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Blowing off the dust lol, friend made me watch Onwards the other day and I didn’t like it. It wasn’t bad - I definitely took it harder cos conceptually I loved a lot of things while in practice it just fell flat on all counts for me :/ But, yeah. Didn’t like it. Have many thoughts. Will write long crit presently.

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BoJack Horseman - The View From Halfway Down’s symbolism is Fucking Me Up so I’m writing it down. It is under a cut cus it’s LONG. 

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Ok maybe not just critique but I guess.. opinions on media.

On the one hand, you can give a knee-jerk, non thought out ramble about something you dislike, even when you like everything else about that piece of media, and be called harsh and overly critical (bar too low, assuming anything negative is actually critique). But on the other hand you can explain quite clearly that you don’t like something for a specific reason and people will come at you expecting you to explain how every aspect of the show/movie/etc. was objectively bad and then argue with you about it (bar too high, expecting every rando on the internet to give a play by play explanation of what went wrong otherwise their thoughts are invalid).

Also people really gotta accept that sometimes it’s not that deep. You can like or dislike something without, or in spite of, a valid reason. You don’t always have to explain yourself and dissect your opinion.

I feel like critique is in a really weird place rn. Like the bar is simultaneously too low and too high?

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I feel like critique is in a really weird place rn. Like the bar is simultaneously too low and too high?

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@sushinfood Thanks for proving my point and also a lack of any reading comprehension.

Also seeing as I’ve gotten a surge in hate recently I just wanted to say, if it seems like I’m being negative all the time, it’s because I basically quarantine my negative thoughts/crit here so that overzealous stans won’t get pissed at me on my main. Which I guess still doesn’t work. I used to like Steven Universe and still have a lot of love for some of the characters, that’s why I keep watching, bc I hope it will redeem itself somehow.

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Also seeing as I’ve gotten a surge in hate recently I just wanted to say, if it seems like I’m being negative all the time, it’s because I basically quarantine my negative thoughts/crit here so that overzealous stans won’t get pissed at me on my main. Which I guess still doesn’t work. I used to like Steven Universe and still have a lot of love for some of the characters, that’s why I keep watching, bc I hope it will redeem itself somehow.

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I was thinking about Prickly Pair and yknow Stevens comment about Pearl really got me. I can understand him getting resentful of Garnet and I’m really glad the show acknowledged that Amethyst suddenly seemed much maturer. But... man it feels like Pearl’s development has see-sawed so many times now. They make out she’s moved past Rose but then oops, she immediately gets with someone who looks just like Rose, then she moved past and got better again, and now she’s back to falling apart if Steven were to tell her anything? Idk man why tell us she’s grown and even show her dealing with Rose-related trauma and helping another victim a few episodes prior, then go “yeah no she’s actually super secretly a mess again”. And trust me, I know recovering from that shit ain’t a straight road but this... doesn’t feel intentional.

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Thoughts on Little Graduation

1) AHHH an actual nb human? Fucking finally. And they’re super cool and cute!

2) Why does Steven act as if things were the same 2 years ago, like with Lars and Sadie’s semi-relationship, and confused at all the changes? Why is Steven only learning big things like Lars leaving and Sadie Killers breaking up now? The show treats the timeskip as if Steven left but... he’s been in Beach City the whole time. How does he not know this shit? Even if they’re private choices there have to have been rumblings beforehand with such big decisions.

With Steven this kind of makes sense, but I’m calling it out because it’s a trend with literally all the characters. Maybe Steven was so consumed by Little Homeschool he lost track of what was going on with everyone else, and that would make sense. But in Snow Day the gems also act confused at things not being the same as they were 2 years ago in the show, and then the townies act confused that Steven doesn’t know what’s going on, which implies he WAS around. So wtf is going on? It’s like in trying to show the audience things have changed, they forgot what was happening in-universe.

3) I’m digging the instrument Sheb plays, but Sadie’s singing and the lyrics continue to just be Bad.

4) I think I’m actually starting to hate Steven. He's such a control freak now! I can’t believe he lowkey tried to make Sadie and Sheb break up with those comments about being on a desert island, all because he thought Sadie and Lars should work things out and be together. And then how he shouts at Lars leaving and forms a pink bubble that obviously spawned from his tantrum and then blames Lars for it. Also:

“You should have asked me, I’m really good at naming bands”

Chill out, Steven.

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Honestly the more I think about it the more I think The Good Place is the only show I’ve watched with consistently good writing. I feel like most shows have a rough start, get better, peak and then fall. Or they start off with a really interesting premise and fizzle out. Even shows like Bojack Horseman, which has incredible writing and only seems to get better with each season, had a weak start imo. But The Good Place starts off strong and keeps that energy for all its seasons so far, even getting better towards the end.

