Winter Light

Airdate:

April 25, 2017^[1]

Credits

Director:

Cole Sanchez

Story:

Kent Osborne
Jack Pendarvis
Julia Pott
Adam Muto

Written & storyboarded by:

Steve Wolfhard^[2]
Laura Knetzger^[2]

Episodes
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"Winter Light" is the third part of Adventure Time mini-series "Elements" and is the eighteenth episode in the eighth season of Adventure Time and is the two hundred fifty-sixth episode overall.

Synopsis

Finn, Jake and Ice King travel to the new Ice Kingdom to confront the person responsible for the changes.^[1]

Plot

Ice King, Finn and Jake plan out how to enter the Ice Kingdom without being detected. Ice King presents Finn and Jake with sweaters to keep them warm in the Ice Kingdom. As Finn is overlooking the Ice Kingdom, Ice King then pushes him down towards the ground. Jake and Ice King quickly join Finn in his descent. Finn pinpoints a weak spot in the ice dome with his sword and they come crashing in. Jake becomes a parachute and they float down into the darkness of the ice dome. On the ground, Ice King reveals a lantern to illuminate the darkness and Jake gives Finn his sweater to further warm Finn's body, much to Ice King's horror (as he believes Finn to have two heads for a moment). Ice King forms a sled from ice and they explore the Ice Kingdom.

Together, they travel through the now Patience's winter palace to find a way to rescue "weird lady" (Betty, as Ice King called her). Along the way, they witness how drastically the Ice Kingdom has changed: it is now a gloomy, depressing frozen desert covered in darkness with all of its inhabitants turned to ice. Jake's personality seems more subdued as they journey farther in. They crash into Carroll's ice house where Finn asks Carroll to join them to take down Patience St. Pim. Carroll decides against joining them, so Finn, Jake, and Ice King continue on towards the Ice King's castle, which has become much larger and more pyramid-like.

Reaching the castle, the group enters through a hole and parachute down using Jake. When they land, Jake is shown to have an icicle forming on his head. He seems very somber. Carroll brings Patience to them in an attempt to stop their plans. Patience seems very despondent and explains her plan of turning the Land of Ooo back to the age of the Elements by using the princesses' power with Betty's magic as the battery for the spell. However, the plan backfired horribly when the newly awakened Elements grew out of control and started using their power excessively, creating the current state of Ooo. Ice King discovers a frozen Betty being used as a table for food. He grabs her and escapes through the window. Jake has become engulfed in ice and is unwilling to follow, so Finn grabs him and they escape the dome with Ice King.

Back in the Cloud Kingdom, Ice King cooks a special soup to help melt the ice on Betty and Jake away. Now together, the four of them start to form a plan to rescue Ooo....

Characters

Major Characters

Minor Characters

Mentioned and pictured

Princess Bubblegum (sculpture)
Flame Princess (sculpture)
Slime Princess (sculpture)
Joshua
Rattleballs (imagination)
Jake Jr.
Charlie
T.V.
Viola
Kim Kil Whan

Music

Blue Magic

Trivia

It seems that the Ice King's powers have improved a lot which means that he can shrink his crown with them.

Cultural References

The title of this episode is a reference to the 1963 Swedish drama film of the same name. ^[3]

Episode Connections

Carroll has returned since her debut episode "The Tower." This time, she is an ice person.
- Interestingly, Carroll's emotional state does not seem to be affected as the other ice elementals have been. Carroll is still quite irate rather than unhappy.
Jake mentions the destruction of the Enchiridion in "The Lich," and Finn reveals he took the Farmworld Enchiridion from his counterpart in the episode "Crossover," though he was never seen doing so.
Finn repeats the same lines he had in the animated short: "Snow Golem...Iceclops...Ice to meet you." In both situations, Finn is sledding in the Ice Kingdom.
The hole that Ice King created to get to his basement in "Elemental" is the same hole Finn, Jake, and Ice King use to enter the castle, as evidenced by the cracks formed by his string of hangars/sky hooks.

Storyline Analysis

It is revealed that Patience only wanted to unleash the full potential of the princess' elemental powers, but it went wrong. She is shown feeling remorse for her actions, as well.

Production Notes

This episode was made available for download on iTunes on April 17th.
The song that the Ice Fox sung in this episode is Blue Magic by Kelly Hogan from the 1996 album, The Whistle Only Dogs Can Hear.