Blog:Change Your Mind (Steven Universe)

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Change Your Mind is the 29th-32nd episode of the fifth season of Steven Universe, the 157th-160th episode overall, and the final episode in the fifth season. It is the first 44-minute episode in the series, excluding commercials.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The episode is nothing but a checklist of the following and doesn’t give structure to any of them:
 * 2) * The Diamonds getting redeemed.
 * 3) * Steven fusing with the gems, including all of them forming obsidian.
 * 4) * Lars and the off-colors returning to earth, meeting up with Sadie, and comparing their differences.
 * 5) * Healing the corrupted gems.
 * 6) The ending shows Steven greeting an uncorrupted nephrite, showing they are going to be friends since they built it up in “Monster Buddies” and “Monster Reunion” but she never appears or gets mentioned afterwards.
 * 7) Connie doesn’t have much to do here, all she does is get a new sword and occasionally say something in the background.
 * 8) * Her laughable line: “Looks like this just turned into a face-off.”
 * 9) Lapis, Peridot, and Bismuth don’t have much screen time, they just fight the Diamond bot and comically come in when the chaos is over.
 * 10) The Infamous Redemptions of the Diamonds:
 * 11) * Blue has the least bad one, but it still has to happen within the episode making it way too quick.
 * 12) * Yellow was a villain at the beginning, but she stopped being one due to a 30-second pep talk from Steven.
 * 13) * White's is easily the worst, she stops being both intimidating and chaotic just because of a roast line made by Steven, this is the equivalent of a serial killer become a pacifist because you took away his mask. This is also her second appearance so there was not much build up, and since she was the most genocidal of the Diamonds, they needed to make the arc long.
 * 14) Steven forgives the Diamonds way too easily. This is hypocritical because he acts like characters such as Kevin are unforgivable beasts with no redeeming qualities.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The action is pretty good, and there is a very smoothly animated scene made by James Baxter where Steven fuses with his gem.
 * 2)  The new fusions look decent, and Steven fusing with the gens to unpoof them is pretty clever.

Trivia

 * This is the first time we see Yellow Diamond crying on-screen without Blue Diamond's powers.
 * Peridot and Garnet's redesigned visors both resemble those Kamina and Simon wear from the Mecha anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Rainbow Quartz 2.0's flamboyant personality greatly references Taako from The Adventure Zone.
 * This episode reveals what would happen if Steven's gem is pulled from his body.