Auto 5 for Steven Universe, but I haven't been watching these because I need to catch up at some point. I miss living in a house with cable. And unless I'm just looking in the wrong places it's not the easiest show to torrent.

I use kickass.to. I also pay for the show on Amazon Instant but Kickass gets me the episodes sooner.

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Boring musicals, too. Who wrote this song? Joss Whedon?!

Also, fuck Steven Broniverse for exploiting veterans with PTSD. June is National PTSD Awareness Month, and this is how they choose to raise awareness? By having some dumb sing-song praising medieval feudalism?

Keep farting that forcefully and you're going to tear something, Homer.

PTSD isn't a joke or a plot point. I am playing piano at a PTSD Awareness benefit next week; I'll be sure to burn a picture of Steven Universe in protest before my set. Details will be posted to my PunchySonichu Tumblr.

I'm urging you, Homer, talk to a dietician about this. Good digestive health is nothing to be ashamed of! I'm sure you can get these farts under control, but not alone.

How would you respond if the synopsis for this scene was "A child desperate for approval is trained in sad sex by a depressed, bereaved rape survivor"?

I would say "EvilHomer should consider eating less curry."

See, Bort? It may not be rational discourse, but it IS a form of discourse.

eat more fiber

In all honesty, I balance it out. I DO eat too much curry: as an Englishman, it is my national dish, and I will typically make a korma or a rogan josh at least once or twice a week. I even curry foods that aren't meant to be curried - like the other week, I baked a couple of what I like to call an Aloo Caravaha, or Curried Shepherd's Pie. It is essentially a beef or lamb saag gosht with a shepherd's pie potato topping. Very tasty.

However, I also eat a lot of rice as well as tandoori naan and stuffed kulchas, so that provides a decent amount of fiber.

Yeah, the best way to deal with anything is to never talk about it in fiction! Make it a taboo! Characters who deal with problems people face in real life are exploitative.

Look, there is a lot of exploitation of PTSD and other mental illness in fiction right now. But Pearl is a well rounded and filled out character who slowly reveals that she's experienced trauma. That's not exploitation! It's actually a really good thing.

Yeah.. nothing about this seems to be making fun of Veterans or anyone with PTSD, other than that it's a kinda funny (but mostly bittersweet) cartoon. The Simpsons does make fun of PTSD all the time with Principal Skinner, and some of my favorite Principal Skinner jokes from the show were made less funny after I worked at the VA and experienced it vicariously.

But I never served, so I wouldn't know what it's like to see exploitative films like American Sniper, Hurt Locker, well, even Rambo through that subjective lens, just like a lot of people who don't work with folks with developmental disabilities don't understand why I get so offended at the exploitation of that population, even if the intention seems just fine on the surface. So I dunno. I just like this show is all.

While I hear and respect your points, Misters Yuck and Zest, I must again bring up my previous question: how would you respond if the synopsis for this scene was "A child desperate for approval is trained in sad sex by a depressed, bereaved rape survivor"?

Not really sure. I lost my virginity to a girl who was raped about a year before I knew her, but she told me that after we were going out for a while. If she had told me before we had sex would I still want to or would I think I was raping her too?

You like it when MLP has songs. Rebecca Sugar probably wrote this and she's probably the best woman in animation today. She's not exploiting PTSD. The gems fought wars and its part of their story. Its educating the audience, helping to make us more sensitive to it unlike the chicken hawks who wish to hide it.

MLP has GOOD songs. Bob's Burgers has GOOD songs. This song here? It's just sappy, phoned-in, and dumb. It's actually worse than Joss Whedon, if that can be believed.

And of course people shouldn't be "hiding" PTSD. That's why we have things like PTSD Awareness Month. At the same time, however, you have to remember that PTSD is a serious psychiatric issue and can be very triggering for people (literally triggering, not Tumblr triggering - "triggering" is a clinical term that was originally coined in relation to traumatic stress disorders). If you want to make a tribute, that's fine, just be sure it's done tastefully; like that military furry country music video I just submitted. Something like that is acceptable. Steven Poniverse, not so much!

You just watched the "True Detective" season premiere, I take it?

Has the new season started? Is this season going to be about rape?

New season started just last night. It's ... well, so far it's not winning me over.

The first season was widely criticized as a celebration of machoness; I didn't take it that way. The theme I thought I was seeing was that old structures of patriarchy and control of women keep finding expression no matter how "civilized" we think we are, which you could see in the backwards swampy Yellow King cult, or in Marty, or even a bit in Rust.

