Told by friends to watch Steven Universe

>told by friends to watch Steven Universe
>"yeah, the first season sucks, but after that it gets amazing!"
>marathon the whole thing in a week
>Season 1 was the best one

What did they mean by this?

That they had a different opinion than you

>this season didn't have my favorite meme character so it's the worst

they don't think in terms of actual quality

season 1 has the most filler episodes so far from any season.maybe thats why.
The creator herself said the show oficially starts on jailbreak.

>What did they mean by this?
They mean that best character isn't a main character yet in season 1.

That people have different tastes.

Grown the fuck up autist.

>Learning about Steven's powers, lore
>Corrupted gems
>Lapis introduced
>Peridot introduced
>Centipeetle
>Steven learns to heal
>Gem War exposition
>Kindergartens
>Rose's Scabbard
>Fusion gradually becomes more prevalent as the story goes on untill culminating as the main plot point of Jailbreak

Season 1 did more for the story then any other season.

Because it's twice as long.

On one hand, it makes sense that fans of a show like it for the way that it is currently, not the way it was three years ago.

On the other hand, you're completely right. The first season is terrific, while everything since then has been an exercise in mediocrity.

SU fans make no sense.

First season is an excellent thematic introduction to the "real meat" of the plot that begins with The Return. It does get unfairly shat on, but mostly due to the first quarter of Season 1 where the crew was finding their footing.

People just like their sequential sci-if stories, and SU really only goes full throttle on that following The Return/Jailbreak. Most people tend to forget that the episodes leading up to that were excellent as well.

>Filler
The show doesn't have an over arcing plot, so calling an episode 'filler' is meaningless.

I think that part of the trouble is that after Jailbreak the division between "plot episodes" and "filler episodes" gets far more obvious, which hurts it a lot. Jumping back and forth between "Steven fights Jasper and her monster hordes" and "Steven has fun in town" is a lot more jarring and frustrating than the slow burn of lore reveals and worldbuilding that was season one.

Keep in mind the vast majority of SU fans only started watching the show after they found out about the lesbian thing.
Basically, a huge chunk of SU fans have absolutely shit taste.

There have been lesbians since Season 1 though. My OP pic was Pearl and Rose actually.

>There have been lesbians since Season 1 though
Yeah, but still, getting into a show entirely because "muh lgbtbbq" is pretty indicative of shit taste.

You were misled.
Very few television shows even go through the kind of shift that leaves chunks of it booring until it hits a sweet spot and becomes consistently good. And of those shows, only a few of them are worth sitting through all the way. SU isn't one of them. Good or bad, it has generally stayed at the same level since the first proper episode that aired.

How I'd rank the seasons
1B > 3 > 2 >>>> 1A
The first half of season 1 had Steven at his most obnoxious and most of the human episodes happened during that time.

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Stevens voice was utter cancer early on made it really annoying to watch but it got better over time

This is pretty off-topic, but everybody says that the first season of The Wire is really slow and boring, and that it only starts to pick up in season 3, which is something I've never understood. Season 1 is amazing. Season 2 is kind of weird, sure, but the first season is phenomenal.

It means you preferred the SOL episodes more than the lore heavy ones.

Literally the opposite though. Stevens voice is unbearable now, it was fine during S1 because it fit his character and naturally changed as he got older. Now it's squeaky and forced

Except S1 had the most exposition out of all of them. Season 1B is a masterpiece compared to Season 2.

Well, a lot of people who got into The Wire started watching because of the gang warfare, and (IIRC) that ramped up in Season 3. It's kind of like how people used to say that SU gets good at The Return/Jailbreak.

The first season was funnier and the interactions between characters felt a lot more natural

It's like they got stage fright as they grew aware that people were watching the show, and the writing became stiff