Everything Wrong With Steven Universe's "Coach Steven" In Almost 7 & A Half Minutes

[@Supersonic1014]

Sorry for not getting this up sooner! Woke up late, then had some computer issues that made the EWW completely slip my mind.

[@godlygaming58]

No Worries Man, They Always Make Me Laugh.

[@b33inyourtea]

yep. this is what I binge watch in my free time!

[@anarchyxgaming8478]

Dude, I wanna thank you... my day sucked completely and the hecticness is still going on. These videos always cheer me up. Thank you Supersonic1014 😊

[@Goob-kb]

6:58-6:59 they do this later on the episodes too and it's just annoying you'd think they'd have a little slight of concern but they don't and this kinda explains SUF :/.

[@Goob-kb]

7:17-7:20 Pearl is berd confirmed

[@somenerdygirl4696]

The sexual dancing has always been like a ? for me like, especially the one where garnet throws pearl against the wall and expects steven to do it. The fusion dance has sometimes not even been necessary and they just fuse by holding hands

[@Hydroux4915]

While I agree with your first point the reason a dance is not necessary for most of the gems now is because when you are close enough with the person your fusing with a dance isn’t necessary because your already in sync this is why Ruby and Sapphire are able to fuse without a dance and why Topaz can just hold hands to fuse

[@Hade-Official]

@@Hydroux4915 iirc the main reason why Topaz and the Rubies were able to fuse without effort is because of their being the same gemstone, so their loyalty to Yellow/Blue make sense to be as much a reason to be able to fuse, along with them being the same stone, as I said prior

[@Hydroux4915]

@@Hade-Official Well in those scenarios your right but many other fusion’s don’t require dances like Steven and Amethyst due to their close sibling relationship they can by just hugging or shaking hands and as shown in Steven Universe future all the gems can now fuse without a dance due to being incredibly close with one another

[@cienciandre]

I like to think they just wanted to make sure we all knew it was a show about gay rocks and I'm all for it

[@rotten_eyeballs6513]

The argument of Sugilite being more of an Amethyst and Ruby fusion and Sapphire just not being present just doesn't sit right with me. Remember in keystone motel when Sapphire just turned a blind eye to Ruby's concerns and frustrations and just says that she'll get over it and that she's over reacting. She completely looked over the process and went straight to when it was all resolved so Sugilite literally not caring about what Pearl says or really even caring about Steven's safety makes so much sense coming from Sapphire's side

[@TheRealNightFall666]

Genius

[@quarkmolotov1049]

I think while giant women first really showed the shows good lyrical music this is the episode that really showed the semi musical vibes

[@politicsvlogswithjaydawg6174]

3:18 I think Sapphire, does play a role in sugelite by making sugelite cold hearted with a cold personality which mixed with amethyst brashness and rubys fury makes a uncaring warrior fighter

[@emilyglass5313]

2:41-2:44 YES!!! That is exactly how I felt about fusion in this show. Sure some of the dances were...strange but the more I thought about it while watching the entire show, the more the "different relationships" allegory made more sense.

[@nateclone3828]

Review from series ranking: "Amethyst and Garnet fuse to disable a large tower designed for interplanetary communication, then Pearl takes Steven and leaves Sugilite behind because they didn't listen to Pearl and doesn't particularly like her. Oh, yeah, and then Steven starts a gym- This isn't really as good as the previous fusion-themed episode because, well, half the episode is devoted to Steven starting a gym and a musical number. That's not to say it's a bad musical number, "Strong In The Real Way" is one of the best songs from Season 1. Anyways, Sugilite comes back and understandably gets pretty mad at Pearl, so they fight, and Pearl wins, and Garnet admits they should have listened to her, even though Garnet could've used her- I'm getting ahead of myself, we'll talk about that later. Also, Pearl is kind of awful in this episode. She appears to dislike Sugilite very much, despite her being very cheerful and excited to meet Steven and destroy the tower, she only got reckless and unstable when Pearl abandoned Sugilite, and she needed to walk across a presumably large chunk of the ocean to get back to Beach City, a perfectly good reason to get mad. It's really just an average episode, just below Steven's Lion, moving on."

[@Brandoncreates2007]

The worse thing Is that Sugilite only had three episodes to appear in I believe. Season four episode two doesn’t really count In my opinion cause In Sardynox’s own words: “She’s not actually In this episode, is she?” And Sugilite only talked in ONE FRICKING EPISODE!

