![]() Prismo is interestingly unable to interfere, despite being a Wishmaster and governor of all waking reality, the same way that Cosmic Owl governs dreams, the realm of unreality. Hence, parallel dimension episodes are very much about historical authority and the fluidity of prevailing worldviews, and the threat that even a backwater dimension like Farmworld poses to Adventure Time‘s multiverse suggests that even the unlikeliest narrative, the most insane conspiracy theory, the most fringe historical revision, has a shot at existence, a chance to influence.īecause Farmworld does indeed pose such a threat: Farmworld is very much alive and kicking, and Farmworld Finn, who’s been driven mad by wearing the Ice Crown, has been constructing a gateway to all dimensions with the help of the Enchiridion, the results of which are ambiguous, but almost certainly disastrous. It looks as though every wish granted in this way causes an entirely new dimension to be born and exist independently and irrevocably, which is an intriguing idea for the current moment. Today’s headlines are littered with activists and would-be revisionists attempting to either confront or whitewash this atrocity, or that new perspective, to either insert or obliterate narratives from history books, and effectively from the public consciousness. 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. ![]() 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. 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.
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