My thoughts on the episode of the Show "Adventure Time" episode "Hall of Egress"

Adventure time is a series that encapsulates many themes in media from a long term built story to many short term episodic stories, some with many stories in one episode. But for this post i will be talking about the episode “Hall of egress”. This episode is heavily symbolic. The episode starts with Finn and Jake looking for a cave full of treasure. Finn finds the cave but seems to be unable to leave. In the room he finds a snowman statue but it's built upside down. Every time he opens the exit he is teleported to the room he starts in along with time traveling to the time he found the cave, no matter how much he walks away from the door. Finn ends up too scared to open his eyes. He tries to tell BMO and Jake about what happens but he seems to be the only one affected by the teleportation and time travel. Finn eventually realizes that he can’t ask anyone for help with the problem so he goes on a pilgrimage along with wearing clothes from the skin of animals he finds on his trip. Mysteriously he finds his way back to the cave by accident. Then he decides to take the blind fold off his face and opens his eyes. To his surprise he can now see the world but he sees everything as transparent. Finn is able to see through walls seeing the animals and sunlight and Jake is looking for Finn through the cave. The cave is literally a prison for Finn; this could be symbolic of a problem in life that you can't fix intuitively. Finn eventually uses a blind fold to escape from fixing the cave issue. He would rather be blind than deal with the cave. He was burnt out from problem solving. For these reasons I think the cave represents problems with non intuitive solutions. The blind fold represents a coping mechanism and whyI think the snowman statue represents free thought separate from typical thinking. Finn went on a literal journey to solve this problem but the blind fold masked(literally and metaphorically) the problem he had of not being able to see. Being forced eventually to take off the mask in the cave to solve the problem. I think the message of the episode is that coping with problems in the short term can help you gain a mental footing to help you be more prepared to solve your problems. I think the tone of the episode is to always try every solution when solving problems. We never know what the solution to all problems are. The trick to solving the problem is to try everything, meanwhile minimizing risk and adverse events along with unrestricting your mind to generate more solution options.