>>124381232Everything BUT Steven was better.
His arc is boring and it makes excessive jump in logics to exaggerate the effects his childhood had on him, and it makes the whole world unreasonably shit on him (and also in the process make him act Out of Character) just to give an excuse for why he devolves so hastily.
No, fuck the message it's trying to send, there's absolutely no excuse for Steven to suddenly be a socially inept retard in Bismuth Casual. There's no reason for half the shit shown in the flashback collage of 'here's your trauma served to you on a silver plate' to actually have affected him as deeply as it wants to suggest.
And there's certainly no fucking reason for this character to just flat out ignore help besides if you look at his character in the most extreme light of being so selfLESS that it somehow spirals around and makes him selfISH when it comes to seeking help and just trying to fix it himself.
They supremely overexaggerate aspects of Steven just for the sake of a plot in Future which might have been fine, but they clearly sacrificed other aspects like Jasper, relationships built up through SEASONS of the show's lifespan, and Steven's established traits just to justify how it goes down.
No, Pink Steven was not the only good thing, he's just bara bait.
However, he's still better than Future and Early Steven, but nothing competes with Competent main series Steven. 
