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Collen the cutest lizard from it is a mystery Since: Dec, 2010
the cutest lizard
#32976: Jun 2nd 2016 at 6:24:08 PM

[up][up][up] Yeah, it's still the beginning of the third season, and two major plot threads have just been resolved, at least for the moment. The show can afford to have some breathing room.

Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...
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
#32977: Jun 2nd 2016 at 6:34:34 PM

By the way, I hope the Rubies come back to become a semi-regular Quirky Miniboss Squad

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
higurashimerlin Since: Aug, 2012
#32978: Jun 2nd 2016 at 6:38:49 PM

I think chilled Ruby knew the whole time that CG Ruby was an imposter. When CG Ruby tried to blend in, chilled Ruby just stares at her with a look that says "you seriously think you can blend in like that. Just casually stares at CG Ruby when she insisted on searching the barn by herself, Didn't need to use her fingers to count how many rubies there are suppose to be. And says "what a surprising turn of events" very sarcastically.

Also we now know why Rubies sink in water. They are very dense.

When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with the lemons.
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#32979: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:04:50 PM

Should I expect more face memes from Hit the Diamonds?

diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#32980: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:39:00 PM

I just absolutely adore the Rubies. They're absolutely hilarious to watch.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#32981: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:45:07 PM

On a side note, what's that black sphere above their ship? Some kind of portable black hole thingie?
It's an Alcubierre Drive: a device that bypasses mass's inability to travel as fast as light by warping space faster than light.

I wonder what cyclops Ruby meant with that “thank you.” I don’t think it was for telling them where Jasper is.
Why not?

Especially with the "what we really are" playing over and over again.
As I said before it started, the line was probably just a way to reuse audiovisual assets from the show in a dramatic fashion and was likely made without the involvement of the actual show staff.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#32982: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:47:53 PM

As I said, I think it was more because cyclops felt forced to thank them.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
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
#32983: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:56:15 PM

[up][up] I guess so. Movie studios usually hand over making trailers to production companies that had nothing to do with making the movie. I just didn't expect Cartoon Network to do something similar.

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
higurashimerlin Since: Aug, 2012
#32984: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:57:24 PM

I think Ruby eye knew about the cluster and was glad to have an excuse to get the hell off of Earth before it gets destroyed by it.

When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with the lemons.
Cailleach Studious Girl from Purgatory Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Studious Girl
#32985: Jun 2nd 2016 at 7:58:55 PM

What do you think the eye gem placement was symbolic of? Centipeetle also has a gem for an eye

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#32987: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:03:28 PM

"Eye hate you."

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#32988: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:05:00 PM

Eye, Eye, Eye, your eyes hypnotize. By why, why, why do you stay by my side?

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#32989: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:10:00 PM

I guess so. Movie studios usually hand over making trailers to production companies that had nothing to do with making the movie. I just didn't expect Cartoon Network to do something similar.

It feels weird because they ran the big dramatic reveal at the beginning of the Stevenbomb. They keep using Cluster clips too.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#32990: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:33:13 PM

Do people exclusively refer to "filler" episodes as a bad thing?
anything labelled Filler is considered pointless...bad.
The constant double standard is what infuriates me. People call parts they don't like "filler", yet abstain from (and even object to) doing the same for the parts they do like, even if they're no more significant to plot or character.

Look at today's episode: you could say everything is filler until the Ruby's revealed they were after Jasper and left. No one is going to unless they disliked it.

The complaint isn't (or shouldn't) be that x episode didn't do anything for the plot, but rather that x episode was generally not.... good.
Exactly. That's why I said using the label of "filler" as a criticism is tautological.

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
New account is voidify
#32991: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:38:44 PM

Instead of saying "I don't like it because it's filler" say "I don't like it because it does nothing for the Myth Arc, in my opinion doesn't do much for character development, and generally doesn't interest me" (replace with your personal reasons for why an episode is "filler" but those are the most common factors for something being labeled "filler"). Those are legitimate complaints for some episodes, but "filler", outside of adaptations, has no real meaning.

edited 2nd Jun '16 8:39:27 PM by SmartGirl333

Tropesofknowledge The Man with the Golden Gun from Your local Cinnabon Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I wanna know about these strangers like me
The Man with the Golden Gun
#32992: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:45:44 PM

I like to think that an eye gem is the gem equivalent of an Eyepatch of Power

edited 2nd Jun '16 8:47:56 PM by Tropesofknowledge

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#32993: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:47:25 PM

I think she was an eyeshole, myself.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#32994: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:48:13 PM

The Crystal Gems character page is still overlong—it literally says this any time you edit it. Splitting off the gem fusions a few months ago bought some time, but it's now up to the same length it was then.

