As someone who loves reading reviews, I know hard it can
sometimes be to accept that what’s amazing to you can be complete garbage to
someone else. This idea is replicated in
this cartoon by also showing what could happen if the person with the different
opinion is your best friend. The idea is that
Steven and Connie have finished reading all the entries in a book series, and
Connie shows complete dissatisfaction with how it ended. Steven, not being very clear about his own
opinion of the ending, decides to please his friend by taking her to Rose’s
room to create a new ending. Just as it
did in its first appearance, the room grants Steven anything he asks for,
giving him and Connie everything they need to recreate the ending the way they
would want it. As a result, much of the
cartoon is just Steven and Connie going through the different parts of their
new ending and Steven coming up with different ways the events would go. The moments of this are mildly enjoyable, but
still not all that exciting compared to other moments in the series. A possible reason for this is that they all
revolve around a book series with so much details being revealed at once,
making it hard to keep up with what it’s all about, not to mention a book
series that isn’t nearly as important as other parts of the show. However, there are some interesting things to
note as the story goes on. Every time
Steven suggests a different idea for the new ending and asks Connie what she
wants to do, she simply responds that they should go with what he wants. After this happens too many times, Steven
comes to the conclusion that he’s not talking to the real Connie, and is
instead talking to one created by the room when he said he wanted to see her,
which is a pretty clever turn of events.
The reveal leads to a climax where Steven rushes to find the real Connie
while being chased down by the fake one, and during the chase, just as the pink
whale from the room’s first appearance got Steven to see sense, the fake
Connie, in a way, does the same thing here by trying to convince Steven to tell
Connie the truth. As it turns out, Steven likes the official way the book series ended, and
pretended not to so Connie wouldn’t think less of him. Appropriately, when he finds the real Connie,
she accepts his opinion and states that how she feels about him is more
important than how she feels about a book.
This is perhaps the best way anyone can respond to someone with a
different opinion, and given how harshly people in the real world can react to
people of that kind, they should turn to this cartoon to re-evaluate their
mannerisms. As basic and slow as this
cartoon mostly is, it’s great that there’s still some creative and meaningful
moments to take away from it. 9/10
The Ranking
- Rose’s Scabbard
- Ocean Gem
- Lion 3: Straight to Video
- Alone Together
- Coach Steven
- On the Run
- Maximum Capacity
- Mirror Gem
- An Indirect Kiss
- Space Race
- So Many Birthdays
- Steven the Sword Fighter
- Lion 2: The Movie
- Bubble Buddies
- Monster Buddies
- Laser Light Cannon
- Winter Forecast
- Giant Woman
- Lars and the Cool Kids
- The Test
- Steven’s Lion
- Horror Club
- Watermelon Steven
- Gem Glow
- Steven and the Stevens
- Marble Madness
- Warp Tour
- Open Book
- Island Adventure
- Rose’s Room
- Cheeseburger Backpack
- Future Vision
- Secret Team
- House Guest
- Serious Steven
- Joking Victim
- Beach Party
- Cat Fingers
- Tiger Millionaire
- Together Breakfast
- Fusion Cuisine
- Frybo
- Onion Trade
- Arcade Mania
- Garnet’s Universe
- Keep Beach City Weird
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