I agree. Though Steven is blessed with not having to face the cruelty of school life, and with having utter comfort with himself. If Steven were real, he'd be teased mercily. His saving grace might be he's strong enough to not be physically bullied.

Personally, I think it's very likely there will be no true "Peridot Redemption." Everything she does is still entirely selfish, and once the threat of the cluster is neutralized, I think she will get her limb enhancers back and be welcomed back into Homeworld society. I'm surprised so many people think Peridot will…

Yeah, especially since the Fire Nation hadn't always been that way. Then later, they outlawed dancing and improv?!

*cough* poor Southerners during the Civil War era *cough*. They didn't own slaves, and they were defending a feudal system that was keeping them in poverty. But I guess the idea of freed slaves being economic competition for them was an idea too terrible to bear.

Except that the race gems born is their class. They can't can't move up by getting richer, or better manners, or famous, or intermarrying/breeding

Yes, their contempt and ignorance of the medium seems even more intense inside the film/television industry than outside it. Animators love to talk about the day when animation will be seen as legit and not treated as the red-headed stepchild of live-action, but that day will never come, I think, no matter how…

I like you.

Yeah most definitely the religious imagery and terminology (temple, shrine, goddess, heretic) is very strong. Rose looks like a mother goddess, and that is her role in the show too. Fusions look like Hindu deities for sure. Man, I keep waiting for some hard-core Christian nut to be on TV, railing about how evil…