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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#31151: May 12th 2016 at 10:27:48 PM

They redeemed a mindless monstrosity and yet some of y'all don't want Jasper to be redeemed.
You have to have done something wrong in the first place to be "redeemed". The Cluster was just forcefully mashed together.

edited 12th May '16 10:28:37 PM by xanderiskander

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#31152: May 12th 2016 at 10:34:37 PM

Yeah, none of the characters had anything but grim sympathy for the gem mutants. They were dangerous, but everyone was aware that they were people twisted into something horrible rather than evil. And the cluster is just one big gem mutant.

On an unrelated note, between her reactions here and in the last two or three episodes, I get the feeling that the whole time we knew Peridot as a villain she was actually severely rationalizing her actions. Deep down, it doesn't look like she was as coldly fine with destroying the Earth or continuing Homeworld's experiments as she seemed.

edited 12th May '16 10:35:12 PM by KnownUnknown

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#31153: May 12th 2016 at 10:35:23 PM

So will P-dot be redeem-ified?

That's gotta be an arc, right?

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#31154: May 12th 2016 at 10:37:19 PM

She already has. I really liked how while she admits the beings of Earth besides Steven and the Gems aren't all that important to her, she's still legitimately sad when it looks like she failed to save them. She's well on her way to becoming a Crystal Gem.

edited 12th May '16 10:37:44 PM by KnownUnknown

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#31155: May 12th 2016 at 10:39:16 PM

I meant towards Home World, how will she ever fit back into their societals now that she's changed so much?

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SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#31156: May 12th 2016 at 10:41:17 PM

To put it simply: fuck homeworld

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#31157: May 12th 2016 at 10:41:51 PM

Actually, it'd be fun if they do a thing where after all the conflict and aggression is over and the forces threatening Earth are gone, Peridot acts like a bridge between Homeworld's ideology and all the things she learned and returns to try and teach them to be better.

BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#31158: May 12th 2016 at 10:51:13 PM

Hi, guys! Been on TV Tropes for a while but I'm new to the forum. Just wanted to join in by sharing what I thought about these episodes.

I really liked how Steven's solution to the Cluster problem was essentially Talking the Monster to Death. That, plus the actual pain he was feeling when Peridot was drilling into it really shows how empathic of a person he really is. wild mass guess Maybe part of his gem powers are that he literally gets sympathy pain when another gem is needlessly hurt. wild mass guess.

Watermelon Island was fun, too. The watermelon Steven village was sooooo cute waii. And I really liked the big fight scene. Though I'll admit that I was disappointed that Malachite and Alexandrite didn't have their own fusion weapons (gauntlets + spear + whip = ???; helmet + water = ???). Also, I thought that was a kind of weaksauce way Jasper was handled at the end. It wasn't even a Villain: Exit, Stage Left like with Peridot in Friend Ship. She just...slid into a chasm, unconscious, without so much as a line by anyone acknowledging it.

Still, pretty good episodes all around. I can guarantee that one to all three of the new episodes will be about Lapis getting used to being back to normal, and Peridot trying to apologize for herself and Jasper. And Jasper won't show back up (for more than a brief tease) until the season finale, I guarantee it.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#31159: May 12th 2016 at 10:59:14 PM

Pearl tried to catch her, if that means anything.

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SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#31160: May 12th 2016 at 11:02:39 PM

Never forget my original reaction to Peridot when I watched warp tour: "this gem is a montain [sic] dew coloured dorito"

Ruise Nyanpasu~ from your subconscious Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
Nyanpasu~
#31161: May 12th 2016 at 11:06:03 PM

[up][up]Watermelon Steven Steven got a reaction shot with him mouthing Jasper's name, too.

in the aaaaaaarms of th angel.....far AWAAAAAAAAAAAY fr-

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.
honeyishrunkmyself Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#31162: May 12th 2016 at 11:09:51 PM

I just remembered that the next episode is not coming until next week. Shit.

edited 12th May '16 11:10:03 PM by honeyishrunkmyself

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#31163: May 13th 2016 at 12:13:27 AM

[up] TBH, I was rather surprised we got 2 episodes today.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#31164: May 13th 2016 at 12:26:47 AM

Steven's empathy is probably his greatest weapon.

He stopped Not-Lavos with it.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#31165: May 13th 2016 at 12:32:02 AM

[up][up]Can not exactly be a 4 week special with 5 episodes to dispose to your audience.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#31166: May 13th 2016 at 12:35:29 AM

[up] Wait, 5? I thought it was 6!

Also I didn;t noticed there were 5 episodes until after I seen the 2 parter

Gaunt88 from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#31167: May 13th 2016 at 12:41:03 AM

Was that.... a Contact reference in Gem Drill? The walls of the pod flickering into a spacey tunnel effect? I'm choosing to believe it was tongue.

Watermelon Island was already full of Evangelion references.

Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#31168: May 13th 2016 at 1:21:19 AM

I really liked how while she admits the beings of Earth besides Steven and the Gems aren't all that important to her, she's still legitimately sad when it looks like she failed to save them. She's well on her way to becoming a Crystal Gem. On her way? Isn't that exactly how Gems feel about humanity? They barely register Connie and Greg as more important and tbh I barely care about other lame hoomans.

Man, the opening was so confusing, with Steven being stuck as watermelon.

Watermelon doggie and chicks are so adorable.

Well, you got to forgive them. Watermelons probably picked up the whole "sacrifice fixes things" from their first episode.

Female melon goes to war and her husband stays with kid, This show is so progressive.

When I heard that ride will take 2 hours, I thought for a second that whole episode will be about them traveling to Cluster.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

edited 13th May '16 1:22:01 AM by Sunchet

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#31169: May 13th 2016 at 1:33:12 AM

Why's anyone even suggesting that Jasper could be dead? Law of drama dictates that they would not sneak the death of a major villain past the viewer in such an anticlimactic manner.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#31170: May 13th 2016 at 1:47:21 AM

[up] Because we assume that Gems, when unconscious, have Super Drowning Skills

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#31171: May 13th 2016 at 2:46:53 AM

...but gems don't even need to breathe, do they? :I

Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#31172: May 13th 2016 at 3:57:52 AM

Then why their moon base had air to breath?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#31173: May 13th 2016 at 4:26:58 AM

So they could talk?

Sound has to travel through a medium.

edited 13th May '16 4:31:16 AM by unnoun

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#31175: May 13th 2016 at 5:05:43 AM

So are they going to ever get the cluster out or. Just sorta. Leave it there.

Pearl knows her baby.

brutal.

Peridot's visor.

Alexandrite's face.

Given that fusions are conversations. I love the amount of coordination required for that one-liner.

edited 13th May '16 5:41:42 AM by unnoun


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