Weird to say that this was a Lars episode when it felt more like a Steven and Amethyst episode. With Lars in a strong supporting role.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt was nice to see Amethyst get some character development. Or more accurately it was nice that they acknowledged that she has gotten character development since "Tiger Millionaire." After fusing with Steven and beating Jasper, then meeting her family, she is now much more comfortable being herself.
I really have not been liking Season 4 since Three Gems and a Baby. Even the five part event was kinda meh (if still worth it for a lot of lore bombs and Yellow Diamond's song), and New Crystal Gems, Rocknaldo, Storm in the Room and now Tiger Philanthropist have been really weak, and then there were still really bad ones like Onion Gang and Future Boy Zoltron earlier in the season.
It's weird that SU used to be a show I viewed as consistently fantastic but has now hit some stumbling blocks, but I'm pretty sure the next two episodes are going to be fantastic.
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I'd like to put an extreme to what you're saying.
Season 4 has yet to validate the existence of this show...more blunders lead to cancellation.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I feel like Season 4 was meant to be the opener for a new arc (with 1-3 being the first arc so to speak) but that fails to take into account how much Season 1 added. It explained a heck of a lot about how Gems work and how the cast interacts with each other. But Season 4 seems to have so much filler for filler's sake. I don't even think the majority of the episodes are bad, but so many of them feel like they didn't add anything new to the core characters or to the lore of the world.
I am starting to believe that it was a mistake to have this large of a tertiary cast. To give even a fraction of the side characters and episode is to take half a dozen episodes out to do that. What's worse is the frustrating tendency to not include any Gems but Steven in episodes focusing on these side characters, or relegating the other Gems to cameos.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.Why do I get the feeling that Lars would have been one of those guys that chanted "HUSKY HARRIS!" during Bray Wyatt's debut?
I would disagree about Season Four having a lot of filler until I went to look at the episodes that have aired so far, and outside of the fantastic Out Of This World Arc, it's been fairly chill in terms of story advancement. Not bad, mind, and I do admit enjoying some of the filler episodes (Last One Out of Beach City, Know Your Fusion, hell I actually liked some of the episodes everyone else seems to have hated), but at the same time it's just been kind of...eh. The next two episodes set to air might change that, thankfully, but I think it might have to do with the show not really having a big threat looming around after Jasper and the Rubies were dealt with. This will probably change with whatever the hell the Diamonds are up to is revealed.
edited 4th Mar '17 1:00:09 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I know why people call episodes filler, but could we please stop using the word "filler" itself to describe them? It's not even the right definition!
...So what, we can only use it in the context of material in an adaptation that wasn't in the original?
I don't know, that seems overly pedantic.
Oh God! Natural light!I think importance is difficult to gauge before the series is over - and even then, the importance of some episodes might not be immediately obvious.
Still, I think some episodes are more important than others, at least as far as the overall narrative is concerned.
edited 4th Mar '17 1:22:19 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Filler is always used as a negative term...and inaccurate.
Soooo...bad.
Fluff can be used in a neutral sense.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Certainly fits with what I imagine White Diamond to be like.
Oh God! Natural light!

Everything changed when the Gem nation attacked
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