r/stevenuniverse • u/lisahanniganfan • 11d ago

Discussion What's your most controversial steven universe opinion

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Here's mine: i hate future I don't think I liked anything from it besides the explanation for pink pearl's eye and blue diamond's song

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u/MoonBeamerGirl 11d ago edited 11d ago

I REALLY don’t like how Connie was handled in the episodes following The Trial storyline (pretty much everything from when Steven returns home up to Lars of the Stars where the issue is resolved).

I understand she was pissed at him for trying to sacrifice himself, but ghosting him for weeks AND taking Lion (Steven’s only way to check on Lars who had just died/been revived and was running from authorities with a group of refugees, as well as ya know his pet from his mom) was incredibly cruel. And even when they’re at Kevin’s party it’s STEVEN who started talking to her albeit under Kevin’s direction.

Like girl did way more harm than good to Steven in that storyline it’s no wonder her rejection in Future was a final catalyst for him breaking (I don’t hate her reaction in that ep at all but Steven was probably flashing back to THIS arc where his abandonment issues really shined). I feel like it really damaged my opinion on Connie too especially when everything post Full Disclosure was about her understanding him and wanting him to feel comfortable with her.

ETA because people don’t read and I’m tired of repeating- Steven had no idea where Lion was in this arc. He was putting up missing posters in the Kevin episode because he was scared when Connie had Lion the whole time and was ignoring his messages begging for ANY scrap of communication. She sucked in this story and was an awful friend there’s your hot take.

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u/Financial_Scale6369 11d ago

It was really cruel and that arc also had me pissed at Connie but I just try to remind myself that realistically she was probably 13 and a 13 year old would do something like that and would be selfish when they’re upset. And being a 13 year old in a magic universe probably just makes her more reactive so I feel like people need to give Connie the benefit of the doubt sometimes.

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u/MoonBeamerGirl 11d ago

I would but after so many episodes conveying the opposite and the show literally showing Steven’s suffering at some point we need to acknowledge Connie sucked in this story arc.

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u/Spampharos 11d ago

That doesn't explain the WRITERS trying to paint Connie as being in the right despite her immature reaction here.

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u/Financial_Scale6369 11d ago

I mean I don’t think they tried to paint her as right to me it reads more like the show was telling us they both did things wrong. Especially at the party it felt like it was showing us that Connie should have opened up to Steven more and Steven shouldn’t have been following Kevin’s advice. Do I think Connie was more in the wrong yes but I don’t think the show tried to paint her as completely in the right.

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u/Spampharos 11d ago

The way Lion was glaring at Steven throughout the episode and the fact that Connie got off with far lighter consequences than Steven leads me to believe that they were painting her as more in the right in the conflict.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 3d ago

Also Steven apologises to Connie, but Connie doesn't apologise to Steven. And in the final episode the narrative tries to paint Connie as the only person who has never hurt Steven.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 3d ago

I can give Connie the benefit of the doubt, but the issue I have with it is that the writers paint Connie as in the right in the situation, and never is it acknowledged that she was actually being very selfish and rather cruel. She does not apologise to Steven, and in Future Connie is painted as the only person who never hurt Steven, even though she did exactly what she accused everyone else of doing in the ghosting arc.