7.8/10. A good follow up the season premiere. I appreciate the contrast between Finn and the newly named "Fern" here. Finn is, to a fault, trying to help people wherever he can, and it feels good. While he clearly doesn't have the training to be a doctor, and gets more than a little overconfident about his practice, the profession feeds into his natural altruism, and it's why he feels so home. As we learned when Finn refused to destroy an "unaligned" ant he's just essentially good, and it's not hard to imagine him retiring from the adventurer's life at some point and helping people in a different sort of fashion.
Fern, on the other hand, feels the itch to engage in some typically Finn-like adventures in a particularly grassy part of Ooo. The catch is that rather than solving riddles and coming up with unorthodox solution to problems, Fern just slices and dices his way through all the monsters, putting a (encouraging but clearly a little disturbed) Jake ill at ease in the process. It's clear from his actions that Fern is not quite Finn, despite the resemblance, because Finn's natural inclination is to, at the title suggests, do no harm, and Fern has no moral compunction about such things.
On top of the thematic and character material, there's more good mythos material with the reveal that the grass blade was, at least seemingly, just made by a grassy wizard because he thought it would be cool. I like the fact that, for the moment at least, there's nothing deeper about it than that, and not every twist a piece of some larger puzzle. There's still questions, like whether the Grass Wizard knows about the crazy octopus-spider and what the end game will be, but it's still a neat touch.
So the newly dubbed Fern, carrying the knowledge that he's not quite Finn, but isn't sure what he is, rides off into the sunset for the time being, sure to come back to cause trouble or help out in a jam. But "Do No Harm" does well to reinforce one character trait for Finn in an interesting new environment, and use it to establish a character trait for Fern, to show his differences and difficulties that make him more than just a verdant clone of the original. Good stuff!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-01-31T23:59:29Z
7.8/10. A good follow up the season premiere. I appreciate the contrast between Finn and the newly named "Fern" here. Finn is, to a fault, trying to help people wherever he can, and it feels good. While he clearly doesn't have the training to be a doctor, and gets more than a little overconfident about his practice, the profession feeds into his natural altruism, and it's why he feels so home. As we learned when Finn refused to destroy an "unaligned" ant he's just essentially good, and it's not hard to imagine him retiring from the adventurer's life at some point and helping people in a different sort of fashion.
Fern, on the other hand, feels the itch to engage in some typically Finn-like adventures in a particularly grassy part of Ooo. The catch is that rather than solving riddles and coming up with unorthodox solution to problems, Fern just slices and dices his way through all the monsters, putting a (encouraging but clearly a little disturbed) Jake ill at ease in the process. It's clear from his actions that Fern is not quite Finn, despite the resemblance, because Finn's natural inclination is to, at the title suggests, do no harm, and Fern has no moral compunction about such things.
On top of the thematic and character material, there's more good mythos material with the reveal that the grass blade was, at least seemingly, just made by a grassy wizard because he thought it would be cool. I like the fact that, for the moment at least, there's nothing deeper about it than that, and not every twist a piece of some larger puzzle. There's still questions, like whether the Grass Wizard knows about the crazy octopus-spider and what the end game will be, but it's still a neat touch.
So the newly dubbed Fern, carrying the knowledge that he's not quite Finn, but isn't sure what he is, rides off into the sunset for the time being, sure to come back to cause trouble or help out in a jam. But "Do No Harm" does well to reinforce one character trait for Finn in an interesting new environment, and use it to establish a character trait for Fern, to show his differences and difficulties that make him more than just a verdant clone of the original. Good stuff!