I really enjoyed it. Bonus that it ended while it was good.
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It's a better sci-fi show than Rick and Morty
It got canceled for being too gay so it has my respect. It's pacing was awful though.
The enemies do actually experience growth, but I take your point. It's a kids show about friendship, so I'll give it a pass. One episode where his "let's talk it out" strategy didn't work would have been nice.
I am unabashedly in love with the show. Honestly the ammount of love and positivity from the show helped me through some shit in my life. It is the kinda just good shit that we nees as a society. It's cheesy oe whatever but for as many people base their identity around childrens mesdia this really should be a go to for people before harry potter or star wars
If you really wanted to, you could get angry at them for redeeming the big war criminal baddies, but idk I really liked the show. Did you see Steven Universe Future? Its not perfect but it makes a good epilogue, gives time to a bunch of different characters
Spending the rest of their natural lives fixing the problems they caused is a good compromise
I agree, but there was a whole struggle session back in the day calling rebecca sugar a fascist sympathizer or whatever. I'm glad we're not worried about that any more
Me too. Was worried I ya were gonna come at me. I shit post, not struggle session. I saw the argument, and agree, that the show implies intelligent life is rare, to the point humans were the first they encountered. So, while bad, they didn't do a galaxy of genocide of intelligent life. That's better, right?
I felt like the show didnt do a good enough job in showing that as a compromise with power.
They should have considered shattering them and considered the lives that would have cost.
Its just to facile to have it wrap up into a clean happy ending. I would rather have seen a guillotine. However a protracted truth and reconciliation is the factually best ending the show could have.
They do have a scene where steven tries to shatter white, and ends up not doing it. But anyway, I've learned to accept that Steven universe isnt a Marxist show, and its emphasis on pacifism definetly goes too far, but that's okay.
There should be one gem that they do just have to shatter. Not jasper, but one of the new rubys would have been good. Just one though. The show is better off without that grimdark element but I agree with you.
big war criminal baddies
I choose not too, but yes, not a perfect show.
I saw Future and liked it. Glad they moved the characters forward instead of just making filler episodes for years
I was once hanging with a dude who liked Rick and Morty and Steven Universe and a girl who liked Steven Universe and hated Rick and Morty.
I pitched them the idea of a cross over episode, the response was mixed.
If the show had become a monster of the week type show, Rick as a big bady would have been good. He's got a lot of trauma to deal with.
Rick: “Stevieeeee, I blech I made this big fucking dick drill to kill those evil rock bitches!”
Steven: “How do you deal with this shit every day?”
Morty: “I usually just say ‘aw jeez’”
Yeah, I'd love a reboot with more money and targeted towards teenagers/adults. Aka, more plot and world building, less Crying Breakfast Friends vibes (tho that's a large part of why the show was good, too)
I won't, because while I don't agree, it is a very good episode and I think I cried, a little bit, when I saw it
The one on Netflix? Strong themes of emotion trauma and abuse in that? Huh.
Uh, I mean if losing at volleyball is considered traumatic (which the characters in it seem to think it is) then, yeah totally.
I'll check it out. Netflix seems to think I would like it, but I hadn't considered it because sports, basically
it's kinda lib but it looks really good, but I haven't had the time watch it yet
I really loved it until the ending. I didn't watch Future, but the ending to season 5 felt extremely rushed and undeveloped. I don't think it was the writers' fault, it seems to me CN told them to wrap it up in a few episodes when they probably had a couple of seasons of content left. Change Your Mind was like a list of plot points the show needed to resolve that happen rapid fire one after another. Each of them could have had entire episodes to flesh out and expand upon. What we got was unsatisfying and made all those seasons of build up fall flat.
Still, I really enjoyed the first four seasons as well as most of season five, and still listen to the songs every once in a while. But the ending to season five I feel wasted a lot of potential.
Agreed. Easily two or three more seasons of shit they had in the tank, that got rushed. Plus tons of unanswered questions about the world building
