(removed, please don’t nag this person)

bogleech:

OH MY GOD you guys, do you even realize Marvin the Martian has repeatedly threatened, attempted, and advocated MASS. GENOCIDE. Against an ENTIRE PLANET because it was blocking his view?! If you still think he’s cute and funny you are fucking disgusting

Ya’ll acting like Steven Universe is a one-dimensional plotless show for two year olds like looney tunes? Fuck that. Apologists for serious villains in a serious developed show because they’re cute are fucking disgusting. Peridot had roughly 10 minutes of airtime and apologists are acting like she’s not a villain when literally nothing ever but parallels someone over analyzed suggested otherwise. That martian guy has his moments at least. This isn’t the same thing. Two funny episodes don’t make a show looney tunes.

Uh I don’t know if this is even a serious post but okay

1) it’s pretty common knowledge that the Looney Tunes, originally run in movie theaters since before the existence of television, were for all age groups but leaned towards jokes for adults of the time, including political satire and risque humor received similarly back then to how we view “Adult Swim” comedy today. They are also considered defining treasures of the medium and pretty much the original bar set for Western animation, which, in terms of craftsmanship, has rarely ever been matched since.

2) The actual point is that nobody needs to justify why they like a fictional villain for fun. Fun is why both heroes and villains are ever made at all, no matter how dark and dramatic. Everyone in the world has favorite villains, whether from Batman or The Little Mermaid or horror movies. It’s normal to find them cool. It doesn’t say anything about a person unless they’re actually arguing in defense of real-world violence, and I don’t think anyone is saying that it’s actually acceptable to make weird monsters out of unwilling sentient beings.

I will add that that’s another long-time classic archetype all the way back to when Mary Shelley essentially invented modern science fiction by writing Frankenstein.

3) Steven Universe might be the smartest thing on TV right now, but it IS for children first, and there is positively nothing wrong with that. relax and take pride in the fact that you watch a very excellent children’s show that teaches healthy, beautiful things to the next generation. Most programming for adults is vapid and hateful anyway, there’s nothing shameful about something having children in mind.

Implying otherwise is kind of also implying that children are “stupider” and their tastes and interests less important.

4) The “seriousness” of any work is going to be subjective and nobody is obligated to take any completely fictional thing seriously. The messages conveyed by a work can be important as hell, but if you forget you’re watching scripted drawings on a kid’s network you’re going down a dangerous path; the kind that leads to toxic and abusive fan circles like the brothers pone and gamer crocs. 

People can find Peridot an entertaining imaginary bad guy AND still take seriously the notion that they should not be a monster to sapient life.