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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fiona and Cake worked, but only because the show is not really about Fiona and Cake. Also, it meta-acknowledges the whole thing right away, that they've been shoehorned into a universe where they don't belong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fiona and Cake already existed in the original adventure time show anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not really. They were intentionally framed as a gender swap fanfic written by Ice King, and only existed as throwaway episodes. They were a meta-joke on the whole thing.

When I heard of the new show I rolled my eyes and thought "of all the Adventure Time stories to tell they picked a dumb gender swap gag?"

But as mentioned it wasn't that at all and was actually well written.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that’s a whole self-aware/self-referencing thing that doesn’t really work as a comparison in this context