Our "friend" has been bounced. He was already wiki-banned for doing that kind of shit in the Steven Universe article.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I mean, Lapis can make ice out of water with her very mind. That's literally cooler. But even beyond that, Lapis just has the best moments.
Though if we're eliminating the newbies, Pearl is the most entertaining, but Garnet is best.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
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x6, maybe she could go the Static Shock route and stand on metal she makes fly?
Ey, yo, Adric, if you want to PM me about what I was saying earlier with Andy feel free to do so. While I get the, erm, let's day awkward timing on the episode I still stand by my earlier point. But seeing as civil discussion on these matters is hard on the internet, P Ms may be a better way to do that.
I finished binging the entire series, except maybe for one filler episode in the limbo between seasons one and two and some You Tube shorts. At least I think that's all I'm missing.
It's an awesome series. I don't know how much I can ramble by my own here, specially when dropping in the middle of a conversation.
So, yeah, now I'm a Steven Universe fan. Yaaaay.
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Okay, so I've been thinking, and I finally think I admit it. Steven Universe has bad pacing now. Season 4 has a lot of quality episodes, but it fails at serialization in any format.
I think the biggest reason is the lack of a myth arc. Typically most shows do Myth Arcs in the form of Big Bad characters and plot devices that for whatever reason take many episodes to finally come into play. Steven Universe, after Peridot's reveal, does this very well. Each season wastes no time in establishing the current important concepts, 2 in particular with introducing the hunt for Peridot right from the get go, which sets up forced fusion, which sets up the Cluster, which sets up Periredemption and the opening of Season 3. During its run many episodes will only casually mention or even just ignore this running plotline, but you never go more than an episode or two without one of these plot points coming into play. So there's still a sense of pacing and tension, which balances a lot of the townie episodes out with the understanding that there's still a lot going on behind the scenes.
S3 is worse at this. After introducing Lapis she is promptly benched after a few episodes, the Rubies aren't established as a recurring threat like Peridot was, and it isn't for 7 more episodes that the actual arc of the season (Jasper) is properly introduced. As a result you get a lot of episodes so disconnected from the premise of Steven Universe that they start feeling a little... filler-y. However, these episodes do build on previous concepts and characters (Drop Beat Dad, Mr. Greg, Beach City Drift), so it's mostly fine.
Once Jasper is reintroduced, we go right into the Amethyst Arx and have Jasper as a significant presence, and the Rubies also return (actually this WAS foreshadowed a little bit, but not nearly as much as it should have been), which goes into the explosive season finale.
Meanwhile, we're 18 episodes into Season 4 and we don't really have a solid grasp on what the season is building up to. The Greg bomb happened, but while it set up some future events it didn't put any pressure on the plot. So as a result the show feels very meandering and pointless. Outside of the bomb, New Crystal Gems, and to a lesser extend Mindful Education every episode here could have been put out of order and the show would still read perfectly fine. And that's a problem when your show leans so heavily on serialization.
edited 28th Feb '17 1:11:19 PM by InAnOdderWay

Those are some funny ways to spell Jasper.