The Gems worked hard to keep Steven's naivity. Bismuth was kept in a bubble and Peridot and Lapis were barned to keep Steven from seeing another point of view. Bismuth for seeing another side of Rose and Peridot and Lapis for seeing Homeworld's side. Steven needed to see Rose was good and Homeworld is bad.
Lapis’ and Peridot’s odd couple nonsense was THE best. Also yes I agree with the Lars and Sadie thing. It was toxic. I wish they would have gone way more in depth with Lars’ redemption arc, and fleshed it out the growth of both Lars and Sadie separately better than they did. The show wasn’t bad, but it fell short in places, particularly when dealing with background characters. It was good but it uh “It could have been Great”. Also if you want a wild ride to review: watch samurai flamenco
If were talking about wasted potential, I think the corrupted gems count as well. See, it was shown that corrupted gems could be trained into becoming allies. Steven and Jasper manage to get corrupted gems to help them (though Steven's attempt is given more screen time). I would have liked it if somehow the corrupted gems' powers could be used to solve certain situations. Heck, maybe it's better to not bubble a corrupted gem because their powers help a community or local wildlife. At the end, we'd be given a lesson about inner beauty, which is something the diamond authority obviously downplays.
The closest they have come to challenging Steven’s pacifism is having him fail to save everyone. Jasper refused to be healed, he had to toss Eyeball into space, and he ended up poofing Bismuth in self-defense. There’s also Aquamarine.
SU future spoilers . . . . Bluebird is Aquamarine and Ruby fusion and they try to murder/ harm Steven but I guess fail so bad they end up being pranks.
Deborah Amos And then they try to kill Greg but he chops off his hair to escape. Steven goes angry pink boi mode, Sardonyx smacks them into submission, Aquamarine fakes reform, then they both fly off like Team Rocket.
We have yet to see Steven deal with a the challange of needing to kill someone. Nothing challanges a pacifist then a situation where you need to kill one person to save another. And the threat needs to be against another than Steven to work. He would just sacrifice himself and avoid the question that way.
@@rhondahoward8025 Well that is it. This opponend needs to be human so bubbling is no option and he needs to be an immidiate treat. Lets say a human is about to kill Gonnie and can only be stopped with lethal force.
I actually think the abusive relationship should have been Lapis and Peridot, because we see some hints to this (prime example is Lapis destroying Peridot's tape recorder and being horrid when it wasn't necessary) and having her realise that even though she likes Lapis, the way she treats her isn't healthy in the slightest. Once you have the two separate, you have Lapis reflect on what she's done to Peridot, apologise to her, and work on the issues she's dealing with. While this is happening, have Peridot learn to stop trying to justify Lapis' behaviour, as well as knowing she can say no, or not always agree with Lapis constantly out of fear of upsetting her. Now, I am not a LaipDot fan, in fact, I'm not even a shipper, but this is one relationship that I did not like, because of how unhealthy it is/was and this should have been used for the abusive relationship metaphor.
Personally, I would have shown footage of Lapis and Jasper being abusive to each other in order to bring the point home about abusive relationships. But your idea is nice too!
Steven forcing Lapis to live with one of her jailers was even worse. Dud he bloody forget that Peri forced Lapis to come back to earth. Seriously I cannot condone her actions but I understand why Lapis acted that way towards Dot. Steven needs to learn to read the fucking room or leave the room. And the Bismuth situation is BS. They locked her away because the creators did not know how to handle serious themes like war.
@@tayojones9460 While that is true, remember that Peridot was making a genuine effort and was truly sorry for what she did. I do agree that forcing her to stay with Peridot was a bad idea, but at the same time, we don't know how rooms in the temple are made and there may not have been enough room long-term for Lapis either. (I do know the real reason they did this, was so they didn't have to write for additional characters, so I'm trying to think in-world wise on why they would do this) I think having the show constantly following Steven is a real hindrance in certain aspects, especially since it makes it so if Steven isn't there, the problem isn't solved. And I 100% agree with you about Bismuth, they wasted so much potential by locking her away so long and only letting her out to attend Garnet's wedding and only when *Steven* decided to do so. In both situations, he doesn't consider the others and just chooses to lock this Gem away, instead of having Bismuth's friends talk to her about it without Steven there.
