Aye, I haven't reviewed anything for weeks, I'm back yeah whatever, let's start or else bye bye review.
I know that this ain't really the side of the first season I dislike but we can see explicit hints already, as the contrast between the last episode and this one is painfully evident. I think the most clear thing we can notice is the pacing and the writing. The last episode had a really basic but useful structure: a little introduction where everything seems to be normal; a villain appears, we have a dialogue section in the middle; the villain gets defeated, it's not complex in the slightest. But here happens something extremely distinct. While its structure remains somewhat intact and the tension a villain would inflict in the plot remains still, there's no villain whatsoever, marking a big difference since now the episode charges entirely in the characters actions and interactions... and that's where this episode feels the weakest.
Allow me to explain. The episode starts with the introduction of a fan favourite character... for some reason: Jamie the Postman, who delivers Steven, who was singing at the moment, the single element that builds the entire plot, a cheeseburger backpack. Now yeah, at this point we can have an idea of how goofy this episode is gonna be, but I don't mean goofy in an appealing and cute way just like ''Gem Glow'', I mean goofy in a uninteresting way.
The dialogue between Jamie and Steven is not cohesive and feels rushed, even if Jamie is kind of adorable, but it wasn't going to last anyways because we get to see the gems, who are covered in feathers for a reason it's never explained and have a giant egg that we never see again... why was this introduced in the first place? Why do we never get to see this again? I have serious moral problems against the writers.
But yeah, after totally forgetting the bird stuff we get shown our first location outside of Beach City, the ''Lunar Sea Spire'', where they have to insert the Moon Goddess statue in order to recover the spire to its original state. And I think the design of the location is astonishingly gorgeous. I have always loved this show's landscapes and how the score works along with it perfectly, and this is no exception. It's also one of the things that make me not hate this episode evenifattheenditalljustfallsapart.
So, they all go there after waiting for Steven to grab a couple of stuff that will be useful later like... a toy, that is also the best part of the episode because how dumb and funny the whole thing is, and I know I've been negative thorough the whole episode but I just can't do anything to stop it if the episode keeps on giving things I don't like.
The voice acting, for some reason, sounds really awkward and offsetting, making the dialogues sound so forced and uncomfy to listen to, but it doesn't help anything the fact that I can't really focus on what they are saying if they look like they are about to die, and yeah, I know it's a meme how Steven Universe animators doesn't follow characters sheet for the models but it's there, they look like they are made of gelatin and liquid and it's throws me off so much because it feels so unnatural and not fluid at all, and it's sad to see how so early on into the series this is already a problem but I'll talk more about that another day.
From now on, we can give a brief summary of what happens, the gems need help with something, Steven solves it alone surprisingly at the low expectations of them with the help of stuff he saved in his backpack, Amethyst calls Steven a shrimp, done. Aside from an exception that's what we spent the next 4 minutes doing. It's as uninteresting as you'd expect and the only thing I call pull off of this is how obnoxious and annoying Steven's character is, and yeah, I guess it's accurate since kids are insufferable but I don't like how accurate it is. And why do I say he's extremely insufferable? Well, he literally destroys the spire by leaving the statue home, and apparently they are okay with that because ''the tower was falling apart anyways, not like we wanted to avoid that in the first place, no no no''. Honestly, that's so lazy. It isn't even part of the side of the season I don't like, but we can see how awful the writing can get in matters of episodes.
Yeah, this episode is an incoherent mess and I don't quite like it yet. But at least it was kinda entertaining, just a little bit. See y'all next time.
I know that this ain't really the side of the first season I dislike but we can see explicit hints already, as the contrast between the last episode and this one is painfully evident. I think the most clear thing we can notice is the pacing and the writing. The last episode had a really basic but useful structure: a little introduction where everything seems to be normal; a villain appears, we have a dialogue section in the middle; the villain gets defeated, it's not complex in the slightest. But here happens something extremely distinct. While its structure remains somewhat intact and the tension a villain would inflict in the plot remains still, there's no villain whatsoever, marking a big difference since now the episode charges entirely in the characters actions and interactions... and that's where this episode feels the weakest.
Allow me to explain. The episode starts with the introduction of a fan favourite character... for some reason: Jamie the Postman, who delivers Steven, who was singing at the moment, the single element that builds the entire plot, a cheeseburger backpack. Now yeah, at this point we can have an idea of how goofy this episode is gonna be, but I don't mean goofy in an appealing and cute way just like ''Gem Glow'', I mean goofy in a uninteresting way.
The dialogue between Jamie and Steven is not cohesive and feels rushed, even if Jamie is kind of adorable, but it wasn't going to last anyways because we get to see the gems, who are covered in feathers for a reason it's never explained and have a giant egg that we never see again... why was this introduced in the first place? Why do we never get to see this again? I have serious moral problems against the writers.
But yeah, after totally forgetting the bird stuff we get shown our first location outside of Beach City, the ''Lunar Sea Spire'', where they have to insert the Moon Goddess statue in order to recover the spire to its original state. And I think the design of the location is astonishingly gorgeous. I have always loved this show's landscapes and how the score works along with it perfectly, and this is no exception. It's also one of the things that make me not hate this episode evenifattheenditalljustfallsapart.
So, they all go there after waiting for Steven to grab a couple of stuff that will be useful later like... a toy, that is also the best part of the episode because how dumb and funny the whole thing is, and I know I've been negative thorough the whole episode but I just can't do anything to stop it if the episode keeps on giving things I don't like.
The voice acting, for some reason, sounds really awkward and offsetting, making the dialogues sound so forced and uncomfy to listen to, but it doesn't help anything the fact that I can't really focus on what they are saying if they look like they are about to die, and yeah, I know it's a meme how Steven Universe animators doesn't follow characters sheet for the models but it's there, they look like they are made of gelatin and liquid and it's throws me off so much because it feels so unnatural and not fluid at all, and it's sad to see how so early on into the series this is already a problem but I'll talk more about that another day.
From now on, we can give a brief summary of what happens, the gems need help with something, Steven solves it alone surprisingly at the low expectations of them with the help of stuff he saved in his backpack, Amethyst calls Steven a shrimp, done. Aside from an exception that's what we spent the next 4 minutes doing. It's as uninteresting as you'd expect and the only thing I call pull off of this is how obnoxious and annoying Steven's character is, and yeah, I guess it's accurate since kids are insufferable but I don't like how accurate it is. And why do I say he's extremely insufferable? Well, he literally destroys the spire by leaving the statue home, and apparently they are okay with that because ''the tower was falling apart anyways, not like we wanted to avoid that in the first place, no no no''. Honestly, that's so lazy. It isn't even part of the side of the season I don't like, but we can see how awful the writing can get in matters of episodes.
Yeah, this episode is an incoherent mess and I don't quite like it yet. But at least it was kinda entertaining, just a little bit. See y'all next time.
