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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#39776: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:11:44 PM

I feel like that answer was a dodge but I don't quite understand why if it is. Maybe to hide the fact that Rose isn't perfect? Bit even before Bismuth and Earthlings that was made clear

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
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Starting to believe in himself
#39777: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:16:37 PM

Crystal Gems to Earth.

Lapis to Steven.

Rose to Greg.

Peridot to Steven.

These are just some examples, but it doesnt apply to all gems and it doesnt apply to all humans. Its a song where you can pick and choose who's singing and to whom. Think Frisk's gender in Undertale.

edited 11th Aug '16 7:16:53 PM by CountofBleck

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#39778: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:17:31 PM

I actually like that interpretation of the song being about Rose. Now that I think about it, she doesn't really have any "I Am" Song. Sure, she sang with Greg once, but it didn't reflect her fears, only that she didn't love Greg the same way he did at that point.

With the "love like you", it develops her character, showing her broken side, wanting to love the same way Greg loves her.

edited 11th Aug '16 7:20:45 PM by Tomodachi

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39779: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:18:01 PM

It might be too broad for her to have said "All Gems"...

Maybe just all Crystal Gems...plus two extra.

edited 11th Aug '16 7:19:15 PM by randomness4

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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#39780: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:20:15 PM

Thing is humans are so apathetic to the Crystal Gens the line "wondering when I'm coming back" doesn't really fit.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39781: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:27:31 PM

Seems more like an end of series theme...

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#39782: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:42:19 PM

Thing is humans are so apathetic to the Crystal Gens the line "wondering when I'm coming back" doesn't really fit.
It makes sense if they're talking about the audience humans rather than the cartoon ones.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39784: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:46:01 PM

Did they prediction the hiatus-ridden schedule when writing that song?

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#39785: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:55:17 PM

Some perspective on how far ahead the crewniverse are compared to what we're seeing.

Also, based on social media posts from the storyboard artists, episodes are stoaryboarded roughly a year before they air. I believe that voice acting occurs a couple of months after that, but still a ways before the episode is aired.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39786: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:57:50 PM

Of course...hiatus doesn't stop production, they're actually farther than they should be.

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azul120 Since: Jan, 2001
#39788: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:14:52 PM

Are there any "nerdy voice" related tropes? Peridot definitely has that going on.

edited 11th Aug '16 8:15:24 PM by azul120

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39789: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:18:34 PM

episodes are storyboarded roughly a year before they air.
And this is when an episode airs shortly after completion, instead of being saved up for a bomb or just a lot of weekly episodes in a row. The earlier episode of the Summer of Steven were completed months and months earlier.

I estimate "Drop Beat Dad" (first) was completed back in January, while "Know Your Fusion" (last) was completed sometime last month.

Of course...hiatus doesn't stop production, they're actually farther than they should be.
I also estimate that, after Summer of Steven is over, they'll have a handful of completed episodes left—something like 2-5.

That doesn't sound like much, but we're going back a weekly schedule for some time after Summer of Steven. With weekly schedules and quarter-hour episodes, you make episodes almost as fast as they air—you only "use up" about three episodes for ever ten weeks. Even if it's just two finished episodes now, they could keep up a weekly schedule for about seven weeks straight.

DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#39790: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:20:23 PM

I'm watching SU tonight since my parents are finally gone for 4 days

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Ruise Nyanpasu~ from your subconscious Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
Nyanpasu~
#39791: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:23:04 PM

Here, chew on this.

I like this theory, but there's no way it's true because it's probably too complicated for this show. Also some parts of it just straight up don't make sense.

BUT! At any rate, the comic is quite humorous and that's what matters.

edited 11th Aug '16 8:25:56 PM by Ruise

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.
ClownToy Since: Aug, 2015
#39792: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:27:50 PM

The Kindergarten Kid: I loved that episode thanks in part to nostalgia. I remember when I was a kid and I enjoyed the Looney Tunes cartoons. I spended a lot of the time laughing and laughing. The road runner and coyote cartoons were among my favorite. I loved that toons, the poor coyote always wanting to cature the road runner and failing each time. I loved that toons, seriously, probably even more than some similar toons like Tom and Jerry or Sylvester and Tweety.

Watching Peridot trying to capture the corrupted gem and failing spectaculary every single time was a good touch. Poor Peridot and Coyote, always receiving a rock over their heads.

By the end of the episode, I felt like an 8-years old kid.

My only complain: They didn't made segments with Peridot failing with a catapult over and over again.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39793: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:32:15 PM

A Wile E. Coyote episode where there Coyote stand-in actually catches the Roadrunner stand-in?

How peculiar.

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LawfulGoodLegacy from Earth.... or is it? Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#39794: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:32:37 PM

Eyeball saying that killing Rose would make the Diamonds give her her own Pearl makes me wonder about the conditions where a Pearl is made for someone. Is it only functionally important Gems, any Gem with a high social status, or a strictly Diamond thing? Knowing the answer would help us learn about the Crystal Gem Pearl.

ClownToy Since: Aug, 2015
#39795: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:35:07 PM

[up][up]Well, the Coyote once did really catched the Road Runner..........sort of.

edited 11th Aug '16 8:35:26 PM by ClownToy

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39796: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:38:03 PM

Are there any "nerdy voice" related tropes? Peridot definitely has that going on.
Checking the Voice Acting Tropes index, the only one I can find relevant to Peridot is Inopportune Voice Cracking (which is already on her character entry).

If you're talking about how nasal her voice sounds, I think "Nerds Sound Nasal" (or "Nasally Nerd Noises") could very well be trope-worthy.

If you mean how high-pitched it is, I think that's more to do with Peridot being so small. I can think of a decent number of fictional nerds with low voices, especially if they're fat.

If you mean her speech patterns, that's a bit harder to describe as a trope. "Clipped" is the only way I can think of describing it.

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#39797: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:38:55 PM

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Peridot says there are "hundreds of them" back on Homeworld. The Diamonds and some aristocrats have them, but it seems the lower castes can get one as a reward.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#39798: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:59:38 PM

Something strange about the situation current situation, after "Bubbled", is that this is first time since "Warp Tour" that there's no specific, imminent danger. From then until now, there was a specific new threat in place by the time an old one was dealt with: Peridot from Homeworld->Jasper->Peridot on Earth->Malachite->Cluster->Jasper again->Ruby Squad.

Once the Rubies were launched into space... that really did seem like the end of it for the foreseeable future. Yellow Diamond will eventually send someone else to investigate, either from their lack of contact or the Cluster not hatching, but that could take years—no one had raised an eyebrow about Jasper and Peridot in the months they were unaccounted for. That's why I think the Rubies will find their way back to Homeworld, and soon, regardless of how logically improbably that is.

I do hope season four establishes some kind of plot hook soon. Even if the bulk of the show's content is more about character interaction and growth, it's still benefited from a narrative thrust to drive it forward.

If that hook isn't another antagonist showing up, I hope it will be the Crystal Gems using the ship to take a more proactive stance toward countering Homeworld. Obviously, they're not going to invade or anything, but I hope they could at least try to found out more about what they're in for.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#39799: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:27:22 PM

Kindergarten Kid Spoilers

I have a message from another time...
DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#39800: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:32:14 PM

Currently watching Bismuth

So good.

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