Steven Universe Ep 41-45
Added 2023-09-04 16:16:00 +0000 UTCHappy Sunday y'all! After seeing these episodes, I'm sorry I made you wait an extra couple of days...these were FANTASTIC! Super excited to hear y'all's thoughts on them!
Enjoy! - https://youtu.be/BVc7t1QOqtY
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She did yeah, thankfully the storm was past the coast I believe by the time they got there. I also only mostly got some rain, which is fine, cause I love rainy days! Hope your in-laws managed alright during the storm. I think you hit the nail on the head, 100%. The show takes some different routes you wouldn't really expect and the way that we see everything and Steven mostly just accepts it is neat. But I do love the few instances of when Steven kinda blows up and he calls people on it. It adds a bit of complexity. And while it may be frustrating as a view because "oh why'd you call out this but not that", I can definitely remember as a kid, I didn't really ask why something was done, I just did it... not in a toxic childhood way or anything, but just because that's what we did. Horror Club: It's come up like 20 times in Amphibia and every time I repeat it now. It's not good 🤣🤣 Winter Forecast: I'm glad to hear this and that seemingly the story progressed in that way. It's a stark difference from the early episodes. So it makes me very excited to see what other changes we may see later! Rose's Scbbard: Bigggggggg ouch, yeah. Yessssssssssssss, The way the episode ends was uneasy. I was expecting a smile. But that again shows how complex this show will be and again just makes me really excited to see how it's all tackled in later seasons. Honestly, when I'd see this show come on cable it was an immediate skip (hence never watching it) because I just assumed it was stupid, kid cartoon with no story. I thought it was just you know, adventures...boy I was wrong haha
So Everdream
2023-09-06 16:26:26 +0000 UTCOh, and you actually have 8 more episodes in the season, not 7. (The season is 53 episodes long because "Say Uncle" was a special, and therefore technically not counted as part of the production block.) I would not recommend doing them all in one go unless you're feeling very energetic. Probably 4 + 4 would be a better way to go. Bear in mind, though, that the next 4 episodes are the ones that the network felt okay with transposing to the next season in order to finish the season on time for sweeps. So they might be a little weak as a batch - their continuity was deemed inessential for the overall plot, after all. (I still think the continuity gets a little weird and the story weaker overall when you delay them until S2 like the network did, but it doesn't actually *break* the show the way it would with more plot-essential episodes.) The special "Say Uncle" is also a very odd creature, and many people...well...aren't too crazy about it. So just something to keep in mind - if you do 4+4, the next batch might not be a banger group like the last couple have been. Regardless of how you break them up, you won't want to split up Episodes 52 and 53 -- "The Return" and "Jailbreak." That's the two-part season finale.
SK Elkins
2023-09-05 19:37:00 +0000 UTCHey, Ever. I hope your girlfriend had fun at the beach and didn't have to deal with too much messiness from Idalia. For that matter, I hope *you* didn't have to deal with any messiness! I know that even quite far from the coast, my in-laws in the Chapel Hill area still often lose some trees or get hit with some flooding when hurricane season rolls around. Hope all is okay there with you. A block with both 'Maximum Capacity' and 'Rose's Scabbard.' Hoo boy. Two more of my favorite episodes. This show really does not flinch from allowing its characters to behave incredibly badly. (Nor from showing them sometimes to be the *worst* parental figures!) One thing I love about the way this show is structured is that it perfectly captures that period of late childhood/early adolescence where you first start to realize that all of the adults in your life have these complicated -- complicated and often really heavy -- backstories, personal histories that inform everything about how they relate to the world and to each other, but which are effectively just one great big black box of a mystery to you. I know some people get really frustrated with the way that Steven rarely asks the sort of questions that we as viewers would want to ask, but I think that's actually pretty faithful to the way that when you're young, you do just sort of accept the stuff going on around you without even noticing that some of it may in fact be really, really, *really* weird. (Then you become a teenager and kind of stop in your tracks and go "waaaaaait a minute! None of that was normal!") Since I tend to view this show as primarily about growing up, I think the narrative structure -- and specifically the way that it handles information control -- works incredibly well to sort of...reify the thematic focus. If that isn't too pretentious a thing to say. RE: Horror Club -- Indeed, Bojack Horseman has left me painfully aware of just how often the line "What are you doing here?" is included in TV scripts. It comes up a *lot.* RE: Winter Forecast -- Garnet becomes noticeably more affectionate with Steven after 'Garnet's Universe,' the episode in which she learns from the story he tells that Steven thinks she never tells him she loves him because she's "not strong enough." It seems to me that it's in fact a direct result of that episode that she becomes far more openly nurturing and maternal with him. She also actually does start telling him that she loves him after 'Garnet's Universe.' A subtle bit of continuity, and one that I adore. Garnet is best mom. RE: Rose's Scabbard -- This episode recontextualizes some of the stuff from "Space Race" in a very painful way. Pearl: But now I'm here. On Earth. Forever. Steven: With me! Pearl: Yeah. With you. Ouch. I still think that the way this episode ends is incredibly ballsy. In any other children's cartoon, I feel as if that final scene -- where Pearl, riding on Lion's back, glances down at Steven and then back up again -- would have had her smile, or her expression at least soften in some way. But not here. Nope. Pearl is really, fundamentally Not OK. It's an unsettling ending, and one that only allows a sense of partial resolution. Very realistic, IMO, but unexpectedly harsh for a kids' show.
SK Elkins
2023-09-05 19:20:49 +0000 UTC
