The positive. Much more fluid animation, Spinel, the villain, in particular has great animation and sheâs very expressive and entertaining. Connie and Steven FINALLY kiss. The music was very nice. And it was kind of funny to have Steven sort of lampshading how crazy his life gets.
Okay, so, the villain is someone who has NEVER EVER EVER been mentioned before. Not once. Not even a little. She was just a playmate of PinkâŚbut didnât we already see she HAD a playmate back on Homeworld? This kind of contradicts the whole âshe used to play a ton with White Diamondâs pearl, who got all cracked and messed up for her troubleâ thing? And didnât she also get her OWN Pearl to, yâknow, make her happy and all that?
Also, the whole plan of the villainâs to inject a bunch of evil liquid into the Earth thatâs gonna, when fully injected as Peridot says, basically wipe out all life on Earth and we clearly see it ALL injected andâŚthe Earthâs fine, itâs just Beach City thatâs ruined. And they repair it. Mostly withâŚand Iâm not kidding youâŚSTEVEN KISSING THE GROUND OVER AND OVER TO BRING THE FLOWERS BACK.
Oh, and Steven fuses with his dad who makes a four-armed human-looking kinda hot in a disturbing sort of way male fusion who looks like if Greg was, like, ten times hotter and with long flowing hair and itâs messed up. I mean, fusionâs kind of been basically a stand in for sex or yâknow, an intimate relationship of a similar nature andâŚYES, they DO need to try and get Pearl back to normal and invoking something wild and crazy and against the grain works butâŚstillâŚEW. JustâŚEW. It comes across like fetish fuel!
Also, STILL no indication of what happened to the people in the Zoo. All those poor humans. OR all the, yâknow, shattered and made-into-pieces-and-then-mutants gems that are still wandering around or inside the Earth and not part of the Cluster. And how do they address the whole âHomeworld caused genocides thingâ? Two lines. Steven says though heâs enjoyed dismantling the empire and freeing all the worlds, he has to get back to his own planet. Yellow pleads with him to stay since sheâs dismantled all her armies and freed all her colonies. AndâŚthatâs it.
Now, yes, Blue is no longer shattering people either. Yes, White is no longer judging based on appearances. Thatâs all good butâŚto justâŚHANDWAVE away the whole genocide and slavery and everything else is soâŚinsulting.
We donât even SEE any other races. I mean, for all we know, the gems LITERALLY WIPED OUT ALL LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE! Donât act like you saved the galaxy, literally every other sentient race seems to be gone! Also, Homeworld is still literally in two pieces. Cut in half. Doesnât look like youâve fixed that up.
I wanted to like the movie so badly but these issues they donât address and the creepy stuff and the overeliance on redemption arcs and the like really rub me the wrong way. Iâm sorry butâŚRebecca SugarâŚwhat the hell have you wrought?!