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Outside of what Jaspee did to Garnet, no fusion actually does get force poofed down to just gemstones.
Sugilite and Malachite were both defused back down to the physical forms of their components.
And in that episode Alexandrite defuses from Aqua's wand...for some reason.
Edited by randomness4 on Aug 22nd 2019 at 8:20:18 AM
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Ah yes, compression.
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And like I said, Topaz was unique in the forced split not causing or necessitating any form of incapacitation—not poofing, physically exhausted, nor even mental anguish (like when Blue Diamond split up Alexandrite).
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This is in real time isn't it?
That episode hasn't happened yet.
I get it though, there's nothing quite like that.
Edited by randomness4 on Aug 22nd 2019 at 9:08:39 AM
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Oh, bother.
I've long had the headcanon that the Destabilizers are based on Yellow Diamond's own power.
The Diamonds' powers generally seem to be geared towards controlling and manipulating other Gems.
Pink Diamond has Empathic abilities and can repair Gems.
Blue Diamond has similar abilities but can instead cause an Emotion Bomb.
Yellow Diamond has lightning powers that can disrupt the Hard Light bodies of Gems.
White Diamond combines all of it into a simple yet powerful ability: outright Mind Control and possession of other Gems.
Edited by M84 on Aug 23rd 2019 at 12:08:29 AM
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I thought that was implicitly confirmed since they have basically the same look and function, Yellow's powers are just a lot more faster and potent.
Speaking of, since it took a while for Yellow to destabilize Blue, would Gem Destabilizers even work on the Diamonds?
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Aug 22nd 2019 at 12:10:54 PM
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Oh, bother.
I very much doubt it. Why would the Diamonds allow the creation of weapons that could actually allow a regular Gem to hurt them?
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An interesting detail is that whenever a fusion involving Garnet is forced apart by discord or shock (even against Aquamarine), we always see Ruby and Sapphire quickly refuse when it happens. But on the one time we saw a fusion involving Garnet get poofed (Sugilite), she poofs down to Garnet and Amethyst rather than down to Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst.
I mean, more likely than not Sugilite is merely Early-Installment Weirdness before they were interested in hinting at the twist about Garnet, whereas the first time we see Ruby and Sapphire refuse is in Fusion Cuisine, around the point where we started getting hints about it more often and somewhat closer to when it would be revealed.
But still, it stands out.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 22nd 2019 at 9:52:04 AM
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Mala and Suggs are an interesting case, as they're the only time a Fusion has been shown "poofing" due to severe damage to their forms in the way a single Gem does. Every other time the fusion defuses into their components willingly/because of unsynched harmony or just gets destabilized along with their components.
Interestingly enough, Stevonnie is also shown "poofing" in "Alone Together" for some reason instead of just breaking apart into Steven and Connie.
Edit: also, new (low-quality) movie screenshot courtesy of ComicBook.com's twitter: aaayyyyyy
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Inconsistent...
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Simple poofing fusions doesn't revert them to their gemstone. I can't think of a single point in the series it ever did, minus Yellow Diamonds "divine in comparison to regular gems" power. It reduces them to their base parts.
Even when Pearl and Rose were fighting OG Ruby Squad in The Answer, they made sure to have fusion be poofed first and then the individual Rubies be poofed by an additional attack, in a detail so extra that it almost certainly had to be intentional.
At any rate, my post had little to do with that in the first place.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 22nd 2019 at 10:46:13 AM
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...Gosh darn it, I knew I was forgetting other examples...
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> would Gem Destabilizers even work on the Diamonds?
I'm imagining it would only work if it was applied directly to their Gem
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Another artbook has been announced for July 2020: Steven Universe: End of an Era, which is covering seasons four and five and possibly more.
Bizarrely, the description is written as if the show ended with "Change Your Mind" (it doesn't mention the movie either, though that has its own artbook that's coming out earlier), when we knew another season was coming since at least Fall 2018.
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The Labor Day marathon is finally scheduled. Contrary to some reports, it's not the entire series—it's exactly 100 quarter-hours of 160 (including shorts).
Looking through it, they include the entirety of season 1a, then start skipping around—not very carefully even, as some of the first ones left out are "Space Race" (which introduces the Galaxy Warp) and "Fusion Cuisine" (which introduced Connie's family).
Rewatch, Day 36
- This is the most recent of the four episodes that were done by a single storyboard artist, this time by Jesse Zuke (then known as Lauren Zuke).
- Aquamarine's ship warped away from the Earth, but they're not warping and the Earth in view for the establishing shot.
- "You think shattering's bad? Wait till the Diamonds get their hands on you." Both her and Blue Diamond say that, but Yellow Diamond "just" wanted an execution. (Plus, they thought everyone Rose loved and everything she fought for was going to die anyway.)
- "Looks like we got one of the humans anyway. Don't know what we'll do with just one of them, but I guess that's for the Diamonds to decide." The apparent answer was "stick him in the evidence locker".
- What was stopping Steven from popping Topaz apart with his bubble again?
- Topaz could have put Lars somewhere besides her butt right before she sat down.
