TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

Steven Universe

Go To

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35626: Jul 23rd 2016 at 7:50:07 PM

It's really a pretty awesome superpower, because at-will lucid dreams basically turn a third of your life from an unknown mess to essential free recreation time.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35627: Jul 23rd 2016 at 10:13:28 PM

It's pretty clear Kofi is going to be in "Restaurant Wars". He last spoke in "Beach Party", which premiered 27 months ago. That breaks Jamie's record of "longest real-world time between speaking appearance" by 10 months.

I kind of wonder if he'll even have the same voice actor.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35628: Jul 23rd 2016 at 10:17:53 PM

It's the same VA for our pizza boi.

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
A_dude Nominal guy Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
Nominal guy
#35629: Jul 24th 2016 at 12:21:37 AM

It feels obvious, even without watching advance footage, "Restaurant Wars" will involve some conflict between at least the Pizza family and the Fryman family, although a small part of me would like to see whoever it is that runs the ice cream shop further west on the boardway appear as well.

Another thing that I'm curious about is whether or not this episode serves as a lead-in to the following (the one about Kiki) as has been the case somewhat in the recent crop of episodes, or if they are just two standalone stories that coincidentally involve a certain member of a family group. Given that story synopsis, I'm starting to strongly suspect the title is a Red Herring, and won't involve any pizza-delivering shenanigans whatsoever.

Previously known as "71TheRoman". Wishes his password wouldn't forget who he is...
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35630: Jul 24th 2016 at 1:21:49 AM

The episodes are stand-alone from each other...also "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service" I'm pretty sure comes before that other one.

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35631: Jul 24th 2016 at 4:39:21 AM

[up]"Restaurant Wars" is Monday, "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service" is Tuesday.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35632: Jul 24th 2016 at 4:58:08 AM

Chronologically...speaking, at which point it probably doesn't matter.

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#35633: Jul 24th 2016 at 7:50:41 AM

It looks like Greg is buying a yacht.

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
#35634: Jul 24th 2016 at 8:37:48 AM

Do you think there's going to be Miyazaki references in "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service", or do you think it's just going to be the title?

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#35635: Jul 24th 2016 at 9:13:44 AM

References would be nice, but unless it's taking place outdoors, I don't see how.

On an unrelated note, I hope someone rips the music from Soundtrack Attack, some of the remixes sound pretty great.

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#35636: Jul 24th 2016 at 10:01:14 AM

References would be nice, but unless it's taking place outdoors, I don't see how.

Someone has to deliver those pizzas, and Steven can fly/jump good...

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
#35637: Jul 24th 2016 at 10:19:58 AM

Isn't one of the preview shots Steven flying around in the sky? Maybe that's from that episode, and they'll do a visual Shout-Out to the flying scenes from the movie.

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#35638: Jul 24th 2016 at 10:49:57 AM

There's a 99% chance that the plot of "Restaurant Wars" is that the adults who run the fry and pizza places get into a fight, leaving the kids to try and bring an end to the feud. The 1% chance is that a major corporation like Pepe's Burgers moves into town and causes a stir among the family owned shops in town. I'm really just hoping that we get another cameo by Pepe's Burgers. They have this great commercial you see...

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35639: Jul 24th 2016 at 11:28:16 AM

Some more Youtube clips from CN for all of next week's episode but the third one:

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#35640: Jul 24th 2016 at 12:55:02 PM

Guess that explains the rocket boot clip they play before and after every summer of steven episode starts. Was curious about that.

dmysta3000 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#35641: Jul 24th 2016 at 1:24:33 PM

[up][up] I guess it does make sense that Lapis would still have no clue who Greg is at this point.

GUNDAMU GUNDAMU
PolarKoala dirty hobo birthday tricks Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
dirty hobo birthday tricks
#35642: Jul 24th 2016 at 1:33:34 PM

It's interesting how 'The New Lars' is both a parallel and a contrast to 'Mr Greg', seeing as how it follows the same basic principle: Steven attempts to force people to work out their relationships to be how he thinks they should be.

While it failed in 'The New Lars', I don't think Steven has realized what kind of boundaries there are to such a thing yet. If he doesn't get some character development in this area, there's going to be wasted story potential.

I mean, he's got to have some sort of flaw, right? Writers, give him flaws! Make him fail from time to time, and have to pay the consequences and learn from them!

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35643: Jul 24th 2016 at 2:19:13 PM

To recap last week:

  1. Steven is happy
  2. Steven is suspicious
  3. Steven is successful
  4. Steven is bearing witness
  5. Steven is not successful
  6. Steven is fucking pissed

edited 24th Jul '16 2:19:21 PM by thatother1dude

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#35644: Jul 24th 2016 at 2:22:26 PM

Are those in the correct order?

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
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
#35646: Jul 24th 2016 at 2:49:43 PM

I still think Steven when he was in Lars's body sounded a bit oblivious, even for him. It felt like this episode was written before "Island Adventure", or maybe even "Choking Victim", and Steven hadn't really gotten a full glimpse into Lars and Sadie's relationship yet.

If he can understand how to start to fix one relationship, why did he take such a broad-stroke approach to trying to fix Sadie and Lars, despite seeing them interact for a while now?

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35647: Jul 24th 2016 at 3:06:15 PM

why did he take such a broad-stroke approach
Being too broad wasn't the problem with the "get Lars to confess to Sadie that he loved her" strategy.

trying to fix Sadie and Lars
Sounds painful.

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.
#35648: Jul 24th 2016 at 3:13:33 PM

Personally, I think that he understands Greg and Pearl pretty well, due to having known them for pretty much his whole life. And maybe you could argue that being part-Rose helps too?

By comparison, I don't think he really understands Lars that well - his issues can be rather difficult to understand, and even more difficult to solve, at least for someone Steven's age. I don't know how long Steven's known Lars, but I doubt it's been for a very long time.

I think the same holds for Peridot and Lapis in "Barn Mates" - when you take into account the amount of time they spend together, he barely knows Lapis at all, and I think that makes it so that he doesn't really understand her all that well, and doesn't really know how to help with her issues.

edited 24th Jul '16 3:14:15 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#35649: Jul 24th 2016 at 3:59:26 PM

At the very least, Steve has more emotional leverage with Greg and Pearl to get them to cooperate, instead of rejecting Steven's ideas off-hand like Lars.

edited 24th Jul '16 4:00:20 PM by thatother1dude

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.
#35650: Jul 24th 2016 at 4:13:08 PM

That's true. Also, Greg and Pearl aren't nearly as irritable as Lars and Lapis are.

Oh God! Natural light!

Total posts: 63,336
Top