I think Lapis and Jasper's relationship was definitely abusive but Jasper is the victim while Lapis wants to be the victim. I don't know if that's what the writers intended but Lapis tries to play victim because of how she was treated during the war, in the mirror, etc. but as Sarcastic Chorus said, she willingly fused with Jasper when she didn't have to. So yeah, it was an abusive relationship but I think it could have been meant to make the audience feel bad for Jasper (especially with the follow up episode). But I didn't really want to see Lapis being a bad guy since that's not how her arc was supposed to go imo. All in all, I could have done without the Lapis/Jasper relationship arc.
Honestly that it wasn't really abusive is the problem. Jasper tried to force fusion on Lapis and she agreed as a way to attack and run away at the same time. Lapis is rightly jacked in the head terribly lonely and terrified of being with anyone because she kept getting horribly used. Jasper is incredibly lonely and tired of the constant need to be the best so that shes not abandoned as usless again. In malicite they got to be togather in a way that let Lapis be in control and jasper to be the simple soldier she desired. Malicite was both of them in a bad place being very complimentary. Lapis came out of it unsetaled by what she was capable of in the name of survival and Jasper had to face her long hidden desires and dreams. It was a conflict that taught both unplesent lessons and tempted them with an easy "answere' in the form of surrendering to their darker impulses in the form of Malichite.
@@ghostbear177 It was an interesting thing for the show to try, I'll admit, but it didn't do well for Jasper's character. There were a lot of ways this could have gone to make the allegory more subtle and work better.
@@47ratsinahoodie well they tried to make it an abuse allegory, that's just not what they did, the random weird wacks at presenting the dom in their dysfunctional codependency as the abused really weirded a lot of people out.
@@47ratsinahoodie I don't find that odd she did that as a way to fight back against the world and Jasper in a way that let her hide from the world and not be alone, and it was way worse for her opponent/captive than she imagined. She was already horribly traumatized by her milinia of imprisonment and tried to do what she thought was a good thing only to find out it was horribly traumatic she deserves sympathy for that. Talking about it what really undercut why their both sympathetic is the undersellibg of the nightmare the crystal jems subjected her to and how badly pink rejecting her damaged jasper. That the whole scenario was two badly damaged individuals hurting each other even more when they stopped fighting.
For me the reason why Bismuth gets re-bubbled it's outside the fourth wall: SU has to work with crippling budget limitations. If you read the credits at the ending, the only regular voice actors are Steven, Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet. Every other chare, included Connie and Greg, are extras, guests. They don't cost like Nicki Minaj, but their appearances per season are limited by CN. So Bismuth had to be re-bubbled because there was yet no place distant from cameras to send the character. Unless she started living with Peridot and Lapis at the barn. Not in her character.
Riccardo Leone i mean i don’t think she had to be bubbled, i feel like if they wanted to just bring her back later they could’ve had her stay at the forge maybe making possible weapon upgrades for the corrupted gems she knew were bubbled, like how lapis and peri stay barned, it wouldn’t have been much better but it would’ve been better then having a whole episode to bringing her back from bubbling.
So basically, we got an abuse story that showed a fucked up side of a good character and ruined a villain when we could have gotten a good abuse story where the one who actually seemed the victim was the victim. I think Jasper and Lapis could have had some screen time together but they should have developed a lot more before trying to pull off an abuse story. What it seemed like as is, is kinda like coerced sex and then unnecessary torture to the (essentially) rapist. The story could have been Lapis and Jasper form a frenemyship and as they get further into the relationship, Jasper shows abusive behavior, trying to force Lapis to stay. Then, we could've had some fusing with both being okay at first but Jasper starting to fuse excessively. Jasper could threaten to hurt Steven and Co. or just Steven to get Lapis to fuse with her. There could have also been a progression of Malachite showing more of Lapis and Jasper's individual traits to show how uninterested in fusion Lapis is becoming (and by proxy her wanted to break away). Lapis fighting for power over Jasper as Malachite would have made more sense because Lapis actually had to fight for the protection of her friends. It might have also been a little subtler as an allegory to abuse than what we got.
I understand, but I believe the Steven-only POV hampered the lesson's impact. I've seriously thought up of crossovers where other characters save the day instead of Steven (even in the movie).
Yeah, it's clear the writers intended for them both to be abusive but the problem is we only really see Lapis being the abuser. What's worse is the fact that it feels like they're framing it as Jasper being the abuser. I think a lot of children who watched this thinks Jasper is the abuser and Lapis is innocent even though the writers didn't mean for that to be the message.
I think its that neither is abusive. Malichite started as a fight and it turned out that the Lapis that ran away with the barn and Jasper that cried about the dog she raped running away happened to be very good matches in the fusion. Malichite isn't so much abuse of each other as mutual empowerment of both indulging their worst selves.
