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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
#42201: Sep 3rd 2016 at 9:45:01 PM

I'd say that there are features from the pilot designs that I wish carried over into the main show. For example I don't miss Amethyst's fanny pack. But I wish Pearl and Garnet kept their hair. I also liked their skin colors in the pilot. The stars are incorporated better in the main show designs, though. Overall, each of them have features I miss and don't miss.

In looking for what they looked like in the pilot, I found this cool post.

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#42202: Sep 3rd 2016 at 9:48:19 PM

[up]Regarding that fanart, it would be cool if the gems could travel to alternate dimensions.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42203: Sep 3rd 2016 at 9:48:43 PM

That would be so seductive.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#42204: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:00:56 PM

Not the designs but I kinda liked Pilot!Pearl's bluer skin.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#42205: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:02:36 PM

I like how the gemstones looked. The little rings around them were nice.

Makes me wonder what Peridot, Lapis, and Jasper would have looked like.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42206: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:07:58 PM

Those rings were encompassing the insertion slots for the Gem, they really would've been robots...given sentience by the Gem.

Interesting rough start.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#42207: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:14:50 PM

I'm more interested in the theoretical designs of pilot Opal, Sugilite, Sardonyx, Alexandrite, and Smokey Quartz.

RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#42208: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:16:56 PM

I found some pilot styled characters on tumblr but don't know how to find it and if the artist did characters that appeared after that.

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#42209: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:24:54 PM

Of course Amethyst wants to fuck herself.

My various fanfics.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42210: Sep 3rd 2016 at 10:34:18 PM

She seems like the experimenting type...

That is also seductive.

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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
#42211: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:01:24 PM

When someone told Amethyst to "go fuck herself", that's not exactly what they had in mind.

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Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#42212: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:30:55 PM

Referring to a question from few pages ago, I don't think anybody could expect just how good this show turned out to be, but I'm surprised that some people thought it will just be a normal cartoon.

Normal cartoons do not start with reveal that team leader sacrificed her physical form to give birth to protagonist.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42213: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:40:56 PM

(¯–¯): Neither did this one, it was the 2nd episode.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:42:11 PM by randomness4

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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
#42214: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:42:24 PM

[up][up] To be fair, at the time, people thought that that was just Greg's hippie way of saying she died during childbirth.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:47:09 PM by BlueBlaze64

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42215: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:43:44 PM

[up]x3 I don't think the first episode mentioned any of that. And although Laser Light Canon talked a bit about Rose I don't believe it told us much about her. Plus lots of kids shows that are on the light side involve single parents, that doesn't always tell us that the show is gonna be deep or anything.

And even if it did mention that stuff, the way it was mentioned was probably casual in a way that we didn't realize the serious nature of the matter.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:45:29 PM by diyedas

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.
#42216: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:43:56 PM

[up][up] Well, that's not quite wrong.

Greg never really struck me as a hippie, though.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:44:10 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#42217: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:45:59 PM

I came in knowing very little about the show, aside from a blogger I followed expressing her love for the character development. I caved in and gave it a binge.

By the second episode I was already getting a sense that things were a lot more structured than AT, and they had an idea of the mythology going in. I also found Steven to be a lot more likable when you could see how earnest he was in spite of his messups and see him slowly improve as apposed to the out-of-context clips in commercials.

By "Lion 2: the Movie", I knew there was going to be something big with the plot coming up. The stuff with Lion, the command-based instructions he was following with Steven, all the destiny discussion, pulling out what was clearly Rose's sword, etc.

Actually, the fact that Rose was brought up constantly, even in the early episodes was an indication that there was a coherent backstory and a method to the madness. The new abilities and limitations that were explored with the Gems grounded what they could do.

One of the things that confused me when I first heard about but didn't watch the show was that the Gems just seemed to be there. That there was so very few of them around and his mom was one seemed an odd setup at the time.

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
#42218: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:46:05 PM

[up][up] He seemed like a middle-aged hippie to me, what with the long hair, the living in a van, the outlook on life he has, and the fact that he's a musician.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:46:12 PM by BlueBlaze64

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42219: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:47:19 PM

[up][up][up][up]I think everyone realized the actual meaning of that statement...the reactions were pretty tight to make notice and speculate.

edited 3rd Sep '16 11:47:44 PM by randomness4

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42220: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:51:22 PM

[up]Yes, but that doesn't mean the audience will be able see the type of show it's going to be from that. As I said, even the really lighthearted kids shows/sitcoms can involve a single parent who lost their spouse.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42221: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:53:54 PM

It's usually the dad though...so that's something, unrelated.

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diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#42222: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:56:32 PM

[up]The dad that's gone, or the dad that's single? Cuz I can think of many, especially kids movies, where it's about a single dad.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42223: Sep 3rd 2016 at 11:59:36 PM

The dad that's gone...I know single dad's exist, they're sad.

edited 4th Sep '16 12:00:44 AM by randomness4

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Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#42224: Sep 4th 2016 at 1:07:35 AM

"Laser Light Cannon" aired at the same day as "Gem Glow", you nitpickers. And most shows with single parents ignore existence of the other one, not make them a major plot point like that.

Besides there were other stuff. For example, gems left by poofed monsters that girls warped somewhere clearly hinted something more or they would explain it in first episode. Really, nothing about it sounded like random fun idea to put in show that won't have an arc of secrets or anything.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#42225: Sep 4th 2016 at 1:37:38 AM

That episode was a two parter...I didn't know that.

"Nitpickers" that's what should've been in those parenthesis.

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