I just finished watching season 5 (I'm late I know) and overall I liked the finale! very slight spoilers ahead. the pink diamond twist was pretty neat and I understood it more than I thought I was gonna. there were some problems and weird plot holes (namely how Steven just like,, spiritually contacted the diamonds while he was passed out?) but they're easily overshadowed by how good everything else was.

if I could change one thing about the ending it would be that the diamonds didn't so easily forgive the cgs and that the cgs didn't so easily forgive the diamonds. but I kinda knew that was coming so it wasn't that big of a let down anyway.

aside from the finale, I really really enjoyed those sadie centric episodes. and I absolutely loved What's Your Problem. the amethyst and steven interactions were so, so good. my thirst for amethyst development has been quenched

yeah sorry if this reads terribly and isn't interesting at all lol. I kinda just wanted to give those sadie and amethyst episodes a little bit of attention but I figured it would be weird if I didn't recognize the season finale at all. I've heard some good praises and complaints about it all and I definitely don't have any original commentary after everything that's been said by other people.

so dumb post but. even if we exaggerate the opposing aspects of su critical/anti su critical (dumb terminology but what whatever) and see them in a caricature-ish light - extremely nitpicky and bitter/overly accepting and ignorant of flaws - I still think it's better to be on the critical side.

because (thesis statement): even if the criticism is too harsh, that's how improvements are made.

and if the problems aren't real and we're just complaining for the sake of complaining, then guess what! that's fine! that would be dumb and I hope it's not the case, but it's fine. complaining about fake problems most likely won't end in a real, over-correcrive solution. if a baby cries and nothing's wrong, you just have to wait out it's crying (this is probably a bad metaphor because I don't really know if babies ever cry for no reason but I hope it gets the point across. also sorry for over explaining).

but ok, let's say it's the worst case scenario, and somebody gives the baby too much of something it doesn't need (or a better metaphor for an unnesecary solution akin to that) to make it stop crying. it's still worth the gamble!! because ignoring all babies' crying will definitely end up in poorly cared for babies. (I think the babies are representing the show here? idk, the metaphor's sorta ran away from me at this point.)

but yeah, the point I'm trying to make is it's better to be safe than sorry and point out what you think are flaws in a show anyway. because really it's okay if it's a dumb thing to point out. better than holding your tongue only to regret it later when needed improvements are never made.

anyway, thanks for coming to my TED ramble

So I know su's animation getting crappy is old news and I'm sorry to bring it up again, but I feel like this point needs to be made to everyone who thinks criticals just hate the show. The reason why we're so upset to see the visuals go to shit is that su was (and still is in general, though I'll be using past tense here) such a beautiful show! The backgrounds were so pretty and detailed and the character designs were unique and interesting, not to mention the beautiful color palettes! We just miss what used to be, at least as far as visuals go.