@@sprint7412 I feel as though maybe the writers did want kids to take this away, at least a little. Kind of like Lapis and Jasper were both bad people together. But Lapis wants to change so she good gem. Jasper no change so she bad gem. Good gem punch bad gem across several continents because bad gem no want change. Sorry idk why I typed it like that. Honestly, Steven Universe would be a better show if it wasn't a kids show, and if Steven wasn't the only way we saw anything.
Nerdwire had a video where the host freaked out over seeing a real life Rhodonite that looks JUST like the gem in the show, so you're not alone Sarcastic Chorus.
If you’re interested in an AU story of Connie being the Protagonist, go read “Connie and the Crystal Gems” on tumblr. You’ll love it. Btw, in that story Steven himself never existed.
If rose wasn't pink diamond and they did manage to shatter her the diamonds would literally so the remember that pink wanted to shatter her self because bismuth gave her the idea
While I personally really like Lars' arc, I definitely agree that it could have benefitted from a few more episodes between Lars' Head and Lars of the Stars. If we had an episode or two thrown in during that Steven and Connie arc with Steven checking up on Lars and his progress, it could have provided more grounds for his progression to becoming a space pirate and made it feel less jarring and more natural.
I'm all for the home world soldier being sympathetic. Because of what rose did to her. She is on the same boat as pearl but deals with it well. She just wants to feel better letting her diamond get killed then find out her diamond doopt her and just.... becomes a hermit after everything. That's it. League's better than pearl. Now that I think about.. pearl was first to follow her programing so o can't be to harsh on her and her issues. Edited:but your right about Jasper wanting to connect. Jasper was waisted potential.
There are many characters in SU I feel are not only more selfish, but also more petty and have nearly killed Steven (either murder or manslaughter) many times more often than Lapis Lazuli. Three/four of them prove my case and point right here! 0:00-1:00 th-cam.com/video/iV93bIDRwG0/w-d-xo.html And all that in just one minute over a game of tag!
The toxic relationship between Jasper and Lapis is fine, just because they're both females, and no human social disparity between men and women comes into play. Once you admit that the abusive relationship is between people considered equal by society, you can consider that the abuse could work both ways, and also the "victim" exerts some sort of power on the "abuser"
Hey, I think White Diamond is among the most selfish characters myself. I mean, Steven threw a ball in hopes of talking to her and she DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP! And then she tells Steven he's acting like a child. Which, he is, but throughout Diamond Days Steven was acting FAR MORE mature than White. Seriously, he only came to Homeworld for the sake of the corrupted gems! Maybe Steven, Blue and Yellow should have sent some written correspondence to White to get her attention. Because if all the other three diamonds have sent a personal message to White, it's worth taking a look right? I mean, that's what probably should have happened instead of the ball, especially once Steven found out that he can't talk to the other diamonds during balls.
Technically she did show up, since she basically places her consciousness in the gems that she controls, and White (Not really) Pearl was there. She just pretended as if that wasn't what she was doing and nobody knew it at the time, so it seemed like she didn't attend. If Steven had realized what White's powerv was and how she was using it, he could have just talked to White Pearl and it would have been about the same as talking to White herself.
@@heirhead413 I know that now, but at the time (and still am!) I was highly annoyed. That wasn't very cash money of White to do. I mean, this was supposed to be an event where all the diamonds were expected to attend. If it wasn't for that fact, Steven might not have thrown the ball at all.
To be honest I throught the bismuth thing was more of a they didn’t want to pay the actress to save on the shows budget thing. And to keep the rose quartz mystery going longer
Gems are thought to have certain properties that when worn supposedly benefit the wearer. iirc, Lapis Lazuli connects people to their higher selves. Whatever you believe, those bracelets are really cool. :)
"maybe it's a good thing they didn't get more screentime to ruin them" ah, that's pretty much how I felt about Peridot. Love her, but maybe a good thing she's not... TOO involved so they don't fuck her up.
Seeing how hard you're shitting on season 5 already, I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it. Don't get me wrong, I am not expecting a big explosion big enough to blow a hole to the cluster, but you aren't exactly veiling your frustrations in your current reviews.
regarding the thumbnails I've said it before and I'll say it again they could have let Lapis in the ocean/killed her off after season 1's finale and she still would have had as much of an impact as she did after season 1 (And unlike say Bismuth there isn't really a REASON as to why this is the case)Lapis is IMO the worst of the main cast not because she's bad but because they don't do ANYTHING with her
I will be the one to make the argument that Lapis and Peridot should’ve been and was the abusive relationship. After Jasper, I just think that she found another victim.
