Probably Gravity Falls‘ biggest shortcoming is that it’s too expository. Characters unnaturally remind us where we were before the commercial break, and we’re not really trusted to remember things from episode to episode. “A Tale of Two Stans” is an instance…
Steven Universe 2×14 Review: “Cry for Help”
Sometimes things are just sad and bad and that’s all. “Cry for Help” does a few things better than Steven Universe has ever managed. The show’s one limitation seems to be that it refuses to tell stories that end on a…
The Top 50 Adventure Time Episodes
I’ve been a fan of Adventure Time since 2006, when it was just a short on the internet and my pipedream was for it to become a show. It debuted on Cartoon Network in April 2010 and, after six seasons, there…
Steven Universe 2×13 Review: “Chille Tid”
Dreams being intertwined with reality has been a subject of Adventure Time for a while, and Steven floating through dreams reeks of influence from the show Rebecca Sugar left to create Steven Universe. But dreams seem to be a new power for…
Steven Universe 2×12 Review: “We Need to Talk”
As I suspected in yesterday’s review of “Keeping It Together,” the concept of fusion continues to gain importance in the world of Steven Universe. Taking place just months after Greg’s “Story for Steven,” Greg gives us another story in “We Need…
Steven Universe 2×11 Review: “Keeping It Together”
“The Kindergarten.” It implies the presence of children, but the Kindergarten of Steven Universe is empty, haunted only by ghosts, dead long ago from a horrible disaster. The Kindergarten was to be ground zero for the takeover of the world. It…
Steven Universe 2×10 Review: “Rising Tides, Crashing Skies”
Ronaldo, the paranormally-obsessed author of the blog Keep Beach City Weird, has an odd twist to him. Much like Invader Zim‘s Dib, he’s simultaneously delusional while being the only person to realize that something is not right. The other residents of Beach…
