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The worldbuilding, the Gem history, the way everything slowly connected over seasons.
it was on a completely different level from the rest of the network’s output. Most CN shows were just episodic gags or basic adventure plots. Steven Universe felt like it had a proper mythology behind it.
It was the only Cartoon Network show that actually had real lore.
The themes hit harder too, identity, found family, trauma, forgiveness, and growing up without turning into pure preachiness.
All of that if you ignore the homo shit
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>>155675366
>All of that if you ignore the homo shit
AKA the rest of the show.
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>>155675366
OP
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>>155675400
So? What Cartoon Network show was better than Steven Universe?
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>>155675417
Primal.
>inb4 [as]
Adult Swim IS Cartoon Network.
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>>155675366
Nice try
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>>155675427
Primal is a masterpiece, but technically there is no story, things just happen and Fang & Spear kill their way out of it
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>>155675443
>there is no story
Perhaps dialogue-less stories are too much for you to follow. I'm a retard, and even I found out that Spear and Fang's motivation were both their families died.
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>>155675443
Go back
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>>155675460
Did you watch season 3? Spear came back to life by drinking some juice, after literally being burned by Viking hellfire.
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>>155675496
Cope
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>>155675496
>Spear came back to life by drinking some juice
Technically it was against his will, some older dude was controlling him like one of the witches from the second season. It wasn't until the dude died that Spear went into his "zombie" state.
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>>155675417
pretty much all of them really, but here's a list

Ed, Edd and Eddy
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Kids Next Door
Foster's Home for Imaginary Pets
Dextar's Lab
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Power Puff Girls
Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated
The Looney Tunes Show
Johnny Bravo
Time Squad
Megas XLR
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>>155675600
>Most CN shows were just episodic gags or basic adventure plots
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>>155675366
Fell off by the second season.
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>>155675627
Clearly you didn't watch the movie and future
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>>155675618
Fuck off
>>155675675
Nobody care about your fagshit
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>>155675675
I watched both, and Future was a massive disappointment compared to the film. Despite Future being a minisereis, they still felt the need to force townie episodes in.
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>>155675366
Shit's woke.
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This show is a litmus test for whose shitty takes to avoid.

You CAN hate the show. There are plenty of reasons to hate the show. But everyone who says it's bad because Steven Universe is a whiny pacifist who redeemed the fascists enemies instead of killing them is a pants on head retard that didn't engage with any of the points made by the show.
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I just can't get over the drop in animation quality after mid Season 2
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Oh yeah, townie episodes a major problem with SU as a whole. For a show that props itself up as "lore-heavy", they sure waste a lot of fucking time with shit that doesn't affect the plot whatsoever. Not even Steven's body-switching ability was used in a plot-relevant matter.
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>>155675695
Huh, every episode in future was important for Steven's developed, maybe except for the Lapis one
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>>155675726
The Sunstone PSA episode could've easily been ignored. But yeah, I get where you're coming from where there's tiny plot elements. Beachball only got her time to shine... once, and never again.
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>>155675726
>developed
Development *
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>>155675600
Don’t forget Ben 10. Alien Force was the bomb.
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>>155675712
No
>>155675726
You have shittaste anyway
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>t. every song in steven universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvUbIMJ2lQI
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>>155675712
Gee, Choo-Choo, two wieners?
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I'm still to this day upset about what they did to Nephrite. Yes I understand she was corrupted but her uncorrupted design is 1000 times less interesting than before and you set up the idea that Gems could look like anything they wanted. Why NOT have a class of Gem that looks like bug people?
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>>155675736
That episode was a fan service for those who wanted to see more of the fusions

>Beachball only got her time to shine... once, and never again.
Volleyball, there wasn't anything else to tell about her, Pink Diamond hurt her and that's it
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>>155675793
>Pink Diamond hurt her
After all the "White Diamond is evil" propaganda? I dunno, Pink got off scott-free IMO.
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>>155675768
That was the final straw for me when I dropped the show. I turned it off midway through Garnet’s song “this is who I am” or whatever during that climactic battle on that giant hand space ship.
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>>155675788
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>>155675802
>that climactic battle on that giant hand space ship.
An Undertale parody made sure I NEVER took that song seriously.
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>>155675802
That was dope
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>>155675718
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>>155676040
I forgot how ugly Pearl was in the beginning of the show.
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>>155676211
And the she became everyone's favorite qt
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>>155675753
Yes
Then you got pissoff to be honest
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>>155675618
KND, Scooby doo and Megas all did what SU tried to do but better
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>>155675618
>cartoons were cartoons
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>>155676574
>Megas
2 seasons
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>>155676917
Doesn’t matter
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>>155675366
Unironically it might be the show that has the longest tail in public interest, it does great streaming numbers and has a strong throughline of story and lore stuff, which is what kids are really into now. Threre is a market for tween narrative cartoons that is only being met by youtube indie stuff, but Steven Universe has the benefit of having way more episodes than anything glitch could produce, and is SU is actually family friendly.
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>>155675675
>Clearly you didn't watch the movi
You mean the thing so poorly written it's entire plot could have been solved in under 5 minutes, contradicts itself constantly on the danger of a drill, and caused a massive cataclysm that would wipe out the entire planet due to the goo being next to the ocean but didn't only because the people who watch the show are too stupid to know how plankton work?

Gotta love the absolutely dumbest possible reason they could've given too. "Why don't you contact the diamonds about a memory wiping weapon they would've made and would know any abilities it had and how to reverse it, or the drill who Yellow should canonically have full control of, or this weird jester fuck who any of them have to have met? Why because Steven has healing powers obviously." Not to mention the scythe causing what might be the dumbest retcon in the entire series and making White look like an absolute moron not using it to reset pink steven. Oh yeah, scream "She's gone" all you want, creator, we saw what happened when the reset went off. You literally had a character yell it out and then provided a dumb plotpoint that contradicts it.

Jesus fuck that writing was bad, but people who watch steven universe can't follow plots very long.
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>>155676982
>Gotta love the absolutely dumbest possible reason they could've given too. "Why don't you contact the diamonds about a memory wiping weapon they would've made and would know any abilities it had and how to reverse it, or the drill who Yellow should canonically have full control of, or this weird jester fuck who any of them have to have met? Why because Steven has healing powers obviously." Not to mention the scythe causing what might be the dumbest retcon in the entire series and making White look like an absolute moron not using it to reset pink steven. Oh yeah, scream "She's gone" all you want, creator, we saw what happened when the reset went off. You literally had a character yell it out and then provided a dumb plotpoint that contradicts it.

https://sumac-comic.tumblr.com/post/633043434473668608/arc-1page-12
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>>155677088
>Fanfic thinks more about the situation than the show
Even then they have to change the entire scenario because White was absolutely all "Fuck yo free will anyway hoes you're my puppets now" and the problem just solves itself.
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>>155675366
Nope that honor goes to Steven Jewniverse.
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>>155675417
>What Cartoon Network show was better than Steven Universe?
Enter
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>>155675802
I wished I dropped this show earlier. I went up until that shite onion gang episode
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>>155677137
I watched the whole thing, and it still felt like a waste.
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>>155675815
It's so obvious they designed the monsters first
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>>155677137
You missed this
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>>155677153
Maybe I should give it a second chance, but none of the post show stuff appeals to me
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>>155677153
No you didn't stop lying
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>>155677185
Yeah, if you found it wasn't all that great the first time, it's not worth a revisit. The good thing about watching the whole show once is that you know EXACTLY which episodes are filler.
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>>155675788
I hate that doc brown haircut and bulbous lips they gave her uncorrupted form
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>>155677199
Question Op.

are you acting or you are actually this retarded.

Because either way you need to step up your game, this isn't funny, not even outrageous it's just sad
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>>155677320
None of the SU haters have seen the entirety of the show, they just see those youtubers complaining about how the show is gay or how the fandom is toxic
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>>155677344
>None of the SU haters have seen the entirety of the show
If I saw the whole show and still have problems with it, does this make me a critic?
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>>155677344
because as you faggots would say
>Y-you can't criticize the show if you don't watch it
>Dude watches the show
>Ha! Why do you watch something you don't like retard

There is just not winning with you faggots.

NTA but Yes I watched it, Yes I went every single fucking chapter because at it's time I wanted to write a fanfic about it.

And yes I can tell you in fully meaning it. The show sucks ass.

