[1] steven universe
I've been rewatching Steven Universe, and a number of things have stood out to me
I forgot how early into the show Stevonnie appeared. And I love that everyone thinks they're amazing!
In the same episode, we get some nice foreshadowing for Garnet being a fusion:
Pearl: Nobody expects you to be able to perform fusion right away, steven
Amethyst: Yeah! It's really hard, even for us!
Garnet: Not for me.
[2] steven universe
I remember back in the day, people were saying "hey, you can skip most of season one, just start at the finale"
And I hated that advice - because the first season is full of great episodes.
The big thing I've really enjoyed from rewatching the first season is how they build up these mysteries and only *very slowly* explain them.
They don't explain fusion until episode 12, for example, and they don't talk about how the monsters are actually just corrupt gems until way later.
[4] steven universe
I have noticed for the first time that the devices in the kindergarten (used to make new gems) are shaped like viruses!
That's a really cool design choice
[5] steven universe
I love all the character designs in this show, but I had forgotten how good Sardonyx is!
[6] steven universe
I also love how Sardonyx is nothing like either Garnet or Pearl, but she also totally makes sense as their fusion - she's so very careful with her speech, even though she's hamming it up and putting on a good show
@lizardsquid I used to have high res copies of the background art for this that I used as wallpaper. I still love the art from this show
@bogpunk I used to have those too, they're fantastic wallpapers!
I wonder if I can find them again...
[4] steven universe
@lizardsquid that took you long enough, eh? =P
[3] steven universe
What this does is it gives the worldbuilding and the characters space to breathe - it allows us to get used to everything before giving us something really meaty to chew on, rather than just throwing all these facts at us right out of the gate.
I honestly think that only 3 or so episodes of the first 50 are truly skippable, and it's only because they add very little to the characters.