>>113812062Except there are signs where you can see he has not learned to accept change. He couldn't accept Bluebird wanting to be redeemed, he could not accept Lars and Sadie moving on, he couldn't handle Connie going to college far away, etc. All of those episodes shows that he did not learn the lesson of the movie.
>>113812074>He can deal with change that he's in control of.That goes against the message of the movie because he could not control the change that was going on at that point.
>The second he ran out of problems to solve and couldn't enjoy all his friends and family still be around that's when it all fell apart.Two things about that.
1-The movie straight-up lies then. Saying Stevens life will never be peaceful and enemy gems will be a thing throughout all his life was a mistake, because the very next story he has is about how he won't always have work to do, enemy gems won't come for him anymore. He acknowledged that there will be more Spinels in the future...but there weren't. Sure, there was Bluebird and the Lapises, but even in those stories he didn't try to help them and they were not as big of a threat or had any emotional impact on him as a person.
2-The thing is the message of the movie is universal. Steven would have felt sad about his happily ever after being ruined even if Spinel didn't come. If the townies and gems started moving out and doing things he personally didn't like, he would have had the same reaction. Steven wasn't wrong in the movie about change because he was bothered that a psychopath tried to kill him, he was totally justified in being pissed at Spinel, he was wrong because he didn't want to accept any change whatsoever to his perfect life. That's what he learns. But in Future, he forgets all of that and overreacts to things that weren't as horrible as what Spinel did. If you are saying the lesson from the movie was that he could only accept a specific type of change then the movie loses weight