I swear, I think so many people were only not realizing the major issues with the show because they saw Lily Orchard's video and hated it so much they refused to agree with her. I will admit that if you hate Lily for her tone, political views and how hardline she is, completely understand. But now, I think people are finally starting to realize that she was right.
Season 1 - Good Season 2 - Woww my favorite Season 3 - Ok Season 4 - Boring Season 5 - ohmygod Movie - Um.. I found it boring, it felt way more like another episode of the series instead of a movie most of the time, buuut i can see why people would like it Future - The worst one imo, it's reeeally boring and tedious, why make this instead of an actual season 6?
I don't understand why people think Future is bad and boring. It keeps answering plot questions and more importantly finally put Steven's mental health into the spot. He stopped being an alive character for me after some point, when he was brushing away every near-death situations as nothing happened and was basically a tool to theraping everyone.
@@DeathKitta DeathKitta The way they "answer questions" is bad, it's like they're going through a checklist of things they should've done before (exactly like how Change Your Mind's fusions went), instead of naturally and organically inserting these plots into the series. And it's worse since it's just so.. episodic, which makes everything feel irrelevant. Like, in the first episode Jasper finally appears after many many years of her return being teased, only for her to basically be redempted in the same episode and most likely never to appear again outside of little cameos. Same goes for every other plot. It's like we've been waiting for nothing. The reason for Future being soooo boring is the direction, writting, visual, humor.. It's just tedious to watch. 90% of every episode is just Steven talking with someone with a stiff animation, the concepts of the episodes themselves could be interesting but the writting doesn't allow it, the animation and the visuals of them are a pain to look at, and the humor is just someone making a pun and someone else going ;), it's not fun to watch that. I couldn't care less about Steven's mental health, throughout the entire series i never cared about him. He never had an actual character, he was always just a Mary Sue, never had personality, never had a goal, never had flaws.. He's another reason Future is tedious, all the episodes have him taking 90% of the screen time, while shoving every other actual character aside. Also, i don't get at all why Steven is acting the way he is? Okay, he doesn't want change, nice, but wasn't that the entire plot of the movie? Wasn't the "Change" theme a big song in it, sung by Steven himself?
@@Quinhala11 Oh wow, Future really is not for you. I would try to explain and discuss, but it's pointless since you are that against everything in there. Personally I enjoyed the things you named as bad, so this sequel is just not for you.
The Gems worked hard to keep Steven's naivity. Bismuth was kept in a bubble and Peridot and Lapis were barned to keep Steven from seeing another point of view. Bismuth for seeing another side of Rose and Peridot and Lapis for seeing Homeworld's side. Steven needed to see Rose was good and Homeworld is bad.
What a totally normal and not abusive way of rasing a child
Replace "The Gems" with "The Writers"
And the worst part that there wouldn't be anything to protect him from had his mother not been a total ass
*_[season three had the Rubies... it's the best one for that reason alone]_*
Sup, doc.
No its because lapis existed in it
*[And me!]*
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Lapis’ and Peridot’s odd couple nonsense was THE best. Also yes I agree with the Lars and Sadie thing. It was toxic. I wish they would have gone way more in depth with Lars’ redemption arc, and fleshed it out the growth of both Lars and Sadie separately better than they did. The show wasn’t bad, but it fell short in places, particularly when dealing with background characters. It was good but it uh “It could have been Great”.
Also if you want a wild ride to review: watch samurai flamenco
If were talking about wasted potential, I think the corrupted gems count as well.
See, it was shown that corrupted gems could be trained into becoming allies. Steven and Jasper manage to get corrupted gems to help them (though Steven's attempt is given more screen time).
I would have liked it if somehow the corrupted gems' powers could be used to solve certain situations. Heck, maybe it's better to not bubble a corrupted gem because their powers help a community or local wildlife.
At the end, we'd be given a lesson about inner beauty, which is something the diamond authority obviously downplays.
The closest they have come to challenging Steven’s pacifism is having him fail to save everyone. Jasper refused to be healed, he had to toss Eyeball into space, and he ended up poofing Bismuth in self-defense. There’s also Aquamarine.
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Bluebird is Aquamarine and Ruby fusion and they try to murder/ harm Steven but I guess fail so bad they end up being pranks.
Deborah Amos And then they try to kill Greg but he chops off his hair to escape. Steven goes angry pink boi mode, Sardonyx smacks them into submission, Aquamarine fakes reform, then they both fly off like Team Rocket.
