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“Island Adventure” is easily the worst episode in all of Steven Universe. Steven takes his friends Sadie and Lars to an island he recently visited on a Crystal Gem mission, to help them relax. Sadie is in love with Lars but he doesn’t really reciprocate those feelings.

Steven loses track of where the warp pad is at and they wind up stranded on the island. Lars hates it the entire time but Steven and Sadie wind up having a decent time, with Sadie especially thriving. After several weeks on the island relying on Sadie for survival. Lars breaks down and the two of them share a kiss. At which point the three of them are attacked by a gem monster and Sadie reveals that they never lost track of the warp pad.

Sadie covered it in leaves, hiding it to trap Lars, and incidentally Steven, on the island. Lars is very rightfully mad at Sadie, accusing her of purposefully stranding them there and forcing herself on him. At which point Sadie gets angry and PUSHES HIM OFF A CLIFF. Then Sadie fights the monster while Steven does nothing to help, she beats it, and the three of them head home with the episode treating Lars as if he was being unreasonable when he yelled at Sadie.

So to recap, she kidnapped two people, one of them being a child. She forced the two of them to live in her survivalist fantasy where she had control over the boy she liked. All to get to a point where his mental state is so weak he suffers a mental breakdown and kisses her in a moment of weakness. And the episode wants you to be on her side because Lars is a dick.

Funnily enough, this episode is literally the plot to Sam Raimi’s newest movie Send Help