I really don't like Steven Universe

 As a child, I was invested into the show. The concept of humanized crystals did not really hook onto me as intensely compared to other concepts, but it pushed me to start researching about my birth stone to hopefully make an interesting character, one which I did made (named Topaz) and that character had a crush on Lars, lol. 

I was enamored with the show for some time, but I think it's best I finally let go of the show, for good.

I really don't like this show. A lot of the times, it felt like the animators and the show writers wanted an excuse to show intimacy with the characters. It felt like SU was a show for teenagers and young adults rather than children, even though Steven is like, middle school age. I was into the show from elementary school to middle school, but I'm happy I started to become disinterested in it. Some of the scenes actually confused me and made me feel uncomfortable as well. I feel like this show was a wasted opportunity compared to other shows that could've deserved an opportunity to air on the iconic Cartoon Network, and honestly, it's one of the reasons why CN is so mediocre and underwhelming nowadays. Regular Show was strange enough.

I liked the romance parts of it, but I felt like there were missed opportunities in good representation, and I feel like the writers were trying their best to people please some individuals in their life with these new characters. I found myself relating to Connie when I was younger, but I felt hurt when I learnt of her actual racial identity. I imagined myself with beautiful long hair like hers, and I resonated with her personality but I felt like I wasn't allowed to relate to her just because I'm not from the same background as hers. I feel like when people choose a "ethnic" name for a racially ambiguous character (like the dark-skinned girl from Turning Red) they close the door for anyone else from any other background to relate to them and that is harmful and unproductive. In that action, they are specifically describing or stating that only these groups of people can relate to this character and no one else. It was fine for me because I already accepted that some people may perceive me as shy and intelligent at that time. Hell, I could even relate to Connie's nose shape back then but that tidbit of Connie's "true identity" ruined the relatability aspect for me.

I'm frustrated at the cast and crew who wrote the show in it's later seasons because they deprioritized the main plot line in many of it's climax points to describe meaningless filler moments that honestly could've waited. I wouldn't be surprised if the crew did this in their personal lives as well, depritorizing important things. I mean, you managed to get your show idea for a really big network and there's hiatuses left and right. Only God knows what was happening to them during those times, but still. That was deeply disappointing for me and many other people at that time. I didn't know what to do during those summers I was waiting for the show to come back besides obsess over how Cartoon Network used to be, and that happened to be a ritual I've done over the years when there was nothing new that interested me. 

I don't like how sensitive topics like LGBTQ+ is presented in the show. It should be gradually introduced, especially because the first romance in the show was a heterosexual couple, as it's a very sensitive topic in a lot of climates of the real world. It shouldn't just be put out there to exist and the lesson should be that we should all accept it's existence, it has to come after a foundation is made so the audience can be more comfortable with seeing it on screen. I'm not going to give any examples because even though I resonate with some parts of a LGBTQ+ identity, I'm mainly either non-binary or cisgender, it fluctuates, I may be genderfluid but that's a topic for another time. That's why this cartoon was so often misunderstood TBH due to what feels like a angsty teenager just yelling to families across the world to "accept them" without even giving a basic understanding of their existence in the first place. 

Otherwise, the team for this show was exceptionally talented. I always admired the color schemes, but honestly, this show is incomplete. They needed to take some time to sort it out, maybe to perfection, like for the first - third seasons. The show showed it's instability in it's writing and foundation throughout the later seasons. There was going to be no surprises in how awful these filler episodes were, not to mention the unwatchable movie and other nonsense, if they didn't add ten thousand hiatuses.

That's it. I'm going to watch Miguzi now or something. 

For my reward of finally unloading my emotions on SU, let's go get sushi or something.