On last Mon's episode ofRun a risk Fourth dimension, "Baton'south Bucket List," Finn confronts his innermost fears to complete Baton'due south bucket list, and in exchange, gains some heavy info regarding his biological family. Information technology'due south the eponymous time again!

Highlights!

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"Yes, that was tight."

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Baton = The classic rock phase every good for you immature boy should undergo.

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"Punch that jerky camel."

"Billy's Bucket List" is the final episode in season five ofHazard Time, and as expected, contains some season premiere-worthy reveals and plot details regarding the next flavor. This is the growth episode we've been anticipating for Finn, every bit he'southward spent about of the flavour getting over Flame Princess, and doing it very, very badly. Nosotros larn some insightful details regarding Billy'south bloodshot career as an S-list hero, and Finn takes the first few steps towards breaking out of a slump that I applaud for its realism: some shows have protagonist funks lasting for, say, a single episode, perchance a few strung together into an arc. Finn's slump was half the freaking season, in a span comparable to slumps in the existent world. Last Mon night, Finn gained a potential new dear interest, confronted an old spectre from his by, and received a shocking reveal at the terminate that introduced the next primary story arc: Finn's quest for his father.

I take to say though, overall information technology's a somewhat shabby finale to an otherwise incredible flavor. The jokes felt somewhat forced and half-broiled in delivery, equally with the opening rap battle sequence, where Finn trades rhyming blows with Rap Bear. Compared to the hilarity of past moments similar Finn's political rap in "Return to the Stratosphere" and his balloon rap in "Marceline'southward Closet," these verbal gags seem like they could've been cutting a flake more advisedly: "My raps are mystical . . .breakthrough physics!" Afterward Finn triumps over his new hero, he'south reminded past Party Carry of his love for the deceased Billy, and walks in a stupor through the streets of the Candy Kingdom with visions of his 6-fingered mentor intermingled with the Lich's confront. In the midst of this reverie, Finn meets Canyon, Billy'due south ex of four years, who's come to manus over Baton'south old loincloth, seeing as how him and Finn used to exist all-time buds. Coulee's introduction was a bit random, and non in the gracefully unexpected way thatChance Time is and then proficient at–instead of happening upon her, or prefiguring her entrance in some way, the episode literally has her show up, hand the loincloth over, and accompany Finn on one last visit to Baton'south crevice. Of course there isn't time enough in these eleven minutes for anything prolonged, onlyTake chances Time's writers are usually phenomenal in their apply of the quater-hour format, with small details that mucilage the calorie-free-speed plot together into a streamlined product.

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They arrive to find the den infested with fairies, whom Finn dispatches easily with the help of his sweet grass blade, which will later play a crucial role in his maturation. He and Coulee become to talking, and information technology's revealed that Canyon and Billy were quite the power couple back in the mean solar day, challenging demons and winged nasties atop Baton'due south motorbike. But towards the cease, Baton "stopped assertive," took to video games and television, and generally turned his dorsum on the active life. Hero-dom becomes synonymous with rock star-dom, and Billy is portrayed every bit fading into has-been condition. Finn comes to Billy'due south defense, saying that "even heroes accept slumps, bro"; plumbing fixtures words, as it describes Finn'south continual stream of emotional failure this season, from trying pathetically to win back Princess Bubblegum's favor, to acting the creep compared to Cinnamon Bun'due south transformation into a Lancelot studmuffin. Nosotros're now finding Finn in the aforementioned state of affairs that plagued Billy in his final days, and attempting to navigate the path that even his hero found taxing.

They find subconscious in Billy's motorcycle a coil containing his saucepan list, with a few final entries left untouched: "Tell Finn That Thing," and "Take Canyon on One Last Ride." To honor his retentivity, they make up one's mind to consummate information technology together, and go along a hellride beyond a sandy plain infested with albino, knife-wielding dragon-worms. They fall hands to Canyon's fists while Finn launches the bike over a cliff border, leaving the two grasping a cliffside branch. Afterward, Canyon tells Finn he reminds her a lot of a young Billy, and that they'll likely see each other over again. It'due south noninherently creepy that Finn'south progression equally a hero involves possibly taking over his hero's girlfriend, merely the whole canyon sequence was a bit thinly executed, without the modest details to cement the moment and make the attachment between the ii into something palpable. So yes, information technology does stop up feeling a scrap creepy in an Oedipal manner, since Billy's another father-figure that Finn's collected in his life every bit an orphaned human boy.

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Later Canyon departs into her lake domicile, Finn discovers a bonus item all the way at the bottom of the curlicue, where Billy has scribbled "Lie on my back in the ocean. Just float." Which is a tough break for Finn, who's a severe hydrophobe, as we learned way dorsum when. It'south a tiny plot detail that isn't very well reintroduced, and ends upwardly feeling like the right straw grasped at the last moment to hold up the storyline. Finn now has to confront his personal fears in order to fulfill Baton's final will, and outwits the Fear Feaster by smacking himself unconscious and dropping into the body of water, which is a fleck irking as that's the same solution he came up with back in the Feaster'southward introductory episode.

We're treated to a beautiful, dream-like, underwater sequence with a neon-blueish pallette: Finn sinks into the ocean depths, and has his lid picked off past an enormous whale who leads him through sunken cities and coral caverns. Finn swims out of the cavern which has now morphed into his hat, swollen to an enormous size, and pursues him all the way to the surface. The polar-bear hat is animated by a Hokusai tidal moving ridge, and the whale soars through its neckhole to engulf Finn, who offers himself in Baton'southward name. The sequence's fine art hearkens dorsum to Genndy Tartakovsky's concise, geometric manner in Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, peradventure in homage to an influential precursor. Information technology'south a Jonah-sort of image, and the symbolic sacrifice signals an internal shift in Finn's character, as he's gotten over his ain predicaments (as represented by his leaving the hat behind) in guild to perform a selfless act. Finn wakes upwardly to detect the Fear Feaster notwithstanding plaguing him, but the mitt possessed by the grass blade smacks sense into him, and cuts the Feaster in half, revealing itself to be more than than a mere 'mortal blade.' At this point, the grass blade is either a sentient object invested in Finn's well-being, or it's an extension of his torso, and so attuned to his psychological land. Either way, Finn'due south inner resolution enables the blade to literally cutting down his fear and simply float, with his dorsum to the bounding main.

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Baton's face appears in the stars between parting clouds, Mufasa-style, to give thanks him for putting his soul to remainder. Earlier he tin leave abruptly, Finn asks him about 'that thing' he needed to say, and Billy responds by telling Finn to seek out a structure called the Citadel, which looks similar a crucifix with two additional beams extending from the front end and dorsum. The center is surrounded by a thorny frame reminiscent of the Christian image of Jesus' heart crowned with thorns. We exit Finn meditating on this world-shattering info in the middle of the ocean, getting smaller and smaller as the view pans upward. The episode ends with flash-shots of the Crystal Citadel, where the silhouette of Finn's father sits frozen.

A father-journey seems fitting at this point, since Finn has and then thoroughly lost himself this flavour, in the countless battles of the "Dungeon Train" and the endless attempts to rebound onto Lead. It's time Finn sought out his roots and his purpose, which presumably, going on an extradimensional walkabout in search of his father will enable him to do. While the plot direction makes sense, this episode still feels perfunctory, like a trivial epilogue instead of a real episode, a setup for the next season rather than a plumbing equipment closer for this flavor. But I suppose Lemonhope's absolutely insane saga was enough of a season finale for me.

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