Grave for My SU Related Hopes

“I think she felt like she had to confess everything to me,”

“… but I told her, ‘the past is the past’.”

“All that matters to me is who you are now.”

TBH!!

This is why I can’t take this story seriously anymore. Like, how can you expect ME to care about anything that’s happening in this show if THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES DON’T

Lars DIED. He literally actually DIED and Steven and Connie didn’t even see it as IMPORTANT

STEVEN DIDN’T EVEN TELL LARS’ PARENTS!!!!! HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO TRY AND REASSURE THEM THAT OH YEAH UR SON’S ALRIGHT EVEN THO HE FUCCIN DIED

Lars literally sacrificed his LIFE for him and Stephen’s so self centered and feels so entitled to it that he doesn’t even show any sort of gratitude for Lars in the slightest. He takes one hundred percent advantage of Lars’ selflessness and uses it to live a normal life all the while Lars is taken the fall for him on homeworld.

THINK about that. LARS is doing more to fight Homeworld then STEPHANO is. Lars has lost more in this whole thing then Steven has. 

And the worst part is Steven’s not gonna get ANY blowback for this. He’s gonna be portrayed as 100% in the right and their will be absolutely NO repercussions for his selfishness.

tl;dr, 

different...

in...

every....

appearance.

like, we get these seemingly huge plot revelations/conflicts (i.e., the sardonyx arc, which in itself is pretty messily written and a whole other issue but i digress), and it’s almost as if packaging it all up into a “bomb” is an obligation to squash and condense all the conflict resolution into five consecutive episodes, so in the end it just kinda feels like…“oh remember that one time steven and the gang visited homeworld? well now that that plotline is done we can just cast it aside and find a new plotline to individually address!”

good stories and good writing typically involve several overarching conflicts that, sure, are addressed one-on-one from time to time, but also intertwine with other conflicts instead of being put into a box and isolated from the rest of the story to address only once (and only within a constrained time period) and not pick up again. especially if the conflict touches upon/affects multiple characters, à la the sardonyx bomb that had the one (1) garnet episode™ and the one (1) amethyst episode™ and briefly, barely touched on their feelings about the whole situation at hand. condensing conflicts into five eleven-minute chunks just doesn’t do huge plot revelations justice.

I think the show’s just negligent and lazy as hell. Like, take Garnet. What she LOOKS like is a black woman. She is not. This means the show simultaneously does and does not have a black woman as a main character. Combine this with poor character writing that has left Garnet as a caricature of her formerly established and well rounded personality, abandoned for a passive role where she only wants to protect the white Jesus child, and we’re left with a textbook example of a Magical Negro character. This could easily be solved by giving her hobbies, goals, and interests that have little to nothing to do with Steven (like a certain pale and thin Crystal Gem has plenty of, mind you), but the writers didn’t do any of that shit, so this is what we got.

Yes, Garnet has been given unfair and bad writing recently, that I agree with.