Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150302024918

This episode from Steven universe gets a lot of hate, and I don't really understand why. I thought it was a good episode, not great but still pretty good. Now the problem a lot of people bring up is this. Why didn't Connie just say that Steven didn't have a mom? Well we need to think from Connies point of view. Her family moves around a lot, resulting in her not having any friends. That is until she meets Steven. Since Steves life consists fighting monsters and going on life threatening missions, she was worried that her parents wouldn't allow her to be around him for her safety. So in order to be with the ONE friend she ever had, she told her parents that Steven had a completely normal, completely basic family. True she could've told the truth, but we've all at some point lied to our parents about things we thought they'd be mad about. So it's not entirely unbelievable. On to of that, Steven knows lying only leads to trouble. But at the same time, he doesn't want to loose a close friend like Connie. So he thought the gems fusing into one person would be a great compromise. Another thing people complain about are the plot holes. I don't really know what they're talking about, I didn't see any. The only thing I can see as a plot hole is Pearl hating to digest food when she said she enjoys pie and pizza in previous episodes. But you can easily say that Pearl said she likes pie in order not to hurt Stevens feelings and Pearl just agreeing on buying pizza instead of eating the together breakfast. Plus, she could just hate DIGESTING food and enjoy the taste of food. The only thing I kinda agree on is Steven and Connie quickly deciding to just run away. Other than that I thought the episode was fine. It's the first time we see Connies parents, Alexandrite is pretty cool, and Pearl being terrified of digesting food and Garnets "sorry, I panicked." Moment crack me up every time. 