History Recap / StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack

[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose By the way, have you been wondering if those Pink Diamond plotlines would ever meet their payoff?]]

[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose By the way, have you been wondering if those Rose Quartz plotlines would ever meet their payoff?]]

[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose By the way, have you been wondering if those Rose Quartz plots would ever meet their payoff?]]

[[caption-width-right:350:♪ ''Maybe I'll find myself sitting on that distant shore\\
Maybe I'm not alone'' ♪]]

* TheUnReveal: Blue Diamond cuts Pink off from talking, keeping us from hearing her voice for the second time.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: It's more than a little implausible that Ronaldo could make out small buildings on the Moon with a conventional telescope. Even if it could, [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale it's very unlikely he could find any of them]] — the visible area of the Moon is several times that of the continental United States.

* {{Jumpscare}}: In Steven's dream, a silhouette approches Pink Diamond, and pulls out a sword, ready to attack her. Once Steven realises the silhouette in question might be Pearl, it suddenly turns around to throw a DeathGlare at Steven accompanied with what sounds like a [[HellIsThatNoise heavily distorted screech]].

* TheUnreveal: Blue Diamond cuts Pink off from talking, keeping us from hearing her voice for the second time.

* WhamLine: "Why does it look like a barn?"

* {{Jumpscare}}: In Steven's dream, a silhouette approches Pink Diamond, and pulls out a sword, ready to attack her. Once Steven realises the silhouette in question might be Pearl, it suddenly turns around to throw a DeathGlare at Steven accompanied with what sounds like a [[HellIsThatNoise heavily distorted scream]].

* {{Jumpscare}}: In Steven's dream, a silhouette approches Pink Diamond, and pulls out a sword, ready to attack her. Once Steven realises the silhouette in question might be Pearl, it suddenly throws a DeathGlare at Steven accompanied with a [[HellIsThatNoise heavily distorted scream]].

* {{Jumpscare}}: In Steven's dream, a silhouette approches Pink Diamond, and pulls out a sword, ready to attack her. Once Steven realises the silhouette in question might be Pearl, it suddenly throws a DeathGlare at Steven accompanied with a [[TheHellsThatNoise distorted scream]].

* {{Jumpscare}}: In Steven's dream, a silhouette approches Pink Diamond, and pulls out a sword, ready to attack her. Once Steven realises the silhouette in question might be Pearl, it suddenly throws a DeathGlare at Steven accompanied with a [[TheHellIsThatNoise distorted scream]].

Steven gets ready for bed one night when Ronaldo knocks on the front door, screaming that he's spotted something strange on the Moon. Tired and somewhat irritated, Steven accompanies Ronaldo to the lighthouse observatory and tells Ronaldo that he's already aware of the Diamond Moon Base. When Ronaldo asks Steven why it looks like a barn, Steven realizes that something's amiss and decides to investigate on his own, suspecting that Lapis Lazuli may be hiding there after fleeing Earth in "Raising the Barn."

Steven arrives on the Moon with Lion and finds the Barn abandoned. He tracks Lapis down to the Moon Base temple and starts talking to her. It turns out the mysterious orb on the moon base first seen in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E27ItCouldveBeenGreat It Could Have Been Great]]" was an observation device. Lapis reveals she has been using the observation orb to keep watch over the Crystal Gems. Lapis tells Steven that she planned to flee further into space, but couldn't stand the thought of losing all connections to Earth and decided to stay on the Moon. When Steven asks her why she won't just return to Earth, Lapis says that she's disgusted by her own decision to flee, feeling that the Gems, and especially Peridot, will never accept her back.

Steven snaps awake and relates his dream to Lapis, who immediately panics and assumes that the Diamonds are soon returning to Earth. Despite Steven's pleas to stay, Lapis flies into space, leaving Steven alone with Lion in the Moon. Steven is upset over Lapis's departure, but even more shaken by his dream. As the episode concludes, he turns to Lion and demands that he take him to see Pearl.

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Isolated on the moon, Lapis feels like she may as well have put herself back in the mirror.

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Knowing that Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz were one and the same, it becomes clear that Pink’s “excuses” to abandon the Earth colony weren’t the childish complaints Blue and Yellow made them out to be, but actually attempts to spare the Earth’s inhabitants without making the Diamonds too suspicious. Presumably, organizing an armed rebellion was a drastic, final measure, and even that failed to convince them.]]
* SinisterSurveillance: The moon base orb let the Diamonds observe wherever they wanted on Earth.
* SmallUniverseAfterAll: Lapis had already ''left the Milky Way'' by the time she turned back and landed on the moon.
* ThemeSongReveal: If there wasn't enough other evidence the Pearl holding the sword in the flashback was the same one who joined the Crystal Gems, as she draws it the opening notes of "Do It for Her" play.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Steven sees the barn in the telescope, we cut to him riding Lion through a portal to the moon base (apparently near the end of the next day). What Steven told Ronaldo, who was asking questions about the base and wanted to be taken there, isn't specified.

* WhamLine: Ronaldo asking why the moon base "looks like a barn".

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Steven sees the barn in the telescope, we cut to him riding Lion through a portal to the moon base. What Steven told Ronaldo, who was asking questions about the base and wanted to be taken there, isn't specified.

* ChekhovsGun: Steven starts the episode going to bed when Ronaldo interrupts him. When he seems to be changing Lapis' mind while in the Moon Base, Steven nods off, triggering another dream about Pink Diamond.

[[caption-width-right:350:♪''Maybe I'll find myself sitting on that distant shore\\
Maybe I'm not alone''♪]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''Maybe I'll find myself sitting on that distant shore\\
Maybe I'm not alone'']]

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: It's more than a little implausible that Ronaldo could make out small buildings on the moon with a conventional telescope. Even if it could, [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale it's very unlikely he could find any of them]]--the visible area of the moon is several times that of the continental United States.

** The barn on the moon.