cheesy-kitten-liveblogs:Okay, let’s put aside that Steven watched people die more than once, i
cheesy-kitten-liveblogs:Okay, let’s put aside that Steven watched people die more than once, including himself. And also the fact that this was more than a little disorienting for him. It’s quite cute that she can pass her ability to others through a kiss. The fact that Garnet placed that faith in him, and gave him the information he needed to make a decision. Again, more than anyone, she really does trust him so much and encourage him. And it was more about the decision-making aspect, rather than just, hey look, here’s all the ways you can get hurt. That was there, too, sure, but… different emphasis I suppose. She’s not saying, here’s what to do Steven, or no don’t do that. She’s saying… here’s what I can show you, and you decide the best option. And she’s there the whole time he’s having the visions, so that she support him and tell him that.Look at her smile, too. She just. Loves him so much. ;-; And I love them. And Pearl is still standing strangely, as Pearl does. MAJOR SU SPOILERS!!! This talks about meta from future episodes so please don’t read this, Cheesy!Okay so actually not putting aside the fact that Steven watched people die and himself over and over again, I think this brings up something interesting in how much responsibility the gems/Garnet place on Steven and how they choose to raise Steven.Like not setting this aside as just being a cartoon, the fact that Garnet chose to place such a responsibility to Steven by having him watching people die by his actions and pushing Steven into traumatizing moments to learn from is quite messed up. But the gems don’t know how to raise human kids, Garnet doesn’t realise this can be traumatising and a lot to put on a kid. After all, gems were never kids and how they grew as beings was being pushed into very hard and traumatising moments to grow. That’s how Garnet had her moment of growth, in the middle of a war and had to learn how to make good decisions. (This is also seen in contrast with how rejuvenated Garnet acts, being goofy, indecisive and not understanding the consequences and prospects of things, since she didn’t have the memory and environment of growing under a war)So of course this is how Garnet chooses to raise Steven, she thinks he is ready to face traumatising stuff head-on so he can learn from them and gain an understanding and grow to make good decisions, just like her. And he does grow! But at what consequence? This is contentiously happening in the show where Steven grows, but he is enduring so much traumatic stuff as a consequence, and we all know what happens afterwards to him.None of the gems saw it coming. After all, this was normal to them. Because of the war and the after-effects of it all affecting them they all grew up with trauma and enduring it and learning and growing. They don’t know it’s trauma, it’s just how things are.We can even see this way that Garnet teaches Steven in Future, where she lets him feel the consequences of his actions with the wedding proposal and it absolutely traumatises him and he spirals even further. Garnet was just doing what she thought was normal and what she has always done like here. She thought she was helping Steven and helping him grow by him realising his mistakes by making him experience it. But that’s not okay, especially to a traumatised kid as Steven and we saw how. But Garnet doesn’t realise it, since it was normal to her doing this and it has worked before like here in Winter Forecast, hasn’t it? So yeah, it’s so interesting to look back and see just how many things when we have our new lens, just how much of it actually wasn’t okay and you can see how much stuff we see in SUF stems way back even here. Like it always didn’t sit right with me that Steven saw people die multiple times and wasn’t even aware that it was Garnet lending her future vision (which like Garnet, come on, you could have at least explained it to him so he didn’t have to have this very real fear experiencing having his family and friends die and then scrambling in confusion when everything reset. Plus actually give Steven the ability to at least consent to have those visions). And well now with SUF saying that yeah this isn’t just cartoon stuff, all these experiences are real to Steven, it hammers home how tragic this really is. -- source link
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