Just Wow

Jasper’s episode Fragments is one of the best episodes of Steven Universe Future. I loved her reactions to Steven fixing the tree and bringing back the grass and kissing his bicep. It almost makes me forget about her toxic history with Lapis. Almost. Jasper is definitely someone you want on your side, though. Steven’s Jojo-esque form is fitting considering Diamond is Unbreakable. The Diamonds themselves have reversed their powers: Yellow fixes gems instead of breaking them (making her similar to a certain group of royal scientists), Blue makes gems happy instead of sad and sings a trippy ballad (which reminded me of Ricky Gervais’s song from Galavant), and White lets gems take control of her instead, which is a terrible idea as Steven demonstrates. It’s enough to read minds, not let people do to her what she did to them. And Spinel is Spinel, an amalgamation of classic and nostalgic cartoon characters, including: Sonic and Tails, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny (or Daffy Duck, one of the Looney Tunes), and Harley Quinn/Joker. The rest of the finale is best summed up as Steven pretends everything is fine, everything is not fine and everyone cries, and then everything is on the road to being fine and everyone still cries. Like in KH3, it was definitely earned but still a lot to take in. It’s what this show is known for, after all. Lapis offering to paint him something with her tears got me, as well as Peridot asking where she’d find another Steven (someone to watch the horrible reboot with, assuming that hadn’t already run its course). Blue Diamond’s running animation made me smile (assuming that was running).

Handbooker Helper wasn’t back – it was just a one-off to explain the Valentine’s Day one-shot (which I still haven’t watched yet along with Doom, but I’m on vacation now, and it might potentially turn into a quarantine lockdown or downgrading me to non-essential). I found Dani’s written Recaps since she doesn’t do them in video form anymore. The literal fireside chat in Matt and Marisha’s home was a bad idea. The floo was open but the chimney was still blocked, causing the smoke to go into the room and set off all the fire alarms. They said they had another, better fireplace but used this one instead for some reason. No one knows when any of the lockdowns will end, and the next two weeks are supposed to be even worse. I’ve seen a lot of angry people these past couple of weeks, and I’m not looking forward to seeing more of it. Humans are the worst, which is why I don’t play them in D&D.

Isa’s video is pretty much done. I’m just going back and forth on formatting the subtitles and trying to pick a release date. Sing along if you know the words – I had to change them slightly to fit the situation. I watched the video on Aqua’s character file, and it was exactly what I wanted since the BBS novel talked about her baking a lot, and part of it was included. Terra’s was good too and intersects with Aqua’s.