(P.s. I am a comet from Greg was the only good song)
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>>155677344
Keep coping
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>>155677360
Yes, but you did not provide a single argument of why the entirety of show, movie, and sequel sucked
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>>155677458
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>>155677458
I already told you the main reason why, and its because it wastes more time with shit that doesn't actually affect the plot. At the very least, Steven should've used his body-switching ability for something OTHER than getting inside Lars' head.
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>>155675366
great show if you happen to be a faaaaaaaggot
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>>155677458
Go back to tumblr
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>>155677472
He did not use it anymore because of his moral, he still used his Telesynthesis and
Telepathy a lot in the show
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>>155675372
>>155675687
>>155677484
>>155677493
I'm not a fag, it's a joke, I'm here
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>>155677547
Yes, because Pink is the shining beacon of morality.
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>>155677668
Did you watch the Volleyball episode? Steven clearly hated his mom
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>>155677770
It also had a Pearl romance that went nowhere, even though she's had "hidden" feelings for Pink throughout the whole series. Would've felt more cathartic if Volleyball was given a second chance.
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>>155677770
I feel like that shit was just integrated after sugar saw how much shit Rose/Pink got when she failed miserably to write her as this great leader saviour of mankind and sacrificial mother that gave her life for steven to be born.
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>>155677787
It wasn't a Romance, it was more of a sibling situation, the only thing that went nowhere was the bismuth pearl thing
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>>155677398
Listened again to it.
It was actually called Just A Comet

Yep, still as great as the first time I heard it.
Greg is goated, maybe not the best parent but the hardest motherfucker I've seen.
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>>155677823
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>>155677822
>bismuth
KEEEEEEEEEK, totally forgot about her introduction. Didn't her introduction introduce the ethics of shattering gems? I swear that was the main plot point.
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>>155675366
Adventure Time did it better.
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>>155677088
>But what if...
The answer to this is almost always "because then there wouldn't be a fucking story."

Why didn't Gandalf just fly the Ring to Mount Doom?
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>>155677831
Steven poofed her immediately and only unbubbled her during the marriage episode
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>>155677901
Jesus, then I SHOULD give the show a rewatch LMAO. I don't think I'm ready for the 3rd or 4th seasons though, because they had the highest concentration of filler.
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>>155675366
Regular Show had more than 5 good episodes which automatically places it a couple positions higher than Steven Universe.
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>>155677987
Did you also like the Uncle Grandpa crossover? It was my personal favorite episode. One of the few passable filler episodes, alongside Rocknaldo.
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>>155675675
This image even out of context is great to depict how faggy and dumb it is.
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>>155675372
The homo shit was a pretty small part of the show. Garnet was a cowards concept of gay characters, because her resemblance to two human lesbians was entirely coincidental, in universe. Outside of degenerate species-mixers like Rose, there was no other choice for a relationship
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>>155677963
>Season 4
True it had a lot of filler, but they were good townies

>Season 3
It didn't have filler, i liked how Jasper was there just to give them a headache and beat Amethyst up. Anyways, season 2 had way more filler than S3
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>>155677997
The Uncle Grandpa episode was legitimately funny. Rocknaldo is like a bottom 5 episode, so this is an odd take to me desu
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>>155678062
Jasper is the most egregious casualty of that wedding and it's not close
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>>155675366
I love the gems but the show was one of the most mishandled shows I have ever seen. it is a miracle it ran for so long at all and it only did due to porn and faggotry.
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>>155678042
I mean, yeah, gems are weird genderless creatures anyway. Though I won't lie, I still can't wrap my head around the concept of "fusion" in certain situations, considering Steven fused with his own dad.
>>155678062
That's right, wasn't S2 the introduction of Pearl's audio logs? They were cute and all, but I needed to know WAY more about the "cluster."
>>155678068
Huh, I didn't know there were people who didn't like Rocknaldo. It felt perfectly in-character for Renaldo to cosplay as a gem while not understanding a single thing about how gems work.
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>>155678095
>Pearl
*Peridot's
>inb4 fake fan
Apologies, I did not mean for that to slip.
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>>155678095
Ronaldo is always consistently in character, and that's why his episodes are the worst. I think the crew had some nostalgia for pre-qanon conspiracy culture, but sorry, thats been universally memoryholed now and nobody is going to know what youre fucking referring to
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>>155678095
>wasn't S2 the introduction of Pearl's audio logs? They were cute and all, but I needed to know WAY more about the "cluster."
Peridot, not Pearl
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>>155678120
Wow... huh, that took me by surprise! I've always liked Renaldo, especially when he makes shitty WMV-styled videos.
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>>155677858
>The answer to this is almost always "because then there wouldn't be a fucking story."
If your entire story has a very easy means of resolution then it's probably a pretty good idea to put a reason in as to why this quick and easy solution is not used, unless you're a shitty writer only beloved by idiots.

