Oh my god, they literally show Spinel in place the first few minutes of the movie.
me @ amethyst after ‘what’s your problem’:
When a heroic deed deserves epic music
i’ve never been more proud of anyone in my entire life before this moment
💙 SAPPHIRE! 💛 Let’s call Padparadscha just “pad” PLEASE
GUYS! GUYS! I LOVED EVERY EPISODE!! PAD IS PERFECT, SHE ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH! I LOVE HER SO MUCH, SHE’S SO SWEET, SHE MUST BE PROTECTED. I WANNA SEE MORE OF HER, PLEASE TELL ME WE’LL SEE MORE OF HEEEEEER!!!!
Alone At Sea afterthoughts
People in the Jasper fandom (which includes me, she is a massive candidate for my favourite - it goes Pearl; Peridot; Jasper; Steven) seem to be getting their knickers in a right twist over this ep because she didn’t come back as a paragon of shining redemption. Now, as much as I wish she would, and it hurts me to think she might never be a CG/redeemed etc. this episode was so necessary.
This wasn’t about Jasper - this was an episode about consent.
Consent is a big important theme in Steven Universe and Sugar herself mentioned how important it is to teach this to children.
Both Lapis and Jasper are described as abusive, and Lapis first brought that up in Same Old World (I believe). Lapis was the one holding Jasper in an abusive relationship, not the other way around. She effectively brainwashed fusion into Jasper - who previously hated the thought - who is now begging her to be fused again.
How many times in a toxic relationship have the words ‘I’ve changed’ been brought up. These are red alert words that often show abuse in a relationship.
However, it’s also showing Jasper to be just as much of a victim. She is begging Lapis to take her back because she feels worthless without her.
This episode taught us that sometimes relationships go sour on both sides. But it’s important to vocalise your feelings when someone tries to force your way of thinking.
If it took Jasper getting punched into the ocean to get across this VERY IMPORTANT message to children and even older people, then I am willing to sacrifice her hopeful redemption for a few more episodes.
Steven Universe was created and exists for many reasons - to showcase relationships and consent is one of them. Unfortunately, our glorious buff princess is a victim of a two-way abusive one, and we gotta be respecftul of the Crew’s decisions.
This was not a Jasper episode, this was Lapis learning about the confusion of being in a relationship with someone who isn’t matched to you, and passing on the very valid message of consent.
Whilst I’m unimpressed with the fact that Steven keeps siding with Lapis so much, despite her objections, he’s not perfect and is still so young. He’s had no positive experiences with Jasper but in the past has defended her. He doesn’t hate her and has more than enough room in his heart.
Stay strong, Jasper fans. She was only punched into the ocean, not shattered. Calm your orange and red panties. Also we heard her laugh, just sayin’
Steven Quartz Universe has one major flaw that I hope the show addresses sooner rather than later. If he likes you, he’ll do anything for you. If he doesn’t like you, too bad for you.
In Beach City Drift it was revealed that Steven hated Kevin because Kevin was a jerk to Stevonnie. His hatred and anger was so great that he was willing to fuse with Connie just to get revenge.
And then we have Restaurant Wars. He basically forces Ronaldo into pretending to date Kiki, ignoring all of Ronaldo’s protests, including Ronaldo’s confession that he has a girlfriend. And when Ronaldo’s girlfriend does appear, and the misunderstanding causes them to break up, Steven shows no regret whatsoever. He doesn’t even look the least bit sad or regretful. I think it’s because Steven doesn’t really like Ronaldo all that much. Ronaldo has been loud and pushy, and tried to dissect the watermelon Steven, and tried to throw Lars into a house. Steven likes his watermelons, and Lars is his bff. So Steven has negative feelings towards Ronaldo, which show in him not really caring too much about Ronaldo’s happiness.
And now we have Alone at Sea. I was very disappointed in Steven during this episode. Lapis was trying to confess that she wasn’t perfect, that she had done bad things, but Steven refused to believe or even listen to her. And as soon as Jasper appeared, Steven outright called her a bad person. The possibility that Jasper might have suffered through her ordeal meant absolutely nothing to him. Jasper was big, loud, pushy, and that apparently meant that she was evil. Steven was not willing to admit that his friend might have done something wrong.
I really, really, really want somebody to let Steven know some of the less than savory things that the Crystal Gems did during the War. Something more than Greg’s “no such thing as a good war, kiddo.” Because right now he has a very black and white view of things, of good vs evil, and as long as he’s unwilling to admit that his friends aren’t entirely good, he’ll also remain unwilling to admit that his “enemies” aren’t a hundred percent evil. He’ll continue to dehumanize them, which is not a good thing.
Team Lapis and Jasper Really Need to Take Time Away from Each Other to Fully Recover from Being Malachite Because Neither Are Innocent But Goddamn That Screwed Both of Them Up and Maybe They Need to Work on Their Own Self-Worth Issues and I Trust the Crewniverse to Follow Through on This
Steven Universe spoilers AHOY
So Lapis straight up admitted to LIKING keeping Jasper trapped. She admits and recognized what she did was BAD and terrible. But she liked it? I’m glad she realizes what she did was horribly toxic. “I was terrible to you, I liked taking everything out on you. I needed to.”
What’s eerie is how Jasper was talking. Like holy Stockholm syndrome. “I’m the only one that can handle your kind of power!.” She was HAPPY she could survive Lapis?? Red flags, bb no. And Jasper WANTS this? The damage is deep on both ends, like we predicted.
Also oh hey look, we were right about Lapis being able to kick Jasper’s ass. 6_9
