Official Barn Mates preview clip.
I love Peridot's face at the end.
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...So I'm not sure if it's because of the story or because of all the "specials", but I feel like this show's changed. Instead of each episode dealing with its own mystical/alien conflicts and bringing its characters out because of those conflicts, it only does that some of the time. Like, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure all the recent Bombs have gone like this:
BIG PREMIERE EPISODE WOW ACTION BOOM DRAMA
then a handful of filler episodes that deal with minor characters and little to no tension towards the characters
BIG FINAL EPISODE BOOM WOW ACTION DRAMA conclusion
And so far...this four-week thing seems to be going down the same road. I don't hate it, just that I am sort of missing what the show was before its schedule poofed and shattered. I liked the "Steven, lead by his guardians, the Crystal Gems, learns about the importance of life while dealing with the fallout from an interstellar war, which often overlaps with the normal life in Beach City" more than the "Steven talks to somebody we already know and occasionally meets with exactly one Beach City-goer". Does that make sense?
I sort of feel like we're starting to level off with the hype levels. While Sugar's teased some shit for the Fall, we don't have quite as much on Summer of Steven, which leads me to believe we'll be returning to the old routine for a bit.
It's just been that recently there have been a lot of major status quo shifts, and there needed to be quite a few episodes to accommodate them.
Rebecca retweeted this from Lamar
(A story boarder on the new ep). It's pretty funny.

Fanfic about the Cluster.
I need this to happen.
I need Steven to get a giant planet-sized gem mom.