They flashed Suitcase Sam
(This review contains
spoilers!)
So it looks like we’re entering
another Steven Universe hiatus as the Summer of Steven finally comes to a close
with Onion Gang. Was it a fitting conclusion for this massive event?
Well, yes, but that doesn’t mean it
was necessarily a good episode.
At times, Steven Universe honestly
feels like two different shows. On one hand, you have the massive plot episodes
and excellent character episodes, such as Bismuth, the four-part Season 3
ending arc, Mr. Greg, Mindful Education, and Last One Out of Beach City. On the
other hand, you have stuff like The New Lars, Future Boy Zoltron, and yes,
Onion Gang.
The premise is that Onion takes Steven
into the forest, and Steven meets a group of Onion’s friends, who are all as
weird as he is, with equally as weird names. Together, they get up to all sorts
of hijinks that’s in no way fun to watch.
Huge props to Steven’s voice actor,
Zach Calliston, though. He’s as good as ever here, even when he’s the only
speaking role in the whole episode.
What really went wrong here, however,
is the focus of the episode itself. While one Onion is good for a few visual
gags, four of them equal just pure annoyance. So much time is wasted just
having them doing stupid stuff with no rhyme or reason, giving us, the viewers,
no reason to care or feel for them.
Fortunately, this episode does one
thing better than Zoltron: it gives us a satisfying ending. I was fully expecting
the end to be Steven to show up and forgive them for their weirdness and
everything to go back to normal, but instead it’s revealed that the summer is
ending, and Onion’s friends are leaving Beach City. Steven is left to comfort
Onion, and it’s a really sweet scene.
I really wish the episode had more of
this, though. How about have the first half be Onion’s friends, and then Steven
leaves at the middle point in the episode. Then it’s revealed that Onion’s
friends left, and Steven has to try and make it up to Onion in the latter half
of the episode. That would be so much more interesting than faking one of the
kids dying and going around literally flashing people.
I guess this is a fitting episode to
end the Summer of Steven on, as it dealt with the end of summer vacation. But
still, there were a lot of missed opportunities here, and even more bad choices
made. Season 4 is already off to an extremely rough and rocky start, and
episodes like this are doing it no favours.
I can at least say it’s better than
Future Boy Zoltron, though. So there’s that.
FINAL SCORE
3/10
Bad
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