An unreliable narrator who wasn't there. That's the thing, let's assume Shermy and Beth is the future of things to come. You still have a BMO who can barely remember what was one human in a thousand year span of things to come. And the Ice Thing is problematic on its own ... given if we're taking the idea of some sense of cycles and rebirth, original Gunther inherits the crown after the Ice Elemental Evergreen is incapacitated and then both are killed.undeadsuitor said:
Think about it like this, the treehouse is attacked, BMO is critically injured ... which isn't a big deal because I think there's been other episodes where he's split his screen andseems to have repaired himself so I'm not going to point to that as evidence his story is bogus ... but it's also the only time he makes a true entrance in the evolving narrative ... and just so happens to save Finn and Simon? With a song no less?
Golb is a deity.
BMO has no reason to lie about Betty likely dying/merged in the belly of the beast, but at the same time he has every reason to paint himself as a hero of a story about an event so ancient that no one remembers it. Even the song he sings is almost as if an affirmation that it doesn't really matter, it's almost a dirge.
The Candy Kingdom as shown in the future is no longer built of candy. Lemongrab seems utterly static, as if untouched.
In fact before showing the 'Candy Kingdom' you see a crashed vessel that is remarkably like the remnant human's air vehicles from Founder's Island.
When I say 'everyone dies' I don't mean that in a literal interpretation, more in a sense that the Great Gum War was still a thing. That it's just BMO painting a happier narrative over it. That does not mean the humans never returned to the mainland, because clearly they were likely going to eventually ... the Candy Kingdom is basically a spitting image of the pre-Mushroom War human cities of the past.
I also don't really see it as dark. I see it in the same way the show has always tackled issues of mortality. If anything I thought Prismo's resurrection and the creation of the Finn Sword is infinitely more fucked up in comparison to simply the idea the Great Gum War happened, that people died in it and BMO is just putting a happier spin on it.
It's less fucked up than the mutant human sludge monsters created through the Mushroom War, at least.
Adventure time has never been saccharine. It's always had this bent to it dealing with the exact same topics. It's just that having BMO as a narrator makes it far more open-ended. When they uncovered Finn's arm, BMO only talks about the Gum War. And as soon as Golb is expelled back to Astral space (presumably) he simply ends on the note that 'they lived their lives' ...
If BMO said; 'and they lived happily ever after...' would you then actually consider the possibility it was just a fairytale? Because that's effectively how BMO capped the story off. A fairytale for minors. So I don't necessarily see my interpretation as too far from the mark that perhaps something more tragic happened. You might interpret that as dark, but I personally don't. If anything, the reason why they have a Shermy and Beth is to highlight the idea that the adventure never really ends, even when everything else enters the forgotten haze of the past.
