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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#32126: May 22nd 2016 at 7:51:08 PM

I have no clue what you're talking about.

Why is Steven going to work for homeworld? Who is the harem? How are tgere three and a half aunts?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#32127: May 22nd 2016 at 7:52:56 PM

That's just non-sense, don't questions it.

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hcobb Since: Jan, 2001
#32128: May 22nd 2016 at 7:54:34 PM

Why was Jasper so keen to capture and deliver Rose? They want her for their plans and they'll get Steven instead. And it all relates to the missing diamond.

Garnet counts as the aunt and a half.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#32130: May 22nd 2016 at 7:54:56 PM

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Don't question Hcobb, you'll just get a headache.

edited 22nd May '16 7:56:15 PM by AdricDePsycho

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
honeyishrunkmyself Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#32131: May 22nd 2016 at 7:54:58 PM

Hes continuing to go on his obsession with steven dating peridot, even thou its been confirmed thats an pedo ship.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#32132: May 22nd 2016 at 7:58:37 PM

I just don't know why so many people want/expect the show to get super dark. It's message is more or less "love and acceptance will save the day".

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#32133: May 22nd 2016 at 8:03:23 PM

Just want...expect is a word best used for "other shows"...and there's nothing wrong with dat.

Though, I do think that the cluster is not the only dark concept this show is going to explore.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#32134: May 22nd 2016 at 8:08:26 PM

It's already pretty dang dark. Pearl was stabbed in the back by a Shadow Clone of herself, then the clone tried to attack Steven. One of Steven's friends attempted to murder his other friend by feeding him to a house ghost. Amethyst fell off a cliff, and her brain was scrambled. Steven believes his family resents him, because him being born killed his mom. And there are basically gem hunting ghouls running around, because they're trying to find the missing parts of themselves.

They soften it by making a lot of these things temporary, but it's still there.

edited 22nd May '16 8:18:24 PM by xanderiskander

hcobb Since: Jan, 2001
#32135: May 22nd 2016 at 8:11:23 PM

The darkest thing in the series has been mind control and corruption. It just hasn't happened to Steven.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#32136: May 22nd 2016 at 8:14:30 PM

I expect things will get pretty "dark" and tragic as the plot gets heavier, but I also expect everything to turn out fine in the end.

hcobb Since: Jan, 2001
#32137: May 22nd 2016 at 8:18:17 PM

I'll leave it at Rose shows up in a dream and sings Steven a lullaby. It'll be the most moving, beautiful and heartwarming moment in the entire series and it will save the day when all seems lost.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#32138: May 22nd 2016 at 8:21:51 PM

[up][up]It's a kids show, when don't things turn out fine?

[up]x4 You forgot dying...she almost died from dat and howling screeches like a monkey.

edited 22nd May '16 8:23:00 PM by randomness4

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wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#32139: May 22nd 2016 at 8:57:22 PM

The show is generally feel-goodsy and optimistic but the thing that I enjoy about it is that it has just the right amount of bleakness. Like Pearl's horrific personal issues, which aren't just immediately resolved. Or the fact that there was a horrible war the MC's fought in where thousands of people died. Or the fact that Rose didn't even necessarily see Greg as an equal until he put his foot down. Or the fact that Marty is a person who existed and is all but confirmed to be a horrible deadbeat father in addition to being a generally horrid person.

It's neat.

MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#32140: May 22nd 2016 at 10:00:00 PM

theres a difference between dark and edgy i think you mean to say the show wont get edgy

ps hi i stopped lurking for like 2mins

edited 22nd May '16 10:00:18 PM by MsAmiClassified

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#32142: May 22nd 2016 at 10:28:58 PM

thanks

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#32144: May 22nd 2016 at 10:31:51 PM

Skeleton ghost version of him, awesome too.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#32145: May 22nd 2016 at 10:33:56 PM

('o'): That was a different person, wut?

edited 22nd May '16 10:34:18 PM by randomness4

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#32146: May 22nd 2016 at 10:44:10 PM

And they came around at the exact same time, so weird.

MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#32147: May 22nd 2016 at 10:52:35 PM

they were responding to me of course they surfaced right after i did

lapis and nature

lapis and ocean colors

i only realized as i was linking this that this is probably a spoiler for the leak

suplexing of large orange boulders

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#32148: May 22nd 2016 at 11:00:58 PM

Thank you for the third link. People always assume that Jasper is behind every bad thing, even when there's zero proof.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#32149: May 22nd 2016 at 11:02:33 PM

Darkness can be subjective in terms of how the over all mood is conveyed to the viewer, but generally I'd call SU dark because of how it treats suffering and tragedy.

It's a mainly lighthearted, good-feeling cartoon, but when a character's personal issues are brought up or an external event that can't be changed with a joke pops up, it treats that struggle very seriously.

Depression, anger, jealousy, physical pain, and so on are allowed to happen to the characters that can't be brought up and resolved and forgotten about within the space of an episode.

For Steven and Amethyst, life would be great if many of their problems could be resolved like many cartoons, but to them it just isn't that simple, something that really sums up the show rather well.

And yet it doesn't let the bleak moments overshadow Steven's optimism. They aren't brushed aside or downplayed, but are faced as problems that can be overcome with kindness and empathy.

If you ask me, that's more mature than many cartoons and live action programming, that either berry any deep feelings of pain with a happiness that can feel cloying or insincere, or the latter that let's horrible things happen without a constructive outlook.

If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#32150: May 22nd 2016 at 11:06:32 PM

[up][up]We already knew Jaspee wasn't the one who interrogated Lapis...there've been signs...a sign.

edited 22nd May '16 11:07:32 PM by randomness4

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