User Reviews

It starts out as another innocent adventure but eventually the fun is ruined when Jasper shows up again. The writing in this is spectacular. All the language Jasper uses in order to "win" Lapis back is everything a toxic person would say to an ex-partner who doesn't deserve them. "This time it'll be different! I've changed!" Things I'm sure a lot of people have heard before. I'm sure this resonated with a lot of people. I clapped and shouted "YES!" At my screen when Lapis stood up for herself and knocked Jasper off the boat with her powers. But I'm sure that's not the last I'll see of Jasper (yes I'm watching this for the first time😌)

I've watched all of Steven Universe's episodes, and at worst, I've thought an episode was OK. When I watched Alone at sea, I thought those 10 minutes were 10 hours of horror.

We have an episode with Greg, Steven and Lapis, three characters that I enjoy seeing on the show, and they are going on a boat trip, that sounds like fun, right? Nope. For the most part of the episode, literally NOTHING happens other than Steven tryharding to make everything fun, Lapis being miserable all the time for no reason and Greg being awkward over Lapis, now that idea can make for a great episode, but it was poorly done if that was the intention. There was no comedy, no drama, no lore expansion, nothing.

But then, a glimpse of excitement occurred when Lapis said she missed Jasper, that was surprising and made for a very interesting plot... but then it absolutely flopped having Jasper, who we last saw her falling to the bottom of the earth, magically show up at the boat with them (I'm not a coincidence hater... but come on), and then out of nowhere an abusive relationship plot showed up on the middle of its climax, filled with stereotypical phrases and poses, with the nice little cliché ending of one part saying "NO". They throw Jasper back to wherever she came from and that was it.

Basically, the episode was filled with nothing, a glimpse of excitement that got killed in 5 seconds.