Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26006155-20200107214836

One of my core principles is that if a author did something Deliberately, it should count as evidence.

Take the transition from Drips.wav to Guts.wav on Night 5 of Sister Location. The two sounds are very well mixed, and the transition is subtle, something you’ll only see if you’re watching for it. But sure enough... the sound of water falling changes to the sickly sweet sound of flesh being torn from bone.

This is what I call a Super Deliberate Detail. There’s no possibility that this is a glitch or a mistake. It is a clue the author purposely hid very deeply.

And by the principles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the smallest things are often the important. Because a mystery is a game about finding hidden things.

Steven Universe is famous for hiding clues in odd places, like in-universe TV commercials or subtle background details that only seem relevant with Cartoon Logic in effect.

When I said Lion 4 showed a very specific camera shot where Steven is seen with a halo between the giant legs of Pink Diamond’s ship as if he was her son/grandson, or that the show weirdly pauses to focus on a piece of splattered watermelon flesh on Greg’s leg when he stomps on a Watermelon Steven, that looks like a pink diamond, as if Pink Diamond was in Steven’s stomach, I got laughed at. Who could possibly find relevance in such trivial details?

Yet the entire set of Lion 4 was designed to make that camera shot possible. Just as all of Sister Location was designed to show us that Michael had a metal endoskeleton inside him.

And Steven Universe theories scored hits.

It’s all about figuring out the pattens an author likes to use, the style in which they give clues. And if they did something deliberately, it doesn’t matter how big or small it was, our only question is WHY they made that choice.

So I try a wholistic approach to theorizing, attempting to guess what the bigger picture is while I’m looking for clues, and refining the jigsaw puzzle a bit more each iteration as more and more pieces fall into place.

If an author did something deliberately, it’s not wise to ignore it.