We have yet to see Steven deal with a the challange of needing to kill someone. Nothing challanges a pacifist then a situation where you need to kill one person to save another.
And the threat needs to be against another than Steven to work. He would just sacrifice himself and avoid the question that way.
@@JeroenDoes When you have Talk No Jutsu, killing isn't necessary. That, and bubbling. They can always bubble.
@@rhondahoward8025 Well that is it. This opponend needs to be human so bubbling is no option and he needs to be an immidiate treat.
Lets say a human is about to kill Gonnie and can only be stopped with lethal force.
I actually think the abusive relationship should have been Lapis and Peridot, because we see some hints to this (prime example is Lapis destroying
Peridot's tape recorder and being horrid when it wasn't necessary) and having her realise that even though she likes Lapis, the way she treats her
isn't healthy in the slightest. Once you have the two separate, you have Lapis reflect on what she's done to Peridot, apologise to her, and work on
the issues she's dealing with.
While this is happening, have Peridot learn to stop trying to justify Lapis' behaviour, as well as knowing she can say no, or not always agree with
Lapis constantly out of fear of upsetting her.
Now, I am not a LaipDot fan, in fact, I'm not even a shipper, but this is one relationship that I did not like, because of how unhealthy it is/was and
this should have been used for the abusive relationship metaphor.
Personally, I would have shown footage of Lapis and Jasper being abusive to each other in order to bring the point home about abusive relationships. But your idea is nice too!
@@DrawciaGleam02 Thank you and I think your idea is awesome as well :)
I think established patterns of Lapis's abusive behavior could be used in interesting ways, but I doubt they'll use it.
Steven forcing Lapis to live with one of her jailers was even worse. Dud he bloody forget that Peri forced Lapis to come back to earth. Seriously I cannot condone her actions but I understand why Lapis acted that way towards Dot.
Steven needs to learn to read the fucking room or leave the room.
And the Bismuth situation is BS. They locked her away because the creators did not know how to handle serious themes like war.
@@tayojones9460 While that is true, remember that Peridot was making a genuine effort and was truly sorry for what she did.
I do agree that forcing her to stay with Peridot was a bad idea, but at the same time, we don't know how rooms in the temple are made and there may not have been enough room long-term for Lapis either.
(I do know the real reason they did this, was so they didn't have to write for additional characters, so I'm trying to think in-world wise on why they would do this)
I think having the show constantly following Steven is a real hindrance in certain aspects, especially since it makes it so if Steven isn't there, the problem isn't solved.
And I 100% agree with you about Bismuth, they wasted so much potential by locking her away so long and only letting her out to attend Garnet's wedding and only when *Steven* decided to do so. In both situations, he doesn't consider the others and just chooses to lock this Gem away, instead of having Bismuth's friends talk to her about it without Steven there.
I think Lapis and Jasper's relationship was definitely abusive but Jasper is the victim while Lapis wants to be the victim. I don't know if that's what the writers intended but Lapis tries to play victim because of how she was treated during the war, in the mirror, etc. but as Sarcastic Chorus said, she willingly fused with Jasper when she didn't have to. So yeah, it was an abusive relationship but I think it could have been meant to make the audience feel bad for Jasper (especially with the follow up episode). But I didn't really want to see Lapis being a bad guy since that's not how her arc was supposed to go imo. All in all, I could have done without the Lapis/Jasper relationship arc.
Honestly that it wasn't really abusive is the problem. Jasper tried to force fusion on Lapis and she agreed as a way to attack and run away at the same time. Lapis is rightly jacked in the head terribly lonely and terrified of being with anyone because she kept getting horribly used. Jasper is incredibly lonely and tired of the constant need to be the best so that shes not abandoned as usless again. In malicite they got to be togather in a way that let Lapis be in control and jasper to be the simple soldier she desired. Malicite was both of them in a bad place being very complimentary. Lapis came out of it unsetaled by what she was capable of in the name of survival and Jasper had to face her long hidden desires and dreams. It was a conflict that taught both unplesent lessons and tempted them with an easy "answere' in the form of surrendering to their darker impulses in the form of Malichite.
@@ghostbear177 It was an interesting thing for the show to try, I'll admit, but it didn't do well for Jasper's character. There were a lot of ways this could have gone to make the allegory more subtle and work better.
@@47ratsinahoodie well they tried to make it an abuse allegory, that's just not what they did, the random weird wacks at presenting the dom in their dysfunctional codependency as the abused really weirded a lot of people out.
