If it helps "Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe!" is still my favorite episode in all 6 seasons I've dug into, but that was quite reminiscence of the show's older days, just a cute little pointless adventure. I know AT still does those quite a lot of the time, but everything does feel more /forced/, you know?
(Finn's flashback was wayyyyy too heartbreaking though, I'll give it that. Like I said I don't have any problems with new AT I just don't feel like watching it. Old AT was where it was at.)
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I stopped watched around the end of season 5 and really couldn't get into season 6. There's a lot of things old AT did better and a lot of things new AT does better, and while I don't think one is stronger then the other old AT's simple minded adventures always put a smile on my face. Bear in mind I've watched quite a few eps from season 6, 7 and 8, and progress is natural for a show, so I can understand why some of the immersion is being ruined
I think the turning point was with Flame Princess. When she broke up with Finn it just upset me because it was so forced and unnatural, and the following episodes were just way too painful to watch, and at that point I just kinda was like "I don't feel like watching this every week" on top of other reasons
Have you stopped watching the show? Anyway I wouldn't say that the complexity of the show was what made it not as refreshing to me personally but rather the fact that they lose all of those limitations that were there at the beginning? For example, in AT
Finn was the last human on earth and that was 60% of the background of the show. But now that we know there are hundeds of them it kinda loses that special feeling that the show had.
Or the fact that there is way more unlimited magic than there was at the beginning of the show (I think we can see this same effect in fantasy shows like TVD or idk Teen Wolf where at first there's only like one species of supernatural beings but then as the series progress really idiotic creatures and beings appear and then it kinda becomes lame (I've heard many people say this about the way the villains in Supernatural become more and more ridiculous. Though we can see this in every "one villain per season" show lol)