What time is it!?

I love Adventure Time. Now just hear me out. I know that some of you are groaning, and skipping over this post as we speak. If you are, I'm going to guess that you see Adventure Time as "just a cartoon" and know only of the show's nature to have an occasional fart joke. But this show has so much more to offer.

Adventure Time is so important. While, yes, they still need to attract their audience of primarily children (which does mean fart jokes sometimes...), the writers on this show are absolutely amazing. The fact that they manage to discuss so many important and difficult themes, while still catering to their main audience, simply astounds me. So, over my next few posts, I will be sharing a recent arc of the show that really packed a punch for me. These four episodes discuss issues such as searching of a loved one, making sacrifices, betrayal, seeking revenge, dealing with difficult emotions, when to step back (including as a friend and as a parent), and even using sexuality as a way of avoiding one's problems.

If you're awesome and want to watch any of these episodes before I talk about them, here's the list:
"Wake Up"
"Escape from the Citadel"
"The Tower"
"Breezy"

If you choose not to, there will be spoilers! Beware!

"Seeing Catch-22 Twice" - Maybe you should look again?

"Seeing Catch-22 Twice" was a very intriguing article to read. Ron Rosenbaum was able to craft a very relaxed, yet analytical piece regarding the novel and it's religious commentary. Rosenbaum wrote a respectable and well argued article. Except in one instance. Towards the end of the article, Rosenbaum cites the passage of the soldier who sees everything twice. "...for it's Marx Bros. Refusal of logic and the fact that everyone accepts it as logically as possible." Okay. That's agreeable. "...perhaps the thematic high point of the book, is Yossarian's astonishingly scathing denunciation of God." Wait. Back it up. Yes, I can agree that this passage can mean a number of things. But how this passage relates to Yossarian and Lt. Scheisskoph's wife's conversation about God, is beyond me. Rosenbaum fails to relate this passage's importance to the reader what so ever. He simply "connects" this passage to a more relevant one, and simply moves on. While I'm probably the only person who had this issue, please back up all of your claims Mr. Rosenbaum. I would love to be enlightened at where you saw this connection.