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I am big mad about Fionna and Cake!

Why don't they feel bad about killing Winter King? That was the only other Simon that we've seen live. They brought us up on the idea that Finn and Jake were the main characters of adventure Time, but it looks like Simon was. Simon's death dramatically changes that trajectory of other characters lives and roles in the main story.

In farmworld, Simon's death means Oooo doesn't get nuked. In vampire world, Simon's death means Marceline is raised by the vampires and becomes evil. 

The one other Simon that lives is less deserving of life because he did something dubious to circumvent the crown's insanity flaw? Come on. We all know that's not fair.

I also question that Simon did that to princess bubblegum on purpose. Or if at all. Maybe someone casted the spell for him. To believe that Simon maliciously casted that spell on princess bubblegum is to believe that he had a lapse of sanity to be able to do such a thing. I may be missing some episodes, but I've only seen Ice King cast ice magic. I've never seen them cast a spell outside of helping summon the guy who was anti-magic.

He said he was already insane. So you expect me to believe somebody who's already been insane for 900 years suddenly casted a spell that convoluted and intentionally targeted bubble gum? I'm not buying it.

Winter King didn't deserve to die!

And after everything they've been through, including murdering another Simon, they don't even get their magic back at the end!

And it's also a very poor commentary on female lead characters. The one universe that we know of with a female main character doesn't have magic. What kind of message is that sending? Arguably, Simon was the main character, but the show is titled Fionna and Cake - And it was ultimately Fionna's decision to keep everything the way it was.

And I don't think we're going to get a Lynn and Jennette. 

I don't really care about the argument of "in the real world sometimes as you get closer to your goal you realize what that means and your goals change, and that's what this is supposed to reflect." In the real world, nobody travels across a multiverse and kills people to try to achieve their goals with the murders having no consequences in their own world, so if I went through all that I would commit to the fucking bit!

Some people also argue that the ending is technically ambiguous, because there's really no reason why the magic shouldn't return to their world, now that it's been canonized. Ok, whatever.

My beef is they killed off a great character just to save the same goddamn fascist we've been looking at for 10 years just so the characters cannot achieve any of their goals! Fuck all of that!



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