Before we begin I have an announcement. This is gonna be the last Quick Thoughts for awhile. When I started doing this series I mostly did it cause I was excited for Nightmare Hospital and wanted to give my thoughts on it. I did My Clique as well cause I figured why not. Then I thought about doing this with every weeks new Steven Universe episode. And so I did. Now it's really taking a drag on me. But that's not the main reason I'm taking a break. The main reason is that this show is taking up a lot of content on this blog and I don't want that. I want the main Animated Critic episodes to take up the most content not these as I feel the Animated Critic episodes are much better than my Quick Thoughts reviews. With that said what I'm gonna do now is do this every 5 episodes give a little Steven Universe recap. That's gonna start after this episode. So I will still review every new episode but at the same time it won't ware me down so much and won't take up as much space on this blog.
So let's do this. Back at the Barn.
It is really hard to talk about this episode without spoilers but I'll try.
The episode starts with Peridot and Pearl and Steven working on a machine that could hopefully
defeat the Cluster
Still not gonna tell us what the Cluster is?
I thought I'd be seeing you again, Kevin. To answear your question no I am not gonna tell you what the Cluster is. Should've watched When It Rains. Now excuse me I have a review to do.
Peridot and Pearl get in an argument about who is the better technician. They decide to have a robot battle (not joking) to figure out who is the best.
I'll tell you who's the best.
The guy that made this beast.
Get him. And this is only what his home secruity program looks like.
So they build robots to see who's can build a better bot. I'm not telling you how it ends because no
spoilers. I will say though we get the reveal of Pearl's origins. So some more major plot development. I like that this is Season 2 and pretty late into season 1 and we still get world building. Here's something I gotta praise Steven Universe for in general. At the beginning we didn't have a whole lot of knowledge about the gem world, just like Steven and as he learned we learned. We knew enough in the beginning to keep us interested in the world while at the same time left just enough in the dark to keep us intrigued wanting to learn more. That's how you do world building. This show is one of the best examples of how to do world building.
Either way we need to get into what's good and bad about this episode.
So here's the Good the Bad and the MEh
Good-Pearls Origins story, if you wanna know why look at my comments above. Also it's a pretty great twist. They did hint at it in previous episodes in fact some people already came up with a theory similar to the actual thing a long time before this episode. I always like plots where a person has to get past what he or she is. They have to get past the unfortunate circumstances they couldn't control and push through it. Overcome it. That's what this episode is. And it leads to some great moments as she tries to convince Peridot she's more than what she was made for. Other than that there are a lot of good jokes thrown in and the robot designs are pretty cool as well and fit the personality of the characters who built them. I also think the action is spot on as usual.
Unfourtunetely I have a lot to complain about. Oh boy.
MEh-So Peridot has been awesome for the last 2 episodes. Here though she's...........well. I don't know. She pretty much spends the entire episode making fun of Pearl about her origins. Now if she was still a villian that would work however she's a good guy now. Or atleast an anti hero. Still someone we should root for. It kinda ruined how I felt about Peridot. Maybe this was to show that she still has an evil side and isn't completely good or to show how awful of a place homeworld is. So I'm not completely mad enough to say this was bad. Also because of the fact she apologizes to Pearl and
learns her lesson. Also there's a part where Pearl punched Peridot straight in the face. It was amazing.
So yeah Peridot is MEh in this episode. The others though (especially Pearl) are amazing. I love Pearl by the way. And I still stand by what I said in my So Many Birthdays review, if I hear any salty Pearl joke I will fight you.
Bad-Surprisingly the main focus of this episode falls into this category.
The robots. They're awesome but here's the thing if the cluster is about to come WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOU'RE TIME ROBOT FIGHTING. To see who was a better technician. Ok but why did that have to take so long. It toke the entire day in the Steven Universe......universe. AN ENTIRE DAY. All I was thinking about was how far along the Cluster is into forming and you know......killing us all. Aren't you the guardians of earth. Stop goofing around. Seriously if this happened when we weren't in the middle of such a big catastrophic event it would be find. But no. It seems like you're goofing off. You could've just had a robot fight did you need all those pointless events to test the robot. Oh and the events. They are dumb. Ballet is one of the events. Seriously. It wasn't funny it was mostly annoying. And there are many events like this. What the heck. It just feels more like goofing off than actually trying to fix the Cluster problem. I know they needed to see who was a better technician. Still just have 1 event. Not like 500 pointless ones that take up the entire day. These stupid events barely matter anyway as most of them ended up in a draw. I know that's the joke but it was dumb and sorry but jokes can affect the plot. This one did in a really annoying way. Like seriously. I wonder how far the cluster got in its formation during all this time. I know they don't want me to think about it but I did. If you wanna cover something up do it better. You gotta trick me into not thinking about it. Maybe make the episode more fun. I don't know. I feel like this episode should've happened after the cluster incident but then again if that did happen then they'd have no reason to build a machine in the first place. Still, it bothered me. I had the cluster just tucked away in my mind and it was irritating. I don't think I've ever gotten so frustrated at a Steven Universe episode. Ever.
Overall Score-7/10
The main plot is stupid, but I like he characters especially Pearl and we get some amazing world building. That kept the episode up from getting a lower score. I really did enjoy seeing Pearl overcome and getting past what she made for. Unfortunetly the rest is not so good.
And that's back at the barn. I just remembered there was a nick show of the same name. Hmmmm............weird. Either way I won't be seeing you this Thursday but I will be seeing you for the first of my Steven Universe recaps in 5 weeks. As well as Toon-O-Ween and The Regular Animated Critic episodes. With that said, Peace.
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