What people always misunderstand about that arc is that the point wasn't Steven's decision being right or wrong, the issue is that he dismissed the impact it had on those around him and only realized its weight later. It was the whole purpose of the parallel with Dewey

Essentially: Yes, Steven had to give himself up to protect his family. And yes, Connie is still allowed to feel hurt and betrayed in watching her friend essentially accepting to get murdered after promising they'd always face things together. The two things coexist

I'm not even sure why this has to be said but she also did not "steal" Lion. Lion is a magical creature with human-like intelligence and the ability to teleport wherever he wants. You can't keep him somewhere even if you wanted to, he chooses where and with whom he wants to stay

He cand back thinking it was all fine not realizing that while what he did was good, they didn't have a clue when he'd come back and how! And he just causally strolls in thinking everything can go back to normal. Connie has to process and the gems are right for worrying so much

Precisely yeah!

It just doesn't work when 1: It was the literal ONLY option 2: Lar's just died and no on really cares 3: At a point it's the show's fault they keep sidelining Connie. Even during Diamond Days she does nothing and then gets them thrown in jail potentially ending the world

I'm not really talking about the townies, the gems are the self appointed protectors of the planet and a human is in trouble directly because of them and I literally don't think the gems interact with that narrative once, even when Garnet was ON the ship.

And Dewey Wins IS the issue, if you have to dedicate a whole episode towards an unrelated concept to get children to understand the lesson, that's beyond silly. You could've just had Dewey Wins by itself nothing even comes out of the arc it's literally just wasting time.

Minding you Dewey Wins itself in every manor is a redo of Political Power, down to paralleling a deeper situation, but it's handled with so much more care and payoff in that episode, and the decrease in subtly S5 has in general is one of it's biggest faults.

There's still time and place. If your loved one just came back from a horribly traumatising and dangerous situation, you don't make it about yourself and ghost his ass. I hate this "putting your needs" first attitude when applied to situation where a loved one needs you but you

if your friend nearly dies, but brushes it off and acts like its no big deal, do you not still think you should like support them and not ghost them through it? idk im just really not a fan of ghosting in general in most cases

She still made the situation about herself instead of being there when Steven needed moral support and saw Lars die. Her being hurt is completely justified, but she could've dealt with those feeling after everything got solved idk

I still think she should've texted him, her reason not to was stupid. And whilst she didn't choose to take Lion, she could've at least tell Steven he was with her still or ask if he needed Lion back, Lars was still in space after all

With that part I agree, though she's also like 15 so I think it's realistic that she doesn't deal with all of this in the most perfect way possible, she makes mistakes like Steven does. The point is moreso that the reason behind it is completely valid

Wait nevermind she's 15 in the movie, she was like 13 here which applies even more

Honestly fair. I think people are more against Connie in this arc because she's not the protagonist so we don't see her side. Steven pov curse

I literally didn't understand why Connie was mad when Steven made the right choice until the parallel with Dewey, I said this exact thing to my sister and she said "Of course you wouldn't get it" What does that mean

During the lead up Connie had been calling out to Steven to fuse. To work together. But he was too in his head and then he makes the decision on his own to give himself up. And then to make things worse he comes back like nothing happened yeah I'd be upset too

@unamusedyams I understand that point, but it's too ironic that Connie is criticizing him for giving up when, in theory, she's doing exactly that at that very moment by leaving the conversation instead of telling Steven what hurt her so much.

What made the reaction worse is that we waited I think 8 months for a new episode and we immediately went to Dewey which was just soooo…yeah lol

I would have probably liked this episode a million times more if it didn't air immediately after the biggest hiatus in the show's history and after one of the biggest events in the show's history