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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#42126: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:20:01 PM

Anyway, how would you feel about gems being the first sentient species in the universe?

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:20:36 PM by LSBK

diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42127: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:24:19 PM

I remember thinking that at the beginning that it was just trying to be another show like Adventure Time, and not succeeding. even though I did enjoy it. But I held AT in very high regard at the time. It's funny because now I enjoy Steven Universe so much more than AT.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:24:39 PM by diyedas

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42128: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:28:25 PM

[up][up]I'm not sure that's possible...

[up]It's best to drop the comparison mindset early on...

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:29:10 PM by randomness4

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#42129: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:30:05 PM

[up]Probably not. But unlike organic creatures, they aren't constrained by physical needs and have a potentially endless life span, so if something else did exist before them, I wouldn't be surprised if those species are all gone.

Edit: And I do agree it's best not to compare Adventure Time and Steven Universe, even though I enjoy Steven Universe more. They don't really go for the same thing.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:31:15 PM by LSBK

diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42130: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:33:28 PM

I'm not really comparing them, just talking about my early reactions to SU my how I feel about the show. Adventure Time was just a part of that and I had compared them a little bit when SU first started because Rebecca Sugar worked on AT.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:35:48 PM by diyedas

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#42131: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:36:15 PM

I still consider Adventure Time to be just as good as Steven Universe. Saw a bit of the show, namely Gem Glow, Cat Fingers, and Frybo, so I knew it had potential, then I decided to get into it seriously once I saw an out-of-context clip of Garnet singing 'Stronger than You' while looking around You Tube for a rock song with 'I'm stronger than you' as a prominent lyric.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42132: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:36:54 PM

[up][up][up]The gems are one of the original sentient beings of the cosmos?

[up][up]I know you aren't doing that comparison thing now.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:38:18 PM by randomness4

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#42133: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:37:37 PM

The episodes of Adventure Time Rebecca Sugar worked on were amazing. So I always knew there was potential for Steven Universe to be fantastic. But I didn't know what exactly to expect from it when it started, or how much it would do. I did realize at the time though, that it would probably be one of those shows where you have to give it time to set things up and develop to get into.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42134: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:39:25 PM

[up]x3 So how many Rock songs have they lyric "I'm stronger than you"?

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42136: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:42:17 PM

[up]x4, Yeah, I thought that's what you were saying, so my reply had mostly been for the one right above me.

I don't know why it was but as much as I liked Steven Universe as it got going, I still didn't pay much attention to the episodes, I think I kept getting distracted by my phone cuz I had a bad habit of playing on my phone while I watched TV. And then we lost satellite so I just stopped keeping up with the show. It wasn't until last year that I decided to do a small rewatch then catch up with the rest of the episodes, that was when I realized just how amazing SU was and it kept getting better.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:42:39 PM by diyedas

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#42137: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:42:53 PM

The first Steven thing I ever saw was an ad with Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart that played when I went to watch a movie and sat down early enough to see the ads they play before previews.

It was nice, though a song about a single vehicle mostly tends to strike me as humorous, and I didn't think much of it until half my main Homestuck skype group suddenly began swarming the Steven wagon and I was like "lol ok".

I had the misfortune of being spoiled on Garnet being a fusion, back when it was a big deal, but I pretended to have no idea because it was more fun that way.

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#42138: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:43:29 PM

Hell I was on board from the start (I started this thread! smile) I always kind of expected that the show would be mainly Slice of Life with all the important plot stuff only happening occasionally, though I do agree that it took a bit for the show to pick up. I actually though Steven was really annoying for the first half of season 1.

Its kinda funny going back to the early pages of the thread and seeing everyone complain about the final designs of the gems compared to the pilot's when they were revealed. [lol]

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:46:33 PM by dmysta3000

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42139: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:45:32 PM

Mostly Garnet and Amethyst.

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42140: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:47:58 PM

To be fair, SU did start out a bit odd. I remember watching Cat Fingers at a relatives house and then TTG started right after, someone commented that TTG actually seemed the better of the two and less weird. Ain't that something? I'm sure that person has seen enough of SU and TTG now to think differently, but it's kinda funny in retrospect.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#42141: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:48:22 PM

I've still never watched the pilot but I remember that. I find it funny that awhile ago when the same conversation came up again people were complaining about how the pilot designs were ugly or just didn't fit, etc. It's amazing how drastically opinions can change.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#42142: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:48:22 PM

Anyway, how would you feel about gems being the first sentient species in the universe?
Well first, you probably mean "sapient" (able to reason), not "sentient" (able to experience sensation).

I don't think it matters if the gems are older than any other sapient lifeforms in the universe. The simplest resolution to the Fermi Paradox is that the universe has multiple intelligent life forms, but they're so spread apart that multiple races could explore space for millions of years without having any awareness of each other.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#42143: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:49:32 PM

[up]I'm aware of the difference between the two (as much as there is one) but I think sentient works better for the range I was going for. As in they might predate all organic life itself.

Edit: Although, thinking about it,that might not be possible for any of them besides possibly the Diamonds.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:53:09 PM by LSBK

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#42144: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:51:59 PM

I definitely wasn't expecting the show to become as deep and complex as it is now. I distinctly remember seeing an advertisement for it on You Tube, and I thought it looked really stupid. I don't remember what made me actually decide to start watching it, but I mostly watched it because I thought it was very cute, but I didn't have that much of an interest in it. "Giant Woman" was what got me more interested in the show, I think. And then "Mirror Gem/Ocean Gem" really excited me because I was like, "Holy shit, there's an actual plot to this!"

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#42145: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:53:27 PM

I remember that when AT suffered a massive drop in the fanbase during Season 6 (the love it or hate it season according to many), there was a divide between AT fans and SU fans who held up SU as superior and AT as being inferior, while the AT fans got really defensive about it.

Nowadays the fanbases have kinda cooled, but AT's fanbase has never really recovered from the schism.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42146: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:53:44 PM

[up][up][up]If they weren't Artificial after all, I could believe it...but I don't think it would change much.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:54:15 PM by randomness4

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42147: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:55:24 PM

The first episode I really really liked was Giant Woman, that's when I started to see the potential of the show. I was a fan after that and stuck around for a good while, but I kept missing episodes, so although I could see how good the show was getting I wasn't getting the full picture.

[up][up] Personally I think the AT fandom is one of the better ones out there.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:57:06 PM by diyedas

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#42148: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:57:06 PM

For he who asked: this was the song I was looking for when I found Garnet singing her song.......... don't judge me.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#42149: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:58:56 PM

I won't judge, but I will remember this for a while...

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42150: Sep 3rd 2016 at 4:59:38 PM

[up][up]Won't judge you at all, I grew up with brothers that were into music like that, so I like that kind of music just fine.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:59:53 PM by diyedas


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