- "Why couldn't I just let people eat my food!" Well then you'd have gotten kidnapped while in a good mood.
- "Of course she can't hear you, Steven. She's got those big headphones on." It's amusing to wonder what humans assume gemstones are.
- "Lars, pull my pants off." is still a great line.
- Lars' has lots of great◊ pouty◊ faces◊ this episode.
- Steven's human friends treat him basically being a superhero as normal, but it's nice when they realize it's still very stressful.
- "Even though you're in huge trouble and it's all my fault... I'm kind of glad you're here." Steven, being justifiably self-centered.
- "I don't know what Topaz would do if she didn't have Topaz." Fusions talking about themselves is fun.
- "I've always wanted to tell me how I'm helping me through this, but there's always someone between us!" Topaz's pronoun use is less consistent than Garnet's, probably because she doesn't talk about it.
- Topaz put Steven's pants back on without taking him out. Considering his legs were sticking out her back, that's pretty impressive.
- I noticed Topaz('s voice actor) has a slight Mexican accent.
- "And what do you plan to do after this? Go back to the Diamonds?" Even if Topaz thought Earth specifically was too dangerous to live on, you have to wonder why she didn't just take the ship to some random corner of space (unless she couldn't change course).
- This is remains my favorite Bottle Episode (in any show).
- The rooms are◊ way◊ creepier◊ on this visit to Homeworld than the next time. Were seeing some kind of repressive court center, so I guess it makes sense.
- Defense Zircon's voice at times sound hilariously dopey.
- The Prosecuting Zircon is officially colored yellow, but looks green because of the lightning. It's asking for a joke where Steven ran into her later outdoors but can't recognize her.
- Blue and Yellow Diamond immediately accepted Steven was Rose even before Eyeball testified and they saw his gemstone.
- The courtroom is seemingly build on a special type of warp pad where anyone can make certain items come in anywhere.
- Yellow Diamond finds Zircon's description of family member's murder too much.
- One wonders how things would have gone if Steven just told Blue Diamond "I lost all my memories before a recent point, but I'm still pleading guilty."
- Yellow Diamond is surprised at seeing Steven's gemstone. What, was she half-expecting he was just a scapegoat she'd happily have killed anyway?
- Yellow and Blue never discuss Steven's plea to spare Lars and Earth, though of course they still thought its destruction was inevitable (and for that reason Blue would have obviously put Lars in the Zoo if she wasn't busy with other things).
- Yellow Diamond shocking both prosecutors was another red herring (make it look like she's eliminating witnesses), but shows she's so thin-skinned even agreeing out of term can set her off.
- "Those giant crazy chicks aren't going to be distracted forever!" Next time Lars saw Blue and Yellow, they were at the Beach City concert.
- "You're on own world now." for the next hour.
- There are a bunch of ruins◊ on the ground below the palace city. And that's just stuff above the Kindergarten.
- "What are we gonna eat?" Getting stranded on an entire planet devoid of food is a pretty nightmarish scenario.
- In hindsight, it's kind of odd Steven would run away from the first robonoid instead of using his shield to defend himself or knock it out of the air.
- This is the second time we've see a human unacquainted with gems conversing with some of the less human-looking ones (the first being Alexandrite and the Maheswarans).
- Some of the rocks were dripping water. Even if Homeworld doesn't have oceans or rain, I guess it's not all dry.
- A Kindergarten... a really, really big one.◊ Possibly the first Kindergarten.
- "You don't happen to have any fast-food joints around there, do you?" The Rutile twins sandbag Lars because they had no idea what he's talking about.
- Non-gem lifeforms like humans are counted among the "off colors".
- Fluorite: really good hider◊
- The scanners can penetrate Steven's shield but not Lars' body. I guess cause it's made of light?
- Steven looked◊ and sounded optimistic at first when Lars went "splat". It may have taken him a minute to realize "Oh yeah, humans can't survive that."
- Lars' skin shimmered◊ right after his revival. A temporary effect of the magic, or a permanent thing that's just not been shown explicitly afterward?
- I like how much of a "decompression" this whole episode was; the chill music in the first scene especially sells it.
- "So, we either stay here and get caught... or we go out there and get caught." It's not explained how this situation was resolved, but it presumably involves Lars taking advantaging of his scanner invisibility.
- The new tree island.◊ Wonder if anyone will ever start putting stuff there.
- We see Steven drinking and eating. Not shown: bathroom break.
- Steven was incredibly hungry, but even if he hadn't eaten since Connie was captured, that's only like from lunchtime to about dawn of the next day.
- "Wish I could tell everyone I'm OK." Did Steven still have his cellphone on him?
- "There's so much I wanna ask you." We've still yet to find out anything else about Lion's origin, like what killed him or even a rough estimate at to his age.
- If you hang out of Lion or Lars' portals, they have to support your weight◊.
- "Everyone knows that the Earth—" "Was decimated by the Diamond attack! Sorry." Rhodonite sometimes can't wait for Fluorite.
