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3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +5 points
3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 1 reply · +4 points
The shows spent a lot of time dunking directly or indirectly on Pink/Rose and how terrible she was and how she ruined the lives of those around her... but the other Diamonds keep getting a 'get out of jail free' card every time. They're helping fixing the mess they made? That's awesome. They're using their power for good? Wonderful! Does that magically undo all the harm they've done in the past several thousand years? No. Am I supposed to believe that, in all of their enormous empire, the only one who violently rebelled was Spinel? That everyone was fine with the Diamonds' abrupt change of heart? That half the gems fixed by Yellow wouldn't be screaming out in terror at seeing her face after being reformed by the very person that shattered and experimented on them?
It's grating that everyone else gets to be instantly forgiven while Rose, who's the only one who can't speak for herself anymore, gets to be Bad Rose (pun intended) forever.
3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 1 reply · +4 points
We were told that "anyone can be the Doctor", and I took it to mean that anyone can strive to be brave and kind and curious and willing to right wrongs. Chibnall, instead, seems to have taken it quite literally: at this point, any random person could be a past of future Doctor, now that their regeneration number is infinite. Maybe it's even you. Wink wink.
3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Hogfathe... · 0 replies · +4 points
And as much as I love Christopher Lee, the combo of Ian Richardson and Marnix Van Den Broeke will always remain the definitive Death for me, with the voice and body language complementing each other so well that you forget that the character has an inflexible mask for a face.
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 1 reply · +4 points
And if she did, she likely didn't believe that Spinel needed saving. She wasn't off color, or a forbidden fusion, or a rebellious gem, or a squishy human. She was just a regular gem she's grown bored of.
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 3 replies · +3 points
(Or, in perfect Diamond fashion, she never thought of long term consequences on the scale of a normal person. Yellow's laughter at the end because "6000 years really is nothing" is telling.)
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +12 points
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 1 reply · +4 points
But as a sequel/coda to the series, and the diamond arc in particular, it's... eh? The whole thing about recovering the memories of the Crystal Gems is very neat, but it's retreading old ground for the old viewers, and the newcomers don't really know any of the events that are being referenced. Steven himself, before recovering his powers, says that this is basically just more of the same: another mess his mom left that threatens to destroy Earth and that he has to fix.
So, did I like it? Yeah. Am I gonna listen to selected portions of the soundtrack on repeat? You bet. Am I gonna rewatch it ten times in a row like the four final episodes? Eh, no, not really.
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 2 replies · +15 points
4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 1 reply · +5 points
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