fuzzy post-it

lapisgemlazuli:

ok actually i am genuinely curious: what other inconsistencies/”tropey” things did you find in the latest episode other than pearl taking issue with eating??

and i do agree that consistency is important and listening to the audience is a must, but the fact that pearl enjoys baking for the scientific aspect of it is stated in the comics as well!!

as for the cookout with the pizzas, that may have been similar but it was still different enough for pearl to not complain. in this case she would be the only gem being forced to act as human as possible in front of connie’s parents. the cookout was intended to introduce everyone and have the pizzas get to know them as gems. there was no pressure to have any lying involved whatsoever in that situation, unlike in fusion cuisine

i highly doubt this is the product of lazy writing, like you seem to be implying here, and will not cause lazy writing in the future. if this truly was a mistake on the writers’ parts, then fine, my bad, it was one mistake. just one inconsistency isn’t going to destroy the entire show.

pk wrote a post, though there is plenty more she didn’t touch on as well

tl;dr: the whole episode felt like a series of one-liners based off of one-dimensional characters who only exist to say their stock jokes. nobody reacted to anyone else sensibly; the motivations were paper-thin; the whole premise of the episode contradicts everything we know about fusions. there are two entire new characters and the most development we get is “mom is a doctor”.

steven universe is usually very clever: it catches me off-guard, it’s full of sprinkles of insight into how the characters think, it refers back and forward to other events so i feel like there’s an actual persistent world here. this episode did none of those things. it turned the characters into clueless silhouettes of themselves so they would fit into someone’s plot idea — rather than letting the characters determine where the plot went.