Steven Universe Future episode 13--Together Forever.
Added 2020-03-21 03:53:11 +0000 UTC~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I HAVE VERY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.
On the one hand, a very large portion of the episode was extremely painful to watch. We’re talking, like, The New Lars levels of painful. I hated it while I was watching it. Watching my favorite ship get risked in a very in-universe stupid way was painful to watch. Like The New Lars, it was even in-character for Steven to do this, which is honestly…I’m not sure it’s worse than something like House Guest where Greg went OOC for the whole episode, but it certainly didn’t help.
Unlike, The New Lars, however…
The ending of this episode was great.
Connie gets it. Connie understands. Connie got scared and shocked, but instead of that harming the relationship, she reached out and told him she does love him but the time just isn’t now. This is the most on-screen affirmation of their love for one another we’ve ever had, and after that terrible moment where I watched the shock cross her face, it just all fell into place, and from then on everything was great about the episode. A perfect wind-down from the tension, a positive affirmation of their love, and one perfect final laugh to let all the lingering badness dissipate.
I’m really torn on how to rate this episode. I really think from an objective standpoint it was quite good, but it was also very painful to sit through. If I could split it up between pre-proposal and post-proposal…I almost would. As it stands, though, I think that because of the painful, long windup before that perfect throw, Together Forever comes in at my new #9 for Season 6 (between Bluebird and Guidance) and my new #79 overall (between, fittingly, Together Alone and Guidance.) It was really, REALLY hard to rank, and even now I’m not sure I put it in the right place, but I think that’s where I’m going to settle with it.
Up next for the liveblog is going to be the next episode of Steven Universe, Growing Pains. We’ll be doing that on Monday. Up next for streaming…well, I finished the Black Eagles campaign of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, so it’s back to other games. I think tomorrow I’m going to be streaming some Godhome attempts in Hollow Knight, with perhaps a Steel Soul attempt or two sprinkled in. You can see all of the Fire Emblem and Hollow Knight streams I’ve done by clicking either of those game names. See you there!
