Rose's sullen demeanor after White Pearl finishes explaining her life-story and Steven asks if she can heal her. Is she guilt-ridden over her past treatment of Steven after believing him to be White Diamond, or is she dejected that White Pearl's devotion to him (whom they still believe to be White) is completely her own choice and that she's effectively lost her first friend? Later revelations in Steven Universe: Future also has fans seeing her reaction as being because she caused Pink Pearl to lose her eye in the first place.Word of God confirming that the latter event still happened in this universe adds to this.
When Garnet asks Steven on his "human friend", he freaks out, hesitates, and calls her Earl. She doesn't question him. Was Garnet know he was lying and covering for him, or for Rule of Funny did she genuinely believe him because she doesn't know about human naming customs?
Awesome Art: The artwork starts out as a fairly impressive, albeit a tad more crude, version of the show's art style. The art improves as the story continues, and by Season 2, it legitimately looks so much like the show that it seems almost like an outright adaptation. The brief retelling of Garnet's origin in the flames of hers and Steven's campfire in "A Story for Steven" has particularly received high praise from readers.
Draco in Leather Pants: What the comic does to Rose Quartz - in a sense. While the other Crystal Gems are characterized as they were in Greg's flashbacks, Rose is much less foolish and immature, resembling her canon self closer to when Steven was born. Granted, she is still in a relationship with Greg here and has had more time to mature (and after she finds out Steven "is" White Diamond, she is mostly not willing to let her guard down around him, and still has a tendency of keeping secrets).
Friendly Fandoms: Fans of White Steven and fans of the Bad Prediction AU tend to get along very well, with lots of Fan Art being made where White!Steven and Pink!Steven meet and become friends.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Amethyst asking Steven "How many problems have you solved by smashing them against your gem?", it end up being the exact way they won against jasper.
Growing the Beard: While Season 1 was well liked, it also got flack for being rather slow and not having much going on due to being largely Slice of Life episodes between Steven and White Pearl. Season 2 onwards is considered where things truly pick up for having a greater ongoing narrative as well as delving into Steven's connection to White Diamond and Rose Quartz.
Nightmare Fuel: Whatever Greg went through after Moissanite took him. We have no idea what it was, but we do know that it left Greg completely traumatized by most things Gem related. Making matters even more horrifying, it's confirmed that Greg is Steven's father like canon in this story, and if this is how he met White Diamond, it casts very dark implications regarding how Steven came to be.
Padding: A lot of the Season 1 issues were of Steven and White Pearl doing fun things while on the road, like Steven taking pictures of her in cute clothes. While entertaining and good for the character building they do, they don't really contribute to the later plot.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Some fans of the original show who interpreted Rose' loving and kind behavior in the early seasons as being an act, wholesale, take issue with the comic's more nuanced interpretation of her character. The comic interprets that Rose gradually grew out of her harmful and selfish behavior as Pink Diamond to become a self-deprecating, flawed but capable and caring leader. Even some fans who agree with this interpretation claim that she acts less rashly, more logically, and is less controlled by her emotions in the comic than in the show. Given that this Steven is the son of White Diamond, who in the show prided herself on being "perfect", Rose Quartz' own flaws could have been a natural thing for the comic to focus on.
The Woobie: While Steven's canon counterpart was a Moe by default, here you can add being in the foster system, evading abusive foster parents and finding a family in the Crystal Gems, only for that dynamic to go sour when they think he was Evil All Along. A lot of the abuse in his life comes from the gem on his forehead mistaken for a deformity/omen with no knowledge of his gem heritage or the fact that his new friend Greg is his father and his new surrogate mom Rose Quartz is actually his "big sister" Pink Diamond.
