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SlothfulCobra posted:There's no magical combination of episodes that'll sucker someone in. If they'll like the show, they'll like the show. But there is a magical combination of episodes that will turn you sad and gay.
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Who What Now posted:If you didn't love Steven singing a song about witnessing his own suicide via temporal paradox then you're a goddamn pod person. l'epic this
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Gorilla Salad posted:It's a special kind of beep boop person who thinks that episodes centred around character interaction are wastes of time and worthless. Autism isn't that special.
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Are we officially on hiatus now? Or will there be a new episode on Thursday?
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Who What Now posted:If you didn't love Steven singing a song about witnessing his own suicide via temporal paradox then you're a goddamn pod person. According to one of the creators on Twitter, the point of that episode was "establishing time travel rules, and also wouldn't it be funny if the main character died 50 times". Otherkinsey Scale fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Carrasco posted:According to one of the creators on Twitter, the point of that episode was "establishing time travel rules, and also wouldn't it be funny if the main character died 50 times". So no quantum infinite? Just prime and all else is dust... love it!
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Carrasco posted:According to one of the creators on Twitter, the point of that episode was "establishing time travel rules, and also wouldn't it be funny if the main character died 50 times". Good rules.
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Is there any SU episode that's actually 100% filler? Like nothing in it is relevant or shows up again even as a background gag?
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MariusLecter posted:So no quantum infinite? Just prime and all else is dust... love it! Basic Homestuck rules. Closed loops are A-ok but step out of line and you're hosed.
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chitoryu12 posted:Is there any SU episode that's actually 100% filler? Like nothing in it is relevant or shows up again even as a background gag? Say Uncle.
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chitoryu12 posted:Is there any SU episode that's actually 100% filler? Like nothing in it is relevant or shows up again even as a background gag? Garnet's Universe. Say Uncle is where Steven learned how to summon his shield. It's not filler. Some episodes seem like filler, but it's just that their relevance is not apparent until later.
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Bongo Bill posted:Garnet's Universe. Yeah, I'm of the thought that no episode that develops characters or relationships is filler, even if the characters involved are not one of the main characters, but Garnet's Universe doesn't really do that. And I didn't think it was very funny, either. To me it's definitely one of the less good episodes of the series.
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I personally enjoyed the episodes where Goku and Piccolo learnt to drive.
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I love Say Uncle. But for people who don't like it I have a mental gymnastic routine you can go through. Steven watches a lot of Uncle Grandpa. He wandered into his room at one point and fell asleep and his dreams manifested as the episode. He realized he was just having a waking dream during the end-credits. Or, Uncle Grandpa is a benevolent eldritch anomaly. He is both creator and byproduct. Both Uncle and Grandpa. He is the tire-swing on Kabbalah's tree of life.
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Megaspel posted:I personally enjoyed the episodes where Goku and Piccolo learnt to drive. Someday I hope to watch the full episode of that. ![]()
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Someday I hope to watch the full episode of that. Why wait?
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MrSlam posted:I love Say Uncle.
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Megaspel posted:I personally enjoyed the episodes where Goku and Piccolo learnt to drive. I love that this is the one episode of DBZ that everyone knows. Sometimes anime filler is awful, but sometimes it turns into something magical ![]() https://youtu.be/-WqYMCqUAv8
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chitoryu12 posted:Is there any SU episode that's actually 100% filler? Like nothing in it is relevant or shows up again even as a background gag? Onion Gang (i fucken hope)
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Mr. Gusite is Pink Diamond.
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The idea that every single episode of a show is beholden to advancing character development, or building the plot and story up, and that we can't just park in this world for a moment, enjoying these characters make some time travel/meta-canon jokes or fight a boy who throws cars or riff on Dragonball Z, is one i will seriously never understand
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Hakkesshu posted:Onion Gang (i fucken hope) Soup is White Diamond.
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misadventurous posted:The idea that every single episode of a show is beholden to advancing character development, or building the plot and story up, and that we can't just park in this world for a moment, enjoying these characters make some time travel/meta-canon jokes or fight a boy who throws cars or riff on Dragonball Z, is one i will seriously never understand onion is worse than uncle grandpa
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chitoryu12 posted:Is there any SU episode that's actually 100% filler? Like nothing in it is relevant or shows up again even as a background gag? Say Uncle is the closest (it's explicitly non canon and Ian JQ once said that they made it with the knowledge that there were people who were gonna skip it) but even then there's been a few callbacks Bongo Bill posted:Garnet's Universe. Weren't YOU the one who pointed out that it's part of an arc continued with future vision where Garnet tries to be more open and relateable with steven? or was that someone else
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:Weren't YOU the one who pointed out that it's part of an arc continued with future vision where Garnet tries to be more open and relateable with steven? or was that someone else I don't think that was me.
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misadventurous posted:The idea that every single episode of a show is beholden to advancing character development, or building the plot and story up, and that we can't just park in this world for a moment, enjoying these characters make some time travel/meta-canon jokes or fight a boy who throws cars or riff on Dragonball Z, is one i will seriously never understand I blame millenials MILLENIALS ![]()
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Acne Rain posted:I blame millenials How loving entitled do you have to be as a company to place generational blame on people not buying your eight dollar box of breakfast candy? Honestly, with shows like this instead of toyetic garbage GI Joe stuff I grew up with, I have a little more faith in newer generations than I do mine.
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Honestly, Steven and the Stevens would be my go-to one-shot-at-this intro episode to convince people to watch.MariusLecter posted:So no quantum infinite? Just prime and all else is dust... love it! As soon as Steven time travels, every single being in the timeline he just left starts screaming in unison and then the entire universe dissolves into dust.
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MrSlam posted:Uncle Grandpa is a benevolent eldritch anomaly. He is both creator and byproduct. Both Uncle and Grandpa. He is the tire-swing on Kabbalah's tree of life. ![]()
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My favorite part of the steven time travel shenanigans was when he realized that he was kind of annoying. That's when I realized how smart and insightful the writers are - they didn't have a decent, but kind of annoying sense of humor, they had the ability to write for one. And steven actually does start acting less annoying after that! This show has a beautiful, still-ongoing, layering of "I had to tell you that story to tell you this one."
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I just realized that Steven knew to break the hourglass or whatever to undo all the time bullshit he caused because that's how Garnet got rid of all the copies Onion made with the duplicator.
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GunnerJ posted:I just realized that Steven knew to break the hourglass or whatever to undo all the time bullshit he caused because that's how Garnet got rid of all the copies Onion made with the duplicator. Then he died. Remember kids, knowledge brings suffering.
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Say Nothing posted:Someone on deviantart drew out a map. Is there a map pinpointing all the known gem locations too?
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IMO the relevance Garnet's Universe is that, a couple of episodes beforehand, Steven had gotten tangled up in a pretty awful situation with Ronaldo. Making up a story where his strongest mom beats up a version of Ronaldo was just his way of coping, which ties into the general theme of exploring various ways of dealing with trauma. Also, Steven's version of Garnet saying "Steven's not ready to know I have animal friends yet" is probably the first indication Steven realizes, on some level, the gems weren't completely forthcoming with him about some things. If nothing else, it gave us the phrase "Stevenbomb".
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Just gonna leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ihWkgHsZ0
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Zebia posted:Just gonna leave this here ![]()
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Zebia posted:Just gonna leave this here I'm dying
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Zebia posted:Just gonna leave this here Beautiful.
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Zebia posted:Just gonna leave this here His super strength wasn't enough to save him. ![]()
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Zebia posted:Just gonna leave this here Peri no
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