But as of the second season, I take it all back; they don't know how to write women except as whores (literally or figuratively).

I honestly don't remember all that much about the first season of True Detective, certainly nothing macho. I'll check out the new season, though, as I can't imagine it could possibly be as bad as Orange is the New Black (or as I like to call it, "Prison is the New Quirky Hangout Spot for Hipsters") and my current TV show que is down to either that or Kevin Bacon: Netflix Cop.

I was talking about Law and Order: SVU, actually. The main character hates rape, because one time her mom was given a rape. VERY COMPLEX.

True Detective is dumb.

Oh right, Jayne Mansfield's daughter.

Law & Order SVU is one of those terminally dumb network-style shows, though. With a show like that, you have to expect terrible plots and terrible writing; you are meant to watch it ironically, or not at all. Also, it's better than the UK version, for whatever that's worth.

She also hates decapitation by truck.

True Detective 2 is.. well.. it's weird. Like it's not bad, but it doesn't really do anything! So everyone's complaining about it like it's not as good as the first one, which did get off to a pretty quick start. So I dunno. First episode of Better Call Saul was pretty slow, but they were smart and combined it with the second one so people didn't notice.

Nawp, I'm of the opinion that season 2 (at least the first episode) is actively bad. What don't I like? How about:

- Colin Farrell's character: world's worst dad, amped up to a hilarious level. Seems his wife was raped and the kid is probably the rapist's.

- Rachel McAdams's character: the ball bustingest cop who ever ball busted a ball-bust, but also secretly a freak in the bedroom. Seems to have daddy issues of some kind. Her sister's name is "Athena", who was referred to as the Goddess of Love, and nobody seems to have noticed the mistake, so I'm feeling it was unintentional.

Every woman we see is a whore of some kind, either literally or figuratively; there's no room for, say, Marge Gunderson in the world of "True Detective". There's precious little nuance to the men-folk either.

Yeah.. I wasn't even going to give TD1 the time of day until someone posted that brilliant raid scene from episode 4 or 5, so I could sort of binge and not talk about it week to week. And so I called the ending pretty early on, because I wasn't doing other things during the week for those first 5 episodes. But it is weird that they'd start the new season with such a fractured episode: if anything TD1 is remembered as a great show with a disappointing buddy cop ending, so why decide to start TD2 out so oddly? For anyone who says this kind of "reverse storytelling" is revolutionary when compared to other cop shows, well, you're trying a bunch of peoples' patience.

Plus, beyond the plot I liked the scenery: I've never been to the Deep South so it was probably like people who had never been to Pacific Northwest watching Twin Peaks. Even if the episode was going nowhere (and there a lot of Twin Peaks episodes that go nowhere) it was still pretty. But Los Angeles is probably tied with New York for cop shows set in them; even if you've never been there you kind of know the geography. I was hoping for something of a more exotic location. I guess we'll see where it goes; it could be like The Leftovers, which was a very slow boil into something pretty great.

There was a theme I liked in season one, at least I thought it was a theme: however modern we think we are getting, the old structures and old rules still hold sway. That's why I thought the women were all written as whores (figuratively or literally) and the men were typically fine objectifying women, because it was all about how some things never change, no matter whether you're fairly modern like Marty or a pagan throwback like the Yellow King cult.

Problem is, I don't think that was a theme any longer, so much as a defect in the writing: season two is treating women exactly the same way but without the thematic justification. I suppose they could try very hard to do the same theme, but this time it's about a male murder victim, and the setting is all wrong (the concrete of California as opposed to the primordial ooze of the bayou). So it's just more likely that they don't know how to write women.

Dont talk about True Detective in a thread completely unrelated to it.

Steven's dead mom made some enemies a long time ago. Said enemies have been reminded of her existence (such as it is). Also, he kinda IS his mom.

Because angst and hipsters.

Hopefully this isn't too spoilery (although it's kind of spoilery):

Rose Quartz led a revolution against homeworld due to ideological differences regarding personal freedom, the nature of love, and caring for creatures that aren't your own kind. And then a few thousand years later she fell in love with a human (Greg Universe, a traveling musician), and made a human-gem fusion with him, and that required giving up her physical form for as-yet-unexplained reasons.

Homeworld believes Steven to actually BE Rose Quartz. And, as it turns out, so does Pearl. And they may be right.

Huh, that actually sounds fantastically complicated for a children's cartoon. In a good way.

And that's only scratching the surface.

Very deep. You need to have an open mind and look past the fact that its animated.

It seems like Pearl wanted to have what Garnet has.