>>118944171Okay now I’m really wondering the extent of your depression or how many depressed people you’ve met. When you get a group of depressed people in an uncontrolled environment, they don’t help each other get better unless there are more mentally stable people to balance it all out.
Usually, ironically enough, they do exactly what we’ve been complaining about with Steven in Future. They use each other as emotional crutches and continuously validate one another to toxic extents without anyone really working on themselves, leading to some of the most overdramatic shit you’ll ever see because none of them are in the state of mind to cope with the emotional burden of whatever situation they find themselves in.
It’s not that Steven has a support system that’s the problem. It’s that it literally ends in a group hug.
A story about dealing with his issues should ultimately be him dealing with his own issues, yet instead, it’s the opposite.
Steven doesn’t deal with his fear of not being useful to the gems or those around him. It’s the opposite, he gets the ultimate validation that they will always have a place for him.
He gets an amount of certainty, and the one thing you don’t want your character to have in a story about depression and anxiety is certainty.
Because that’s not how recovery works. Recovery involves learning to accept all the uncertainty.
Future doesn’t end with me feeling like Steven is secure despite the uncertainty of life, it feels like he’s gotten the answers he wanted and is secure because he knows about a number of factors that literally will never change.
The show basically spoonfeeds him a solution to what should be a complex mental problem.
