Posted on 07/05/2018 4:18:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Inclusivity has been a consistent theme throughout Steven Universe‘s five-season run, but the Cartoon Network series took that commitment to the next level this week in an episode appropriately titled “The Question.”
Wednesday’s installment — the third in a five-part “Heart of the Crystal Gems” event — found characters Ruby and Sapphire, who themselves are halves of a powerful warrior named Garnet, at a crossroads in their relationship. They went their separate ways after splitting into individual beings, only for Ruby to experience a change of heart and realize that they were always meant to be together.
“I wanted to really create an image of a queer couple that makes sense together,” creator Rebecca Sugar tells TVLine’s sister publication Variety. “Usually the couple is a man and a woman. But you don’t show that love can exist between two men or two women. I wanted to create equal-opportunity love stories for children.”
In the clip, Ruby laments to Steven, “I did have a lot of fun today … but the whole time, I kept thinking about how much more fun I’d have with her. Sapphire was always there with me. I felt her smile just like it was mine. It’s so lonely now. … I came here to be my own gem, but I keep thinking about what she’d like and what she’d want all the time. It turns out I’m not no good at needing nobody.”
As you’ll see in the video above, this inspired Ruby to saddle up and ride to Sapphire’s seaside digs, where she got down on one knee and proposed a new union.
“This way, we can be together — even when we’re apart,” Ruby told her. “This time, being Garnet will be our decision. Whaddaya say?”
I haven’t watched that channel since they ran Justice League.
Johnny Bravo and the first era Dexter’s Lab were favorites of mine.
Pedophile Network
Barf. The series was doing so well staying out of contemporary issues and had an interesting take on relationships (fusions) where crystals can merge together to form a combined personality of the two (or more) parts. It made for an interesting analogy/allegory of relationships and families.
But noooo - everything has to be political now.
And wheel of fortune has a transgendered something or other on tonight. Uggggghhhhhhhhh no thanks.
If men “loving” men and women “loving” women were how God and Mother Nature wanted things, the human species would have been extinct millions of years ago. The left thinks I cared about their “lifestyle”. They were wrong and they are very QUEER people. They now shove their agenda in my face like dog sh*t. They now indoctrinate children as it is so ironic that they will NEVER reproduce! Now I hate these people.
A same-sex marriage proposal between two gems? I guess the creator of this cartoon was “stoned” when she wrote it.
No wonder our grandchildren are growing up in a very sick world of imposed/indoctrinated gender confusion.
Let kids be kids. They’ll be able to figure out who they are when they are older and can understand more about themselves.
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