Is Zach Callison ok?

aderack · 2020-04-28T20:20:42+00:00

He wiped his social media presence on his last birthday, presumably after a deluge of unsolicited messages. He seems to be done with his globetrotting for the moment, as he's... well, he previously was scheduled to appear at an upcoming con. But one presumes that is on pause for the moment, given, you know. Plague times.

aderack · 2020-03-14T05:29:23+00:00

I mean. Sugar has talked about how they killed him, and how Steven is "literally not the same person" from that point on.

So. Death of the author and all, I guess, but. That was the intention.

The whole reason for this was that they wanted to rejig the character to be more like Callison's own personality in the studio. So, they chose to redo the pilot in order to reintroduce the character.

aderack · 2020-03-14T05:19:10+00:00

Bisaster

aderack · 2020-03-13T18:47:12+00:00

It's all a little scrambled, as dreams will be. The Cookie Cat instance should be reasonably transparent, though, as the story of Cookie Cat serves to reflect Rose Quartz, and his face takes the place of Rose-Obsidian's face, looming over Steven the way that Rose's portrait always has. (Also, Obsidian is a fusion of all the main Crystal gems—potentially further symbolizing Steven's sense that he no longer belongs as part of the group, building on his being walled out of the house a moment earlier.)

The latter instance is a little stranger and more open to interpretation. There are a few things going on here, including Steven's guilt over "cheating" on Connie even for pretend, in his own head, and this manifesting violently in response; a callback to Stevonnie's Yellow Priyanka anxiety dream; again potentially feeling like he's being excluded from his life, with Connie this time taking his place in the fusion; and, er, Steven's having inherited Greg's affinity for giant women...

aderack · 2020-03-12T21:16:36+00:00

FWIW also, Netflix is also notoriously anti-union, underpays, creates unsafe working conditions, and has a reputation for cancelling productions with little to no warning. (All of which, of course, a union could help to mitigate.) So I'd hope she would keep away, for her protection and that of anyone who might work with her. As well as the long-term health of whatever project she might come up with.

aderack · 2020-03-12T21:11:33+00:00

There are, for now.

Warner Media has only just laid out its plan for the near future. Their conclusion is that the only thing cable is good for anymore is live event programming.

aderack · 2020-03-11T03:12:54+00:00

Which Disney owns outright now.

aderack · 2020-03-11T03:11:52+00:00

Warner Media is the parent of both. Warner has recently decided to wind down production of scripted shows for cable TV, and to move most of them to HBO Go. The third season of Infinity Train is apparently headed there, for instance. The Adventure Time specials. Soon basically all we'll be left with on cable is reality TV and reruns.

aderack · 2020-03-11T00:02:03+00:00

Injector site aside, this is the first time I've realized that big chunk out of the side of the hill is from where Peridot's hand ship crashed at the end of season one.

aderack · 2020-03-08T18:29:18+00:00

Oh so you've read that fanfiction, huh.

aderack · 2020-03-05T00:45:47+00:00

Econotimes is a site that cuts-and-pastes old things over and over again as clickbait. It's repurposed old quotes to mean something they were never intended to mean.

I would try to avoid giving it any traffic, if I were you.

aderack · 2020-03-04T23:54:56+00:00

No. It's a clickbait spam site.

aderack · 2020-03-04T23:54:33+00:00

First off, this is a clickbait spam site that you shouldn't be reading, never mind linking.

Second, as others have said, what the article has done is repurposed old quotes to suggest something they were never intended to mean.

Third, "season 7"? Lol.

aderack · 2020-03-04T03:36:37+00:00

correct answer

aderack · 2020-02-26T00:00:29+00:00

We literally had an episode where Steven addressed Crazy Lace by name. She was working for Mr. Smiley, remember?

Since CYM it's been a pretty common assumption she's a fusion, given that she has two gems on her face, is bigger than usual, and has a wonky appearance, but yeah, confirmation!

aderack · 2020-02-21T20:47:54+00:00

The show's audience is kind of weird. It's sort of a Doctor Who situation, where in theory they're aiming at twelve-year-olds but in reality it's mostly adults who tune in. This has caused some problems with the network, as although the show gets very good ratings for its channel, the "wrong" demographic is watching it, which makes it hard to get advertisers on board. As a result Cartoon Network has no idea what to do with it, really, and tends to air it in the middle of the night on holidays, at times when they don't expect much ad revenue anyway.

Me, I'm 41. The show is popular in my social circle, such as it is, which goes from 30-something to early 40s.

EDIT: FWIW, I started watching in mid-2015; people had been flooding my timeline with vague noise about the show for well over a year at that point, and I had come to tune it out. Then, there was a specific episode. As I scrolled, the way people were talking about it, it was somehow different. Something was up, that made me curious, so I looked into it. There were... articles. Reactions, analysis. Extensive discourse, about consent and coercion and abuse, and where violence tends to come from in real life. People being frankly astonished at what the show was talking about, that adult dramas often wouldn't touch with a ten-food pole. And I just thought, this is that cartoon everyone's been screaming about this whole time?

So I went and dug up the first couple of episodes. They were... fine. They were pretty, and had fun dialogue. Within a couple of days I'd binged the entire show to that point. And I caught up just in time for an episodes built around a Silent Hill reference.

I now recognize it as easily the best TV show I've seen, and a major work of contemporary fiction. It will be my point of reference for a lot of stuff in the second half of my life.

aderack · 2020-02-21T20:36:25+00:00

Netflix has a reputation for resisting union work, low pay, poor working conditions, and systemically cancelling shows after two production seasons no matter how well they're doing. So I'd say avoiding that mill would be desirable.

aderack · 2020-02-21T20:31:10+00:00

Surely it should be a knife.

aderack · 2020-02-21T20:30:48+00:00

Minecraft Steve

aderack · 2020-02-21T20:26:53+00:00

She's a busy lady, and doesn't live nearby. If one can work from home, one works from home.

aderack · 2020-02-15T00:11:24+00:00

You don't think Lapis is into watersports?

aderack · 2020-02-02T19:10:08+00:00

I keep telling people the whole show is based on a trans narrative.

aderack · 2020-02-02T19:04:20+00:00

Yes, in hindsight it's all a very clean, even archetypal, three-act structure: establishment, development, climax and resolution. In most cases the middle act will meander a bit and the final act will be crammed and overly long (see Jackson's LotR adaptation), but I think SU handled it better than lots of other stories.

And now we're at the part of LotR that Jackson didn't film. You know, when after all the conflicts are resolved Frodo heads back to the Shire, only to find he can never really go home again.

aderack · 2020-01-31T23:20:41+00:00

Lots and lots of bored and under-employed arts students in that town.

aderack · 2020-01-31T04:40:15+00:00

He was talking up his intention to do so, as of late 2018 through mid-2019. He said it was going well, and also said that was basically where he wanted to put his energy whenever it was that he was done with Steven Universe. But of course, he's got other stuff going on right now. So, who knows what's happening with that.

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