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holdtightposts · 2 years

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I liked Adventure Time. It was different. New. Innovative.

I was invested in the story but there was something that always made me not really care for the characters. Yes, they were all fun but they also had their own problematic qualities/issues. Qualities that I couldn’t overlook. The character I liked the most was Root Beer Guy. He finally found something that made him feel alive again and it brought him and his wife happiness. He ends up getting killed which honestly was a great way to end his story. He did what was necessary and protected the kingdom to the best of his abilities… and then he was unnecessarily brought back making his journey and sacrifice pointless.

The Princess Cookie episode made me dislike PB. A lot. This is the episode that made me like Jake. Every episode PB was in after that made me roll my eyes every time she appeared.

When the Breeze episode aired, I stopped watching and didn’t get back into AT years later after the series ended. The message that episode sent to kids put me off AT. I understand it’s a cartoon with adult viewers but it’s still a cartoon watched by kids. That episode made me hate Finn.

When Distant Lands was announced I was kind of interested but I knew it would be something I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch unless someone else had it on.

BMO was eh. Obsidian was okay. Together Again felt like it dragged on. Then Wizard City aired and it finally gave me a character I absolutely loved.

Cadebra.

I love her “don’t do what is expected of you, do what you love” mentality. She’s someone that every child watching should strive to be.��She is so positive and kind. I want more Cadebra content. Took 12 years for me to finally have a favourite Adventure Time character and of course she only appears in 1 episode.

I mean, seriously, how could you not love her?

Wizard City also gave us Dr. Caledonius. She was super predicatible but I still couldn’t help but like her. She has the personality and qualities I look for in people: sweet & ride or die.

What a badass.

I mean, just check that back tat.

I want more Cadebra and Peps.

Wizard City told us that you should do what you love and not what is expected of you. That we may not be able to escape our past but we can be better than it. And it told us that you can still be kind and compassionate regardless if others aren’t.

#i also want more caledonius but she’s dead #i want an episode where cadebra just travels and performing her illusions #even a short of that would be great #adventure time #adventure time distant lands #adventure time distant lands wizard city #wizard city #cadebra #peppermint butler #dr caledonius #princess cookie had pb telling people you cant be what you want to be #and jake going fuck that shit yes you can #breeze had kids believing that its okay to ignore your friends and sleeping around #breeze was so fucking toxic #finn is just horrible with daddy issues #jake is selfish and irresponsible #pb is like your problematic racist helicopter parent #pb is the elon musk of the adventure time universe #marceline wasnt interesting by herself and needed someone along side her to make her likeable #bmo isnt cute end of story #ice king is a creeper #every character is basically all of your problematic friends that you dont know how to not be friends with anymore

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finnm · 3 years

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Dr. Caledonius was also definitely a student of Simon Petrikov probably

#or some kind of fan #the episode his hero 2.0 #adventure time #wizard city #spoilers #dr caledonius #distant lands #simon p

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lasting-through-the-feels · 3 years

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I know she ended up trying to force this new PepBut to the dark side but the professor Dr.Caledonius was such a good history teacher because it really is such a fun subject and she tought with adventure 💞💞

#myself #adventure time distant lands #adventure time #distant lands part 4 #distant lands #dr caledonius

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kingofooo · 3 years

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Wizard City Dr. Caledonius concept art by writer/storyboard artist Maya Petersen

#Adventure Time #Adventure Time: Distant Lands #Wizard City #concept art #character design #Maya Petersen

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spiderciderko · 3 years

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Dr. Caledonius😇😈

#adventure time #distant lands #wizard city #dr.caledonius

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gunterfan1992 · 3 years

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Episode Review: ‘Wizard City’ (Distant Lands, Ep. 4)

Airdate: September 2, 2021

Story by: Adam Muto, Jack Pendarvis, Kate Tsang, Hanna K. Nyström, & Charley Feldman

Storyboarded by: Maya Petersen, Hanna K. Nyström, Anna Syvertsson, & Aleks Sennwald, & Haewon Lee

Directed by: Miki Brewster & Jeff Liu (supervising), Sandra Lee (art)

An episode focusing on Peppermint Butler’s dark side is something that the fandom has craved ever since the little guy demanded Finn and Jake’s flesh in season two’s “Death in Bloom.” While installments like season five’s “The Suitor” and season six’s “Nemesis” did much to scratch that itch, the story of the Dark One remained mostly unknown…

And after “Wizard City,” it still remains largely unknown. But that’s OK, because instead of focusing on the character’s history, this special focuses on Peps’ quest to relearn magic at a magic school. Put most simply, this special is largely a fun excuse for the show to riff on Harry Potter and The Owl House-style “magic school hijinks,” and it mostly all works.