[@Hello-qv2fx]

at least it was funny that they acknowledged that they acknowledged that even though she wasn't in the episode, the still had to pay Nicki Minaj

[@dannyphantom3090]

My main criticism for this episode is why didn't they just go alexandrite and literally opal or sardonyx

[@thecalicocat6657]

1:28 to me I feel like garnet looked into the future and saw Sugalight being taken down by Pearl so she wanted to teach her teammates a lesson on how to be strong and have confidence in yourself

[@danhatter6823]

Alright, I call bullshit on that second to last sin. When a fusion poofs, they separate into the gems fused into them, rather than poofing. We see this in a number of places, to name some, Obsidian and Malachite. This also carries over into the games, where the same thing happens. The only exception to this is at the end of The Return, where Garnet straight up poofs rather than separating into Ruby and Sapphire, but I think that can be put up to the destabilizer that Jasper used to do it, which literally splits her into pieces. And to the argument of why Sugilite didn’t split into Amethyst, Ruby and Sapphire, if I had to guess, it’s because the fusion splits into the gems used to make it, even if one of those gems is already a fusion, as we see when Obsidian is poofed and Garnet isn’t split into Ruby and Sapphire.

[@HeartlessSlayer3]

Ok when rewatching these I kinda see some hypocrisy. When Garnet uses future vision you sin for only seeing possibilities, when she doesn’t use it you sin for her not seeing the possibility.

[@blackqweenmars]

Fusion is an allegory for sharing any strong bond or relationship with someone which could be romantic, sexual, familial, or friendly I’m guessing

[@randymilo212]

I wouldn’t say sexual should be used to describe a fusion since gems are literally sexless beings

[@excalibur2772]

​@@randymilo212 intimately romantic

[@yonatanhoresh2695]

4:21 Dude, "display"? She opened a pickle jar.

[@komsa07]

The animation in especially this episode is very well done. 0:59 for example is very clean.

[@WeirdWonderful]

Winged it. Definitely winged it. In hindsight, this seemed to have been their approach to basically everything in this show.

[@blackyoshi1230]

Something tells me they should have had a staff writer managing continuity.

[@babel_UV]

It doesn't excuse the leg opening part but garnet's dance is specifically inspired by a dance style, it isn't inherently sexual to move your hips. And pearl covered Steven's eyes because she doesn't like sugilite. Moreover, in season 2, you can tell fusion is special to her because of her inferiority complex, she just wants to feel like more with someone, just like with Rose. Amethyst comes in and says fusing with garnet is something she likes because of her having similar issues. Fusion =/= Sex. If you saw it as that in s1/s2, you failed to see the nuances between the relationships between the gems and fusion

[@ХристинаДенева-щ1л]

Nice argument

[@blackqweenmars]

Well fusion create a totally different gem so it makes sense why the personality would be completely different and not a melting pot of the original gems’ personalities

[@KniteRite]

17 hours ago? Im a member and im STILL LATE

[@Peridotwo]

*[Steven, i think you're betten at teaching someone with words than with... well, training. Also, it's quite interesting how Sugilite is voiced by the Nicki Minaj, but the crewniverse never decided to bring her as a VA later...]*

[@Moonshellfan]

So nobody fuckn talking about the voice actor is goddamn nicki Minaj

[@theamazingtommo]

super ducking weird right?

[@Moonshellfan]

@@theamazingtommo yeah

[@GuiSmith]

I have long since theorised that the reason the transmission hub activated was Homeworld trying to connect to Earth again. They sent out messages and transmissions to see what technology was left. Blue Diamond in her visits doubtfully mapped the technology present, bet she couldn’t because her ship is likely not equipped to connect with or ping it. Or maybe lightning happened, who knows.

[@Abandonedchannel606]

*[I remember that garnet and amythest fuse into a huge gem of sugilite, but it was important for them to fuse to smashed all of these thing whatever its called but after that sugilite was aggressive and now pearl and sugilite fight each other and that was alot of pain when we were got hit!]*

[@blackqweenmars]

4:56 same this episode reminds me of my early days of watching the show and is extremely nostalgic

[@M1SAKI_TH3_S1LLY]

4:33 LENNIESS

[@Kameron347]

1:28 Another sin should’ve been added for the fact that the tint keeps Steven’s jacket red but turns the red on Garnet’s attire purple

[@DWAkhaten]

6:56 The Crystal Gems tossed poor Steven around a lot in this show, especially in the early episodes.

