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AngryLittleAlchemist on 03 August 2017
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sundin13 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

He's not interesting, bland, and the jokes around him are really unfunny. The randomness in Adventure Time only worked when the characters were already weird like the gameboy character or Lumpy space princess, but Finn is boring generic protaganist until WOWAOHAHAHAOAHAH so oooo wacky. 

Like I don't get how Jake can be Finn's best friend, Finn is just so boring. His voice is really annoying too.

I did stop watching at about the time the characters got more backstory though, I think I stopped right when they started developing and fleshing out Marceline, so maybe finn improved. I think the idea of the gender swap episode is really cool.

I think Finn's role is mostly to serve as the "human element" of the show, like how in Godzilla movies you need human characters so the audience has someone to connect to. Finn isn't supposed to be weird and out there, his role is to make the show relatable, through his relationships and struggles. In my opinion, this wouldn't work unless Finn felt believable and I think that he really does. His sense of humor, his decision making and the conflicts he goes through are all typical of coming of age, just filtered through the weirdness of Ooo. 

Without Finn, the show would lose most of what makes it great and devolve into "lol, so random" nonsense because he is what makes the show so human.

yeah, with weird abstract or accentric shows, it's great to have a protaganist that is easy to relate to. This formula has been used before, which is why it's strange that Adventure Time sucks at it.