While this should’ve obliterated the Farmworld dimension completely… it didn’t.
After mercifully refusing to grant Jake’s dimwitted wishes (for a sandwich, of all things, something Jake’s done very often), Prismo nudges him towards the correct wish: to change the Lich’s wish to “I wish Finn and Jake were home.”
Even worse, in Farmworld the Lich is eventually birthed in an alternate origin regardless, suggesting that no matter the dimension, the Lich is destined to be, as the manifestation of anti-life that must necessarily come with life. His wish for the Lich to have never existed resulted in the creation of the mundane (and utterly depressing) Farmworld, a sister dimension to Ooo where seemingly no magic exists.
To undo his genocide, Finn and Jake were forced to make very, very careful counter-wishes, which Finn bunked up royally. As a little canon catchup: in the 2-parter episodes “Finn the Human” and “Jake the Dog”, the Lich made his way to Prismo’s Time Chamber and made a wish extinguishing all life. In “Crossover,” Prismo sends out the distress signal to Finn and Jake, telling them that something has gone seriously awry with the Farmworld dimension that they’d left behind, so many episodes ago. So, here’s an advance apology and warning this is going to get awfully convoluted. Omitting just one of these tangents felt criminal, as “Crossover” is a culmination of so many important themes in the series.
ADVENTURE TIME PRIZMO SERIES
Trigger Warning for casual viewers: I didn’t realize it at first, but “Crossover” intersects with a lot of series mythology, so be prepared for a dozen tangents or more. As Adventure Time is all about childhood and the power of imagination, it makes sense that parallel universes play heavily into the series, and in “Crossover,” the plot device poses to Finn a fundamental question that no one can confront without serious moxie: is existential murder alright? I mean, are there concepts and people that truly should not exist, and if so, who has the authority to make such a condemnation? Parallel universe plot devices call attention to the most basic function of fiction: to imaginatively, counterfactually ponder what never happened so we can understand what did happen, and perhaps more importantly, so we can edit our perspectives on reality. I think its better for the show to leave it ominous and let our imaginations take over because if its anything less than what we thought it could be, you would have a lot of disappointed people.On the latest episode of Adventure Time, “Crossover,” Finn and Jake return to Farmworld to prevent an interdimensional disaster, but find themselves unable to pull the trigger, even when all reality hangs in the balance. For me, I think if they ever DID reveal who he reports to, would we really be happy or accepting of what it is? In the Sandman, with the characters of gods themselves, who could they POSSIBLY report to? Same for Prismo. It's something for the viewers to acknowledge that there's even higher powers in place to create a sense of wonder. I'm really hoping that's what AT does with Prismo's boss and never reveals it. It's never revealed what that higher up is, what it does, why the Endless follow its rules, why those rules are in place etc. When they do find their "boss" it is shown they are talking to a tendril-like thing that is relaying information back and forth. To avoid spoilers for future readers, stuff happens which require the Endless to reach out to their "bosses" during the story's climax. He and his "siblings" Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Destruction and Delirium are above all powers in every universe including the creators of said universes. In Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (which is utterly fantastic) they address a similar situation.įor those who haven't read it, the story follows Dream, one of the seven "Endless" who are physical manifestations of concepts that exist in all realities and universes.
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