User blog:TheAntTony/Wizards Only, Fools Preview Review and Episode Review

Greetings fellow readers,

As you made know, "Wizards Only, Fools" will be the final 11-minute episode of the season, which will be followed by the 1-hour Special, which will serve as the Season 5's Season Finale. Of course this makes me fear that Adventure Time will be going on hiatus until next season since Cartoon Network never announced the special for this year, nor have they announced when Season 6 will primiere. Of course, they could go the Spongebob route and primere the new season before the previous season even got a proper season finale. But for all I know, they could have just recently started production of Season 6 as they wait for the special to premiere, meaning much of the production spent from September 2012 to early April 2013 was spend on the one hour special. Or they could been warping up that one hour special season finale while working on some of Season 6, and recently resumed production of Season 6, it doesn't seem possible they already started Season 7 without CN's say so.

Now that I got that production oddity situation out of the way, I wanted to talk about the preview for "Wizards Only, Fools", which to me raised a lot of questions, and not in a good way. Here are all the things that bother me about that preview:

- Since when has it ever been indicated Starchy only believes in magic prior to this episode?

- Why would go to hospital of all places, an type of institution that solely relays on science, not magic?

- Why would wizards only sell magical items in places meant for wizards only?

- Has it not occured to them they can make tons of money off of these magical items? For that matter, why couldn't they set up multiple outposts instead of one hub?

- Do Finn, Jake, and PB really think those paper thin disguises will work?

- Does PB really think no wizard will recoginze her face considering her kiss was once a prize for Wizard Battle?

- Speaking of which, has it not occured to them the Ice King could come at anytime and expose them? He may be stupid, but he's not retarded.

- But the most damning questions of all involve PB herself. Has her obsession with science really been flanderized to the point where she doesn't even believe in magic?!?

- Has it not occured to them that she has seen moments of magic that can't be explained scienctifically? Like Ice King's freaking ice powers! Or the freaking Enchiridion opening a portal! For god's sake, her best friend is a talking rainicorn, and they're magical creatures! Hell, her crown is pretty much magical!

- From what it looks like to me, one of the themes for this episode is science vs "religion" (with magic taking religion's place), which makes no goddamn sense when it has been established in the show THERE IS RELIGION!!!

Basically my intial reactions to this preview can be sumed up like this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTNP792ykYM

Now this is just for the preview, maybe some things will be explained in the actual episode, but just from judging the preview, it doesn't look promising. While CN has sugar-coated episode previews before (see Burning Low), it looks like they didn't even try to sugarcoat this one. Tune in for my review after the episode premieres, like most Adventure Time episodes, I don't know what to expect, but with how this episode sounds like, the unexpected is not looking good.