[ SECRET POST #3148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3148 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Steven Universe]


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03.
[Et Cetera]


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04.
[Gravity Falls]


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[Xenosaga]


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[Anastasia]


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07.
(Amazing Spiderman reboot)


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[999]


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09.
[Adam Hills, comedian]


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[Ar Tonelico]















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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/LIybYl3.jpg
[Steven Universe]

[(Anonymous)]

This episode bothers me because the aesthetics are clearly going for 80's while the canon timeline points to 90's. Also why does Amethyst look like a baby when she was already thousands of years old at this point :(

[(Anonymous)]

Regarding Amethyst's appearance:

1. I saw a theory on tumblr that said maybe the shock of Rose's death caused the other Crystal Gems to physically age. (If you look closely at Garnet and Pearl, they appear slightly younger in the flashbacks.)

2. Even if that's not true, it's canon that gems can shapeshift to look however they want. There are multiple episodes centered on this fact.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I got the feeling she was content to be a "child" then, and just maintained that particular form/"age". The Gems do say they are as old as they want to appear. We do see that she hung with Vidalia a lot, and looks more like her current form. I think maybe she started to let herself "age" after they met Greg and Vidalia and she wanted to be more grown-up. (Like a little kid wanting to hang out with the big kids)

[(Anonymous)]

If you look closely at everyone during the flashback episodes, and compare heights (especially with the size of static things like the van), everyone is actually pretty much the same height they are in the modern day. It's just that 1) everything's framed around Rose, who was incredibly tall, so everyone else looks shorter around her, and 2) their looks (especially Amethyst's) make them look a lot younger without really changing their proportions much.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell forbid anyone like anything from 10 years ago, huh.
Maybe the 80's were/are Greg Universe's favorite decade.

[(Anonymous)]

Writing 101: your story is set in the 90's? You want your audience to RECOGNIZE this time period? Then throw some 90's shit in there. Not the decade before it.

This is not rocket science dude

[dethtoll]

Does it have to be specifically mid-to-late 90s? Because the early 90s still had a lot of the trappings of the 80s, it's not too far-fetched.

(I've not seen the show)

[(Anonymous)]

Logically, '94 is about the latest it can really be placed. The present sections are set in the present, and there's no real way Sour Cream is older than about 20 - and the first flashback episode, "Story For Steven", makes it clear that Greg met Rose and the Gems on the same day Sour Cream was conceived.

[(Anonymous)]

Shit. Brain fart. "'94 is about the earliest it can really be placed."

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was supposed to be nineties? Greg and Marty definitely look pretty nineties to me. Pearl's outfit looks a bit eighties, but when you factor in Sour Cream's age, he has to have been born in the late nineties, and I doubt Vidalia put up with Marty's BS for a decade.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly this. But, despite this, some people think it was the 80s. There used to be several mentions of it on the wiki, but they seem to have been "wiki magicked" to generic "past".

[(Anonymous)]

I sort of go with this is a little bit like Adventure Time, it's a weird post-apocalyptic world that seems normal on the surface, but a lot of time things don't line up right time-wise. And things like how Pennsylvania is named Keystone in present-day time, but Pearl remembers it used to be Pennsylvania.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and most of the story is set in the Delmarva Peninsula, which is a state in SU, IIRC. You can't really claim that history is the same, or fads are either. Rebecca Sugar and her creative team tried hard to make SU look and feel unique. While their art influences may be pretty obvious sometimes, a person can't assume that there is a one to one correlation to the real world's global trends.
And it doesn't have to be. As far as I'm concerned, it can be the SU creative team's visual playground.

[(Anonymous)]

Pearl never called it Pennsylvania, just 'the Keystone state.' Which is Pennsylvania's real official nickname, but would work equally well as her just not being quite in touch with how humans format their state names. (Especially one so recent in origin -- why, it can't be much over two hundred years old, after all! Barely the blink of an eye.)

[(Anonymous)]

Greg: Well I gotta drive over to the next state; Keystone.

Pearl: You mean the Keystone state?

Greg: Right, the state named Keystone. I met a guy on an internet message board who's selling car wash brushes for real cheap! I just gotta meet him in Keystone and pick em' up!