Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26808654-20150516082728/@comment-26238661-20150608220252

Ronaldo Smith wrote: Iolite13 wrote: i think ill point this out again because i dont think you see how important quote-unquote "filler" is.

when you go to school, you dont have all your exams from every year in one month. you have to go right from kindergarten to university or college. (not that you get exams in kindergarten but thats not my point.)

its just like the show. you cant have all the plot happen in one episode, or even one string of episodes, with nothing else between, becsause that's not what happens in real life.

Lapis didnt make it back to homeworld overnight and she certainly didnt send the message the next morning - it would have taken her actual months to fly through space.

things have to happen that arent the main plot so that time actually runs smoothly. and the episodes that you say are filler are actually important; because without them we souldnt know the characters so well and we wouldnt get to see them grow as people.

hey, get this: fusions arent part of the main homeworld soryline. without your "filler" episodes, we wouldnt know that fusion is a thing.

without your so-called "filler" episodes, we wouldnt know what was going on anytime in the show.

I completely agree with you, except you chose a poor example when you refer to Lapis flying back home. Interstellar travel involves traveling lightyears. If Lapis flew at the speed of the fastest bird it would take her, at least, tens of thousands of years to reach the nearest star. If Lapis could fly at the speed of light, and Homeworld were at the nearest star, it would still take her approx. 4 years to get there. If one assumes she can fly faster than light then we are talking fantasy, and I am OK with that in the fantasy world of S.U., but then one can say she could fly there in whatever time desired, for example just a few minutes, and be consistent with the S.U. universe.

As I say, I agree with you totally, I just found that example odd. It is possible that Lapis could have flown to a planet and used a warp pad that was there.