The special follows Peps quest to go to WizArts (a definite play on CalArts, the school that Pen Ward and Adam Muto, among many others, went to) so that he can relearn magic and once again become one of the greatest dark wizards of his time. Initially, Peps tries to make friends with cool kid Spader and his posse, but once they learn that Peps is not as talented at magic as they had initially thought, they kick him to the curb. It is at this point that Cadebra, Abracadaniel’s adorkable niece who is fascinated with stage magic, enters the picture. Cadebra tries everything in her power to befriend Peps, but Peps pushes back, since she’s not “cool.” It does not matter, though, because both Peps and Cadebra are sorted into the same “house”—the “Skink House—and are forced to work together.

While Peps and his cohort begin learning more and more complex magic, a secret cult of school professors, led by the otherwise caring Dr. Caledonius, are scheming to resurrect Coconteppi, a powerful dark wizard whose putrid heart has been discovered underneath the school excreting a very powerful ichor. The school cult kidnaps Spader and gives him some of the ichor to drink; they hope that because of his talent, he will be able to house the spirit of Coconteppi. This does not go as planned, and Spader is graphically killed (albeit off screen). (In a more humorous moment, Bufo, the scam wizard from season one’s “Wizard,” also ingests some of the ichor, believing himself powerful enough to handle it, but it kills him.)

Eventually Peps and Cadebra learn what is going on. Dr. Caledonius welcomes Peps, believing that he is strong enough to handle the ichor. When Cadebra’s life is put in danger, Peps reluctantly gives the putrid fluid a swig, which infuses him with the power of Coconteppi. Coconteppi-Peps then kills all the cult members before Cadebra manages to remove the ichor from Peps body. For uncovering a heinous plot, Peps is promoted to the highest house, “Salamander,” but he decides to remain a Skink and learn magic “the hard way” with Cadebra as his friend.

As I mentioned near the start of this review, “Wizard City” spends most of its time riffing on the “magic boarding school” trope, with much of the episode feeling like a light-hearted parody of Harry Potter: The characters, after all, are “sorted” into “houses,” they learn various types of magic from skilled “professors,” and they bunk in different parts of a large castle-like campus. Of course, Harry Potter didn’t invent the idea of a boarding school, but when setting your story in a school for magic, it is very hard not to lean at least somewhat into the Hogwarts relation. And this really is a double-edged sword, for while Harry Potter references can be fun here and there, they can also make the overall story feel like a fanfic parody. This special does a good job focusing more so on the characters rather than the setting, but I won’t lie, at times it did feel as if they show was really trying to make you realize it was making a Harry Potter joke.

Of all the characters introduced in the special, the breakout star is easily Cadebra, voiced by Chloe Coleman. Radiating a sort of Mabel Pines energy, Cadebra is the beam of optimism who shines brightly in an otherwise macabre special. There is something about her plucky personality and sense of wacky individualism that charms the viewer. I appreciate how the show compared and contrasted her with her uncle, the one and only Abracadaniel: like her uncle, Cadebra is a good person who wants to help others, but unlike Abracadaniel, she has a sense of courage and fortitude that results in her taking on a Coconteppi-possessed Peps at the episode’s climax. (Say what you will, Abracadaniel stans, but our favorite custodian would never have done that!) Thanks to her bravery and dedication to Peps, Cadebra is easily the heart of the special.

The episode throws an interesting little curveball into the mix by having the ‘ghost’ of Past Peppermint Butler constantly haunt Peps in the here-and-now. Past Peppermint, it seems, was so determined to become a great wizard, he cursed himself, so that if anything were to go awry, his Past self could materialize and set him straight. It’s confusing, but I do think that mixing the “overbearing parent” trope with a curse is a clever idea; it gives the whole special some dramatic heft. The whole setup is made even funnier by the special’s conclusion: After Future Peppermint Butler is ‘defeated’ and the day is saved, Peps reveals to Cadebra that he still wants to be a great and powerful dark wizard… but he wants to earn that power through hard work and determination. (Peppermint Butler might commune with demons, but he would never sell his soul to one for power; Glob helps those who help themselves, ya know?)

