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[WillowLuman]

Ok it starts off pretty cheesy but it gets really good. It follows a number of conventions for this kind of show at first and breaks them later on.

[Max™]

So, Tigtone struck me as a dumb throwaway weirdass show like adult swim plays all the time.

Then I noticed him stab the wings from a dead winged unicorn into the arms of Helpie who protests "it doesn't work that way"

*cheeeennnnn and sparkle healing effects*

"Oh... apparently it does?"
'NOW FLY, FLY LIKE YOU'VE NEVER FLOWN BEFORE!'
"I HAVEN'T!"

...at that point I was sold.

[Max™]

HOLY SHIT STEVEN UNIVERSE WHAT THAT SHIT HAS BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME AND WE FIND OUT WHAT IT IS AND GODDAMN WHAT THE SHITBATS?

[NullForceOmega]

That Steven Bomb was pretty intense.

[WillowLuman]

Indeed.

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And now it's GONE

My goodness there were some impressive moments of animation though. As well as rapid fire answers to so many long standing questions.

I have to wonder, what the heck are the pebbles?

[Folly]

Steven Universe Season 6 finale brought radical costume changes, new fusions, answers to many questions, and conclusions to some of the oldest story arcs of this series.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm disappointed that Steven's Mom is mostly confirmed gone. Rather, it seems the pink diamond still contains the programming for the previous forms, but has been hard-coded to only utilize the Steven programming now.
I've wondered if the Gem lifeforms may not be naturally occuring, but rather a progenerative life program someone installed into a gem lattice. If that is the case, these entities may return someday and reboot the pink diamond to revive the older forms. This is a lot of supposition, but I like to think it's possible Steven might meet his mom someday.

I'm also wondering if we will see some new alien lifeforms come out to play, now that the Gem's leadership is wavering and weaknesses might be perceived. A force ruthlessly destroying living worlds across the universe has likely made some enemies, and the show will need some fuel for new story arcs next season.

[ggamer]

Spoiler:  Steven's Gun Season 5 Finale (click to show/hide)

As per the usual I really fucking hate the pacing in this show! The crewniverse's had a bad problem in the past with building up plot threads for forever and answering big bunches of them in one episode, which really turns me off. Instead of writing the doctoral thesis my two remaining brain cells wish to bang together I'll just list what I liked and didn't like:

NO
- Not a huge fan of the new fusions, both in character design and how they're a little, uh, gimmicky? Obsidian doesn't count, because I would have loved her no matter what she looked like with all the hype around "the temple fusion."

- Didn't like how the final showdown with white ended with her being redeemed, seeing as how outside of meta knowledge of the show (RS saying she will never have an irrideemable villian) you would NEVER EVER see it coming. Would have liked it more if they took that particular character in a diff direction.

- Pearl, Lapis, and Amethyst's new designs? Great! The rest? Not so much! Those star glasses look goofy as fuck on Garnet.

- ...So we just developed Lars into an interesting character that everyone likes just to put him on a bus for the last episode? They didn't even put him on a bus! presumably Steven just forgot to ask him for help! It would have even fit, since Lars was going to Earth and Steven had to astral project there anyway! Instead he shows up at the end so we can have another fuuuuuucking Lars/Sadie moment.

- The writing gets a little, uh, script-y sometimes? "Let's run through all these fusions because they need to be on screen!" etc.

- Beyond that some of the character writing isn't so great as well. Connie and the Crystal Gems really got shafted in these episodes, there's not really a reason for them to be there other than "the script said so"

- Uh, aren't we getting a little heavy handed with those metaphors, Rebecca? Yes Rebecca White is too in her own head we get it. Yes this is an abuse parallel Rebecca we get it. Oh my GOD Rebecca did you just create a character to expound more on the abuse parallels?

- This doesn't just apply to this episode but WHY do they have to announce every character's FULL CHRISTIAN NAME every time they appear on screen? LAPIS LAZULI! PERIDOT! BISMUTH! AND IS THAT... CHARLES XII OF HOUSE PALITINATE-ZWEIBRUCKEN, BLESSED SOVEREIGN OF SWEDEN?? THE GANGS ALL HERE!!


OOOO YES

- Man, they've really improved the voice acting in this show. It feels like just the other day I was tearing my hair out over some very key lines that get flubbed in earlier seasons (looking at you, Lapis Lazuli), and now we have fantastic moments with all the Diamonds.

- All those legions of Tumblr dipshits must have gotten through to them cause MAN the animation looks great. Very consistent, and only gets flexible when it needs to. That scene James Baxter storyboarded? Fucking incredible.

- Blocking and framing is done MUCH better here than in other spots in the show. My personal favorite is near the end where we hear White speaking, but as it pans around the only emotion you see comes from White herself. Adds some depth to the scene without fucknzf SPELLING IT OUT

- I like how Yellow and Blue were redeemed! There was a lot of foreshadowing that they weren't ok with the way white was running things, and it has a nice payoff in the end.

- Even for all I hate the heavy-handedness and the way White was redeemed, I did like the abuse parallels. If Rebecca could just go without SPELLING IT OUT FUCK every minute in case the kids watching forget what this is supposed to mean, I'd love it. Having the bookends of Steven bringing two families together to end the "campaign" is slick af.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I thoroughly enjoyed SU's supposed ending. I thought that there was kind of like... a season's worth of content that was just cut out before this finale. So many things left undone and unsaid... I mean... it was a bad case of plot acceleration.

Not that it was bad, it just went by so fast!

[Folly]

I just got caught up on the few current episodes of Gen:Lock

Really enjoying it so far. It feels like a cross between Ghost in the Shell and Gundam, with lots of fancy tech toys setting the stage for all out warfare between factions of giant robots.

[Folly]

Big Mouth released a double-length special Valentines Day episode!

Valentines Day Sucks Song

Looking forward to season 3~

[Folly]

The Dragon Prince season 2 is here!

EDIT:
Just finished watching it. Season 2 was a lot like season 1, too short. There were some interesting parts, to be sure. But this is definitely a series that would be easier to digest in one binge after it's completed.

[Folly]

Hilda is wonderful. Its delightful urban fantasy. I wish there was more.

I just finished Season 1 of Hilda.

This show definitely has Gravity Falls vibes, with kids discovering supernatural creatures in the everyday world all around them. But in GF the kids sort of treated the creatures as annoyances that had to be overcome or tolerated; Hilda treats creatures as wonderful adventures to be explored and enjoyed.

Season 2 has been confirmed, but is not expected until 2020.

[Levi]

I've been rewatching Venture Bros from season 1, its pretty great.  I forgot how great the dialog is sometimes.   

A fun WTF moment was part way through I notice Dr. Orpheus's spirit guide/mentor is voiced by the same guy who voices Archer, and pretty much talks the same way too.

[Folly]

Ep. 6 of Gen:Lock just aired, and wow. Only 6 episodes in and this show has already had more gripping twists and turns than most shows would achieve in two full seasons! I am seriously in love with this show, and it is easily my favorite thing right now.

[Putnam]

Huh, I should probably watch the new Ducktales