>>149193640
Suspension of disbelief exists to allow the audience to become emotionally invested in a story. It falls apart when the emotions that the story presents to you don’t make sense even when you buy into the story’s logic. Steven Universe first asks you to be horrified at the gem experiments, which are shown to be heinous through visuals and music.

Then it asks you to think of the characters responsible as just toxic family members. I know what the story was trying to do. It just failed