Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-1478058-20160728210735/@comment-1478058-20160924193538

A cool little piece on Onion Gang

"Yes, to us, it’s clearly a group of kids in masks, but for someone whose last year has been getting kidnapped multiple times, almost dying, being ambushed and assaulted, you’re not really seeing those kids in masks anymore. That’s what Mindful Education set up for us. Sometimes, Steven sees things from the past when he’s in a tense or battle situation. And these manifest things are exactly what leads him to shout for Onion to get away while he can. He sees this as a real threat. Usually Steven has the other gems snap him back into reality but at that moment, he was alone with his thoughts. ... the threat of an attack is real, no matter how unassuming the assailants are. And it speaks volumes that Steven felt threatened by it, because of how unassuming it looked. You don’t come back from a battlefield the same way you left and that’s something we as an audience also have to be sensitive about. So when Steven is watching Garbanzo lay there, it doesn’t matter whether or not he saw Garbanzo rub ketchup on his face. When he saw the redness, he was brought back to something much more sinister. He’s clearly seeing something else again. And we have to remember the context. Steven is clutching his heart after Onion tells him this is all a joke. His heart rate was likely rapid and skipping. He was close to having a panic attack and his terror was having physical manifestations. He wasn’t being a coward. He was genuinely being taken back to some awful fears and speculations."