The Lich is definitely one of the best episodes ever in this series
The beginning with the creepy dream, the fact they’re stealing gems from princesses, finn copying billy, the fucking enchiridion, the Princess Bubblegum scene and scissor scene, the lich scene, the PORTAL SCENE
I’d definitely say that The Lich is the best of the three episodes if you’re looking at it in a standalone, sum-of-all-of-its-parts sort of way, but I would argue that all three episodes have some really great character study stuff going on. But in the case of FtH/JtD, it’s pushed in to the background to make room for worldbuilding, so it isn’t quite as apparent, nor is it as directly plot-driving as any of the character interactions in The Lich (which is why I’d say it’s a better overall episode than the two that follow, despite the fact that I may or may not be biased toward those episodes by means of complicated AU fun times - in fact, the character stuff not being able to vastly turn things away from their predesignated course might fit pretty well in to those episodes’ themes, but I don’t feel like rambling for a bajillion years right now). The episodes are titled “Finn the Human” and “Jake the Dog,” after all~