[@iamawesome4026]

That could also maybe explain what happens in future with Steven’s brain being kind of broken

[@Airitzu]

When a fusion’s physical form is damaged, they unfuse. Unlike gem destabilising because they’re technically not damaging their form, but shutting it off kinda if that makes sense.

[@Dimensionhopper520]

Maybe after this series, you can do total drama island?

[@diamondbutterfly9034]

I'm surprised he didn't yell Future vision to Garnet

[@lowzibojine]

This is one of my favourite episodes of early SU. I honestly just love how wack I looks most of the time xD like Amethyst looks like a 2000's meme face and I'm down for it.

[@cienciandre]

We don't know if Garnet's future vision passes on to her fusions. Now suppose it doesn't (as we know Sapphire's future vision is different than Garnet's, so it changes after a gem fuses). If Garnet sees the future like Steven does in Winter Forecast, the moment she fused (during the vision) she would not be able to see the next outcome anymore, as she would not have her future vision anymore. So it would make sense she couldn't see Sugilite in the future

[@Azoperoa]

I like Sugalites theme tbh

[@Trickbot7000]

A fusion is greater than the sum of their parts

[@adanadan7929]

I fill like I already watch this long long time ago before you post it right now

[@efaristi9737]

2:07 Yeah, that did make me a bit uncomfortable. 3:22 Well, she was a bit outnumbered there. 6:58 Considering Steven tendency to run into dangers and ignore instructions... yes. 7:35 Well, we saw that poofing a fusion doesn't always poof the originals gems.

[@flopps1051]

For the last point in particular, Malachite. When she poofed, she separated into Lapis and Jasper. The only time we see a fusion get fully poofed was Garnet and Opal due to destabillisers and Yellow Diamond

[@Barakon]

Maybe if the tower had defenses that Sardonyx could not handle or shut down it would makes sense why they would HAVE to form Sugilite, as they’re strong enough to break the defenses & tower but also stable enough to last long enough to do the job, unlike Alexandrite… Dunno, The artists could have added shitty looking oversimplified laser canons or some shit. But hey why do I care? Didn’t I move on from this tripe?

[@vajaejaes]

Also garnet saying "we just need to be huge" doesn't make sense, compare garnet and amethyst standing on each other to garnet and pearl standing on each other. If a fusions definition is to have each gem's characteristics in the fusion, then why did garnet's big ass brain think that fusing with amethyst would make them "bigger"?

[@weeatslime]

im very late but opal has been shown to be very forgetful and that part definitely represents amethyst's carelessness

[@eurtonalida8826]

5:44 Ummm pearl can store things in her gem......

[@Super_Bowser]

3:46 No "Oh God"?

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

Why are some fusions really big? It can’t be the number of gems because Pearl and Amethyst make the same size fusion as Garnet and Amethyst

[@Stevencatisanodislover]

You forgot to sin the way pearl’s face when she says “BURST”

[@theamazingtommo]

I've gotta be honest, the garnet getting mad at pearl for lying should not be related to rape at all; it doesn't have to be anything sexual to get mad at somebody from them lying to you at all

[@reinethegatomon3159]

I know I'm very late but why do two of Sugilite's eyes not have pupils?

[@Super_Bowser]

8:13 No Monologue In The Real Way Reprise?

[@amazonprime6999]

I rather enjoy these videos.

[@Losfrijoles]

Aaaa

[@JaeBcYes]

Early

[@paxtonTheEpic]

oh great, another video where you criticize a Steven universe episode... not cool.

[@dannyphantom3090]

I don't care what anyone says fusion is sex at the very least between the gems it is but with people like Steven it's different relationships

[@La-gy4hm]

It’s rlly not. This doesn’t make any sense. If fusion was actually sex then it would be the same case for Steven but that would just make it extremely weird considering he is 14 and he fused with his dad in the Steven universe movie. The idea that fusion is sex is rlly dumb imo

[@JoseSerrato0420]

Fusion dances are designed to reminisce how you get lost in the moment that you lose yourself. Ironically, the more complex a dance the less intuned you are with a person. But, like most dances today, the form they take is very suggestive. Not just recent dances but for a few centuries where dance was a courting ritual (think balls for aristocrats). As it moves forward in the series the characters don't need to be as intricate to dance as they "lose themselves" more easily with each other. Stevonnie, Garnet, and Smokey fusions are an example of this loss of intricacies as they get closer. Meanwhile BlueBird couldn't fuse properly until they had a single consensus when fusing without a dance. So fusion isn't s3x, fusion is a relationship, and some relationships are easier to create when you know each other better, but a relationship built on s3x probably won't be stable I guess?