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absolutely terrified that The Owl House is going to get the Steven Universe treatment, in that we know for a fact that the groundbreaking queer representation got the series cut short and the creators had to cram a lot more story into a truncated amount of time, but people still bitch that Steven Universe’s ending was “rushed” and “sloppy”
I swear to god if y'all go from “these creators had to fight tooth and nail to give us what we got” to “ugh sloppy cringe show liked by cringe people” again, I’m going to lose my fucking mind.
I’m sorry, but no. Steven Universe doesn’t get that excuse. It had 5 seasons, a spinoff and a movie. Most shows do not get that. During the five seasons there were so many pointless episodes that most fans hated that could have been cut. We didn’t need or want an episode where Steven meets Onion’s friends, where Lapis, Peridot and Connie wash cars, where Steven met his bigoted cousin uncle (that one took two episode slots), where Steven learned what his name would be if he was born a girl, where we see a documentary about Sadies’ band, and where Ronaldo lived with the Crystal Gems (I say that as the rare fan who liked Rocknaldo). Owl House on the other has used its time effectively. Maybe there was an episode or two in season 1 that could have been cut, but in Season 2 every episode has been important. Every episode has progressed the plot, someone’s character arc or both. They are using their limited time effectively. This post is like saying that a kid who only had a few days to write a paper is the same as a kid who had weeks to write a paper, but procrastinated til the last minute.
(Note: I’m actually working on a Mellow Frames where Steven tries to help out in The Owl House by making the show worse. I was working on it before I responded to this post so I don’t want anyone to think I was inspired to make the Mellow Frames by this post)
No, a second time. The episodes about Steven’s human side are CRUCIAL to the story, because Steven is half human. They are not “filler” episodes just because they do not progress the gem story. Steven’s. Human. Story. Is. Still. Story. The two shows have always had different narrative obligations.
Crewniverse didn’t “wait until the last minute,” the deadline got pushed up suddenly 2/3s of the way through the project. Steven Universe and The Owl House got cancelled at entirely different points in their production. And the shows have entirely different episodic runtimes in general. Steven Universe told its story like it was slow burn until it couldn’t, and it largely functioned. The Owl House has always had more room to breathe in this respect, because its story has always had less characters who are more simple, with way more time to flesh them out in a single unit of content (and Steven Universe does a Hell of a lot more than them on that front anyway, Exhibit A: Mr. Greg).
And let’s just look at this for a second. Steven Universe got 8ish 11 minute episodes and a 45 minute special after they were cancelled (the movie and spinoff were NOT part of the original deal). The Owl House got an entire 20 episode season of 22 minute episodes and 3 45 minute specials. And the Owl House crew already had the documented negative experiences of Crewniverse to watch out for when they structured their story, even as they suffered the same fate.
So…which show got the better deal in this scenario, again? And who is “making excuses,” for their opinion, completely decontextualizing all the information presented to do the EXACT thing the OP said not to but dressed up in more intellectual clothing? Yea.
1. I never said anything about episodes about Steven’s human side being pointless. Only a couple of the episodes mentioned were about that. This is classic straw-manning.
2. The Owl House characters are more simple? I have to hard line disagree with you on there. The Owl House has characters with opinions and dimensionality. Steven Universe however had a lot of one note characters. Garnet talked about nothing but fusion from season 2-4. Lapis didn’t have a consistent personality until the end. The characters in Steven Universe are also very malleable rarely with opinions of their own. The characters in Owl House are just in general more interesting mostly because of its expert use of opposites in characters personalities. Eda is a criminal, but also caring. King is a tyrant, but also an adorable child. Hunter is presented initially as a cocky prodigy, but is revealed to be an overworked dork with confidence issues. Hell, I’m more interested in Darius and Alador’s beef than I ever have been in anything that was ever going on with any of the the beach city residents.
3. This post is sort of making excuses for Change Your Mind. It’s saying that people are bitching that Change Your Mind was “rushed” and “sloppy” which is a valid complaint. It also made all those boring pointless episodes more frustating in hindsight. It’s not just people online who think that, just look at how the ratings of Steven Universe declined during Season 4 and pretty much plummeted in season 5. I understand how a lot of kids (and adults too) were probably like “Really? They thought we wanted to see an episode about the characters washing cars? I think I’m done.” Hell, it’s really possible I would’ve dropped the show too if it wasn’t for my enjoyment of making parody comics of it.
4. “Dressed up in intellectual clothing” Dude, this is just how I write. I’m not even using pretentious language.
absolutely terrified that The Owl House is going to get the Steven Universe treatment, in that we know for a fact that the groundbreaking queer representation got the series cut short and the creators had to cram a lot more story into a truncated amount of time, but people still bitch that Steven Universe’s ending was “rushed” and “sloppy”
I swear to god if y'all go from “these creators had to fight tooth and nail to give us what we got” to “ugh sloppy cringe show liked by cringe people” again, I’m going to lose my fucking mind.