One of the special’s strongest points is its background art. Adventure Time always had some beautiful set pieces, and this special goes above and beyond to give WizArts an ancient sense of grandeur and mystery. Ghostshrimp, a freelance artist who was the show’s lead background designer during seasons 1-4, return for this special as a “visual developer”—basically, he mocked up a bunch of rough designs for the locales, and then the episode’s background artists worked up the final pieces in his style. On his podcast, Ghostshrimp mentioned how hectic he found Adventure Time to be, because he was used to taking his time on pieces. As such, the decision to bring him on for just development was smart, as it allowed him to still come up with iconic background designs while also playing fast and loose with everything. Hopefully the show will continue this approach with the Fionna and Cake miniseries that is coming up. After all, Ghosthsrimp’s style is the look of Adventure Time.

Another strong point for the episode is its voice acting. For one thing, you have your regulars like Tom Kenny and Dana Snyder, and Duncan Trussell, who all give a solid performance. But to voice many of the special’s new characters, the show brought on a bevy of fun actors: Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader, for instance, is now voicing Bufo, and he does a solid job hamming up his role as the old fogey. And then there’s Toks Olagundoye, whose British accent gives Dr. Caledonius a sense of knowledge and expertise. To my delight and surprise, SungWon Cho, an internet personality and voice actor perhaps better known as ProZD, was tapped to voice Brain Wizard, and he does an excellent job. And finally, Anthony Stewart Head, a very talented actor who I know best as Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, voices Con Wizard, and is even given a fun little ditty to sing. I can safely say that the voice acting in this special is likely the best of the bunch, and it’s obvious that the actors were all having a great time playing their parts.

What drags the whole thing down, in my opinion is the excessive murder. (I joked on Twitter that during the climax of “Wizard City,” it felt like I was watching an Adventure Time-ified version of Invincible!) Infused with the power of Coconteppi, Peps goes on a brutal killing spree, boiling Potable Wizard into steam, zapping Dimension Wizard into another plane of existence, smashing Berdzerd, and—perhaps most graphically—excerebrates (had to look that word up!) Brain Wiz. On Twitter, @sometipsygnostalgic argued that while, yes, the scene is startling, it does wonders to transmute “a poor Summer Camp Island knockoff [into] Adventure Time chaos.” The more I think about it, the more I think that’s a fair point; after all, this is hardly the first dark thing that has happened in Adventure Time. But the part that I cannot really stomach is the fact that Spader was murdered for no real reason, and the special ends without anyone really expressing their horror at the situation. Sure, Spader was a schoolyard bully, but he was also a child. And killing a child—either for the drama or the lulz—feels decidedly out of place in an Adventure Time episode. It’s hard to express, but it just felt unnecessarily nihilistic and mean-spirited.

All things considered, I think this was a fun episode, but it was somewhat underwhelming for a ‘finale.’ Much of this is because it had to air after the perfection that was the back-to-back “Obsidian”/”Together Again” wombo combo. But I can’t help but feel like this special just felt a little... off. A little too meanspirited, and it leaned a bit too much on standard tropes. Still, it was a fun spin, and I know that I’ll rewatch it.

Mushroom War Evidence: As Peps rides the bus to school, he passes a bunch of abandoned houses, some of which are buried in the ground. There is an unexploded bomb above the fossilized elephant in the school. Cadebra has a dream that takes place in the ruins of a city.

Final Grade: B+

#adventure time #atimers #atdl #distant lands #adventure time distant lands #wizard city #peps #peppermint butler #abracadaniel #Cadebra #Ghostshrimp #Adam Muto #Hanna K #ProZD

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sweepthestardust · 3 years

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wizard city was such a cute and fun episode. I was actually kind of sad Dr. Caledonius turned out to be a bad guy because she was such a sweet character lol.

