Exploration of all things Steven Universe! Favorite gem? Wackiest fan theories? Why are the breakfast friends so sad?
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So what did you all think of tonight's Onion-focused episode?

Exploration of all things Steven Universe! Favorite gem? Wackiest fan theories? Why are the breakfast friends so sad?
So what did you all think of tonight's Onion-focused episode?
Exploration of all things Steven Universe! Favorite gem? Wackiest fan theories? Why are the breakfast friends so sad?
I found it pretty unsettling! Which seems to be normal for all Onion episodes.
Yeah, they have a theme of "Steven is uncomfortable with something, but learns to appreciate it" -- and then push the limits of discomfort so hard that it starts feeling like the moral is "Steven shouldn't try to have boundaries at all." In contrast to some of the other episodes about deserving to have your boundaries respected. (Like, the one with Jamie's crush comes to mind, and it's one of the threads in Alone At Sea.)
What I still can't get a handle on is the point of the Onion episodes. I like that Steven's making friends in his own age group but all his interactions with Onion seem so fraught, like on the edge of turning very bad very quickly, when almost all Steven's other casual relationships are more joyful? Maybe it'll make sense eventually, I don't know.
I kept getting stuck on questions like "how was the kid at the bottom of the trenchcoat strong enough to hold up all the others?"
I guess the episode was deliberately pushing the bounds of realism with the infant using the blowtorch. Not something SU usually does with its human characters, so it makes it hard to figure out what to think.
Yeah, it kind of struck me as... Over the Garden Wall-ish.