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Yes, and I acknowledge in my post that Sugar intended the cartoon to serve as a propaganda piece.You were expecting complex worldbuilding in a beanmouth show? I don't have a rainbow big enough to post here. This was basically a sit-com to showcase Rebecca Sugar's songs and cartoon lesbianism. And rip off anime...
I'm well-versed in writing, and aesthetics, and I know that Steven Universe was always shit. As someone who cares about worldbuilding, the point of my post was to bring up a critical issue of the show that's almost never brought up - that the setting makes no fucking sense, since everyone likes to focus on Sugar's politics, and the show's poor art and writing quality, which I agree are valid complaints.What I'm getting at with all of this is that in relegating humanity to mostly slice-of-life characters while focusing on the gems for the main plot, it creates the feeling that these groups don't share the same world narratively, as if you're watching two different shows. I know cartoon budgets are meager and that Rebecca Sugar wasn't writing a story along the lines of Bokurano or Turn A Gundam (where humanity's reaction to the perceived alien threat actually matters), but when so much emphasis is placed on defending Earth and how its beauty is worth protecting, only for Earth's most notable aspect humanity to get shoved aside narratively, as if the Gems are the only ones who matter, it makes the whole setting feel unbelievable, but I shouldn't be surprised considering Sugar's an ideologue more concerned with indoctrinating children than maintaining suspension of disbelief for her show.
I've watched the anime and I'm up to date on the manga, the later of which I love. It helps that the mangaka was inspired by her experience studying at a Buddhist school and isn't a degenerate cultural marxist who propagates a destructive death cult that ultimately empowers murderous thugs and thieves. I can see the similarities, but the reason I specifically brought up Bokurano and Turn A Gundam was because they execute the kind of setting I was describing much more competently than the Steven Universe does - the conflict between humans and aliens, albeit in different ways.If you want decent worldbuilding, go watch the good version of Steven Universe.