@@ghostbear177 Agreed. I always found it odd that I'm supposed to feel bad for Lapis when she's the one staying fused with Jasper.
@@47ratsinahoodie I don't find that odd she did that as a way to fight back against the world and Jasper in a way that let her hide from the world and not be alone, and it was way worse for her opponent/captive than she imagined. She was already horribly traumatized by her milinia of imprisonment and tried to do what she thought was a good thing only to find out it was horribly traumatic she deserves sympathy for that.
Talking about it what really undercut why their both sympathetic is the undersellibg of the nightmare the crystal jems subjected her to and how badly pink rejecting her damaged jasper. That the whole scenario was two badly damaged individuals hurting each other even more when they stopped fighting.
*[Oh stars, this where Lapidot trully began...]*
Hi Peridot !
For me the reason why Bismuth gets re-bubbled it's outside the fourth wall: SU has to work with crippling budget limitations. If you read the credits at the ending, the only regular voice actors are Steven, Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet. Every other chare, included Connie and Greg, are extras, guests. They don't cost like Nicki Minaj, but their appearances per season are limited by CN. So Bismuth had to be re-bubbled because there was yet no place distant from cameras to send the character. Unless she started living with Peridot and Lapis at the barn. Not in her character.
Knowing that doesn't make the experience any less lame.
I can't blame em😕
😒 But it's not about blame.
Nothing really makes it ok.
Riccardo Leone
i mean i don’t think she had to be bubbled, i feel like if they wanted to just bring her back later they could’ve had her stay at the forge maybe making possible weapon upgrades for the corrupted gems she knew were bubbled, like how lapis and peri stay barned, it wouldn’t have been much better but it would’ve been better then having a whole episode to bringing her back from bubbling.
Just get a different VA for her. Better than keeping her bubbled until S5 (fuck that season by the way).
Jasper is just butch femme Vegeta. Just have her say Kakarot instead of rose whenever she talks with steven and then you really notice it
Isn't that Broly?
@@kharijordan6426 No.
So basically, we got an abuse story that showed a fucked up side of a good character and ruined a villain when we could have gotten a good abuse story where the one who actually seemed the victim was the victim. I think Jasper and Lapis could have had some screen time together but they should have developed a lot more before trying to pull off an abuse story. What it seemed like as is, is kinda like coerced sex and then unnecessary torture to the (essentially) rapist.
The story could have been Lapis and Jasper form a frenemyship and as they get further into the relationship, Jasper shows abusive behavior, trying to force Lapis to stay. Then, we could've had some fusing with both being okay at first but Jasper starting to fuse excessively. Jasper could threaten to hurt Steven and Co. or just Steven to get Lapis to fuse with her. There could have also been a progression of Malachite showing more of Lapis and Jasper's individual traits to show how uninterested in fusion Lapis is becoming (and by proxy her wanted to break away). Lapis fighting for power over Jasper as Malachite would have made more sense because Lapis actually had to fight for the protection of her friends. It might have also been a little subtler as an allegory to abuse than what we got.
The thing about Jasper and Lapis is that they're BOTH abusive. I don't think Lapis is supposed to be innocent and neither is Jasper.
I understand, but I believe the Steven-only POV hampered the lesson's impact.
I've seriously thought up of crossovers where other characters save the day instead of Steven (even in the movie).
@@DrawciaGleam02 Yeah. Send Steven to therapy, and make a couple of episodes without him.
Yeah, it's clear the writers intended for them both to be abusive but the problem is we only really see Lapis being the abuser. What's worse is the fact that it feels like they're framing it as Jasper being the abuser. I think a lot of children who watched this thinks Jasper is the abuser and Lapis is innocent even though the writers didn't mean for that to be the message.
I think its that neither is abusive. Malichite started as a fight and it turned out that the Lapis that ran away with the barn and Jasper that cried about the dog she raped running away happened to be very good matches in the fusion. Malichite isn't so much abuse of each other as mutual empowerment of both indulging their worst selves.
@@sprint7412 I feel as though maybe the writers did want kids to take this away, at least a little. Kind of like Lapis and Jasper were both bad people together. But Lapis wants to change so she good gem. Jasper no change so she bad gem. Good gem punch bad gem across several continents because bad gem no want change.
Sorry idk why I typed it like that. Honestly, Steven Universe would be a better show if it wasn't a kids show, and if Steven wasn't the only way we saw anything.
Nerdwire had a video where the host freaked out over seeing a real life Rhodonite that looks JUST like the gem in the show, so you're not alone Sarcastic Chorus.