Gandalf had to go on an overly long spiel about the temptation of the ring being particularly strong to him so as to explain why they couldn't use the eagles because if one of them got tempted they were all fucked just like if he personally tried to carry it they were all fucked. This writer, on the other hand, decided "Uh dunnuh he heals or something?", because they are not good at writing unless you're appealing to pretty dumb people who like songs more than a plot.
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>>155677997
>>155678068
I’m honestly surprised CN did a crossover in the 2010s given that their business model has drastically changed since the 2000s.
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>>155678776
The EEE one is crazy because I've never seen a cartoon use the "nail through a board as a weapon" thing. It's like, excessively violent if you think about it working.
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>>155678776
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the only good thing about Steven Universe is all the Pearl, Amethyst, Lapis, Peridot, Connie and Spinel porn
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>>155679573
Based...
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>>155675366
>the only Cartoon Network show that actually had real lore
Did this nigga forget adventure time exists? Epic fail.
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>>155679609
Nigga, how are you gonna mention that gay fucking show and not even think about Ben 10? Oh wait, nevermind.
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>>155679609
adventure time is fucking stupid lol, they turned a boy's show into a faggotry show for fat lesbians, SU always had its own fanbase
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>>155675366
There are a lot of powerscaling/gem-rules that annoy me and trigger my 'tism into getting confused about things, but I did not mind the show overall.
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>>155677398
>I wanted to write a fanfic about it.
I still want to write a fanfic about it. One thing I think of every time I remember SU is "it could've been great". I truly believe there's so much potential in this show that is just ignored or outright written against.
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>>155679609
Adventure Time lore felt pretty tacked on in comparison. It's a fun show, but it definitely didn't have a story planned out.
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>>155680252
Adventure Time is like an open-world campaign with a GM who's really good at improv
Steven Universe is like a railroaded campaign with a lesbian GM who had to rush the ending for some reason
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>>155675366
I agree. SU is my comfort show.
It's really good at balancing the silly episodic kids show stuff with the serious drama emotional stuff.
And it has a lot of interesting ideas. The concept of the gems alone makes it kino. It's unique and well thought out. It's an idea so good that it's a shame that it's limited to this series.

