I would find Marty a more Love to Hate character but that episode with him and Sour Cream is probably the single worst written of this show in my opinion, so now I just find him actually annoying.
From what I've gathered, that episode is also seen as big a reason to hate Amethyst for some as Maximum Capacity, because it has Amethyst trying to destroy Peridot's Security Blanket.
edited 13th May '17 2:22:42 PM by sgamer82
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You make it sound like her desperation to save her tablet unlocked her dormant shapeshifting powers, allowing her to stretch out her arms and catch the tablet as Amethyst threw it. If that had happened, I would agree. As it stands, it was more along the lines of "okay, you can't do this thing. You're never gonna do this thing. But this other thing? You can do that."
edited 13th May '17 2:22:31 PM by SalFishFin
No, clearly she threw Peridot's wheelchair into the sea and Peridot's been dragging herself along the ground the entire time.
My various fanfics.The point was that Peridot never was broken. It was another commentary on Homeworld and how it fits Gems into purposes and goals and robs them of their worth. She thought she was broken because she'd been taught she was nothing without her enhancers.
My various fanfics.I think Dropbeat Dad was worse than The New Lars.
The New Lars at least gave a little insight into Lars as a character. It showed that Lars has a lot of things going for him and he just doesn't know it, and is only making things worse for himself by pushing them away. However, that's the only good thing about it. Steven as Lars just makes the episode hard to watch.
Dropbeat Dad, on the other hand, showed that any ideas you had about Marty were 100% right. He only cared about his son to the point of profiting off of him, and had no motivation past making money. Marty simply served as a vehicle for some minor character development, and had no actual depth, even less than Kevin. It was a nothing episode with a one-dimensional minor antagonist.
edited 13th May '17 2:29:08 PM by BlueBlaze64
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
Not prepared to argue Amethyst, I mostly took that as her being a jerk as she sometimes is, but is Peridot really being "improved" when she's finding something she had the entire time without knowing it and something, presumably, she was always going to have from a writing angle?
edited 13th May '17 2:47:16 PM by sgamer82
I mean it's a new thing to us, the viewer, and puts Peridot in a better position than she was in at the start of the episode, so I don't know how to answer that. It's not like we knew Peridots all have ferrokinesis and just got it weened out of them due to bad genes.
Like, I guess I can compare to it some anime character pulling out his Hidden Demon Bloodline Technique or something. Even if it was already there it doesn't make it earned or less of an upgrade.
edited 13th May '17 3:01:26 PM by Mr.Badguy
Am I wrong for feeling comparing a security blanket to a wheelchair is insulting to disabled people? Because that was my first thought upon reading that.
And I never saw Peridot's ferrokinesis as "fixing" her. It was just a way of showing there was more to her than even she knew, and added in some potential for her to do stuff in fights.
edited 13th May '17 3:55:29 PM by LSBK
I thought she was just gonna fight with tech...
Robot mech style.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I really do not see how. She has a problem she uses assisting technology to circumvent (lack of powers/poor communication), is hindered by the lack of that equipment (either her Limb Enhancers or her tablet), and then she just magically doesn't have the problem anymore when she gains superpowers.
Would really appreciate you not try and make me off as some kind of ableist shitrag because I didn't like an episode of a cartoon.
edited 13th May '17 4:35:27 PM by Mr.Badguy

What's so onion about Onion?
edited 13th May '17 10:31:36 AM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.