Steven Universe S03E11, "Beach City Drift"

[kate_nepveu]

Content note: this episode strongly lends itself to being read as a metaphor about recovery from sexual assault.

Thank you, show, for reminding me who the fuck Kevin was, because I didn't remember at all.

So last episode we had an unspoken story about how to treat your fuckbuddy (or FWB or whatever; I've been in a monogamous relationship for, uh, 18 years holy shit, I'm not up on these fine distinctions), and this episode we had a story about how to cope with someone who'd refused to listen when you said no, with an intensity that as I said under the prior cut, strongly lends itself to an unspoken reading about recovery from something more serious. Pretty heavy stuff. I think this episode works a lot better than yesterday's, obviously, because I didn't think the subtext of it was fighting with the text. The text was a little text, of course, but that's pretty SU thing and this is an uncommon issue for a kid's show to deal with.

I was so glad to see Connie again! I would prefer that Ronaldo vanish quietly, but at least he wasn't kidnapping people? And it's awesome that Greg didn't blow all his money, sitcom-logic-style, and hasn't been changed by it either.

. . . I got distracted by other stuff and have no idea what else I was going to say now. Good night!

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[skygiants]

I ALSO DID NOT THE HECK REMEMBER KEVIN. But I was a.) very excited to see Greg continuing to spend money in a sane fashion that is in keeping with both his personality and continuity and b.) very excited that Stevonnie didn't wreck Greg's new car, because I had an IRRATIONAL DREAD of sitcom logic taking over and that would have been terrible. But instead Utena logic took over, which is absolutely fine by by me in an episode around this topic.

Is it just me, or were the kids acting way more like two halves of a whole, even in their separated conversations, than they were the last time they fused?

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, yes, wrecking the car, you're right that would also be sitcom logic!

(I still need to see Utena.)

I'm not sure, I don't remember the last fusion very well, despite mainlining the series not so long ago!