“Do you know how many children I see every day who’ve cut off their faces playing with swords? None! Because they all have parents who love them and who don’t let them play around with deadly weapons like some sort of gang member!”
Strong art direction can make even a mediocre episode of Steven Universe sing, and while ‘Nightmare Hospital’ offers thin plot and implausible characterization, it also dishes out one of the most visually immersive episodes the series has done to date. The long, warped corridors of the titular hospital buzz with uneven fluorescent lighting while rapid footsteps echo through the gloom. Greens, browns, beiges, and greys blend into an inhospitable but uncomfortably naturalistic palette that makes everyone look simultaneously ill and like an interloper in a hushed mausoleum. Hallways stretch on forever, distorted by perspective. Figures rush through enormous spaces as though nervous about lingering too long.
Strong art direction can make even a mediocre episode of Steven Universe sing, and while ‘Nightmare Hospital’ offers thin plot and implausible characterization, it also dishes out one of the most visually immersive episodes the series has done to date. The long, warped corridors of the titular hospital buzz with uneven fluorescent lighting while rapid footsteps echo through the gloom. Greens, browns, beiges, and greys blend into an inhospitable but uncomfortably naturalistic palette that makes everyone look simultaneously ill and like an interloper in a hushed mausoleum. Hallways stretch on forever, distorted by perspective. Figures rush through enormous spaces as though nervous about lingering too long.
- 9/11/2015
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
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