STEVEN UNIVERSE: FUTURE Episode 9 "Little Graduation" Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-11-05 22:53:09 +0000 UTCHere is my full length unedited reaction for Steven Universe: Future episode 9!
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This is the only episode of Future that i don't like..... [A WARNING]: This comment is going to be me ranting about why I don’t like this particular episode. So if you’re not up for reading my very passionate critics then feel free to just ignore this comment and move on. I understand that this epilogue series was the only thing they could get from CN executives after the movie was produced so they had to end some plot-points relatively quickly.... and i understand the message they are trying to convey about we (as an audience) are not going to witness some developments because Steven is our POV character and since he didn't know about Lars and Sadie's break-up we also didn't know...... But i still hate how they went about it....... Lars and Sadie's relationship is something that the original show made us incredibly invested in since Season 1, heck... those 2 are the most relevant non-gem characters of the show besides Greg and Connie. You cannot just tell us that they worked through their relationship and then decided to end it.... all of it OFF-SCREEN, that is just anti-climatic in terms of writing.... the "Show don't Tell" phrase applies really well here. (Also as a side-note here.... the excuse of "we didn't see this development because Steven is our POV Character" loses a lot of it's strength by the fact that we have had episodes like "The New Crystal Gems" which is an episode where we see everything from Connie's point of view). And just in case.... im not saying that they should've definitely ended up together as a permanent couple... they could've done the exact same thing they described here about how things developed between the 2................. BUT SHOW IT TO US!!!. By showing the process to us you make the transition into this new narrative a lot smoother and easy, because at least you are validating all the people who was invested in this relationship and wanted to see how it was going to end. But now we are left feeling unsatisfied, because instead of showing us the process and the end of their relationship.... they just showed us the aftermath, which of course..... feels very anti-climatic. Im sorry if i seem too passionate and aggressive with this topic, but this is just one of those few things that still make me feel mad for how they were handled. But to finish on a lighter note... here's a Fun Fact: The end of Lars and Sadie's relationship was another thing that was foreshadowed in the crossover episode with Uncle Grandpa, in one scene Uncle Grandpa's head crashes against a ship that was sailing in the middle of the ocean... which causes it to quickly sink, and the only characters we see on board of that sinking ship are Lars and Sadie. In retrospect this was a very obvious metaphor..... that Lars and Sadie's "Ship" was quickly sinking xddd. But Alas..... to conclude this Rant of mine i want to quote (once again) a phrase that i heard some time ago in a very good analysis video..... "Good Messages don't Justify Bad Writing".
Julio Castillo
2024-11-07 14:57:39 +0000 UTCIt's interesting that Lars is the person who inspires Steven's freakout this episode, and who Steven seems most determined to, uh, 'help.' Steven has always kind of been fixated on Helping Lars, which has occasionally gone well but has also sometimes backfired horribly. Prior to now, though, it was at least true that Lars clearly needed some kind of help, whether Steven was the right person to provide it or not, so it was easier as an audience member to take Steven's side in his meddling. But a lot has changed since the main series, and Lars is now confident and happy. It's Steven who is still stuck in their old pattern, a pattern which now is being revealed to the audience as having had unhealthy roots from the start. "Now it's so easy that it's strange / I'm a person, and the person that I am can change": a brilliant lyrical couplet, and deeply relevant to this episode. Steven has not yet accepted this about Lars or Sadie, that they can grow and change without him and decide things he doesn't want. But most importantly, he hasn't yet accepted this about himself. Steven, too, is just a person, and the person that Steven is -- well-meaning but meddlesome, compassionate but overbearing, wanting desperately to help everyone he meets whether they like it or not -- can change. Is he ready to? We'll have to wait and see.
Duck
2024-11-06 01:05:53 +0000 UTCNo, you are SO right to be hard on Steven and to tell him to “shut up” XD The kid may be my favorite character of this show, but I was basically yelling at the screen watching this episode, the guy is SO dense sometimes. The whole bit with Steven casting the spotlight on Lars and Sadie’s whole “wasn’t meant to be” relationship in front of everyone instead of admitting his own fault overtly gave me secondhand embarrassment, and honestly as a result I find this episode intensely hard to rewatch sometimes, ahah. It’s definitely an important one, though. Steven has always been a meddler, mucking about in others’ personal business in ways he shouldn’t be, but it’s not super often that the narrative bluntly calls him out on it, so I’m glad Future once again did that here. As much as he’d like to think he is, he’s Not the center of everyone’s world— and quite frankly, this world is made all the bigger by this fact being asserted time and time again. Good reaction once again, good musings. I just knew you’d be bee-boppin’ to that graduation party backing music, ahah.
Novantinuum
2024-11-05 23:26:35 +0000 UTC
