So I just watched Steven Universe Future for the first time…
**SPOILERS I GUESS**
Btw this is my first post on this sub, hi everyone
So yea I recently binged all of Steven Universe cause that’s what one does, I watched the og series, the movie, and for the first time, all of Steven Universe Future. This discussion will only be on Future since I’m sure the original series and movie already been talked on a lot. When the show originally released, I told myself that this show looked very different from the first and insisted on watching it but something must’ve happened cuz I never got around to it. Fast forward to know I get Hulu for the first time (shocking) and find all Steven Universe content on here and I decided to binge the entire series. I get to to Future which is completely uncharted territory for me. After the movie, it really seemed like all character arcs have been finished so I’m not really sure what the show could have been working up towards. Watching it through, I’d say the first half felt like super episodic, like SU season 1 type of episodic. After immediately watching future like a day or two after finishing the final season the vibes just felt really off. Not to mention like I said earlier, the character arcs for each character already felt finished, so we didn’t really see much of the side characters do much aside from Steven, and maybe Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. Also the lack of Lapis in this series, the goat is washed (jk). It really wasn’t until the second half of the series where I was getting reeled in. It was really interesting watching Steven go through an existential crisis and seeing how it affected his character and powers. I guess I’d say one reason I enjoyed it is cuz I’m somewhat going through a quarter life crisis myself too lol. I was so anxious seeing every episode go by ending on a sour note watching Steven slowly pushing away others and it all exploding out in the form of the Kaiju monster on episode 19. The final episode definitely was bittersweet, I didn’t expect a dramatic ending but I feel as if it needed just a bit more to add some closure. Overall, I say I enjoyed Steven Universe Future as what it is, a short epilogue series that’s wraps up the story of our main characters. I just wish we had gotten a bit more.