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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#39526: Aug 10th 2016 at 9:51:00 PM

@Aegis P You do know this isn't an anime... right?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39527: Aug 10th 2016 at 9:53:53 PM

[up]That's talking about comparing the show to it's Spanish dub, which I think is AegisP's first language.

edited 10th Aug '16 9:55:14 PM by thatother1dude

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#39529: Aug 10th 2016 at 9:58:45 PM

So, it might have been overlooked by some because of the ending, but the Crystal Gems have a commandeered space ship now. Wonder how long it'll be before we revisit some stuff from Space Race?

Someone apparently asked at comic con about why Pearl wanted to show Steven space, when Homeworld wouldn't exactly be friendly to them, and they said they can't say because of spoilers. So it's probably going to come up again at some point.

edited 10th Aug '16 9:59:15 PM by xanderiskander

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39530: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:02:26 PM

She could've just shown him places that weren't conquered by HW.

And any gem not in the war isn't likely to recognize a random gem appearing on a planet somewhere...Pearl maybe able to blend in.

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Nyanpasu~
#39531: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:04:55 PM

Ignore me if this has been brought up already, but this whole ordeal could have been avoided if they had just told the truth about Jasper. This is why honesty is the best policy, kids.

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39532: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:06:38 PM

Someone apparently asked at comic con about why Pearl wanted to show Steven space, when Homeworld wouldn't exactly be friendly to them
Can I get a source on that? There's plenty of places Pearl could go without any significant risk of running into Homeworld.

lycropath Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#39533: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:07:48 PM

Considering how much the Rubies loved Jasper it would probably go smashie smashie much sooner.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#39534: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:14:16 PM

[up][up] I don't have a source. It was quoted in this thread from what I remember.

Edit: I found it. It was asked pretty early on in the Q&A I guess.

edited 10th Aug '16 10:23:33 PM by xanderiskander

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39535: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:41:41 PM

[up]x4 What ordeal?

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#39536: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:56:13 PM

No, he was clearly running out of air when he re-bubbled, he curled up fetal style.

That's the first dark thing on this show.

The first dark thing?

I mean, this isn't even the first time Steven's nearly died cold and alone in space.

I have a message from another time...
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39537: Aug 10th 2016 at 10:59:19 PM

No swayed opinions on this train of thought.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#39538: Aug 10th 2016 at 11:17:24 PM

And that's how you know how high the bar's raised on violent/dark crap going on in this show.

Heck it's not even the third time.

Poor freaking kid, this whole season's like the span of a month, and he's had to confront a mass of melded psychic screaming voices in his head, help a friend cope with ptsd and the concept of freedom, having increasingly conflicted thoughts on his mom/prier life, let his maternal and father figures have a painful emotional confrontation so they could grow from the experience, messed with his human friends with good intentions and misuse of his new powers he's still trying to grasp, learns to dislike someone on a personal level and work through feelings of sexual harassment, reunited and tried to cure an old friend and only partially succeeding while learning of her backstory and insanity, encounters an even harsher example of sexual harassment crossed with mutual abuse, a trusted friend admitting feelings of stockhom syndrome and self-hatred, sees his sister figure get beaten the crap out of twice and helps with her and his own self-worth issues that haven't gone away, learns that his mother had done necessary crimes in the war and is forced to bubble a new friend because she's gone off the deep end and refuses to let someone suffer a fate worse than death, sees an enemy become corrupted and refuse his help, has confirmation that his mother shattered a Diamond, nearly dies in space yet again, ejects an enemy into space because again they can't be reasoned with, and not only that she's done the shattering for what might very well be the greater good, but that the line between good and doing what's right is very thin indeed.

All at the age of 14.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39539: Aug 10th 2016 at 11:33:25 PM

I'm going to respond in more detail to a previous post.

Gem society needs to radically change and that can't happen with them in power.
On the other hand, while going Straight for the Commander may have been necessary for driving Homeworld off Earth in time, it might be a very bad idea for trying to reform Homeworld.

Jasper and Eyeball are the two gems so far that Steven's negotiations couldn't get close to reaching. For both, it's because they're too obsessed with avenging Pink Diamond. That obsession comes from a view that Pink Diamond is flawless, which they probably have without ever knowing her well, if at all. Now that she's dead, I don't see how that's gonna change unless they find a whole bunch of notes from her that say "Jasper and Ruby (Facet 1F4 Cut 4ND), you were always garbage."

Let's consider the most positive, platonic version of Bismuth's ultimate goal: shatter the Diamonds with a minimum of any other casualties. Forget the chaos from governmental collapse, on an individual level you'd had a huge portion of the population losing any purpose in life except revenge.

Conversely, Peridot and Sapphire both defected after seeing what a bunch of petty, selfish jerks their Diamonds really were. But if the Crystal Gems had somehow shattered Yellow Diamond before Peridot met her, I think she would have let herself be killed by the Cluster if it meant them going down with it.

The Crystal Gems or Steven in particular may be forced to shatter the Diamonds eventually, but I think they'd need to discredit their Cult of Personality first. It would be even more important now, as there's no army that could stop even a small fraction of Homeworld from take revenge on Earth.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39540: Aug 10th 2016 at 11:36:03 PM

a trusted friend admitting feelings of stockhom syndrome and self-hatred
Don't forget the revenge-borne sadism that inspired that self-hatred!

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#39541: Aug 10th 2016 at 11:39:42 PM

The last four episodes of Season 3 all took place in one day, that's gotta be quite an emotional roller-coaster for Steven to deal with.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39542: Aug 10th 2016 at 11:40:00 PM

That naive optimism is such a pest...it must be broken, broken even harder by something even worse than anything he's seen before.

Maybe we'll see a planet get blowed up...if only HW had that kind of fire power they wouldn't have had to resort to doing things the old fashioned way.

edited 10th Aug '16 11:40:46 PM by randomness4

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#39543: Aug 11th 2016 at 12:06:45 AM

Elsewhere, I have discovered this GIF's existance, and after some extensive testing with chip music and various video game soundtracks, concluded it is the visual version of "Guile's Theme goes with everything". Really, go find any piece of music, wait for the melody to kick in, and let the magic carry you away...

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#39544: Aug 11th 2016 at 12:15:42 AM

I watched the episodes online so I don't know this for sure: did Kindergarten Kid actually air yesterday or did I just watch it early? Just to be sure whether I can talk about it.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#39545: Aug 11th 2016 at 12:17:00 AM

Kindergarten Kid has not aired yet to my knowledge.

Oh really when?
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39546: Aug 11th 2016 at 12:22:36 AM

KK is not aired yet...you watched a leak.

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HOT DOG
#39548: Aug 11th 2016 at 1:08:50 AM

I just realized something. The way Amethyst is trying to eat that Burrito/Chips/Pizza amalgamation reminds me of the time Dexter ate a pepe wrap.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39550: Aug 11th 2016 at 1:39:50 AM

Was that PB or just meat like normal?

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