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[Review] Western Animation: Steven Universe Seasons 3 & 4, or "How to Mess Up a Good Thing"(Spoilers, you clod!)

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Prepare yourself for Autism. Part One: Prologue. Looking back on Season 1 of this show, I've come to the realization that it really isn't that good. It has a very rough start, like I mentioned. The show only really gets good around episode 26, halfway through the series. I said that I didn't really mind that much, because I enjoyed all the slice of life type filler episodes. This remains true, but people are right when they say it takes a long time for the show to become the show people are so obsessed with. My favorite episode of Season 1, the one that made me go "Yeah,  I'm hooked. I wanna see where this show and its characters go.", was "Rose's Scabbard", which also fully cemented Pearl as my favorite character. Guess which episode that is? 45. Episode Forty-fucking-Five. You know the episode where Garnet sings her cool ripoff of Just the Two of Us and kicks in the shit of a buff orange bulldyke before crashing a ship into the earth? Tha

[Review] Anime?: Steven Universe(Seasons 1&2 sort of)

So, I've been wanting to do this for a few weeks now, because that's when I watched all the episodes currently aired in like 3 days because that's how fucking into this thing I was. Unfortunately I was wracking my brain trying to figure out just what to say and how to explain it, but now I think I know just what to do: Just review it. I could go on and on for ages about certain things but I think that'd do the show a disservice, because by focusing on those elements I'd be doing exactly what I don't want people to be doing with this show: focusing on... you know, those elements. So instead I'll put a little pre-amble to my actual review and briefly address... some things. To start off I think it'd be best if we started with how I came to watch this show. Originally when this show aired I had absolutely no interest in it. It looked like one of those shitty lol so randum modern cartoons and just wasn't my thing at all. It seemed really fucking dum