Anonymous chirped: When the hiatus is done, it'll probably be another filler episode that amounts to nothing.
I mean, no amount of episodes are necessarily filler. Just because they dont directly relate to the overarching plot doesnt mean they’re there just to fill episode space for no reason. The crew have explained before that all action and no breathers amounts to fans becoming exhausted with all the lore being thrown at them at once. That, and the fact that Steven should spend equal time with both halves of his life: human and gem. He needs to connect with people that dont know gem culture or his magical world, and hes been shown to need a balance (and its been shown that the balance pays off).
And also, people seem to forget we’re on Homeworld right now. The next episode, unless they break their #1 “Steven’s POV always” rule, will guaranteed be on Homeworld and advance that side of the story. The only reason it feels like hiatuses end with “boring” townie episodes is because of the way CN airs them. I was watching AwestruckVox’s video Cartoon Network is Killing Steven Universe, and while I’m not the biggest fan of him and his actions from the past, he makes really good points about CN’s treatment of the scheduling, and IIRC he mentions how after Wanted, they left off on a bad place to stop (Steven gets home and Lars is still in space), showed a clip at SDCC that wouldn’t be aired until the following year, and then came off an ungodly hiatus with townie episodes. People may not think the way you’re thinking, anon, if these specials ended on townie episodes and came back with lore episodes. That’s why people feel so strongly about “bad filler,” it’s not filler nor bad in itself, it just feels that way because we wait so long on hiatuses.
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