"We barely know anything about their world in general especially when its not gem related." - That's the disadvantage of having Steven as the permanent POV character. Steven doesn't seem to care that much about what's going on in Brazil or in Siberia, he's only concerned about Beach City and whatever threatens it (which is, mostly, Homeworld).
Edited by Snicka on Mar 23rd 2020 at 10:13:07 AM
Not every aspect of a Constructed World has to serve a specific narrative purpose. Indeed, the vast majority of well-realized fantasy worlds have elements that are just there to add flavour to the setting. Complaining that Steven Universe "wastes potential" by setting up a different version of Earth is kind of like decrying the worldbuilding in A Song of Ice and Fire as bad because there are two whole continents in that universe that the protagonists never visit. Or saying that Lord of the Rings has bad worldbuilding because there are two Blue Wizards who never play any role in the story.
If you're trying to do proper worldbuilding, you have to give sense of, well, a world. And in a whole world, not everything is going to be immediately relevant to the protagonist's story.
If you're just itching for an explanation, well, the show already does explain it, at least as much as it can be expected to: The Earth looks different because of the gems fucking around with it. That is pretty heavily implied by the presence of Gem technology in the middle of that hole in Siberia, and by the fact that the end goal
of the Earth's colonization is to literally hollow it out.
Asking for more of an explanation than that is honestly just demanding to be spoon-fed information that is already pretty easy to deduce. And information that isn't all that relevant to the plot, at that.
"Homeworld Bound" is out early on the app, let's get cracking everyone, chop chop!
I have things to do and daddy issues to repress!![]()
If you wanna avoid spoilers, go right on ahead! The full episode is out in five parts on Youtube already!
Edited by Monolaf317 on Mar 23rd 2020 at 6:34:13 AM
I have things to do and daddy issues to repress!Looks like CN is now officially putting it up on the app
Edited by Bocaj on Mar 23rd 2020 at 6:52:10 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou know it's funny that everything about Spinel became an Ironic Echo.
Including "You change for the better. I change for the WORSE!"
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.

If that's all it takes, then that makes this even less worth complaining about...
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