Steven Universe Is Garbage, and Here's Why

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"Steven Universe Is Garbage and Here's Why" is a video by Lily Orchard uploaded by her collaboration channel with Mikaila titled Lily & Mikaila Orchard. It is a review and video essay on the show Steven Universe that is notably critical of it. It was uploaded to YouTube on September 25, 2018.

This Video Is Garbage, and Here's Why

 * 1) It goes on for two hours for no good reason.
 * 2) Poor organization. Orchard rambles all over the place for topics that have nothing to do with the subject of the section.
 * 3) She constantly talks about Nazis for no good reason:
 * 4) She uses Godwin's law twice as she openly compares Homeworld taking a bunch of already dead Gems, fusing them together, and putting them into Earth to the Holocaust and calls Rebecca Sugar a Nazi apologist.
 * 5) *This is not helping the fact that Rebecca is actually Jewish herself.
 * 6) Orchard also goes out of her way to describe the difference between a neo-Nazi, an actual Nazi, a Nazi sympathizer, and a Nazi apologist... that just ends up amounting to "Sugar's not intentionally defending Nazis, but she might as well be."
 * 7) *Not to mention, Nazi sympathizing is the same thing as Nazism, so Orchard is incorrect here.
 * 8) She keeps making comparisons to other shows either to proclaim them better (which is subjective) or to complain about them (which is totally pointless).
 * 9) *She spends 12 minutes talking about Star Wars: The Old Republic, even though that has nothing to do with Steven Universe.
 * 10) She completely misses the point of Malachite. She's supposed to represent a bad relationship that brought out the worst in both Lapis and Jasper, not an abusive relationship.
 * 11) *Furthermore, Lapis' rejection of fusing into Malachite was intended as a sign that she was moving on from it and becoming a better person, which Orchard denies happened.
 * 12) *She completely blows Lapis' treatment of Peridot out of proportion by calling it abuse.
 * 13) She also misses the point of the Rose Quartz-Pink Diamond twist. Yes Lily, the show makes it clear that Rose is conned at best and not the weakness-free heroic and innocent goddess you think the show's portraying her as.
 * 14) She says that Lars' character change in the "Wanted" special is out of left field, to the point where she legitimately says they essentially killed him off and replaced him, which is rubbish. He changed, just not necessarily in the most well written manner.
 * 15) Her attitude towards the villains is far too pessimistic. The show is not about instantly turning everyone to heroic, the show is about healing, learning to love yourself, and fixing your mistakes. The only character on the show with a "forgive everyone" mentality is Steven, and this mentality is actually shown to have weaknesses at times.
 * 16) Orchard openly insults anyone who disagrees with the video on Tumblr, claiming they are Steven Universe stans, and implying that they are awful people for liking the show.
 * 17) This is by far one of Orchard's worst videos.
 * 18) It's not even a good critical Steven Universe video. For example, the Robobuddies video is much shorter and far less negative.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Some of her complaints are valid:
 * 2) Her complaints about the hiatuses are totally valid, if blown out of proportion.
 * 3) Her complaints about Steven's point of view are also valid.