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3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +5 points

Huh, I've always seen it another way: Rose had Steven because she knew she could never be the person she wanted to be ("Love like you"), but humans have the power to change, so a half-human half-gem could maybe succeed where she could not.

3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 1 reply · +4 points

I know it's an inherent limitation of the 10-minute format and the limited run, but I was really disappointed that we didn't get to see even a hint of turmoil or trouble in Homeworld or the rest of the ex-empire.
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

I hated the Timeless Child reveal, not because it upends who canon (And what canon, anyway? There's been two Time Wars at this point, and the Doctor's own history has been rewritten and unwritten and patched over so many times that it would be more surprising if it *did* make sense.) but because it makes the Doctor (even more) special: not only there's (again) more past Doctors than we've been told there could be, but they're so many that it's a possibly boundless number, and they're not even Gallifreyan, and they're the origin of the Time Lords and possibly come from another universe and probably they all fart rainbows.

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

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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

Ah, you mean during the rebellion. I think it's pretty generous to assume that Pink remembered/cared about Spinel at that time.
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

I don't think they knew the remaining warp pads could go all the way to space though? Everyone was pretty surprised when Peridot came through.

(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

In light of "Love like you", I think that Pink really believed by the end that she 1. was a horrible person, and 2. incapable of enough change, given her baggage and identity as a gem. Becoming/giving birth to Steven was certainly an attempt to turn into something that could be half as good as those she loved.

4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 1 reply · +4 points

As for the film itself... I really loved it as a long episode, and as a musical, and for the production values, and as an exploration of how the abused can become toxic and abusers in themselves.

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

Spinel's animation had multiple purposes: it showed that she was from an earlier era of gemkind, that she wasn't changed from all the history that came after she was abandoned, that she was a sort of double/caricature of Pink Diamond in herself (like Mickey/Oswald in Disney), and also that it came with a lot of unexplored baggage. One reason why we don't see that animation style all too often is not just that we moved forward in technique, because many other old styles are still in vogue, but also because cartoons from the 1920 are strictly tied to racist, sexist, and all-around offensive imagery that big, old animation studios really don't want to face in any sort of way and so they just sweep the whole thing under the rug.

4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 1 reply · +5 points

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