Also Bismuth's voice actress was very expensive to have
Just like nicky
Then Get a less expensive actor for roles....
~Question~
*”If Connie Were Truly The Main Protagonist Of >Steven Universe
Then Steven would be decapitated
If you’re interested in an AU story of Connie being the Protagonist, go read “Connie and the Crystal Gems” on tumblr. You’ll love it. Btw, in that story Steven himself never existed.
yeah, saddly this is pretty accurate, the series had a good potential to be something way greater than that
Bismuth only wanted to kill the diamonds.
And maybe anything that was considered elite or upper crust.
If rose wasn't pink diamond and they did manage to shatter her the diamonds would literally so the remember that pink wanted to shatter her self because bismuth gave her the idea
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Literally what?
I think TH-cam cut something out of you sentence.
What's with this glitch?
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Kek. Yeah I guess biz did.
@@kharijordan6426 I wrote literally do the same but I don't know why it glitched
While I personally really like Lars' arc, I definitely agree that it could have benefitted from a few more episodes between Lars' Head and Lars of the Stars. If we had an episode or two thrown in during that Steven and Connie arc with Steven checking up on Lars and his progress, it could have provided more grounds for his progression to becoming a space pirate and made it feel less jarring and more natural.
Jasper being a "woopee" is better than the diamonds to be fair.
lapis was holding the chains within malachite, and was the one most in control
I'm all for the home world soldier being sympathetic.
Because of what rose did to her. She is on the same boat as pearl but deals with it well.
She just wants to feel better letting her diamond get killed then find out her diamond doopt her and just.... becomes a hermit after everything.
That's it.
League's better than pearl.
Now that I think about.. pearl was first to follow her programing so o can't be to harsh on her and her issues.
Edited:but your right about Jasper wanting to connect.
Jasper was waisted potential.
Sorry about the spoilers score.
Omg queen you spilled the whole video 😍❤
There are many characters in SU I feel are not only more selfish, but also more petty and have nearly killed Steven (either murder or manslaughter) many times more often than Lapis Lazuli.
Three/four of them prove my case and point right here! 0:00-1:00
th-cam.com/video/iV93bIDRwG0/w-d-xo.html
And all that in just one minute over a game of tag!
The toxic relationship between Jasper and Lapis is fine, just because they're both females, and no human social disparity between men and women comes into play. Once you admit that the abusive relationship is between people considered equal by society, you can consider that the abuse could work both ways, and also the "victim" exerts some sort of power on the "abuser"
His problem was how they executed it.
Not being unable to accept the abuse can go both ways.
F for Lapis and Peridot stuck at the barn
Hey, I think White Diamond is among the most selfish characters myself. I mean, Steven threw a ball in hopes of talking to her and she DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP!
And then she tells Steven he's acting like a child. Which, he is, but throughout Diamond Days Steven was acting FAR MORE mature than White. Seriously, he only came to Homeworld for the sake of the corrupted gems!
Maybe Steven, Blue and Yellow should have sent some written correspondence to White to get her attention. Because if all the other three diamonds have sent a personal message to White, it's worth taking a look right?
I mean, that's what probably should have happened instead of the ball, especially once Steven found out that he can't talk to the other diamonds during balls.
Technically she did show up, since she basically places her consciousness in the gems that she controls, and White (Not really) Pearl was there. She just pretended as if that wasn't what she was doing and nobody knew it at the time, so it seemed like she didn't attend. If Steven had realized what White's powerv was and how she was using it, he could have just talked to White Pearl and it would have been about the same as talking to White herself.
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I know that now, but at the time (and still am!) I was highly annoyed. That wasn't very cash money of White to do.
I mean, this was supposed to be an event where all the diamonds were expected to attend. If it wasn't for that fact, Steven might not have thrown the ball at all.
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What was white doing that was more important than talking to your dead family member?
To be honest I throught the bismuth thing was more of a they didn’t want to pay the actress to save on the shows budget thing. And to keep the rose quartz mystery going longer
Gems are thought to have certain properties that when worn supposedly benefit the wearer. iirc, Lapis Lazuli connects people to their higher selves. Whatever you believe, those bracelets are really cool. :)
I’ve Asked this before, but you didn’t answer it: will you do adventure time?
maybe, Adventure time is a beast of a series with a lot of unconnected episodes so its much harder than the narrative driven ones but its on the list.
he’s back :)))
The only thing that isn't overblown is the season five reveal, that hurt my soul
They could have destroy the diamonds form and bubbled them and hide them in a locked chest. Earth is saved, Homeworld has no dictators and no one died
Just finished season 3 lol got spoiled but I don't feel that bad
I asked the cluster hole question, that makes a lot of sense
"maybe it's a good thing they didn't get more screentime to ruin them" ah, that's pretty much how I felt about Peridot. Love her, but maybe a good thing she's not... TOO involved so they don't fuck her up.
