Author Topic: Tom, that last block of four Steven Universe eps......  (Read 1822 times)

Krokodil_Gena

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Tom, that last block of four Steven Universe eps......
« on: January 22, 2019, 01:32:09 AM »
.....CRUSHED IT. Utterly blew away a metric f@#kton of fan theories, exposed the central galactic conflict as a family not getting along. This series does to animation in theme what Battleship Potemkin did to silent cinema, all through metaphor.

Eisenstein's film.

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Re: Tom, that last block of four Steven Universe eps......
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2019, 07:05:07 PM »
(....And by "metaphor", the whole thing can be read as a generalized coming-out story for a gay or trans person, but the coding is flipped and Steven is the first cis male gem out of a sisterhood of beings, which allows R. Sugar to express all these things without the network crawling all over it.)