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Lapis: "🎶 That mirror was a prison and fusion was the same 🎶 Me: *Stares into the camera straight from The Office*. I'm pretty much neutral with her at this point, but these writers ALWAYS have her speak the most incriminating shit against her character EVERY SINGLE TIME. That fusion was completely under your own control dumbass.

LITERALYL THAT WAS HER OWN FAULT 

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I had a thought earlier.

Yknow how Steven has been kinda losing his touch in SUF? He’s becoming bitter, resentful, not spending time with his family. He’s lost that childlike spark he used to have.

What if that’s building to something? Building to him, for whatever reason, realising that he’s becoming kind of an asshole, like his mother was.

He looks back on the past, and remembers how he used to be. Naive, foolish, overzealous; but also optimistic, full of joy, and ready to take on anything! He kinda misses it, he wishes he could grow up while retaining that childlike wonder. Most people always think of what advice they’d give to their younger self, but Steven wants to know what advice his younger self would give him…

He enters his room in the temple. He asks to speak to himself from “Before it all started.”

They talk. Young Steven talks about how much he loves the Gems but they dont tell him anything. He’s got stars in his eyes as he goes on and on about how amazing the Gems are and how he really wishes he could be like them some day.  Inevitably, the topic of his mother comes up.  Young Steven says that he bets Steven knows so much about Rose know, and how amazing she was. He says “I barely know anything about Mom…”

Steven hugs him, holds him tight, a tear in his eye, and says

“That’s a good thing.”

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Also Steven is kind of a dick post-timeskip. Even though he helps people, in general he just... acts in a mean way. He always assumes he knows best, like assuming he knew better than Amethyst and immediately redoing her job program, or assuming he knew better than Lapis wrt how to deal with the other Lapises, or assuming he knows better than Jasper and that she HAS to go to little Homeschool bc everyone else does. And like I said in a prior post, being dismissive of the Gems when they want to spend time with him or try to tell him to slow down with work. See the pattern here?

He also tends to act dumb now in a mean way, like literally telling Spinel they didn’t need her anymore in the movie after she called off the Injector. I mean not only would that hurt her tremendously given what she’s been through, but that puts everyone in danger bc if she’s upset she’ll just call it right back. Which she did!

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Snow Day was really fun. I loved the energy and music and how fucking over the top it was (also Pearl shapeshifting, finally). It was just dumb fun and I enjoyed it. I just wish the setup to get to Steven Tag was better. I really feel like the show forgets its own episodes or characters sometimes because... why would the Gems suddenly forget 2 years of development and start bringing up things like together breakfast or dogcopter? Why do they not pay attention to Steven’s lifestyle (him being vegetarian)? Why’s Steven so dismissive of them trying to connect?

Also on the one hand, the Gems having to accept that Steven isn’t just a kid anymore is a concept that’s been brought up a couple of times already in the original show. And on the other, there should be no reason the Gems are babying Steven bc if anything in the prior episodes they comment on how hard he works and ask HIM for advice!

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And in Season 3 look at how he handled the Donkey Doug and Pillboi situation! Plus the idea to hand out people money for charity instead of donating another wing to an opera house.

Been rewatching the Good Place and I just realised, Jason is surprisingly emotionally mature?

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All I can think is of Pink Diamond stamping her foot now, screaming "I WANT MY OWN COLONY!" The decibels of her voice so loud they cracked Pink Pearl, causing her blindness in one eye. Then, that Cotton Candy Thot's son yells at the victim. Probably giving her a PTSD flashback in the process. No repercussions for this, no consequence. Nothing. Would've at least liked to see Garnet, or somebody tell Steven off for his behavior like Jasper did when he badgered her. :/ I doubt it will though.

RIGHT?? Like even PEARL who was THERE should be like “Steven please calm down, you’re upsetting her!” just SOMETHING

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This might be a nitpick but if the Cluster is as big as we’d been led to believe, why was its arm so small? Based on the size of it inside the Earth I would’ve thought just an arm would’ve easily ripped apart half of North America. Kinda makes it seem like not as big a deal as they made it out to be? If that’s its arm size it’d be like a little bigger than Obsidian?

Literally nothing about The Cluster makes sense at all. Its meant to tear apart the planet but it barely does anything. It’s somehow in control of itself and also not at all. Its ridiculous

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Say what you want about Pink, but it just ridiculous and also kind of unfair now that she's getting all the fucking blame, meanwhile the other three bitches getting protected, as if it's not allowed to even think bad about them. Yes, Pink did shit, however, compare the shit she did with what the other three did. Pink at least tried to change for good, what did the others? Never apologized, instead going "Oh, this kid says we have to be nice now, okay then, all good now uwu" and that's it..

Right??? They’re all just as bad, if not worse, they should all be shattered