That first episode was trippy. The vivid fantasy of the dream juxtaposed with the grimy normality of the messy apartment, Cheers on every channel and having to deal with a sick cat and job you hate, surrounded by the inverted world gender swapped character that used to be so familiar- was haunting.
The feeling of 'something is wrong' and putting it together was fun. Knowing Ice King stopped existing and Betty saved Ooo by taking the crown wishing away Golb from the inside- and then seeing this Fionna world and hoping Simon is ok and wondering how this world now lives inside him now (it must be as it's now mirroring old earth from well before the mushroom war) when it was made by Ice King and the crown tech that no longer exists in Ooo.
I really enjoyed spotting and naming all the background characters, the little bus dictator was an un-gender-swapped but shrunken Patience St. Pim, right? Or one of the vampires also un-gender-swapped? She looks so familiar!
AbracaDaniella made me laugh and the Banana Guard was cute (but I was genuinely hoping to see them doing a street corner acapella of "Mama Said" or some kind of slapstick security guard routine).
Also it took me a moment to figure out if the guy in the park was Hunter or Shoko, and I was sure the bubble gum bus driver was LSP before we saw actual LSP (who is exactly how I would have made a gender swapped human LSP, lmao). Marshal-Lee was cute too.
(About to watch episode 2, will comment again once I've processed it!)
Oh wow, I need to do some rewatching of the old episodes.
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