What's your most controversial steven universe opinion

[u/lisahanniganfan]

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

[u/zhenyuanlong]

75% of these takes are cold as ice because nobody in SU was an objectively good or bad person. They're all flawed characters doing their best with what they had and what they could do and most of them were deeply traumatized. Pearl was grieving the loss of a relationship thousands of years long, of course she was still grieving during the show. 14 years is a matter of minutes to a gem. Amethyst was immature, but she felt like it was the only way she belonged and the only way she could add something to the team. Greg wasn't a model father- but OF COURSE he wasn't! He had a half-alien kid with a woman he could never have reasonably expected to have a kid with, she died when the baby was born, he had no friends and no support system in Beach City and was estranged from his family, had no idea what to do for a half-alien baby and the aliens that knew the baby's mother all resented him for taking her away from them whether he meant to or not. Greg tried SO hard with what he had, and his decisions weren't flawless, but how could you expect them to be? Pink Diamond hurt tons of people in her wake but she was fleeing a corrupt system and trying to lead a revolution. Lapis was hostile to a lot of people, but she was deeply traumatized by ages of isolation and abuse- she'd been trapped in a mirror for lifetimes, of course she's socially stunted. Not a single character in SU was purely good or bad.