Steven Universe | Odd Batch
Added 2023-09-15 17:25:59 +0000 UTCHi everyone, happy Friday! I was given some information that the ending of S1 is a bit wonky. So I did a wee-bit of research (spoiler-free) that helped me sort it out...hopefully. I explain a bit more in the video!
I hope you enjoy 💜 https://youtu.be/MXmDH0h65TY
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I'm sorry things got so confusing. Your plans for the next two blocks sound great. As for the Uncle Grandpa ep... Well, the nice thing about SU is that the episodes are only 11 minutes long, so even if there's one that you really don't like, it's still over with really quickly, and then you can just move on to the next. Anyway, now that I've had time to actually sit down with the episodes properly, some comments. Open Book-- Your initial "wait, they're still reading those books?" cracked me up because of course this was one of those episodes that they originally held off on airing until Season 2. I can just imagine the double-take that must have caused. "Wait, weren't they reading those books, like, *months* ago? How on earth did Steven not finish them until now? Has he really been reading them all this time?" Story for Steven -- Yes, I definitely found Rose creepy! For one thing, they didn't even let us see her *eyes* until episode 35 -- and then only in a videotape that had no small amount of creepiness to it itself (or maybe that's just me?). For a really long time, her eyes were always covered, or obscured by shadow, or blocked by that beam in Steven's house. And on the rare occasion that they did let us see them, they were always closed. I mean, this show is animated: those sorts of details are never just random artifacts of the lighting on set that day or anything like that. She's drawn with her eyes hidden so often because the creators *chose* to draw her that way. It's pretty instinctive, I think, to feel unsettled by a character depicted in that manner. It just begs you to ask the question: what is she hiding? I think that part of the reason the gems look so very young in this episode is because young Greg looks so much like Steven that it sort of tricks us into thinking that he must also be the same *height* as Steven. Add to that the fact that Rose -- so much taller than everyone -- is still around, and you'd swear the gems are much shorter than they are in the current day. But I don't think they are. Young Greg might have Steven-like proportions but he's very much taller than Steven, and the gems are pretty much the same height in relation to young Greg as they are to current-day Greg: Pearl's a little shorter than he is, Garnet's a bit taller than him, and Amethyst is much shorter than him. Of course, the gems are also depicted as *acting* much younger, and while I think it's true that all three of them had to mature a lot once Rose was no longer around to lead them, I feel like that's greatly exaggerated in this episode as a kind of dramatic shorthand. There will be other flashback episodes (o no, spoilers!) in which they don't come across as nearly as young as this. For that matter, they seem much younger here than they do in that portrait we've seen of them from the 18th century, the one based on 'Watson and the Shark.'
SK Elkins
2023-09-16 16:10:11 +0000 UTCYeah, I looked back at your message to try and get it right...but I think I just kept over thinking it - so then I went on to find that page and use that...but didn't want to look too deep as to not spoil anything by accident haha I'm sure all will be fine though. It seemed like the really important thing was the Joy Ride and Jail Break episodes were together. We'll keep truckin' through :) Yeah, ngl, I'm not super looking forward to Uncle Grandpa, but I am at least curious as to how they used him lmao
So Everdream
2023-09-16 02:08:25 +0000 UTC"Say Uncle" and "Shirt Club" really ought to have gone before "The Message." (Specifically, between "Open Book" and "Story for Steven.") There are some continuity weirdnesses that result from leaving them until Season Two. But honestly? Now that you've passed The Message, you may as well go on to the finale. Anything else interposed here will seem even *weirder,* since obviously the characters have other, more serious things on their mind now than they did pre-Message. Just bear in mind when you *do* get to Shirt Club and Say Uncle that they were supposed to go earlier in Season 1. It will make some otherwise mystifying things about those episodes make a lot more sense. And yes, now you know what I was tip-toing around saying about "Say Uncle" before. It's a crossover special with :sigh: that Uncle Grandpa show. It's pretty strange, and there are a *lot* of people who Just Can't with it.
SK Elkins
2023-09-16 01:00:57 +0000 UTC
