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The Steven Universe Future Finale Was Not That Great

Just a note this is my own opinion.

Honestly I feel like the finale for SUF was decent at best and lack luster at worst. I’ll break these up into my views on each episode.

Homeworld Bound

Honestly this is one of the two episodes that disappointed me the most in this finale. Intially I went, yay Homeworld! We’ll get to see the Diamonds and Spinel and hopefully they’ll be helpful to Steven. And in all honesty it seemed like, they weren’t even trying. Firstly Spinel. I feel like Rebecca did Spinel really dirty in this episode simply because she was reduced to, comidic relief. And I feel as if that’s such a waste of her character potential. Imagine if every character that had a completed arc was just turned into “oh that goofball who doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about”. That’s literally Spinel now. All she does is annoy Steven and well, act like a bafoon. She could’ve offered him some insight, her struggles to change and adjust to her new life and be satisfied with herself. But nope, she simply was there just to annoy the main character and provide nothing useful. Then onto the Diamonds. Another wasted potential in all honesty. Yellow, Blue, and White didn’t even really TRY to help Steven at all. They basically shrugged it off and went ah shit well I can’t do anything for you bud even though we only talked for like 2 minutes and all I did was try to force the only way I know to improve onto you. It feels as if, they were only there just to show Steven “wow look at how these former murders and dictators improved! You sure are shit when compared to them now”. And White. White was the biggest waste compared to Yellow and Blue considering what potential she had. The one who caused all of Steven’s problems and issues. But nope, she was just like “ah Steven just project into me and this is surely to go fine even though you just basically acknowledged you don’t like your Diamond powers and this will most likely not help you”. I feel like this episode would have gone a lot better if the Diamonds and Steven had time to have proper interactions, or even just Steven, Spinel, and White due to the impact those two had on him directly. Just a lot of wasted potential in this episode that could’ve made the episode a lot better in my honest opinion.

Everything’s Fine

Now this episode was the better of the finale episodes, but still had its fair share of flaws. Steven comes back, and he has a good ol fashion mental breakdown essentially and tries to talk himself out of it and reassure himself. Good shit. However my problem was when the Gems showed up. It’s VERY VERY painfully obvious that Steven is not okay. I mean, all they commented on was that he looks weird. The dude literally had DIAMOND EYES. The fact that the FUCKING DIAMOND EYES went the ENTIRE EPISODE ignored just doesn’t make any sense. The Cyrstal Gems and the gems on Little Homeworld should have all been shocked at this but they all act like it’s nothing?? Anyways going to Little Homeworld and trying to act like everything was fine and dandy was really well done. I’m a bit annoyed though at just showing us Pink Pearl but not showing us her eye because that’s just a fucking tease at this point. Anyways, no other complaints really. Steven breaking down at the end was really intense to watch and my heart rate was actually speeding up. But then, that lead to the thing I did not want to happen.

I Am My Monster

To be fucking honest, I should’ve known. I really should have known but I just REALLY didn’t want it to be true. Steven turning into a monster literally is just. Oof. For starters, I do not support the corruption theory and I STILL do not, because what we saw wasn’t corruption. Steven shapeshifted. Corruption was shown to have only two causes. Either an attack on a Gem by Yellow, Blue, and White Diamond OR because of fusing with a corrupted Gem. There was no other hint or sign that a Gem could corrupt for any other reason. And there still is not. Yes Gem’s can poof because of extreme emotional stress and yes Volleyball was so damaged that the trauma manifested physically, but those were not examples that could support the corruption theory. Anyways, for starters I hate the design of Monster Steven. I really wish the color scheme could have been darker because that just would’ve been more aesthetically pleasing but I digress. There were so many ways I wished that the monster in the intro could’ve played a role in the series that didn’t involve Steven being corrupted. Perhaps a sort of mindscape battle between Steven and this monster, perhaps Pink Steven makes a return and turns into this monster and it’s a race against time to return the two Steven’s together, perhaps Pink Steven even took over normal Steven! But nope, it just HAD to be this way. Anyways enough of Monster Steven talk. My other issue was with well, everybody else. For starters, the Diamonds showing up? Convinient as fucking hell considering how a whole episode passed before they showed up again. Secondly, I hate the dismissal of Blue asking if Steven was corrupted or not because gosh shouldn’t we as an audience know what the hell is happening to our protagonist?? Also how did Garnet know that Yellow could make her big? As far as we know, perfecting physical forms is a new ability that Yellow discovered. I really liked Greg finally taking a stand in this episode to save his son, it kinda redeems how he was acting in Mr. Universe. But gosh I just hate how, everything broke into a crying fest? I’m gonna be honest and say that tears are a cheap way to invoke feeling in your audience and it can be overdone when EVERYONE ON SCREEN IS CRYING. And I hate the Diamonds blabbering about how “oh this is all my fault. No, no it’s all MY fault” because just, are you all just now acknowledging that you fucked Steven over. You mean in the entire time you’ve been buddy buddy with Steven you haven’t addressed this to him ONCE?! Bullshit. And Spinel, I was taking her a bit seriously until the fucking cartoonish nose blow then I just gave up with her. Way to degrade one of the best characters this show has provided. And the Cluster was just, deus ex machina. That was REALLY fucking convenient for the Cluster to just show up and help restrain Monster Steven. Anyways that’s all my complaints for that episode, now onto the final one.