#adventure time distant lands

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itissadbutitsmy-artblog · 2 months

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Where was Dr. Caledonius during Elements?

now in my heart i think wizard city was unaffected because its been around for millions of years and survived all that, it survived humans and extinction events and what all, so i think even an elemental attack would wash right over. they have protections.

however the other question is where tf is it located and what was caught in each elemental's little slice. cuz even if it was like, technically within candy kingdom jurisdiction or something, that doesnt mean that slime p didnt catch it when she made her perfect 1/4 half of ooo into a skater rave. i dont know where anything is i dont look at the ooo map regularly enough

she might not even have been in the city. shit. that woman could be anywhere. in my heart i want to say candy because hey, thats. thematic. she loves pep(permint butler) soosososoososoososos much and wizards have such a friendly relation with pb :) also pb pumping happy happy joy joy into everyone around her is so funny for this. i need doctor cal to chill

fightyfight doctor c is also really funny?? who let her have a sword. get that away from her. shes already like twenty feet tall. she already lost her legs. please. shes too powerful.

i refuse to let her be in the sad kingdom. no contemplative sad dr c. if she was, wouldnt you think shed be less likely to run around calling people twigs and telling her students they need to die to fulfill her dark wishes? if she had spent a few weeks staring at her cold blue hands thinking about her life? i think that would rub off a LITTLE. ofc, choose goose was there and now hes also a dark wizard, so who knows! !!!! however i dont really know whats going through that man's head at any given time. he is always a mystery. dr cal seems more straightforward.

also she cant be in slime rave world because abracajamiel is there and i cant let them have cute 50s skate-offs together, theyre so coworkers to me. maybe she assimilated instantly there cuz her skating was just so damn good.

maybe the real question is which kingdom can we make a cool punny name for her with. doctor. candy-donius. ???? coldonius?? caledoni-slime....

anyways here i drew her

#uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #adventure time #distant lands #elements #i guess :)#asks #spindlyjohnathan #digital #dr caledonius

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mistxmood · 1 month

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Your world is our fantasy Count your blessings now, child

#adventure time #dr caledonius #peppermint butler #mood's art #i reach out and grip your mouth shut before you say anything. i know

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ninebaalart · 6 months

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Dr. Caledonius

wizard city isnt like my favorite distant lands special or anything but i do really like dr. caledonius. god forbid a woman be evil

#dr caledonius #adventure time #wizard city #art #fanart

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vilonnie · 3 years

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also dr caledonius ma'am you're such an inspiration

#I LOOOOVE HER #icon! legend! queen etc!#adventure time distant lands #adventure time #wizard city #espposts

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scotianostra · 3 years

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25th December 1665 saw the birth near Greenlaw of songwriter and poet Lady Grisell Baillie.