The haters are either chuds who hate it for purely political reasons or people who somehow thought the show was a battle shounen and were upset when it didn't end with Steven killing all the diamonds.
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>>155675503
Arrest..
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>>155677472
>Steven should've used his body-switching ability for something
He uses it to possess Watermelon Stevens a few times. He rallies them to fight Malachite. And at the end he uses it to call for help when they're locked up on homeworld.
He never really learns to control this power.
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>>155675366
>found family
not really, Steven was born into the crystal gems and while Lars is friends with the off colors, they were moreso a gateway to his independence and confidence.
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>>155680668
I love how this scene is a callback to when he and Connie were trapped in a bubble when they first met. Steven tries to talk to Onion with drawings and Connie just writes some text instead.
And interestingly he and Connie are trapped again.
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>>155680705
Amethyst was the found family character.
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Why does Steven feel so gay despite dating a girl?
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>>155680817
because he acts like a faggot, despite not being one
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>>155680817
Toxic masculinity. You're trained to perceive kindness and emotional vulnerability as gay.
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>world building
How many seasons did it take them before they actually started building the gem empire up?
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>>155680817
pajeetas are so bad you may start to think being gay is better
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>>155680945
1 season
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>>155679722
You are gay
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>>155680886
Stfu
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>>155680463
Fuck off, faggot
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>>155675366
Kind did all of that better
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>>155675366
I like peridot.
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>>155676980
A show about rape is not family friendly.
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The world building is dogshit. The background teases are always way more interesting than the shitty answers they end up giving. The shows appeal lived and died with keeping roses past and the gem homeworld an intriguing mystery, once the answers started coming it turned to shit.
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>>155680886
Because it is. Emoting like a woman is gay.
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>>155680817
>pink
>raised by le strong women
>hardly masculine at all
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>>155680817
The show was created by women and betas who think masculinity is somehow toxic and evil, so Steven acts like a little bitch
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>>155680463
It's also my comfort show
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>>155675366
Shut up, Ian.
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>>155683419
How are men supposed to express themselves and vent, then?
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>>155684998
With dignity
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>>155684729
You got the wrong one
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>>155684998
Violence of course
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>>155675366
Did you forget the Diamonds committed genocide on other Gems, and we're supposed to forget and forgive?
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>>155687670
>we're supposed to forget and forgive
No, you're just supposed to live in peace.
They had no chance against the Diamonds. They were woefully outclassed.
Even if they had somehow killed the Diamonds, they need the authority of the Diamonds to make the empire stand down.
Managing to change their minds was a fucking miracle. The best possible outcome. Only worked because they were all so mired in grief and Steven was in a unique position to take advantage of that. Trying to jeopardize that just to punish them would be moronic and dangerous.
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God, the show so badly needed to have Steven and Lapis become a couple. It was right there!
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>>155683343
STEVEN'S PEEEEENIS!
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>>155675366
If it's a good cartoon, where is Lars show?
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>>155688734
I agree, Steven should've banged Lapis
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>>155688813
In development, at Prime Video
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>>155675366
>the way everything slowly connected over seasons.
you weren't there. shut the fuck up
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I miss watching the SU movie along with /co/
Has there been anything like that since?
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>>155688887
I was, and I retained hope even as everyone else was bitching and shitting out their asses about townie filler episodes, I knew it was gonna end up at least pretty good because Rebecca Sugar, for any and all faults you might fairly have with her, is, on a baseline level, highly competent. She can be cringey, she can be overly indulgent to emotionality at the expense of pacing and action, but she is on a fundamental level highly competent. I never lost faith, even when I thought the final season was kind of rushed. I was right, it was all at least pretty good, depending on your tastes.
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No bullshit, you wanna know the one thing that told me not to worry and trust Rebecca Sugar? It was when I saw that she had extremely cringeworthy OC art of her in Invader Zim, and that old blog post about how she was in the elevator with Jhonen Vasquez and almost passed out from it. As soon as I saw that stuff in like 2013, I knew right then and there that she was a kind of One Of Us, not One Of Them. She might be a very different breed of One Of Us, a south american tiger instead of an african lion or a southasian tiger, very different in terms of the specifics but still ultimately very much the same in core. She's a sick disgusting freak, she just has a ukulele instead of a pickle rick bong or a sticky big boob anime figurine. But we're all freaks, and freaks know what freaks want. I will instinctively trust anything she produces going into the future because fundamentally I can trust that she's a real person and not a money-powered robot who wouldn't give a shit if they produced pigshit if it made money.
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>>155675366
I don't hate it, but there were problems with it.
>White diamond's defeat is because she blushes. She's a gem. She has no blood. It's an arbitrary choice to just give an easy win to Steven
>Steven pulls powers out of his ass constantly past what toolkits the other gems have. A shield-fighter is interesting enough, and the fusions could have filled that hole, but aren't.
>The worldbuilding is gen 1 Transformers: A mineral-based alien race capable of shapeshiftig is at war on their fascist home planet that have been alive for far, far longer than any humans. The protagonists, a splinter group lead by one of the leaders, flees to Earth, and the antagonists follow, both to regain control of their splitered empire, and because Earth has valuable resources. Also these shapeshifting mineral ancient aliens can combine into new forms with a distinct personality.
>The lore is mostly a mystery box, with a lot of the gem artifacts being inconsequential to the plot by the end of it.
>The pacing is awful
>The theme song for Future is annoying.
>They're making a spinoff for Lars in space? Why? The original episode was a blatant Captain Harlock ripoff as a joke, and it's not strong enough of a parody to stand on its own like, say, Duck Dodgers.
The color pallet and sound design is really good (except Sadie's song, which was kinda just straight ass), though. I'll give you that.

>>155677858
>Why didn't Gandalf just fly the Ring to Mount Doom?
This is always a stupid gotcha. You either forgot about the fell beasts or are just a secondary.
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>>155689161
>>Steven pulls powers out of his ass constantly past what toolkits the other gems have. A shield-fighter is interesting enough, and the fusions could have filled that hole, but aren't.
True, the other diamonds have pretty limited set of powers.
>and it's not strong enough of a parody to stand on its own like, say, Duck Dodgers.
It might be, even if it was originally a parody, there is stuff there you can do. Expand on the offcolours, add new gems, I wouldn't write it off yet.
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>>155689070
Yeah Steven Universe was clearly a passion project. Sugar got a blank check after Adventure Time and spent it on this.
Not everyone likes her vision, but at least it had soul.
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>>155689279
>had soul
it was propaganda
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>>155689314
no it wasn't it was just made by someone who believes different things than you do. That's not the same thing.
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>>155689314
But the propaganda was the personal vision of the creator. Not some committee of executives.
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>>155689345
to be propaganda it has to be made with the intention of conveying subliminal political messaging. It wasn't, Rebecca Sugar is just further to the left than you are, so her vision of a world contains things like Steven wearing a dress one time. That's not the same thing as Propaganda.
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>>155679609
ATs lore is very weird compared to SU
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>>155689372
Yeah that Trump / Hillary episode aged like milk
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>>155689377
It’s literally bullcrap made up as the series went on
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>>155689417
no, it's very cleverly woven lore, made up as the series went on. I joke, it's a little dumb, but I think they mostly did a pretty good job, with a lot of original ideas.
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>>155689372
She was definitely pushing some political messaging. To be clear, I'm on your side and actually like the messaging. I just think it's a little disingenuous to say that's not propaganda.
Although you could probably make a good case that propaganda has to be misleading or something.
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>>155689440
Yeah, but it was wasted
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>>155689440
It's decent for making it up as you go along but they still decided to shit on the main character because he's a straight white male

