Steven Universe

"that's just the Diamonds being weird and horrible and making living beings just to literally use them as walls and statues."

I got Castle Lemongrab flashbacks. Bits of Candy Kingdom too, especially when the pebbles came in.

Somebody please dub Yellow with Lemongrab's voice.

> Somebody please dub Yellow with Lemongrab's voice.

It's been done,search youtube

Interesting point someone on Reddit made,those Gems attached to the walls could be a form of security or something

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Thanks. What I found was highly acceptable.

I don't think the Crystal Gems could or would do that. Honestly, even on Homeworld I doubt that kind of stuff is common outside of the Diamonds' living spaces—it's quite wasteful.

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Ever since we learned the episode title "Familiar", I guessed Lion or Lars would somehow be important (because they're basically Steven's familiars). That didn't happened, but we did see a bunch of other beings (re)created by Pink/Steven's powers. I'm not sure if that's a coincidence or a deliberate double meaning.

We did have a shot of one the statues looking like it was about to reach out to Steven, link◊

Though it's more likely a reflection of light under water..

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Finally got around to playing Save the Light. It's a pretty good expansion of the first one, and the core combat is really fun, but clearly unfinished: Though definitely improved since the initial release, it's still got some annoying bugs where characters get stuck mid-animation (the first time I got to the Final Boss, Steven fell through the floor) and it's there's some hilariously obvious cut content (like one or two bosses and Lapis as a party member).

Did the crew ever make a statement about where cross-caste fusions get their names, or am I just hallucinating? Someone made a claim elsewhere but, of course, cited nothing.

When it comes to the matter of White Diamond, I'm still thinking she's like Father from FMA and created the chromatic diamonds by purging herself of her emotions to become "pure", and the fact that we saw some sort of life essence being extracted from the diamonds to presumably manufacture new gems with gives me an idea of what that process might have entailed.

My forecast for Together Alone is that at first it'll seem like Steven's approach is working; he makes some headway with Blue and/or Yellow, but then he runs into a brick wall with White Diamond, and does something that gets him locked up in his room (probably fusion), which brings us to Escapism.

Is "Escapism" next week or the week after?

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Its on January 7, 2019 so it's the week after

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January 7th is next week. Then it's a week off before "Battle of Heart and Mind".

my excuse for getting the weeks mixed up is news years eve

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@Capsase: Really, no progress was made with any of the Diamonds, though White seemed the angriest (I'd be very surprised if she wasn't looking directly through her Pearl).

Dang, now I'd say Steven, Connie, Stevonnie, or some combination thereof have about equal odds of singing "Escapiism".

Hmm, the theory that White's pearl was originally Pink's but she got taken away and "corrected" for some reason seems pretty likely, going off of that dream.

So those White Pearl used to be Pink Pearl theories seem to be true after all. Could that mean that Our Pearl used to be White Pearl?

We Hopaled for Opal and got the worst.

Also, the end of that Dream Sequence had me uneasy for the rest of the episode. I imagine that was their intention.

And RIP those two Gems. I think the captions called their Fusion "Jadeite", but I'm not entirely sure.

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As for the "Escapism" song, the track is available on preorder and it shows the artist information ^{and it actually spoils who sings the song} both Zach Callison and AJ Michalka are credited as singers, so Stevonnie and Steven arw both in it. I don't see a reason why Connie wouldn't be a part as well

@Crossover-Enthusiast: According to the credits, they're Jades, and so presumably is their fusion.

They also have the same voice actor as Nephrite.

loved seeing the gems!Lots of sapphires,rubies,the lapis gems are probably too busy to attend a spontaneous balls,also aquamarines!

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I think now the only member of the Crystal Gems that the Diamonds haven't poofed is Bismuth.

Don't jinx it!

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That green Gem totally stole the show for me. I want to see her again.

If you want to get technical, a Diamond has poofed Bismuth, twice in fact.

Edited by tclittle on Dec 31st 2018 at 7:48:24 AM

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

Spoiler marks aren't really helpful more than a few posts after the first on the subject.

I love that the show itself agrees that Yellow Diamond is Lesser Dog, and that her neck makes her look like a rokurokubi.

People keep saying that they think Pink and White switched Pearls. Is it possible that Pink's original Pearl was just shattered? That seems like a simpler explanation.

Next week is "Escapism," then we get a week off, then it's the hour-long season finale that was initially conceived of as the series finale.