i stand in front of an audience. okay so there’s this epilogue to a fantasy/sci fi series about the psychological decline of a protagonist who spent his entire life solving everyone else’s problems as fantasy protagonists often do and now he is confronted with the reality that he does not know how to solve his own and this destroys him completely. his mental health spiral is the focus of the story and is just as gradual as it is intense. no one knows what to do when the one that does all the saving needs to be saved and they all go about helping him horribly. incredibly claustrophobic in tone. most episodes end on a sour, open note. everyone is gripped. i say it is steven universe. the audience erupts into fury
there’s a scene about that exact moment in your mid teens when your parent is talking and you realize you’ve spent all your life looking up to a person who knows nothing and is telling you things you definitely don’t need or want to hear and all you can do is zone out because you’ve never been disillusioned like this before. and it’s so good. and it’s steven universe.
