Snippet Star 7 | Commentary 2
The Uncle Andy Issue
Genre: Meta
Pairs: Not important
Parody: Steven Universe
AU-Type: |x|
Tags: Deconstruction, Thoughts of the Author
Andy DeMayo. You want a character that will send a Steven Universe to sneer in disgust? Mention him. A previous review inspired this next commentary. Look, I'm going to be blunt with you all. I do not hate the character. I just find him a pointless nothing chapter not even worth hating. People tend to compare him to the likes and I'm thinking about that's flat out asinine. At the very worst, Uncle Andy was an ass. Compare to the Diamonds, who…literally talk down our leads while actively trying to kill them. The biggest sin was on the writers for making Uncle Andy the focus of a half-hour episode. I could go into more detail, but he's not worth the time. So, I'll skip to gist. If the writers wanted to make Andy an unlikeable douche, they failed because they gave him sympathy and justification. One rather nasty case of justification I kept pointing out frequently got me yelled at for being insensitive and so on.
That point being that the writers screwed the pooch by not remembering "Gem Harvest" in "Last One Out of Beach City." Remember Andy's "illegal aliens" line? "Last One Out of Beach City" had justified a rather rancid line, and yet few bring it up. Why? The knock-off Rose is one thing. At the end of the day, Andy isn't truly worth getting mad over. I sometimes feel the writers deliberately made him just to distract from the show's glaring holes.
(A/N: I could have gone into more detail, but I refuse to waste time on a pointless character. It's just not worth it, and he's not worth my top 10 worst list.)