I’m sorry, but no. Steven Universe doesn’t get that excuse. It had 5 seasons, a spinoff and a movie. Most shows do not get that. During the five seasons there were so many pointless episodes that most fans hated that could have been cut. We didn’t need or want an episode where Steven meets Onion’s friends, where Lapis, Peridot and Connie wash cars, where Steven met his bigoted cousin uncle (that one took two episode slots), where Steven learned what his name would be if he was born a girl, where we see a documentary about Sadies’ band, and where Ronaldo lived with the Crystal Gems (I say that as the rare fan who liked Rocknaldo). Owl House on the other has used its time effectively. Maybe there was an episode or two in season 1 that could have been cut, but in Season 2 every episode has been important. Every episode has progressed the plot, someone’s character arc or both. They are using their limited time effectively. This post is like saying that a kid who only had a few days to write a paper is the same as a kid who had weeks to write a paper, but procrastinated til the last minute.
(Note: I’m actually working on a Mellow Frames where Steven tries to help out in The Owl House by making the show worse. I was working on it before I responded to this post so I don’t want anyone to think I was inspired to make the Mellow Frames by this post)
if you got like a 100kilo bag of glitter and opened it up and left it in the path of like a tornado i think that would be interesting. i dont care abt ecological damage btw
I do. 100kg bag of seaweed based glitter.
i dont. 100kg bag of enriched uranium based glitter
wait isnt uranium denser than lead how heavy would a 100kg bag of uranium be
Some context: Fon’s a bun with magic abilities who’s been brainwashed (with magic, erasing her past memories too) so that she thinks her sole purpose in life is being a source of magic for the village she used to be a part of. Now she’s lives under it, in a room where she dedicates most of her day, everyday, to channel her powers with an enchantment towards the ones living above so that they can use magic.
So… Yeah. You can ask anything you’d like, do anything you’d like (you’re askers and have all the power in the world, so you can even free if you want. At least until the ask event ends xP), this is just an excuse to draw her and maybe work on her personality some more
i just had an experience i dont think anyone else on earth has ever had before where i saw a tumblr ad and thought “wow that seems interesting i want to check that out” (it was an ad for a new method of learning to speak welsh) and for the first time in human history i actually intentionally clicked on an ad on tumblr to see more information about a product and the fucking link it had embedded was broken and didnt work
you: oh cool I’m interested, where does this link go?
All of the top pro heroes are some flavor of queer and you can FIGHT me on that one. All of them except All Might, who is the token straight and a staunch yet slightly confused ally.
All Might is dating Tsukauchi tho
Fuck. You’re so right, I feel like a fool
He would be a straight icon in the public consciousness tho
Stop asking anarchists if we’re gonna fulfill some need you have under anarchy. Anarchy is not a program. You should be thinking about how you will help organize the fulfillment of some need. You are the power “under anarchy”. You are the driving force behind what gets organized. Stop looking to other people to figure everything out for you and to dictate where organizing capacity gets assigned.
This tags are really good and thoughtful
that’s cool but where will people get insulin
From people? Lmao, do you genuinely believe with your entire being that in anarchistic communities work wouldn’t be done to aid the disabled?
Do you, in good faith, sincerely beleve that the industries that restrict access to knowledge of and access to medication and aids is better than theiberation of the means of producing for all?
“Someone will know how to do it and they will do it” is not the incredible smackdown you think it is. I would love a collectivist, knowledge-sharing approach to medical care but if you actually think there are enough laypeople NOW, AS THINGS STAND who can produce medication that’s perfectly standardized every time…head in clouds moment.
What can YOU do? What can your neighbors do? That’s what you should be looking at. Not what some hypothetical person can do.
Are we killing all the chemists and doctors in the rev? Do they just disappear with capitalism? Do you not think anarchist chemists and doctors and herbalists and biologists exist now? That do these things? That guide these medical projects?
It’s like people don’t understand that praxis doesn’t just mean things will be done, but people are doing things.
Also, we’re already failing to get insulin into the hands of people who need it? People are going broke and/or dying because it’s prohibitively expensive.
This is true for every “gotcha” people bring up btw. Food? We kill millions every year by withholding it, despite growing more than enough for everyone. Supply chains? Not only are they incredibly inefficient and susceptible to disruption (as we’ve seen during the pandemic), even when working as intended they’re cooking the planet and causing a global extinction event. With no end in sight!
If you don’t like anarchism that’s fine, honestly. But it would be nice if people who are against it would stop asking for solutions to problems that their favorite socioeconomic system has not resolved.