Time for answers
(This review contains
spoilers!)
So full disclosure: I watched all the
episodes in this StevenBomb a while back when they were leaked, and I’m
rewatching them now to refresh my memory of them for review purposes. I’ll be
uploading the reviews after each episode airs on Cartoon Network until the Bomb
is over.
One of the major gripes about Steven Universe I’ve seen around the
internet is that Steven doesn’t ask many questions. He just sort of takes
things as they come, not really wondering what else is out there or what’s
going on. That’s why it’s nice to finally
have a big question posed by the show earlier be answer, that being what
the Palanquin in Buddy’s journal is and what significance it has.
It’s also great to see Steven take a
step forward and finally go against the Gems’ wishes for once. Although Garnet
did everything in her power to stop him from leaving, Steven goes anyways
through his own means, and I think that’s a fantastic bit of growth for his
character.
The episode also saw lots of great
moments for Greg. While my personal favourite character on the show is still
Peridot, it’s honestly hard to not say that Greg is the best character overall.
He’s such a fantastic role model not only for Steven, but for the audience as a
whole. The episode clearly knows what’s going to happen to him at the end, so
it spends most of the episode focusing on Greg and reminding us why we love
him. The montage of Steven and Greg exploring Korea was a lot of fun (plus with
a surprising and hilarious bit of meta humour), and the emotional moment they
spend together at the beginning of the episode was fantastic as well.
Of course, I need to address the
elephant in the room, that being Blue Diamond’s appearance at the end. This is
our first time seeing Blue outside of Garnet’s flashback in The Answer, allowing us to get a good
look at her character for the first time. Firstly, I love her design. Her more
smooth and droopy elements both match with her character’s personality and
contrast well to Yellow Diamond’s more angular and sharp edges.
It turns out that Blue Diamond was
very close to Pink Diamond, who the Palanquin on Earth belonged to. We also
learned that Earth was Pink Diamond’s planet, and Blue was unaware that the
Cluster has been bubbled. Still thinking Earth’s days are numbered, she took
Greg to save him from destruction and preserve Pink’s legacy even further.
While Steven’s Dream is mostly meant to serve as a beginning for the next
story arc, it delivers an excellent episode that gives us lots of answers and
character development for Steven. But this is only the beginning, as the Gems
travel to space in hopes of getting Greg back.
FINAL SCORE
8/10
Great
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