How fitting; Ruby and Sapphire ruined Garnet as a character so might as well top the series while it was at it’s death throes. That fact that she spends so much time on this gay wedding and how it reflects her relationship with Ian but had to request six episodes to sloppily finish the main story arc built over several seasons...well, it certainly shows some of the severe flaws of this show doesn’t it?
Nothing about this picture fills me with joy, especially dredging up Danger & Eggs.
It’s actually amazing how fast the novelty wore off. After Arthur and Voltron made headlines for their weddings (for good and bad), no one has tried a stunt like this again, for one reason or another. Looks like it didn’t pan out the way Rebecca wanted.
I would argue that there’s a distinct difference with SU; judging by all the interviews Sugar has given over the years, it seems more like the gays were Sugar’s first and foremost concern with the series, with everything else being secondary. So long as she got her gays, it was a victory for her.
That’s a good point. When I initially wrote that Gems wouldn’t need shelter, I was thinking more about how Garnet is able to swim through lava and despite being called a weakness Gems rarely ever crack unless it’s for a plot device, so it’s pretty easy to forget about it. That and Gems don’t need to sleep either (didn’t even understand the concept until Steven explained it) amd Homeworld specifically has no apparent signs of weather, let alone acid rain, so I guess that would only leave the boulder chuckers in terms of outdoor protection.I disagree with not needing shelter though. The gemstones on Gems were their weakspots. Needing cover from acid rain or some mongoloid hurling boulders at everybody isn't farfetched. Everything else you're right about and in the end, not needing reliance on planet resources outside of aimless repopulation made the Gems boring as shit.
Becky managed to make an immortal race of powerful women BORING unless they were fighting an imaginary war. That's impressively fucked up.
The wedding was proof how shallow the characters were.
The whole "they were created at the same time" thing even goes against her own implied canon. When Steven's singing "Familiar" he goes through Pink's old drawings and one of them is White, Yellow, and Blue standing over a cart of distinctly pink rocks, implying it was Pink's "birth".
"Familiar" is also why I don’t buy Becky’s claim that you were never meant to think that Steven made up with the Diamonds or that you weren’t supposed to think they’re redeemed. You don’t write a 3 1/2 minute song (which is a little over a third of an 11 minute episode’s run time) about the main character lamenting that the Diamonds deep down are just a broken family that can be healed with the Power of Wuv and hugs, and then act surprised when people interpret the finale ending with a Diamond pool party where everything is sunshine and rainbows as that meaning Steven has forgiven them.
not to mention they have a clear family dynamic. White is clearly a narc mother who is doting over her Golden Child Pink, Yellow and Blue are clearly the less-adored older sisters who are envious of the GC (and as such give her a big fat "you can't stop colonizing because this is what you asked mommy for you spoiled brat"), and Pink is the bratty half pint to whom all gems are nothing but expendable toys and outlets for her abusive play. You really can't say "uh well uh they were all made at the same time" because if 3 enormous (and one less but still 3-4 times the size of a human) competent AI were all born at the exact same time, I really really doubt they'd go "ok you're biggest so you're in charge and also we're going to be inclined to act like your kids".
I've seen local bakeries in the middle east with the Steven Birthday Cakes around. Its out there, but most likely niche.
Is there a leaked conversation between CN execs discussing this or something? A topic of discussion among SU fans is a lack of merchandise and claims to how popular the franchise is.
Not that I’m aware of, most of it just stems from how CN’s been treating the IP after Future ended and the kind of programming that‘s being put onto the channel now.
I imagine these bakeries are in nations that don't criminalize faggot shit.
They’re a cheap and easy way for companies to license their IPs and can be sold at every goddamned store you can think of. But if you want blame someone for putting Funko on the map you’d have to blame Bob’s Big Boy and Big Boy Restaurants for licensing out their Big Boy character to ‘em back in the late 90’s.
It’s less to do with making for a nice collection and more to do with saving money on the cost of molds. Just have a look at some of the earlier ones and you’ll see that they’re all in same awkward pose. Combine that with hard-to-find chasers that’s only change a small amount of the figure and easy variants like glow-in-the-dark/metallic/flocked/scented/glitter/diamond and you have an instant cash cow.
Even the wedding itself was praised more for being gay than for the characters in the end. Doesn’t help that Ruby and Sapphire are pretty shallow as characters despite being these gay icons.
White being hand waved from being this Father like being to simply being “delusional” is definitely one of the more sloppy retcons. Did Sugar get cold feet over stealing from a good anime?
They only did it because so many people were pissed not only did Steven Universe end on a low note, the movie AND Future were also thrown away in their wank for sjw garbage.
