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Laserheart
Howdy, the name's Laserheart!
I'm a gay unprofessional music (and now cartoons) reviewer, awfully bad at games, future attempt of musician and a furry Discord icon.
My main platform is Album of the Year but I want to discover new horizons, so here I am now! Ready to begin my journey in this site.
I wish you all who's reading this a very great and amazing day, everybody!
[IN HIATUS UNDEFINITELY, FOCUSING ON STUDIES AT THE MOMENT]
[CURRENT BINGE : STEVEN UNIVERSE]
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Steven Universe: Cheeseburger Backpack (2013)
''I got a medical condition'' is the peak of comedy.
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.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Thank You for Watching the Show (2019)
Yeah...
I hate Cartoon Network now, thanks Ok K.O. Let's Be Heroes!
Steven Universe: Laser Light Cannon (2013)
🎶 Let me drive my van into your heart, let me drive my van into your heart! 🎶
Emmmmm... I don't exactly know what happened here but yeah, sure!
After being out with my grandma for a few days, I'm now back and ready to continue this binge with certainly the most important episode in the process of the series release (at least talking South America-wise). Bits of this episode were all along the promos for the series release, trailers, ads, and much more! I was seeing this episode everywhere and that fact led me to believe that this was, in fact, the first ever episode the series had (that and also I watched the premiere for the series releases and I think I remember this playing before Gem Glow, so it might have been a mistake all this time).
So, I think just because I saw this episode so many times as young, it got impregnated in my brain and therefore caused me to feel a little biased towards it. I have a certain love for this episode and that might be inflicted in my rating but even if that wasn't the case, this was such a great experience and the best episode so far... and we are only 2 episodes in!
There's not much interesting in the first 2 minutes. We meet Fryman, owner of the fries store (who will be important somewhere later) and we get to know the ''''antagonist'''' of this episode, which is a massive eyeball who... sucks that crosses its territory? I don't know, it's not really explained at all but it doesn't matter, what matters it's that in this first portion, we get the mention of ''Rose Quartz'', who Steven refers as his mom and this right here could be see as the second most big revelation aside from Steven's weapon, seen on last episode.
The inclusion of Rose to the series so early onto is a bit questionable but not really a problem so we'll just leave it at that... what it's an even bigger inclusion here is from the man himself, the best character of this entire series... but not yet. Garnet mentions the only way to actually to defeat the eye, and it is using a cannon that belong to Rose, who it's called a ''Laser Light Cannon'' (It would have been better if it would have been called a Laser Heart Cannon! (sorry everyone, it was the perfect moment to do it), and the problem here it's that it's lost, so Steven knows where it could be, and it may be with the mAN HIMSE- Okay, not yet! Calm down, everybody.
After killing Amethyst by throwing her staright into the eye, Steven finds to find this mysterious person, who is currently inside a van sleeping, so Steven tries to wake up in one of the most memorable scenes in all of multimedia history (because this was the part available in every promo there was for the show), and then he wakes him up... and we get to see who we where waiting for. the MAN- okay it's enough. THE GREG, BABY! God, just three seconds in and I already love him so much, like, who else would try to beat the soul out of the invader with a waffle iron, just him!
So yeah, he's Steven's dad and after telling the whole situation with the eye and the Amethyst dying for the 70th time and the cannon, of course he know where that cannon would be... in storage unit. Yeah, ain't a magical place but it's fine because we get to see one of my favourite moments in this entire season, and it's the whole storage sequence.
In just a few minutes of screen time, we get to emphatize with Greg and his life - and get to know so much of the character as a whole that's it's just phenomenally well executed. The golf, the drums, the photo with Rose, the old CD's with his music. We can get so much info from this: He used to be a underappreciated musician who found his half-orange through the music, and now he just lives a calmer life working in a car wash, living in a van and proposing plans he'll never actually achieve after his lover transformed into his son. Got it. All of this just with info from around 4 minutes. It's just so well done, that I can't help but love it.
After showing the cannon bright shine due to a quote I don't care to mention here, they attempt to move it back to where the gems are... but not before we get to the first actual song in the show. ''Let Me Drive My Van (Into Your Heart)'', a song Greg wrote when he was younger. Now, Tom Scharpling (Greg's voice actor) isn't exactly a quality singer (at least not yet!) but the convo between his beautiful voice and these cute and lovely lyrics makes it up for one of the most notable standouts in the soundtrack.
After all of these there ain't anything too crazy to say, they activate the cannon with the hotdog line which I still don't care to quote, after telling us that Steven has Rose's gem, which is an important fact but I won't give more depth here, they shoot it straight into the pupil, the eye explodes, everyone dies by the bits of eye falling from the sky, the end!
This is just a great and overlooked episode which I think genuinely - more people need to open their heart to and just vibe with it. Again, I'm biased, but it's still great! That should be all for today!
Steven Universe: Gem Glow (2013)
A nostalgic breeze of air that slaps you on the face with a cat-shaped ice cream.
Aye, how's it going guys? It's me, Sans Undertale! (I'm gonna keep doing jokes about him all thorough this whole binge so, prepare).
