Thoughts on the, “there’s always another way than killing,” message children’s cartoons since Batman the animated series have loved to push? There hasn’t really been much nuance not even in top tier western kids cartoons like A:TLA. (American dragon Jake long S2 though...) Look no further than SU for a series that started out with nuance only to fall back to that same moral. “She didn’t always do what was best for her, but she always did what was best for earth.” That line is so cringy now.
Yeah, that line is cringy now x_x
Anyway, my thoughts on the “there’s always another way than killing,” message. It works for certain characters. It definitely doesn’t work for tyrannical dictators.
It works for Batman because the show already established his no killing rule. It works for Avatar The Last Airbender because Aang was raised by monks and learned about their ideals and morals. Plus the show and characters addressed and acknowledged that Fire Lord Ozai is bad and must be stopped.
While Aang didn’t kill him, he did made him weak by stripping him of his bending. Ozai was then locked behind bars to rot to attone for his crimes.
In SU….not so much. In the beginning of the show he was all about fighting. He loved how the Gems fought corrupted Gems. He loves how Opal fought, he loved how violent Sugilite was. When Lapis told him that they can’t fight Peridot and Jasper Steven was like, “No, that’s why we HAVE to fight them!”
He learned about the Diamonds. He learned that they don’t care about the Earth. He learned that they want to destroy it. He acknowledged that they are bad people.
But now when he comes face to face with the Diamonds, he doesn’t want to fight them? He wants to talk to them? Despite learning about the horrors they’ve done? Steven, these people colonize planets and kill their own people for being different. Why do you think the Off Colors were hiding?
Where did his spark to fight back go? Where did this “Let’s talk it out” attitude come from? What happened to Steven?
This whole “I don’t want to fight the Diamonds, I’d rather talk it out/we’re family” is just so sudden and out of place for a show that started out with Steven ready to throw hands.
The “there’s always another way than killing,“ message only works if it is set in stone in the early episodes. And if it changes, then you HAVE to show how the hero changes their mind. Not this random, out of the blue nonsense.
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