The Future

The final episode of the series. Several years worth of progression have led to this point. And it was extremely lack luster. Honestly this episode felt like a fizzling end to the series. I’m glad that Steven decided to move out because honestly fuck that entire town it was harmful to the boy. I’m glad he finally got a therapist too. But this episode was essentially just, a good bye episode? And I feel like that alone cannot drive an episode along. Also Jasper’s character arc was ABSOLUTELY WASTED. Basically her entire arc is just being abused and putting that on repeat up until the end where they just disregard her as “hmph I’m angy now”. The only part of the episode I really liked, or can even properly remember for that sake, was Steven leaving at the very end and hugging the Gems. But tbh, Steven doesn’t have a high school diploma, legal papers, he’s not going to college, and he doesn’t have a job. So can someone tell me. How. Is. He. Gonna. SURVIVE.

Anyways that’s all I have left to say about the finale. Overall I feel pretty dissatisfied with it and this picture describes exactly how I feel.

If you wanna complain to me shout at my main @thespiffyspiffiestspif $5 a complaint

Also @salty-sapphire I got inspired to write a critique by you :) thanks for enlightening me to how legitimately bad this show is.

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So we know that Zuko was 13 when Ozai scarred/exiled him (Source: He’s 16 in the show and there’s that scene where he’s like, “Three years ago was the worst day of my life.” and Iroh was like, “I understand, let’s get massages.)

Ursa was obviously gone by the time Ozai faced Zuko in the Agni Kai chamber. The events that triggered Ursa’s departure (which I’m sure happened in quick succession) were Ozai demanding the crown from Azulon, claiming that Lu Ten’s death meant that Iroh had no heirs. We even see the moment the royal family learns about Lu Ten’s death and Zuko doesn’t look that much younger than his thirteen-year-old self:

I’d say he’s about a year younger. Two, tops.

Meaning that, at most, Lu Ten died five years before the series began.

Why is that important?

Well, we know that Lu Ten’s death changed Iroh. Up until that point, he was a general in the army, he was happy about his army nearly destroying Ba Sing Se:

The Siege of Ba Sing Se that everyone talks about in the first book only happened five years prior. Which is interesting because the characters talk about it as if it happened decades before. It didn’t. Not even close. It’s really interesting how the narrative shapes it so that the audience views it as something that happened long ago. But that’s not nearly as interesting as the fact that the narrative shaped Iroh’s redemption as if it had happened long ago.

In fact, listening to Iroh speak, you would think that he was the black koala-sheep of the royal family, someone with such wisdom and kindness would have surely been a good person all his life. But he wasn’t. Five years prior, he was enjoying the fact that his troops were going to burn a city to the ground.

The thing is, we’ve heard stories about legendary things that Iroh’s done that just don’t seem to fit this narrative. But maybe that’s the point. Maybe, much like Zuko’s journey, Iroh did have initial arcs of positive transformation before regressing to the point where he was leading a genocidal army. A life filled with yins and yangs before he finally found balance. 

Either that or the fandom’s demands for a series about a much younger Iroh have always been way off base. Maybe a story about a much younger Iroh would have just been a story about another corrupt Fire Nation prince. Maybe the story that we would really see is the story about an already-aged man who loses his son in battle, travels the world for several years, meets people from other countries, meets long-lost civilizations, meets dragons, enters the Spirit World, and somehow comes to a full redemption arc by the time he shows up at the Fire Nation Royal Temple and lets Zuko enter a war meeting.

There’s a book coming out in 2020 about the Fire Nation that could shed some light on which of these paths is the one the creators/Iroh took. I don’t know which one I’d prefer because both are such interesting stories. 

Either way, one thing’s for sure: the wise man who helped Zuko through his redemption arc had only completed his own redemption arc five years prior.

And that’s fascinating.

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My Gemini rising talking to me in the mirror

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Jackpot

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sketchy

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Here’s my animation for the opening credits of Castlevania without the bells and whistles of compositing.

Not only did I get to develop the style for this part, but it’s the only piece of animation in the show where my original drawings aired without any sort of clean up.

Out of everything I did for the first season of Castlevania, this was the part I had the most control over.

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found this on twitter and yes this saying has helped me start my comics. X’D

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When you find old NSFW/smut you made

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the best part of the new pokemon switch trailer

not only can pokemon follow you around again

BUT U CAN RIDE THEM TOO

I CAN RIDE A FRICKIN’ ONIX

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1st level spell scars for when your DM is feeling particularly vicious :) (Cantrip scars)

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living islands

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witch girls and their demons are now my new fav thing. experimenting with colors and digital art, and I’m so happy with how this turned out!

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“Do I look like I eat bugs?!”

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Emoji spell for extreme good luck for the next two months

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