Seeing how hard you're shitting on season 5 already, I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it. Don't get me wrong, I am not expecting a big explosion big enough to blow a hole to the cluster, but you aren't exactly veiling your frustrations in your current reviews.
Is that a Hazbin Hotel shirt?
Yep! Got it back before the full episode even dropped! Saw one shot of Alastor and I was like yeah I need a T-shirt.
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I didn't.
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JUST DO IT!!!!
YOU!! YES YOU!!! YOU HAVE A CHANCE!!
JUST DO IT!!!!
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Well F since you asked so politely.
Oh y e s
The closest the show came to challenging Steven's viewpoint were Jasper and White Diamond. But even then they were both proven wrong.
YES!!!! BLUE!!!!!!
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Respect the fallen.
regarding the thumbnails I've said it before and I'll say it again they could have let Lapis in the ocean/killed her off after season 1's finale and she still would have had as much of an impact as she did after season 1 (And unlike say Bismuth there isn't really a REASON as to why this is the case)Lapis is IMO the worst of the main cast not because she's bad but because they don't do ANYTHING with her
huh neat
Not bad I say
Lapidot desrved better
Here’s a pretty excellent vid that might make you appreciate Jasper’s story more (like it did for me): th-cam.com/video/XiyyjTaY0Xk/w-d-xo.html
I will be the one to make the argument that Lapis and Peridot should’ve been and was the abusive relationship. After Jasper, I just think that she found another victim.
I swear, I think so many people were only not realizing the major issues with the show because they saw Lily Orchard's video and hated it so much they refused to agree with her. I will admit that if you hate Lily for her tone, political views and how hardline she is, completely understand. But now, I think people are finally starting to realize that she was right.
No... Only F for peridot.
Season 1 - Good
Season 2 - Woww my favorite
Season 3 - Ok
Season 4 - Boring
Season 5 - ohmygod
Movie - Um.. I found it boring, it felt way more like another episode of the series instead of a movie most of the time, buuut i can see why people would like it
Future - The worst one imo, it's reeeally boring and tedious, why make this instead of an actual season 6?
I feel the Same
With a pinch of Spinel was great but was not needed for the message and theme. At least she was intertaining.
I don't understand why people think Future is bad and boring. It keeps answering plot questions and more importantly finally put Steven's mental health into the spot. He stopped being an alive character for me after some point, when he was brushing away every near-death situations as nothing happened and was basically a tool to theraping everyone.
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The way they "answer questions" is bad, it's like they're going through a checklist of things they should've done before (exactly like how Change Your Mind's fusions went), instead of naturally and organically inserting these plots into the series.
And it's worse since it's just so.. episodic, which makes everything feel irrelevant. Like, in the first episode Jasper finally appears after many many years of her return being teased, only for her to basically be redempted in the same episode and most likely never to appear again outside of little cameos. Same goes for every other plot. It's like we've been waiting for nothing.
The reason for Future being soooo boring is the direction, writting, visual, humor.. It's just tedious to watch.
90% of every episode is just Steven talking with someone with a stiff animation, the concepts of the episodes themselves could be interesting but the writting doesn't allow it, the animation and the visuals of them are a pain to look at, and the humor is just someone making a pun and someone else going ;), it's not fun to watch that.
I couldn't care less about Steven's mental health, throughout the entire series i never cared about him. He never had an actual character, he was always just a Mary Sue, never had personality, never had a goal, never had flaws.. He's another reason Future is tedious, all the episodes have him taking 90% of the screen time, while shoving every other actual character aside.
Also, i don't get at all why Steven is acting the way he is? Okay, he doesn't want change, nice, but wasn't that the entire plot of the movie? Wasn't the "Change" theme a big song in it, sung by Steven himself?
@@Quinhala11 Oh wow, Future really is not for you. I would try to explain and discuss, but it's pointless since you are that against everything in there. Personally I enjoyed the things you named as bad, so this sequel is just not for you.
@@DeathKitta
Good point.
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Lapidot was stupid, 99% of it was invented by zuke.
Ewww face cam
RIP. my face.
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