The kicker is that no one knows what happens when you walk through that door. There comes a time, after centuries of living the good (after) life, where each character feels ready to move on. What that ready is never really gets defined concretely, because it’s different for every person. And so demon architect Michael (Ted Danson) opens a door into the universe, designed for inhabitants of the good place to step through once they’re ready. As Eleanor realizes, vacation is only special because it ends.
#Adventure time distant lands full#
Sure, it’s full of endless parties and unicorns and whatever else your heart could desire, but as Hypatia of Alexandria (Lisa Kudrow) shares, after a few hundred years, that all gets real old.
When Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) finally make it to the coveted good place, they learn that it’s actually not that great. The final few episodes of The Good Place interrogate this notion of a fallible paradise. Certainly, it’s easy to think of what might await us in a tortuous pit of despair, but trying to come up with a form of eternal bliss that won’t get tiresome after a century or so is surprisingly hard. Or rather, it’s hard to craft a fictional paradise. It’s hard to craft a fictional afterlife. These two concepts weave together nicely in both shows, creating a concept of an afterlife that isn’t centered around eternal riches. The specificities aren’t the same (especially when it comes to “bad” people), but they both center around two core ideas: the best thing we can hope for in the afterlife is a little extra time with the people we love, and ultimately, no matter how perfect a paradise may be, it’s better if what happens after death is something we can’t comprehend. The way Adventure Time handles what comes after death is actually reminiscent of the way The Good Place dealt with the same issues. But while the “separate tiers of the afterlife” concept is reminiscent of the underworld’s layers in Greek mythology, or the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno, where each concrete level has a different schtick, depending on how good or bad you were in life, Adventure Time’s approach to the land of the dead actually takes on a more poignant flavor. Each level is a separate little pocket universe, like a lush green garden or a sticky quagmire. Finn, who has only recently died, must search through the different levels of the land of the dead to find his old friend. Jake died earlier, since he’s a dog, with a limited life span. The special literally kicks off with the revelation that the characters are dead, complete with a title card hammering the point home.
#Adventure time distant lands series#
Let’s get one thing out of the way: In the latest HBO Max Adventure Time special, series stars Jake the dog and Finn the human are dead.
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