Review: Adventure Time “Stakes” “Empress Eyes”

The Ice King wakes up from a night terror to find a real nightmare sitting on his bed. “Empress Eyes” starts out with a creepy promise, but fizzles out with no real conflict. Again, all of the pieces were there; they just needed to be put together.

The monster at the end of the Ice King’s bed is the Empress. After “hypnotizing” Simon – and finding out that penguins taste like cheese water, – she sends her new minion to fetch the only source of human blood in Ooo, Finn. A few tropes later, and the Empress finds the end of Marcy’s stake, and the Vampire Queen regains her invisibility.

I’m a huge fan of Marceline. She’s The Punisher of the Adventure Time Universe. And perhaps therein lies the problem. Just like the Marvel can’t translate their anti-hero into a feature-length film, Adventure Time seems to have missed the point of having a demon vampire be the lead character.

Please, tighten up the story, make everything twice as creepy, and quit wasting awesome bad-guys with really lame episodes.