It just makes me sad to see the way it ended and think of the reasons for that.

  • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Like the diamonds aren't even sorry. They stopped their literal genocide because Steven asked them to. They would've continued their genocide otherwise. But nope, a relative doesn't like it!

    • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      a relative doesn't like it, and ALSO they didn't LISTEN to that relative and REACT to that relative's dislike UNTIL that relative was MALE CODED and not FEMALE CODED

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It really did. It was ending imperialism by reconciling with your white mother.

      It's such a wine mom approach to stopping the bad guys.

        • Sea_Gull [they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Just sit down and talk to your racist aunt. She loves you and you have to see her at Thanksgiving.

        • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          If you just sit down and talk to them.

          Like if Luke read an intervention letter to Darth Vader to make him stop running the galactic empire.

  • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    And I wanted to see the gem war so bad. I wanted to see the ancient world and different gem factions fighting other colonists.

    It was one of the most interesting time periods. And it would've shown where earth diverged from ours to this version.

  • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It all went to shit officially the episode A Single Pale Rose. Rose Quartz lost all interesting characterization in that episode.

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Bismuth is all kinds of yikes. A black-coded slave character considered just as bad as the slavers. Like wanting the people hurting you to never be able to hurt you again is somehow impossible to understand. I forgot about that episode in relation to the show as a whole.

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        And then the fact that the show only cares about the colonizer's country instead of the beings they're colonizing.

        Like yeah gems have a shitty situation, but what about the literal planets worth of life that were killed off.

        I guess the diamonds can un-shatter gems after the movie, but they can't un-shatter extinct fucking planets.

        And then the one time you see the heroes interact with alien life besides the gems, they fucking try to eat it. Their lives were not even worth of getting names.

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I'd say it's worth watching to see the way it handles imperialism and oppressive systems. You don't see that often in media and even when it's done badly, you can at least have a conversation critiquing ways of opposing oppression, imperialism, and capitalism.

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd say check for one of those essential episodes lists. There's a lot of bad filler. But the background art is pretty and there's some interesting ideas. But be prepared for the lib politics.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I'm pretty used to lib politics in media and can overlook it if the content is good. So is Steven Universe more like Avatar with it being a story based adventure?

        • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          It's a lot like a sailor moon kinda thing with mostly monsters of the week and the occasional story crumb thrown in. There are seasonal arcs, but a lot of the episodes don't directly interact with the main storyline.

    • GundamZZ [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The chiptune/synth BGM's really decent. The background art can be very beautiful. Has some very sweet moments between characters that you don't get to see in shows, especially in such high amounts. The ending politics are lame but it's mostly because it's taking the show's main themes of dealing with feelings and personal relationships and applying it to a big political scale due to the show's scope creep. It goes from the early episodes of a kid playing around town with his like adoptive aunts fighting monsters of the week to a Transformers-esque galactic soap opera still with a lot of side stories with the townsfolk.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd also add that if you do pick it up, just let it end at the movie, the episodes in the future arc are just uninteresting rehashes of already treaded thematic ground and uninteresting plot developments that are more frustrating than entertaining.