>>106719650>What is it about this show that makes cynical youtube "critics" seethe so much?So many ways, it actually makes me struggle to even list them.
1. Because it makes "being yourself" look appealing, even when doing so is lazy stagnation that ruins people and arrests their development. "Being yourself" is the excuse every fat person uses to avoid losing weight, every idiot uses to avoid studying, and every self-righteous twat uses to avoid listening to anyone else's critiques or arguments. (And, good gracious, who do we know fits all three criteria to be a fat, stupid, self-righteous twat, rolled into one?)
2. Extending that to Steven's family, he has four effective parents, and none of these idiots know how to establish discipline for dick. It's never addressed. Steven is 13, and doesn't go to school; he fights monsters on a regular basis with powers the gems know are underdeveloped; his diet is the literal American stereotype; and none of his four "parents" give two shits. Oh, sure, they each have their own faults the show'll talk about in emotional diatribes from time to time, but the fact that they're raising their kid up terribly? Not even once.
3. Fuck gay propaganda. Fuck it all. 80% of this show is an allegory for LGBT being beautiful and society being archaically oppressive and critics being 2-dimensional bigots, and it poisons the well like the River Ganges.
4. Good God, Steven's voice... I hear that tremulous high-pitched wail one more time, and you'll see me on the news.
I can't go on, this show's got 60+ episodes in it and picking apart the faults of all of them would consume my day.
