That's making mo' sense by the second.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.In steven and the stevens it make some sort of sense the diference because is pilot adapted, even them Steven sort look like dick in that episode
Also I like winter holyday more that future vision seen it explain better Garnet power, also future vision use the whole "Steven rush judgment" yet again, it get tiring after a while
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
He's only a jerk to himself...he's only allowed to be a jerk to himself.
Rush judgement? Future Vision was him being paranoid...kind of justified.
Paranoia episodes are the only time I find a show relateable...
edited 1st Jun '16 9:12:05 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.You can have filler spread over multiple episodes too. Anime does that a lot.
And anyway that's not his point. It's filler, when you could ignore it / remove it from the show, and not lose any major information about the show by not having it. Since it doesn't further any part of the plot or any of the characters.
edited 1st Jun '16 9:58:19 PM by xanderiskander
It's difficult to pin any episode of this show as filler, given how much the series emphasizes slice of life and focus episodes as an essential part of its flavor.
For reasons like that, I've always found fans declaring episodes of series, especially series that aren't one-to-one adapted from another medium (which is the only situation where the term filler really has any meaning), that don't fit specific plotlines unimportant and filler to be presumptuous at best.
As thatother1dude implies, it's generally just fans trying to dictate what they've decided the series are supposed to be about - usually incorrectly - and then dismissing things that aren't part of that. As well as trying to use very specific criteria to decide what does and doesn't fit into the narrative of the series.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:17:22 PM by KnownUnknown
Even going by BlueBlazes64's definition, "Historical Friction" was a significant part of the "Week of Sardonyx" plotline, and by extension developing Pearl's character, and had some minor developments for Dewey. "Sadie's Song" also developed Sadie and Barb—by default for the latter, because that's the first episode she speaks has any significant role in. "Any character" includes the ones you may not care about or think are important.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:10:13 PM by thatother1dude
Sadie's Song isn't the first episode Barb speaks in. She speaks in Love Letters.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.![]()
"Filler" is also often used for original series to describe episodes that don't advance the ongoing plot. Usually, they exist because there need to be a certain number of episodes a season, but why a season has them isn't really important. Keep in mind that words can have different meanings in different contexts.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:19:46 PM by MightyMatilda
De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
That's largely a fan definition, though, and as both I and thatotherdude have been pointing out, it's intrinstically flawed in a lot of ways (most obviously that it implies that "the ongoing plot," which is often difficult to actually define in the first place, is the only real or important part of a series even in situations where that's clearly not the case).
Also, he just pointed out that this:
Is a total assumption. Especially nowadays. And especially when it comes to this show.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:25:26 PM by KnownUnknown
It's more an argument against Weasel Words. The problem is people using "filler" to mean whatever parts of the series they think shouldn't be important, as if it actually makes those parts not important.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:28:44 PM by KnownUnknown
"Alter reality?"
Anyway, yeah. That's exactly what I said. They think those episodes are pointless. That doesn't mean the episodes aren't pointless, of course - only that it doesn't fit what they want out of the series.
Calling them filler in that case just makes the word lose meaning, since it makes the whole thing YMMV. As pointed out, there's really only one situation where the word filler had an actual definition, and it generally doesn't apply to Western shows.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:35:02 PM by KnownUnknown
@Known Unknown: You did say "as if it actually makes those parts not important". I don't know how else to interpret that besides "they think using certain words will change reality".
De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.Sure. As long as one recognizes that the assumption isn't true or anything.
Accusing people of doing something on nothing but assumptions that they've done it is typically considered wrong for moral reasons, but as long as someone is just speculating there's no problem.
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How about "in order to make their subjective opinion look like it has objective weight"? That's why people usually use Weasel Words.
edited 1st Jun '16 10:45:57 PM by KnownUnknown
Totally separate topic: there's a SU marathon
that is officially advertised as "Peridot's Redemption" and basically has its own "Clods" compilation.
- The network greenlights X episodes, so the staff come up with X episodes: Because episodes are purchased several at a time, this happens unless the staff came up with episode pitches so far in advance that the approvals never caught up.
- The staff wanted to make fewer episodes than they were required to: This also happens sometimes, but not nearly as much as people think.
The latter is claiming to know the creators' intent in a massively arrogant way, especially when you start saying a specific episode would have been cut (which is also insulting to the staff of that episode, because you're implying they were the ones stuck with the unimportant work). And it's usually for the sake of criticizing those episodes even though it's besides the point of their actual quality.

Season 1A:
Season 1B:
Season 2:
: Sadie's Song/Historical Friction: Closest the show's ever gotten to filler
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw