Steven Universe

Nah. Most people associate the Xenomorphs with the ant-like hive creatures of Aliens, rather than the sadistic monster of the original film. Not sure I want to go to deep into that in this thread, but the imagery is obvious. And Lambert's death.

Not saying that Aliens is an inferior film, just that its portrayal of the alien is more ingrained. That said, it being more ingrained can cause people to miss other portrayals of the alien.

But agreed. There is almost so much you can do with the same villain - though we see the same villains all the time, just wrapped differently.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:18:31 PM by SilentColossus

Plus, in Aliens you have Lowered Monster Difficulty. Which is not to say that the Xenomorphs aren't dangerous, but they're dangerous because they have numbers, not because they're almost invincible and utterly sadistic.

To bring it back to Steven Universe, Jasper is established as A) about as powerful as Garnet, the strongest Crystal Gem, and B) zealous and determined to the point of fanaticism. So even though Jasper never wins, she's still dangerous, and only beaten at great cost. If we ever see a bunch of other Jaspers show up and the Crystal Gems tear right through them, that would be a letdown.

But the Jasper the CG dealt with was a perfect specimen.

We already have in flashbacks—Pearl poofed two Jaspers (or similar quartzes) instantly in "The Answer" without even using her spear (which she may not have learned to use yet). Most jaspers are not as strong as "the ultimate quartz".

It definitely looks like Steven's "destiny" is going to be more of a diplomatic one than that of a warrior. I can see that being the part of the show that gets kind of messy, and splits the fanbase because that's a complicated subject to tackle. And a lot of people will have different opinions on how we should react to / deal with characters that are basically dictators.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:38:42 PM by xanderiskander

Given the show has been very clear in the past that there's some things Steven can't fix, I don't know if he's gonna be a full on diplomat. Maybe somewhere in the middle between diplomat and fighter, I don't know.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

There's yet another promo out, which is very tonally different than the other two (suspiciously so; "No need to worry~"?). Several of the clips seem to be from "The Good Lars". In fact, it came out at least four days ago.

I can only find the Portuguese subbed version for some reason. Maybe the promo only aired there?

Woo! More Cool Kids!

My various fanfics.

Cool, it's been too long.

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Here's a high quality version.

Also I just noticed that Buck is wearing the Guitar Dad shirt again. Ahhh

edited 29th Apr '17 12:36:54 AM by Crossover-Enthusiast

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So Lars is going to learn how to cook?

@thatother1dude: I don't know if the promo aired over here or not, but unless that video was dubbed there's no reason to think that

> So Lars is going to learn how to cook?

It looks like he already knows how according to the trailer

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http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/clip-steven-universe-returns-for-5-night-event-on-may-8/?doing_wp_cron=1493445229.6927330493927001953125

Oh hey cool it's coming to the app first before its airs on TV

edited 29th Apr '17 10:52:37 AM by Ultimatum

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There are some international versions of CN that use English audio and subtitles in the local language. That's how we got those couple episode from season three early—they aired in France with English audio and French subtitles (the videos posted online left out the audio subtitles, but the text captions were baked into the video).

If this means they come to the website too, that's fine. If not, you'd have to choose between watching it on a tiny screen or avoiding a barrage of spoilers for a week.

This one has me more worried than the other one!

Me and my friend's collaborative webcomic: Forged Men

As far as I'm aware, they only air dubbed cartoons over here, which is why I'm telling you that.

@ WillKeaton29th and Ultimatum: He's known as far back as "Island Adventure", actually.

edited 29th Apr '17 11:23:25 AM by Crossover-Enthusiast

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Lars cooked and Sadie used her fish-murdering skills.

It looked like they were baking jelly filled donuts in that trailer or something similar.

edited 29th Apr '17 1:52:19 PM by xanderiskander

Brock would approve!

context

New theme music also a box

I thought you meant the other Brock.

Lego Garnet.

Good grief.

That's brilliant.

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Pretty good :0

I won't lie... I was expecting it just to be Sapphire standing on Ruby's shoulders something that could be split into two different builds that are actually Ruby and Sapphire, like a Megazord :P

Oh yeah, I remember seeing that a while back!

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