>>118956823>If it's about the integrity of the show's universe then I can understand, but I completely don't understand this vindictive attitude some people have, where they see something outlandish like a character trying to blow up the planet because of hurt feelings and their thought is "WTF THEY'RE NUTS KILL THEM QUICK" and not "oh it's a cartoon."Of course, I understand that murdering Spinel is not the answer because of the nature of the show (even though shattering is fixable now so it's not like it matters), but I don't think it would be too far off to have her apologize to the humans she hurt and make some community service to fix her shit. Cartoon characters obviously don't have to follow real-life law enforcements, but no consequences whatsoever just make not only the character worse but also the universe shes in.
I don't see SU as a show that mixes well cartoony and serious considering the whiplash between the two extremes. As I said, Spinel made Steven bleed, she was totally meant to be taken as a serious threat that did serious damage, and yet her ending is her just getting away like she did nothing wrong. Nobody forced Sugar to make Steven bleed, she went to that extreme to add drama, and that just makes her ending worse. Even more so since she planned Spinel getting saved from the start.
If I'm making a story where a villain gets redeemed, I would make an effort into making that villain likable and their actions either reasonable or not that bad, and SU does the opposite, it makes the villains do horrific things only for that to not matter at all in the long run. As stated before in this thread, if SU was more cartoony and less serious, I think most people on this board would be fine with the redemptions it had. If there were no monstrous scientist experiments, no children almost drowning, no trauma or PTSD, and death being fixable since the start, and the events played mostly the same, we wouldn't be talking about it.
