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hamburgergodDidn't realize it was airing tonight until I saw a spoiler-y gifset over on tumblr but it was all cool - I was only spoiled on a very minor detail of what turned out to be an indescribable experience of an episode.
This is an instance where I find that the classic white vs black imagery is flipped on its head cleanly and works super well with it, and sticks with it. The entire scene between White Diamond vs. Obsidian was wonderful as were all the fusions that came out of the woodwork. I would've loved to have seen a fusion between Lapis and Peridot but I'm glad they didn't since there really was no room to explore those two's relationship in this particular episode.
I'm personally generally very happy with the episode especially since it addressed some age old questions I had of: what happens when Steven gets "poofed", and what happens when Pearl and Steven fuse together? I'm very very happy with what I got, especially with the answer to the former. They addressed his insecurities and confusion towards his sense of self and inability to distinguish his identity aside from his mom with so much clarity that I couldn't have been happier with what we got in the end.
Tangent, but the way the scene where White Diamond pulls out Steven's gem really reminded me of a scene from an old anime about a robot-human hybrid. I wish I could remember the name or anything else about the anime other than that this one scene that traumatized me as a kid, but the love-interest gets something implemented (?) behind her ear and she's possessed presumably by the villain, who controls her to go reach in and rip out the main robot/human man's body while he's hibernating/healing in his bed. It was done completely in silhouettes and kid-me watched in horrid fascination as tubular looking robot parts just got ripped out from him while he convulsed in place. That scene dug up all sorts of odd weird memories of that one anime and I wondered, being the homage lover Rebecca Sugar is, if this was another homage and if it was to that specific anime, or if this is a common enough trope that I'm probably overthinking it.
Anyway, SU is such a show where it knows what it wants and goes for it without hesitation, and I just appreciate that so much. It's refreshing and it's a good happy-feeling-inducing show for me and deals with concepts that hits all the right notes in all the right ways. I'd be lying if I said I'm a tiny bit worried that this wasn't the series finale but with the tone and consistent message of the show I trust it to make me feel full of love after every episode to come. Plus, they still have to address some things that I'm dying to see (PEARL'S PINK-HAIRED LADY) so I'm more than happy to be on for a longer ride.
I had a lot more thoughts about all the thematic stuff in the episode while I was watching but I've forgotten it all and it's just a huge tangent about an anime I don't even remember. I should really write these things down as I watch but I don't like pausing episodes, so oops, oh well.
This is an instance where I find that the classic white vs black imagery is flipped on its head cleanly and works super well with it, and sticks with it. The entire scene between White Diamond vs. Obsidian was wonderful as were all the fusions that came out of the woodwork. I would've loved to have seen a fusion between Lapis and Peridot but I'm glad they didn't since there really was no room to explore those two's relationship in this particular episode.
I'm personally generally very happy with the episode especially since it addressed some age old questions I had of: what happens when Steven gets "poofed", and what happens when Pearl and Steven fuse together? I'm very very happy with what I got, especially with the answer to the former. They addressed his insecurities and confusion towards his sense of self and inability to distinguish his identity aside from his mom with so much clarity that I couldn't have been happier with what we got in the end.
Tangent, but the way the scene where White Diamond pulls out Steven's gem really reminded me of a scene from an old anime about a robot-human hybrid. I wish I could remember the name or anything else about the anime other than that this one scene that traumatized me as a kid, but the love-interest gets something implemented (?) behind her ear and she's possessed presumably by the villain, who controls her to go reach in and rip out the main robot/human man's body while he's hibernating/healing in his bed. It was done completely in silhouettes and kid-me watched in horrid fascination as tubular looking robot parts just got ripped out from him while he convulsed in place. That scene dug up all sorts of odd weird memories of that one anime and I wondered, being the homage lover Rebecca Sugar is, if this was another homage and if it was to that specific anime, or if this is a common enough trope that I'm probably overthinking it.
Anyway, SU is such a show where it knows what it wants and goes for it without hesitation, and I just appreciate that so much. It's refreshing and it's a good happy-feeling-inducing show for me and deals with concepts that hits all the right notes in all the right ways. I'd be lying if I said I'm a tiny bit worried that this wasn't the series finale but with the tone and consistent message of the show I trust it to make me feel full of love after every episode to come. Plus, they still have to address some things that I'm dying to see (PEARL'S PINK-HAIRED LADY) so I'm more than happy to be on for a longer ride.
I had a lot more thoughts about all the thematic stuff in the episode while I was watching but I've forgotten it all and it's just a huge tangent about an anime I don't even remember. I should really write these things down as I watch but I don't like pausing episodes, so oops, oh well.
