Dang, okay. Save The Light looks like it's intending to be every bit the sequel to Attack The Light as I dare dreamed. Which is to say, expanding the Paper Mario Lite-ness of the first game into, well, a full and proper not-Paper Mario game. It looks like it's aiming far beyond my expectations, honestly! Plus, while Connie being added to the cast was absolutely necessary for any proper sequel to ATL, playable Greg is an unexpected bonus.
Overall, that's rad.
edited 11th Mar '17 2:33:25 PM by RegisteredUser
I have to concur with those who thought that Navy's voice was hard to listen to. It was just the perfect balance of high-pitched and overly cutesy-wootsy that forces you to listen hard to what she's saying to understand her words, but listening too hard to what she's saying is unpleasant to your ears.
Thas a good message...
Beware the Nice Ones and all that...except the rare evil example.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.It's a Subverted Suspicion Aesop, those pretty much thrive on throwing out reasonable lessons for the sake of subverting expectations and/or maintaining status quo. The page quote is even pointing out that being untrusting of strangers is the only thing you can "learn" from these experiences.
edited 11th Mar '17 5:17:19 PM by thatother1dude
Sounds like something for Warp That Aesop
I liked this episode but it was pretty fucked, message wise. The gang's right, people adjust to weird and difficult situations differently. Lapis adapted differently to Peridot, after all.
Lapis's outlash was uncalled for and mean, even if she was dealing with her own feelings. The universe just happened to conspire to justify her paranoias and insecurities.
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Jealousy is always uncalled-for...
So it can't be helped...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.The series certainly isn't endorsing Lapis' nihilism in this episode.
It's a deliberate subversion of Peridot's heel turn. A goofy comic relief lands on Steven's doorstep and immediately acclimates herself to the Gems. She's wacky and silly and lends herself to comedy situations except, whoops, turns out she's a villain and she's deliberately preying on Steven's altruism to get what she wants.
Lapis, meanwhile, is infuriated because she's still suffering from depression. This might just be a thing you don't get unless you've lived it, but the resentment of other people for seeming to just get it right while you flounder helplessly completely unknowing as to why you can't fix yourself is one of the most real things in my life.
Lapis "wins" in the end because she's proven right, but she really isn't. There isn't some grand schematic that says people have to be broken; she's just hurt right now and she's lashing out.
edited 11th Mar '17 6:26:19 PM by Mr.Badguy
This quote by Vrai Kaiser (The Mary Sue) sums it up pretty well:
And it's a message worth including in a show about the power of love and redemption: sometimes that attitude means people are gonna take you for a ride. Literally, in this case. Charlene Yi deserves special kudos for selling the transition to sinister in those last few moments, working not just the impression that possibly everything we've ever seen about Navy is a put on, but also adding a quality homage to the famed anime “ojou laugh.” I would like to shake the hand of whoever in the recording booth pushed for that particular choice.
edited 11th Mar '17 6:35:22 PM by SilentColossus
Tall Poppy Syndrome (specifically from a protagonist) is a motive I usually like. Mostly because it's behavior I (perceive myself as having) shared more when I was younger, thus I can relate to it without it making me feel uncomfortable.
I was spoiled on the twist that Navy was pretending the whole time, but actually watching the episode I saw Lapis ultimate reaction way before it actually came to happen - including her uncontrollable laughter when it finally happens.
Kinda hard to weight my opinion on how the twist was handled since, y'know, I first heard it here. Navy and Leggy were my favorite of the five Rubies, and I was hoping that, if not all of them would befriend the gems, it would have been these two. But I wasn't really expecting that all of them would become allies - my guess was that probably only one would, if that. Mostly because I couldn't really see where the show would take this whole new cast of characters. I mean, I could have been proven wrong, but I digress.
I think this episode really fits Navy's character, tho. She's nice, but she's not good - she still works for Yellow Diamond, and wants wanted to get revenge. I don't think she's a mind-boggling evil mastermind, I just think she wanted to do unto the gems what they did unto her.
That said, I wonder if she could have been won over, or if she was just going to keep pretending to like them. Garnet was waiting at the beach, and I can't see how else they'd all get there unless Navy got her hands on the ship in any alternate probability.
Was it just me or Lapis and Peridot's hair looked bigger than normal in the second half of the episode?
Oh, also Tiger Philantropist. It wasn't as bad as I gathered from people's reactions. It was better than a few other episodes this season. I like that Amethyst and Steven's double wrestling lives were addressed again, and the closure happened on-screen. Also, Lars: really? Are you pretending, in denial, or just plain stupid? At least he wasn't a huge jerk this episode. Keyword: huge.
By the way, what is the spoiler policy of this thread regarding new episodes?
He was just being stupid...easy answer.
Seeing as he said "Tiger Millionaire" was over 7 ft tall...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.We don't really have a spoiler policy set in stone, I don't think? We have the Spoilers and Leaks thread, but we set that up after Super Watermelon Island and Barn Mates got super bad leaks from CN UK. It's only to discuss these leaks 4chan finds before the episodes air, and whenever CN accidentally leaks shit because they suck at it (all of the Out of this World event got leaked a month before it aired and discussion was kept in that thread, for example).
As for the art thing in Room for Ruby, people have been complaining about it a lot. One thing that kind of irritates me about the fandom is how people keep getting angry about when the art gets kind of off, which bugs me because I'm thinking "Guys, this episode had such good writing, I don't care about the art looking off". Yeah, it can piss people off and it's been a divisive topic for the show that's been discussed to hell and back, but it just feels so damn pedantic at this point. This is the first episode I've thought was super good since the Out of this World event (Storm in the Room was great but rushed, this episode was more consistent), I don't care about the damn art. It can be stick figures or puppets or a black screen for all I care, the writing is still so damn good that I can forgive it.
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Well great...randomness had to go look it up anyway because it felt confusing.
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