Lady Grissel, also spelled Grizel at times, was born at Mellerstain House in the Scottish Borders, the daughter of Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth. Religious fanaticism is a terrible thing when it results in the death of others, but it’s equally terrible when it results in the death of the fanatic. Three or four hundred years ago in Scotland, there was fanaticism on both sides of a religious divide caused by the ‘Reformation’. There were many Scottish men and women of that period, from 1517 to 1746, who endured torture, imprisonment and death, in an almost fanatical devotion to either the Catholic or the Presbyterian religion. The 1638 ‘National Covenant’ was an expression of faith on the Presbyterian side and its adherents were known as ‘Covenanters’. Lady Grizel Baillie was the daughter of a ‘Covenanter’, Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, who later became Lord Polwarth and the 1st Earl of Marchmont, after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of the Protestant William and Mary. Grizel Hume became a bit of a heroine during the ‘Reformation’, long before she became Lady Grizel. In fact, she was a very brave wee girl, who served as a go-between for her father and her future, posthumous, father-in-law, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, during the latter’s imprisonment. Baillie of Jerviswood wasn’t quite a fanatic, but he was a covenanting conspirator who was implicated in the ‘Rye House Plot’ against King Charles II. He was executed for treason on the 23rd of December, 1684, at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh and became a cause célèbre for Jacobites in the years that followed. After Baillie was hanged, the Hume family, whose estates were then forfeited, fled to Holland, where they settled in Utrecht, with Grizel’s father, Sir Patrick, posing as a Dr. Wallace. After the ‘Glorious Revolution’, Mary of Orange offered Grizel the post of Maid of Honour. However, Grizel refused, preferring instead to return to Scotland, where, on the 17th of September, 1692, she married George Baillie, son of the ‘Covenanter’, and became Lady Grizel. The story of Grizel’s heroism is in two parts. Part one: when she was still just twelve years old, her father sent Grizel to Edinburgh with letters for his imprisoned mate, Baillie of Jerviswood. That was undoubtedly a perilous task for a girl not yet in her teens, however, the idea presented in some versions of the story that she had to make her own way to Edinburgh, a journey of between thirty and forty miles, is surely preposterous. Anyway, Sir Patrick dared not attempt to visit his ‘patriot’ friend personally, but as the story goes on, “wee Grizel”, attracting less suspicion than an adult, was able to gain admittance to the prison. She was tasked with more than delivering letters as it was also her mission to bring back any information she could. She contrived to deliver the letter and carried back useful messages, such as “It’s nae very comfy in here” and the gratitude of her father’s chum. Later, at Baillie’s trial, Sir Patrick, as described in contemporary broadsheets, did dare to go to court. Whereas he didn’t dare visit the prison, he was bold enough to intercede in defence of his great buddy, “sometimes blunting with rare skill the edge of manufactured ‘false witness’, to the rage of the prosecutors”. Hume’s friendship for Baillie meant the authorities were looking for an excuse to implicate him in the ‘Rye House Plot’ and so he took to hiding in the vaults of his ancestors, in Polwarth Kirk; his whereabouts known only to his wife and daughter and the proverbial ‘faithful retainer’, one Jamie Winter. Part two: brave wee Grizel, despite being scared of the usual ‘terrors’, which kirkyards were held to contain, was able to overcome her fears, stumble over graves, and night after wintry night, deliver a midnight feast to her father. She always managed to get home before daybreak and evade the soldiers searching for her fugitive. As ‘The Legend of Lady Grizelda Baillie’ from Joanna Baillie’s ‘Metrical Legends of Exalted Character’ has it: “Sad was his hiding−place, I ween, A fearful place, where sights had been, Full oft, by the benighted rustic seen; Aye, elrich forms in sheeted white, Which, in the waning moonlight blast, Pass by, nor shadow onward cast, Like any earthly wight;…” From earliest youth, Grizel was wont to write in verse and prose and her daughter had at one time in her possession, a manuscript volume with several of Grizel’s compositions, “many of [which were] interrupted, half writ, [and with] some broken off in the middle of a sentence”. Although Lady Grizel wrote a number of simple and sorrowful Scots songs, sadly only two are extant. One is the mournfully beautiful fragment ‘The ewe-buchtin’s bonnie’, which may have been inspired by her father’s peril. The other is ‘Were ne my Hearts light I wad Dye’, which originally appeared in ‘Orpheus Caledonius or a Collection of the best Scotch Songs set to Musick by W. Thomson’, in 1725. Some of her songs were printed in Allan Ramsay’s ‘Tea-Table Miscellany’, including the latter, which has been described as “of outstanding excellence and entirely Scottish in sentiment and style” by Tytler in Tytler and Watson’s ‘Songstresses of Scotland’. Tytler went on to state effusively, “Its sudden inspiration has fused and cast into one perfect line, the protest of thousands of stricken hearts in every generation”. Here’s a wee taste in a couple of verses: “When bonny young Johnny o’er ye sea, He said he saw nothing as bonny as me, He haight me baith Rings and mony bra things, And were ne my Hearts light I wad dye. His Kin was for ane of a higher degree, Said what had he do with the likes of me, Appose I was bonny I was ne for Johnny, And were ne my Hearts light I wad dye.” In addition to her songs, Lady Grizel is known for her ‘Household Book’, which was reprinted by the ‘Scottish History Society’ in 1911. That presents a unique and minutely detailed account of her expenditure, menus, and instructions to her housekeeper and others. It also presents the historian with an interesting insight to the running of a large, Scots country house at that time. Grizel Hume, was born at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire on the 25th of December, 1665, and Lady Grizel Baillie died in London on the 6th of December, 1746. She was buried on her birthdate in the family burial place at Mellerstain.

#Scotland #scottish #poet #writer #history

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