SU 1x01 Gem Glow

Ideally I would like a thread started for each episode so we can talk about what we liked (and didn't like) about said episode. So of course we start at the very beginning: episode one.

I'm probably going to be the unpopular opinion here but I actually did not like the first episode. When I first watched it at the very beginning when Steven Universe first came out, I put it down because I didn't like what I saw. I thought it was just gonna be another kid with dumb fart-joke-type-jokes and was just going to be another product of apparently what kids want to eat up these days.

I've revisted this episode three times now and I still don't really like it - even after running through the whole series and being in love with it.

I felt like...it didn't set up much for the show. It didn't give a clear picture of what you were in for at the beginning. It just looked like it was gonna be about a weirdo kid with a rock on his stomach that loves food and was going to be riddled with lame jokes with a lame protagonist. Though I will admit in hindsight, I'm glad in a way that Steven was...a really immature character with annoying tendencies because it makes his growth and development into who he is now that much sweeter.

I will chalk it up to the show just getting started and they were still probably feeling things out as the show developed.

I agree completely! I did not expect anything like what we have now.

I still enjoy the first episode though I think even more so now because how different the show ended up. I still love the Cookie Cat song. xD I initially thought this series was going to be more like Adventure Time due to this episodes set up but i'm glad it didn't. I think it just gives you a taste of the show and is just for establishing the basics of the characters. It makes the development of them much better due to this episode.

Cookie Cat will forever be a song that gets stuck in my head constantly.