As I already did introduced myself and my reviewing system in my pilot review which I hope is not being deleted or else I'm gonna go insane, I'm not gonna focus on giving more chit-chat on let's go straight on the point! (And yes, I'm doing this because I just read the User Review Guidelines and I basically fit perfectly into each one of the categories of the ''What you shouldn't do'' section so I'm fearing my life. In fact, this whole paragraph could be considered as ''junk text'' so I shouldn't be doing this, what am I doing?)
The first thing we can watch and acknowledge in every series ever (most of them at least) is the opening, it usually is just a short musical segment that shows a brief summary of what the main concept of the show is (with some expections, such as Regular Show) and this show's is pretty beautiful. Like, of course I know this one because not actually a stranger to this series, I was a pretty active fan of this show when it was airing here in Latin America, but I kinda just left it somewhere around beginning of Season 3 so I couldn't experience the ''important'' part of the series (under the criteria of many people) and I just moved on with other things, but it's just as nostalgic and joyful as I remembered it.
I used to overlook the main theme, seeing it as pretty dissapointing but I was a kid, this theme is glorious, even if Greg - Steven's dad - isn't the one singing. And also makes it up to make hype for the people before going into the real thing... and it's as great as I remember it!
I don't exactly know how does this episode has a 6⭐ average rating, this episode is SO FUN! Not even three seconds in and there's already screaming and chaos. The main plot here is that these food ice cream sandwiches brand called Cookie Cat is apparently getting discontinued and Steven, as the toddler he is, gets upset over this because they are the best food he's ever tasted and it's getting replaced by the disgusting Lion Lickers, which are the worst thing humanity has ever done. Cookie Cat gang bro, all the way!
And I can already see a very crucial pattern here that might help us thorough this whole season, and it's the relatability factor. As a colombian person myself, seeing brands getting discountinued it's actually pretty common, so as a younger myself I was able to relate to Steven's pain right here. Seeing it back now, I can't help but to smile! We've seen three characters so far, and I already like them in some sort of way. Sadie gives a warming presence - an antithesis to Lars, who gives the bully and annoying vibes that every show must have, and of course, Steven has this innocent and goofy personality, just as me when I was a kid!
This factor alone makes it feel like a classic slice-of-life but with fantastic elements, just as Regular Show, just with the slight difference that Regular Show manages the slice-of-life side in a more mature way and here it relies more on making funny and charismatic!
Now, let's talk about the gems. Amethyst is pretty much the same as the pilot but here it defines her as that friend which mocks you and it's extremely direct to you, who doesn't care about being soft about their feelings and just say it, as rough as it sounds, and I love that. Pearl is the motherly and supportive girl of the bunch and makes it up to balance Amethyst's chaos... but the most important one: G a r n e t. GOD, I love her so much. She's the silent one, who only speaks to say totally important thing and that we didn't knew we needed but we're glad she said. She has this menacing, calm, strong and firm posture against danger but somehow manages to don't feel intimidating. She has this overly lovely and caring aura that makes her so lovable without her having to say much, she's the best out of the trio but all of them has such unique features that makes them work perfectly.
(I'd also like too mention the leifmotif for every gem, since no one has talked about that, like ever. Amethyst has this aggresive sounding drums but feels kinda rock-y and vibrant, to reflect her exalting personality; Pearl has this serene, melodic piano to reflect her calm and charming personality; and Garnet has this strong 8-bit tune to reflect her authority and bravery, amazing little detail I found)
The main plot onwards focuses on Steven uncapability of using his gem's powers but after he was eating a Cookie Cat, his gem activated, shining bright pink, so now they'll find a way to bring this powers again. While the conflict plot focuses on this acid producer beetle-gem things (which doesn't actually have gems) that want to destroy the house because villain. Both are pretty simple, right? So now, let's introduce absurdism, puke jokes and a lot of frenetic writing decisions and you have a great episode!
...And I'm not even joking, this is genuinely great.
We have all the amazing montage where the gems try to teach Steven how to activate his powers through their own personal ways, like Pearl with the petal thing which I totally don't care for; Amethyst, saying that you should just let everything flow normally (which is a pretty useful method, I must say); and Garnet which explains the theory of relativism through the third law of Newton and... Bill Nye the Science Guy. Oh, and Steven fricking dies after Garnet's thing so, same. Literally same.
This little details that occur thorough this whole episode, plus the extremely funny comedy and just overall likable atmosphere of it makes it up for the first great Steven Universe. I don't have any complains about this episode that doesn't feel nitpicky absolutely. And also, this is one of those strange cases where the filler serves as a big story point, because the whole beetle thingy gets resolved with such a big and sad sacrifice *cries*, which will hopefully get brought up later in the series and the revelation of Steven's ''weapon'': a shield.
Now, of course I get the whole shield symbolism (but we'll talk about that another day) and how such big revelation was crucial to an entire SERIES focus point... on episode 1. That's pretty crazy, I must say. Even if before seeing the episodes guide I thought Laser Light Cannon was the actual first episode, I'm glad this is the one that started up everything.
I'm pretty excited about what the show will actually has to offer in this first season and of course, if I'll end up liking it or not. But I'm sure everything will go fine... or iS IT????
Anyways, good night. I'm going to sleep.
The Amazing World of Gumball: The Comic (2015)
Welp, so this is were my nickname was born
Yeah, I have a certain appreciation for this episode, it ain't even that good, I just... I don't know lol. And of course, this is my first former review on the site lmao