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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#35251: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:38:33 PM

[up][up][up]It's really not that big a reveal. We already knew they were setting up Kindergardens on other planets. Aside from just general ''I want moe things", the most common sense reason to expand is just that they need more resources.

edited 21st Jul '16 4:42:04 PM by xanderiskander

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#35252: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:38:52 PM

The Rubies are gonna show up 30 seconds before the final episode ends asking where Jasper is because they can't find her on Neptune.

Oh really when?
Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#35253: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:43:39 PM

When did that theory start cropping up? It could just be Animation Lead Time at work.

There's been a group of people headcanoning it since Beach City Horror Club I think. Though it's always been for like the flakiest of evidence.

Austin Since: Jan, 2001
#35254: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:44:00 PM

Isn't this kind of a light episode to drop such a major plot point of "Homeworld's running low on resources"? I thought something like that would be major reveal, like the Rubies would come back and accidentally spill the beans.

I'm glad that wasn't just me. I wouldn't be surprised in the Crew did it that way intentionally.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#35255: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:45:47 PM

It's also been foreshadowed in other ways, like when Peridot was trying to convince Yellow Diamond that they could use Earth's resources, while still keeping the ecosystem intact.

dmysta3000 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#35256: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:46:48 PM

It didn't seem like that huge of a reveal, it just seems like an exposition dump which sort of explains why YD would only send a group of clearly incompetent Rubies to go after Jasper

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A_dude Nominal guy Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
Nominal guy
#35257: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:48:06 PM

Looking at the Wikia for the episode. It has a few tidbits of note:

  • Laramie is apparently Lars' birth-name.
  • His parents are Dante and Martha.

Also, if Steven can sleep enter other people's bodies, and not just their dreamscapes...

What was Rose doing with these abilities?

edited 21st Jul '16 4:48:57 PM by A_dude

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#35258: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:51:08 PM

I think his astral projection powers, are more of an extra thing he got from his human side. When he learned he had those powers, the gems didn't even know they could dream.

Cailleach Studious Girl from Purgatory Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Studious Girl
#35259: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:55:37 PM

Isn't this kind of a light episode to drop such a major plot point of "Homeworld's running low on resources"? I thought something like that would be major reveal, like the Rubies would come back and accidentally spill the beans.

That's actually one of my favorite parts of SU. What a Cerebus Rollercoaster it is. You never know when there's going to be a big reveal. On the Run was a lighthearted episode until the last few minutes. You have to constantly be alert, which makes it exciting. In other shows, you can say "Welp, looks like this is a boring slice of life episode, time to watch something else" but SU keeps you on your toes and in a constant state of excitement.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#35260: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:57:53 PM

Google says Laramie is technically unisex but boy-leaning name. Otherwise it makes me think of Matthew Shepard because of The Laramie Project.

Anyway the fact that Lars went around shirtless without any hint of 'mastectomy scars or even residual breast buds makes it rather unlikely anymore (though still not completely impossible) that he's a trans guy, but pointing that out in a lot of circles on Tumblr will get you labeled as a truscum, so...

CodeXYZ Ice Ice Baby from Under the Stars Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Ice Ice Baby
#35261: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:59:14 PM

That was an interesting episode.

Every time someone said Laramie I heard the voice of Troy Mc Clure. Now I can't help but think Lars was named after the cigarettes from the Simpsons.

Sadie and Lars have an interesting relationship and sad relationship, sad for Sadie that it is.

The new Lars was 100x better than the old Lars.

edit: Sadie has Caligula the Documentary as one of her movies, thank goodness it was just the documentary wink

edited 21st Jul '16 5:03:05 PM by CodeXYZ

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35262: Jul 21st 2016 at 4:59:45 PM

Oh boo, pointing out the truth results in backlash...then at that point, who even cares?

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#35263: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:00:00 PM

[up],[up][up][up] My stance is it's a cool headcanon, but I hate when people project their Headcanon as actual canon and expect everyone else to agree. tongue

edited 21st Jul '16 5:00:22 PM by Lionheart0

A_dude Nominal guy Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
Nominal guy
#35264: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:09:21 PM

Another one of my favorite parts: Steven not knowing what a report card is. "That doesn't spell anything!" [lol]

Could we somehow spin this as a means of determining whether that Steven goes to school comic is show-canon, or just Legends material?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#35265: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:09:53 PM

Damn Steven doesn't even know what a report card is, Wow. Also what were the grades he got? I know mostly Fs butt here were a few decent ones there.

Also seeing Lar's with Steven's perpetually cheery nature was just weird. Its great that Steven's a nice kid but he can sometimes take that niceness a bit too far. He didn't even try to act like Lars.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#35266: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:10:50 PM

Personally, I rather liked the "Lars is trans" theory because I feel like the show would be able to address that kind of thing properly in a non-Anvilicious way as it has for other LGBT topics, but at the same time I still realize that as it stands current medical transition isn't a magic bullet. For the people who have this headcanon because they are trans themselves and want someone to identify with, they're probably setting themselves up for unrealistic expectations in their own lives. And if it's a case of Tumblr's sitewide plague of people imposing their headcanons on others, then there's no excuse for that no matter how hard one tries to invoke Misery Poker.

The majority of people who go through medical transition will not end up looking like Janet Mock or Ben Melzer, let alone people whose bodies carry a lot of the desired "traditional" secondary sex characteristics, such as a cis man's broad shoulders or a cis woman's wide hips. There's still going to be scars or other anatomical "leftovers", like Caitlyn Jenner's height, broad shoulders, and deep voice, because the current state of medical technology just can't do anything about that. Granted Lars' build isn't that unfeasible, and not all trans people want changes that severe, but nevertheless people should be aware of the complexities of human biology for their own sake.

edited 21st Jul '16 5:16:24 PM by AlleyOop

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#35267: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:13:48 PM

That explains how Steven's dream powers work. I had pretty much guessed he just takes over a persons body. That's generally how it works with mind powers. But now we know what happened to that watermelon Steven. He went to sleep one day and just, never woke up. Probably more pleasant than seeing Malachite rise up out of the ocean and, wait, did she eat the watermelons? I forget.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#35268: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:14:53 PM

Pretty sure Malachite just smashed it.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35270: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:17:10 PM

[up]x5 He got a B, C, and a D...

Larson does worse than I do, as a person who doesn't try...I feel validation.

edited 21st Jul '16 5:17:34 PM by randomness4

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Cailleach Studious Girl from Purgatory Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Studious Girl
#35271: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:17:10 PM

So Lars's dad's name is Dante. Hmmmmm

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#35272: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:20:15 PM

First thing it made me think of was Dante Basco. For some reason I always headcanoned Lars as part Filipino. Probably because his voice actor is Asian.

edited 21st Jul '16 5:21:28 PM by AlleyOop

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#35273: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:24:26 PM

I, on the other hand...

Oh God! Natural light!
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#35274: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:25:23 PM

[up] Wow that line really is bad.

Especially the light part. Was that done in a single take?

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35275: Jul 21st 2016 at 5:27:02 PM

[up][up]How popular...bad line delivery.

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