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Continuing:

5. Well, that’s mostly reality refusing to cooperate with us. As Orson Welles once said, “a writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army”. It is, requires so many resources, including money, human effort and time. It may be even more intense with animation. No one wakes up one morning and animates “Akira”. We must assume that the Crewverse is doing its best, working as hard and as fast as they can, and we must understand that, even so, it doesn’t take a commercial week for them to produce a whole episode, what would make the “one episode per week” mechanic acceptable for a whole year. And, applying the famous Supply and Demand principle, we can also be thankful for this, as each episode, even with its questionable quality, has its existence praised by itself (of course, not considering “Fusion Cuisine”).

6. Yeah, see above my quick analysis of the physics of “Ocean Gem”.

And I still can’t buy the parallels between “Cheeseburger Backpack” and “The Test”. There is so much doubtful about the relations with those…

7. I adored his part in “Strong in the Real Way”, and his part in “On the Run” is a precise parallel to his position in that episode. But I still ain’t very fond of “Steven’s Lament”.

8. I’ll just leave this stone unturned for now…

9. Some people have mentioned the importance of fillers to the correct pacing of the story. Well, after years reading and watching great time spams being simplified in the “over 9000 years later” format, I have reason to doubt that. However, I do like some of the fillers. I do have some preference to the main story arch; but, as much as I’d like to think otherwise, Steven Universe isn’t about Rose’s rebellion and the eventual return of Homeworld forces, it is about relationships. It is about Steven and the Gems, Steven and the humans, the Gems among themselves, the Gems and the humans, the humans among themselves. And it also carries a great potential for storytelling and social critic. As Steven and the Gems have a different culture to the human, we could work an ethnological experiment, pointing all the nonsense within human culture. Even the dynamics of the Crystal Gems are extremely powerful, and Steven is an interesting literary device, as he is the audience, still clueless, still just an observant. Without that, we just get a saga of someone without powers who eventually gets powers and becomes one of the, if not the most powerful being in existence or something, and we’re (or I am, at least) already saturated with that.

10. This is extremely interesting, and leads to some of my favorite headcanons. Yes, the monster contained in the scroll is very mysterious, even by SU’s level. But it points to something awesome, the possibility of direct cultural references in the show. Real-life human culture is filled with references to magical practices and entities. SU could really benefit from that by relating those paranormal occurrences with Gem magic. We already had an experience of how it would turn out in “Beach City Horror Club”, and still can give us amazing episodes.

11. Don’t take ‘em so Pearlsonally, Ev…