- "The Earth is way better than this. There's no robots flying around. Just seagulls that fly in front of the sunset and it's beautiful!" I loved the delivery for this.
- If I were in Lars' position, and confident Homeworld were just going to throw more effectively-blind robonoids at me, I may have pushed harder for everyone else to leave, then just sat down and taken a long nap.
I think about this a lot. The stuff with Buddy and William Dewey was about 200 years ago in the show's world. Lions mature at around 3-8 years old and usually live to be 14, so assuming Lion was part of the original seven lions shown in "Buddy's Book" and was killed in his prime, he'd be around 203 to 208 years old.
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Rewatch, Day 36
- Pearl and Amethyst look incredibly worried◊, but Greg seems fine◊.
- The pattern on the hilt of Rose's Sword looks different in this episode◊ as compared to every other one. Instead of a looking like a thorny-vine, it's got a big candy-cane stripe.
- "Let's do this quick. I can't be away from work too long. I'm basically their only employee now." This is the day after Sadie spent a whole day and night kidnapped and stuck inside Topaz. That she came to work at all was a big sign she was only doing it compulsively for a sense of normalcy.
- Is this a recall election or just very-conveniently timed?
- If Steven warned everyone or saw the abduction coming, I do wonder how much of a difference it could make.
- Giant, blurry Kofi.◊
- The woman screaming "Yeah, maybe he should be involved!" (uncredited, but it sort of sounds like Micucci) sounds vaguely British.
- Onion's eyes are freaking out when Sadie is calling Dewey out.
- I love how hoarse Sadie's voice gets when she's yelling. You can tell she isn't normally that loud.
- Onion is in the crowd scenes, but you'd expect some of his family (or Barb) to be there as well.
- Ronaldo is in both crowd scenes (at the booth in the first one), but spends the whole time looking at this phone. So of course, he doesn't remember Sadie saying Lars was gone.
- "I've been mayor of this city for a decade." Timeframes! (This goes with how Sugar said the "Buck Dewey For Mayor!" sign in "Story for Steven" was for Bill's father. I wonder if Buck senior is dead or just retired.)
- Martha brought a whole bag◊ full of throwing tomatoes.
- Nanefua's speech seems like a spontaneous reaction to Dewey's, but it (or at least the idea to stop blaming Dewey for everything) could have been in response to the press conference where Steven cleared him of responsibility.
- The credits call Dewey "William Dewey", when he's usually called "Bill Dewey", but that's probably because Nanefua spent most of the time calling him "William".
- Bite that tube!◊
- Scrubbing with dish soap◊ remains one of the best visual jokes in the series.
- "Did you ever get around to watching the Koala Princess box set I lent you three months ago?" I wonder if Steven ever did watch it.
- Given they bought groceries before leaving, the vacation home is probably nearby, but far from any town.
- Garnet is arguably too smart to smart Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud, but the delivery is good enough that it's still funny.
- "Remove all shoes before entering."◊ Well, they may not have been coming back for them anyway.
- The night lighting gives Garnet's visor a really nice-looking gold tint◊.
- Steven never tries jumping into the sky for a better signal.
- It's not specified if they stayed on vacation for a while or just headed straight back after the car ride.
- I remembered this episode seeming kind of weak when first watching it with the other five, but it's actually pretty funny.
- Peridot and Lapis knew Steven went to Homeworld, but not that he was on trial.
- "You were in front of Blue Diamond!" "And Yellow!" Lapis naturally fears her (former) Diamond the most.
- "Oh, Steven. Good. Let's go." I can't tell if Lapis was inviting Steven to come (and forgetting he couldn't survive), or just wanted to say goodbye.
- "A Lapis terraforms..."◊
- Lapis wants to take Pumpkin, but shouldn't she need air for carbon dioxide?
- "You know, I can probably still help you when I'm out in space. I'll just video chat from my tablet!" "Uh, t-there's no Wi-Fi in space." Would Peridot be willing to leave with Lapis if she was able to make a communicator that reached Earth?
- Four-eyed Peridot.◊
- Onions Onions◊: looking for that misspelled sign appeal.
- "Sometimes, you have to do things you don't want to do, like get jettisoned into space to live forever on a floating rock with a barn, and just us as for as long as time exists!" There are probably a bunch of Homeworld gems that would go AWOL if they could stand the loneliness of being in hiding.
- What?! (Barndrop)◊ Lapis Lazuli: master of the unintentionally threatening.
- There were tubes going from the water tower to the drill hole.◊ Was it to fill the hole up or drain it?
- Steven gave Peridot bedding for the tub this time.◊ It looks pretty comfy (if you're short enough to fit your whole body in there). Presumably, Peridot wasn't sleeping last time she stayed.
I totally forgot to mention the ends of "Doug Out" and "The Good Lars" were the biggest POV breaks, both showing the audience something of dramatic significance that Steven didn't see at all.
She actually calls him "Billiam".
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That might just be her accent blurring "w" and "b" sounds.
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Be aware. There's a leak that just came out which is easily a bigger spoiler than any of the others so far.
Recap, Day 35