Steven Universe

I loved Spinel, her animation alone was worth the trip
also STEG

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

sure, what the hell. might as well throw in Infinity Train, too.

caught up on the series, the movie, and most of what's aired of SUF. As much as I hate to admit it, the more traditional Big Bad denouement of the "closing run" of Adventure Time (I guess they're making more now?) was considerably more emotional and satisfying to me than the end of s5 of Steven Universe. In general SU is clearly the more laudable and original but less entertaining series, and its "resolutions by friendship" got very repetitive, even if much more of AT is skippable. I guess she shows up this week but the lack of Connie in SFU has been a real bummer so far as well. SFU also kind of bugs me at times for being so transparently a response to criticisms/shortcomings of the series/Steven as a character. There's nothing wrong with that, but I feel like I can see the gears turning a lot and it kinda suffers as an entertainment as a result.

mind you if I had a kid I would definitely force them to watch this lol

the limited number of episodes means basically every beloved character other than steven gets short shrift. it's nice that there's more but it isn't particularly satisfying so far.

the whole season is an extended epilogue to the last season/movie, so I'm forgiving it for not having a compelling overarching story besides "Steven fights deep anxiety and fear about the future"

totally with you on the lack of Connie though, it seems like she should've been a key part of this story. but we've got eight more episodes left, i think

def don't agree about Adventure Time's last season, it got too much with all the different threads they had to pull together, as much as I love that series as a whole

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Watching this now, some of the episodes haven't aged well, namely Ronalda being a harmless conspiracy theorist but who could've predicted Cue Anon?

That's not fair, because Ronaldo was actually right about half the stuff!

OK the first season is VERY iffy for me -- the humor just doesn't land for me, which makes the season, with how low stakes most of its episodes are, a slog, but when they figure out the mythology of the show, EVERYTHING gets better.

Also, I love the homage to Roadrunner cartoons.

Finally started season 5, and while there are some pacing issues (a whole episode on Mayor Dewey getting booted out of office????), when it focuses on the grand narrative, it's amazing.