Steven received less hate because he had no masculinity in him at all. At least Finn acted like a boy
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>>155689372
"nooo there MUST be a wedding episode and Ruby MUST be in a dress so Russia can't dub her as a male!"
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>>155689417
The Mushroom War is lame, it made the series too scifiish, AT having a batshit fantasy lore would have been better
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>>155689463
The only episode I could see as being "political" is the one introducing his uncle at the barn, but that one was literally coming out just before the holidays at election time, and was literally about spending the holidays with a relative who has different political beliefs than you do, with empathy and not throwing them out. It's literally inarguably a fine message, that you don't have to agree with someone on everything to care about them, and that's the absolute most political thing in the fucking show. I am so sick of people claiming it's propaganda when she's just someone with a different worldview, yeah, the world she established is significantly more 'left' than ours, but that's fine, that's her creative vision. It's not fucking propaganda because it's not trying to make your kid fucking gay or trans or something. Steven is a cis white straight kid! There's literally no propaganda except like "hey maybe don't be an asshole"! These dickshitting shit-dicks need to stop being such precious fucking snowflakes and just watch something else if they don't like it! You don't have to like it! Fuck off in peace!
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>>155689561
>The only episode I could see as being "political" is the one introducing his uncle at the barn,
Not the election episode that was obviously about Hillary and Trump?
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>>155689488
>Steven if primarina
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>>155689587
dude if I can't even remember that episode it literally cannot have been that big of a deal or as blatant a parallel, stop reaching just because you want to feel superior, the show was not propaganda just because you happen to be more to the right than the show's creator, it's GOOD to have a diverse array of perspectives, I would encourage you to enjoy a more right-leaning series, you don't have to come shitting up a more left-leaning one and calling it propaganda just because of your personal opinions
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>>155688813
I can't image going through full 30 minute episodes with these characters
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>>155689400
How exactly was Mayor Dewey Trump when he was a career politician and the old lady was the political outsider?
It was just a story about getting involved in your local government and throwing out corrupt leaders.
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>>155689531
Nope
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>>155689649
Yeah I love SU, but the off-colors were shit.
Especially the orange sapphire who is just a single walking gag that wasn't funny the first time. She literally never says anything that isn't a play on that gag.
And the old caterpillar lady is just fucking weird.
The other two are fine though. I kinda like the Pearl/Ruby one.

Lars as Space Pirate Harlock was fun though. Doubt it could hold a show together, but it was an interesting one-off. I liked how it showed a piece of the Gem Empire's influence in space.
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Anon is going to insult my waifu.
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>>155689671
Eeyvp.
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>>155689206
Nothing in the show really hints that the team knows how to write parody. When they do include outside media, it's usually just an easter egg to make the audience point and go "huh, I know what that is." Why does Steven have a Cloud Strife figure, but the only console we see is a Gamecube? Why does Pearl strike some anime shot recreations? There's no greater reason other than to be a flash-in-the-pan reference for a few nerds, which isn't enough to carry a series, which is fine for what it is since it doesn't really draw attention to itself plotwise.

Anecdotally, I also don't see that many people talking about Harloc in the anglosphere either, so it's not like a parody of that specifically has that strong of a point of reference to the mainstream, and Lars isn't strong enough of a character to really do anything on his own with that. Going back to Duck Dodgers for a moment, even if you don't know anything about space opera or Buck Rogers, there's still that hook of watching it because it's a show about Daffy Duck, (not)Porky Pig, and Marvin. The analog to this is implying that fucking Lars from buttfuckinf Steven Universe is a strong enough character to carry a show.
They could do something with it, but given their track record with this kind of thing, I doubt it'll he good unless they really overhaul their approach to writing.
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Connie would have been better as twins



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