After six years and nearly 200 episodes, StevenUniverse asked a crucial, existential question: What happens to a hero after they’ve already saved the day?
became one of television’s smartest, period. It also became more and more complicated as Steven, half-human and half-Crystal Gem, discovered the often disturbing truth about his powers and ancestry. In between heartwarming stories of friendship and sharing donuts came bittersweet victories and hard lessons about what it means to survive. With the preternaturally compassionate Steven leading the Gems, though, they always managed to pull through.
But in the final 20 episodes of the Cartoon Network series — a coda to the main series arc collectively called “Steven Universe: Future,” which ended with Friday night’s series finale — the show made clear that it wasn’t about to take the easy way out of its own cataclysmic events. Unlike many cartoons made for children, its characters wouldn’t bounce back unscathed like nothing had ever happened.
After teasing us with a few idyllic episodes about the peaceful new status quo, “Steven Universe: Future” plunged face-first into Steven’s confusion and trauma with the kind of consideration typical of the series. Used to being the one who helps everyone in their time of need, Steven refused to let anyone help him in his own.
Putting the show’s hero in this kind of precarious position, and showing some startlingly unflattering sides of his psyche in the process, is a huge risk that, in the show’s final four episodes, pays off. The “Steven Universe” team is very aware of its audience — a cross-section of starry-eyed kids and adults — and trusts them to understand Steven’s struggles, having followed him to the ends of the galaxy and back again.
That grace of extending an open mind and sympathetic hand — not just to your friends, but to your enemies, and to yourself — is the legacy of “Steven Universe.” It put love first, not just by saying so , but byso . In taking its characters’ feelings seriously even when they couldn’t, it assured its audience that we, too, deserve the kind of compassion we might be more likely to extend to others than ourselves. In finding hope in the darkest places, it showed how crisis can lead to catharsis.
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