criminallynerdy:

justanewworldfool:

The whole reason so many people are coming to this whole “all lives matter” vibe from this episode is because they aren’t looking at it in context of the rest of the show. Steven is more than willing to fight his enemies when he has to. He’s had a whole character arc revolving on his desire to fight alongside the gems. What he’s condemning is the act of killing them when they have non lethal alternatives. They have a sword that can incapacitate a gem in one swipe. Why do you need a weapon that’ll straight up kill them? Even from the most practical standpoint, you can see its unnecessary to shatter a gem when you can ko them and bubble them for at least a long as 5000 years. The show isn’t saying that you shouldn’t defend yourself or that you shouldn’t fight your oppressors, its saying that its not right to kill them before they even get a chance to change. Especially when you don’t need to take it that far. And you don’t want 9 year old Devon who was learning karate to defend himself from a bully to say “shit why don’t i stab him to death instead”.

That aside though, ya’ll insist on putting this show and its creators on a pedestal and then get mad when their ideologies don’t match with yours. They are people just like you with their own opinions and beliefs. No matter how many things the show does right you lot still bitch and moan when things don’t go your way.

Finally, it’s a great kids show but it’s still a kids show. You cant turn an optimistic 14 year old pacifist into a jaded morally ambiguous freedom fighter in an American prime time children’s show. Besides. It’s a kid show. Ya’ll getting up in arms over a children’s show. Again. Aren’t you guys a little embarrassed??

Honestly this needed to be said.