Jake's lesson to heart and decides to stop festering on the idea of the Door and decides to spend his remaining years enjoying life with the family he has in front of him, the things that actually conform his reality. And then we get to the end of Finn's life in the Pillow world, surrounded by this family who loves him. The real highlight of this scene is after he died, and the strange creature he encountered in the void before going back to Ooo. Can't be very descriptive on this subject cuz of spoilers but the one thing i can mention is the creature's name.... Adam Muto, the Main Producer of the show actually revealed the name of this creature not too long after this episode aired.... and the name is "GOLB". And then we get to the real tragedy..... My personal interpretation of this episode is that the notion of Finn just having a wild dream and the notion of him actually travelling to a different dimension are both correct at the same time. the nature of dreams and imagination in AT is very convoluted and another Rabbit-hole of it's own... but basically... i think Finn did fall asleep in the fort but by doing so he transported his essence and being into the Pillow dimension where he actually lived an entire second life. The tragedy here is... that when he wakes up and is transported back to his actual reality.... Roselinen's fear becomes true, Finn promised her that when he got back to his world he wouldn't forget them... but he did, all that life he had and people who loved him so dearly... and Finn just forgot them, because it was all "just a dream". It is really sad when you think about it. This interpretation of mine actually has an additional section to it (that makes things even more depressing), but explaining it would require getting into spoiler territory and im obviously not gonna do that here. This episode is UNIQUE, in a way that no other animated series out there has managed to be, i really recommend you to look up and watch analysis videos on Youtube of this episode once you have finished the show, EVERYONE has a different take and interpretation of what this episode tries to tell us... and it's all so fascinating. And don't feel bad about not having a good break-down of the episode, every one of us felt the same way you do now the first time we watched it. It is definetely one of those experiences that simply leaves you thinking and contemplating deeply, funnily enough... you could say that the episode even leaves you "Festering".
Julio Castillo
2024-10-11 04:33:58 +0000 UTCEasily one of my Top 10 favourite episodes of all time. It's all a huge reference to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light." Which is routinely regarded as one of if not *the* best episode of that show which explores a similar theme of living a lifetime in an instant. Further reinforced by adult Finn being voiced by Jonathan Frakes who plays Commander William T. Riker in TNG.
7anzibar
2024-10-10 22:33:51 +0000 UTC