Before splitting it apart (I'll be damned if I know how, there are no more subgrouping of significance), I propose a couple ways to trim it down first:

  1. Cleaning up examples that aren't really character tropes, just events specific to one episode. I don't think this will actually do as much as it would for some pages, at least not now.
  2. Cleaning up poorly fitting examples. I'd say there's a notable number of those, but it's not enormous either.
  3. Moving the entry about gems as a species elsewhere, perhaps the main character page or the "Other Gems" tab.

edited 2nd Jun '16 8:49:05 PM by thatother1dude

supermerlin100 Since: Sep, 2011
#32995: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:48:18 PM

[up][up] It does seem to have had some effect on the peridot and Lapis situation.

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#32996: Jun 2nd 2016 at 8:53:51 PM

[up][up]I think we should do all three personally.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#32997: Jun 2nd 2016 at 9:02:23 PM

I know tyou move out o the theme but I want to said something about "filler": that usually people have diferent meaing of it, I have see fans with their definition and this what I come:

-Goal based filler: this means the show have set to one thing and everything device for it is consider filler, mostly use by anime fan because they sidetrack the main plot A LOT, by this definition, everything not related to homeworld,monster,cluster is that

-Them, there is what I call "Goal" based filler where if chararter just does stuff and unless it conect to somthing else them it matter very little,if you devolpt charater or reveal new power or do something, by this definition many things like horror show or Lion 2 would be filler because it dosent set things(at least in my case it was until rose scarbard show me wrong)

-And for last there is conent filler where stuff happen and yet for many is not really enough to hold the episode

Now that dosent mean those epsiode aren good but for many it hold not value without continuity, here is where SU crew did amanzing job by having so many continuity nods over the series and even beach city people episodes carry something, but as oddway said, in this show filler mostly mean "Meh"

"Rolando feels like he'd be from a way more cynical show, Sadie and Lars (at least when we're supposed to take them seriously) from a more emotional and grounded show, so their episodes feel distinctly disjointed from the rest of the show"

I think it depend on how much influence Steven have in those episodes, or how much impact have in him otherwise it feel like guess chararter in his own damn show.

"Nightmare Hospital in general left a bad taste in my mouth, but I think because it touched too close to personal issues."

Really? bad, I like it for the silent hill vibe it give but connie parent are somewhat of scrappy for me.

" At this point, every problem with Homeworld seems so far away, that I'm starting to care less and less about it. "

Well in part I agree because homeworld is in this weird state of "OH FUCK HOMEWORLD" and "oh yeah, Homeworld" I liked HW as worldbuling because it have a sense of awe in how weird it is...also Im deep fantasy nerd so that count as well

Also, I think hit the diamon is light and softer counterpart of keystone motel: where Ruby and saphire set the problem by refusing to talk, here they set a problem because they spend too much time firting, also the whole "I just want to look you" was very charming

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#32998: Jun 2nd 2016 at 9:06:49 PM

This was not an image I was expecting from one of the staff.

I think we should do all three personally.
I just moved the "gems in general" part, which brought it down from "too long" (for now!), but the rest will take a considerable effort since the page's enormous size is the whole problem. Every time I tried to do cleanup for these pages, I always spend several hours on one or two characters's entries, then give up.

edited 2nd Jun '16 9:10:01 PM by thatother1dude

ClownToy Since: Aug, 2015
#32999: Jun 2nd 2016 at 9:28:02 PM

  • shrieks* I don't know what to think.

FawfulCrump Since: Dec, 2010
#33000: Jun 2nd 2016 at 9:31:08 PM

[up][up]I ship it.

I do not know what Blood and Wine is.


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