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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
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#43426: Sep 20th 2016 at 6:41:07 PM

Steven Universe has a very slow burn at first: the overarching plot for the rest of the series doesn't even start until halfway through Season 1. However, the show is very good at foreshadowing future events in small background details, as well as building on previous set-ups and character development. The overall consensus, regarding the plot-heavy episodes, is that they start strong, and just escalate in terms of quality. I can't even think of a big plot episode that is inarguably worse than the last one.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#43427: Sep 20th 2016 at 7:35:15 PM

"Indirect Kiss" does a good setup for "Mirror Gem."

AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#43428: Sep 20th 2016 at 7:50:30 PM

I looooooved Last One Out Of Beach City. So awesome and badass!

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#43430: Sep 20th 2016 at 9:38:56 PM

Yes...weird, she still has long hair.

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Karalora Since: Jan, 2001
#43431: Sep 21st 2016 at 6:37:03 AM

I assume they mean instead of long bangs (fringe to the Brits).

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#43432: Sep 21st 2016 at 8:20:02 AM

They'e drawn shorter in the middle, but she just has a longer face...

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#43433: Sep 21st 2016 at 9:02:42 AM

Steven Universe vs the Homeworld Lapis' evil ex-girlfriends?
Pressure
Puppylion
Bad Pearl cosplay
A the Doctor
Um
Beverages are hard
Some of her favorite things

edited 21st Sep '16 9:04:01 AM by Bocaj

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#43434: Sep 21st 2016 at 11:25:01 AM

Ok I have a question: how time have pass for Steven since the first episode? a this point I think is already happen a year, or no?

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#43435: Sep 21st 2016 at 11:43:59 AM

A year and a half, I'd say, if not a little longer. Pearl says Rose's moss would show up every spring back in "Lars and the Cool Kids", and "Mirror Gem" had the beginning of Summer. "We got a fall episode with "Horror Club", a Winter ep with well, "Winter Forecast", a new year's ep with "Maximum Capacity", Connie says it was almost a year since she'd met Steven in "Nightmare Hospital." "Sadie's Song" has the next Beachapalooza after the last one in "Steven and the Stevens", Steven turns 14 though we haven't seen his actual previous one in "So Many Birthdays", and in "Same Old World" Steven tells Lapis that it was almost the beginning of Autumn when the leaves are starting to change color.

I might've missed a few.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#43436: Sep 21st 2016 at 11:55:02 AM

If it was just starting to be Fall in "Same Old World"...and it's now starting to Fall again in "Onion Gang"...it has already been anotha year since then.

It means the MC's b-day is on the summer days.

edited 21st Sep '16 12:03:28 PM by randomness4

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#43437: Sep 21st 2016 at 12:12:30 PM

Same Old World was still set in summer, it's just that they found a leaf that was starting to change. It was still probably August or thereabouts. Onion Friend may have been meant to air closer to Buddy's Book, but was pushed back.

Onion Friend was probably meant to air between Buddy's Book and Mindful Education.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#43438: Sep 21st 2016 at 12:13:08 PM

Rebecca said his birthday is August 15th. The same day as her brother.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#43439: Sep 21st 2016 at 12:23:02 PM

[up][up]Well...4 episodes that are set on the same day, another episode set a day later, however many days until "Watermelon Island" and "Gem Drill"...then "Same Old World" is on the same day.

I'd believe it still be summer...

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#43440: Sep 21st 2016 at 3:29:02 PM

We just discussed the passage of time like a week ago.

The conclusion we came to was that the first two seasons went just as darkabomination said, and then the episodes suddenly started going through the calendar much more slowly for the third season. Season four begins in the same year that season one ended on.

So it's basically:

  • Season 1a: ~January Year 1 -> June Year 1
  • Season 1b: June Year 1 -> ~March Year 2
  • Season 2: ~March Year 2 -> August Year 2
  • Season 3: ~August Year 2
  • Season 4: ~September Year 2

At different points, the show's progress through the calendar has varied from Real Time (or faster!) to Webcomic Time.

edited 21st Sep '16 3:32:31 PM by thatother1dude

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#43441: Sep 21st 2016 at 3:42:23 PM

Makes sense, as Steven's life transitions from normal-ish punctuated with bursts of adventure to adventure-life punctuated with slice-of-life moments.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#43442: Sep 21st 2016 at 4:52:55 PM

I miss Greg Weisman. With his shows you'd usually get a pretty good sense of the passage of time, Spectacular Spider-man especially. He'd never put out a fall episode immediately after one that's supposed to be set mid-winter.

"Monster Buddies" was on, and while it did set up the whole centipeedle taming/healing arc, it also introduced the Shooting Star, which feels like a huge Chekhov's Gun that has yet to be fired, especially after "Winter Forecast" suggested that it was super dangerous.

edited 21st Sep '16 4:53:25 PM by WillKeaton

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#43443: Sep 21st 2016 at 5:15:02 PM

This show forgets nothing. It's not a question of if, but when.

It takes time, but can you think of any part of the plot that doesn't over time get a callback and continuation?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#43444: Sep 21st 2016 at 5:21:22 PM

I feel like it's too soon for that question...2 years later.

So far...the gem shards that makes objects animate hasn't came back yet.

edited 21st Sep '16 5:23:16 PM by randomness4

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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.
#43445: Sep 21st 2016 at 6:00:26 PM

Wouldn't "Winter Forecast" indicate that they already used the Shooting Star?

Oh God! Natural light!
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#43446: Sep 21st 2016 at 6:03:43 PM

Probably not, because of the timeline where they did try suggests it's extremely dangerous, and the Galaxy Warp is of course still there after, so they seemed to have opted against it.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#43447: Sep 21st 2016 at 6:11:49 PM

We also have yet to see the return of that pillow that controlled the sand. Then there's the Gem that was powering the "teacup temple" which some people speculate is White Diamond.

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.
#43448: Sep 21st 2016 at 6:16:24 PM

That's fair. I suppose it was a possible future, after all.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#43449: Sep 21st 2016 at 8:20:06 PM

[up][up]hardly is WD, so far the implication is that Diamond cant be poof or anything around it, which it make sense since it prevent Steven and the rest to cop up a victory by streght like other show(Avatar for example) that it can be related to it is another thing enterely

Now, another question how many type of gem we have seen? so far I have count 17, 19 if you used the one reference by Bismuth in her episode

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Karalora Since: Jan, 2001
#43450: Sep 21st 2016 at 9:40:39 PM

There were four kinds of gems referenced but not seen in "Bismuth." Three were fallen Crystal Gems: Snowflake (Obsidian), Crazy Lace (Agate), and either Biggs (Jasper) or Bix(bite), AKA Red Beryl. The fourth was a Homeworld Gem, Nephrite (one of two gems commonly referred to as jade, the other being jadeite).


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