>>1030089
For me, appreciating it turned into being annoyed about it to the point I stopped watching.
It began as a light-hearted show with some deeper things in it and I agree with the positive stuff you mentioned. But like most shows I stopped watching, it got that series-disease where characters get more and more complex and therefore, lose whatever you liked about them. That's why I prefer e.g. Gumball, because nothing ever changes.
What I didn't like about Adventure Time over time:
>Finn was too childish
>Bubblegum turned into an evil dictator
>interesting undertones about Bubblegum/ Marceline's relationships became trying-too-hard overtones, because Steven Universe
>show became too obvious with its agendas. I usually oppose such opinions, but e.g a whole arc about the female characters despite them having enough good episodes was on MLP levels of blatant.
>show started to lose me when I realized that it looks and feels like its made for little kids, but the topics are way too complex and strange, while also something I wouldn't want to educate my kids with.
E.g. that episode where Ice King shaves so all bitches love him, so he makes the princesses compete against each other and rates their looks. There was also a joke about porn in it. Some episodes feel weirdly sexual with a way too young audience, have one-sided messages about sexual identity forced on the audience on the brink of puberty. ALSO the audience is probably already having all kinds of social media and showed their pussy on Youtube, so it's too late. I dunno - I feel like it's the show trying to educate kids instead of their parents and turn them into something the parents probably disagree with. And the show does it BEFORE kids make certain social interactions or experiences themselves.
It's also just dumb to explain certain things with characters which were established as good or bad already. There are no super villains in school, so you can't simply value people like that.
Basically: A good show for kids should have simple messages which work for everyone and otherwise just be fun to watch. It's not a cartoon's task to educate kids.
Marceline's/ Ice King's relationship was so interesting because it wasn't some friggin political message or something, it was just tragic and relatable considering one day, the audience gets confronted with their grandparent's dementia or something.