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GreatT HOT DOG Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
HOT DOG
#46226: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:12:20 PM

Those Amethysts don't looks very happy under that servitude.

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NegaKingKix The Absolute Madman from That one place we don't talk about anymore Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Absolute Madman
#46227: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:12:55 PM

That was a weird way to end the episode.Greg's getting all the ladies and not in danger at all. WTF?

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#46228: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:14:17 PM

I predict Greg won't want to leave because it turns out the human zoo is heavenly.

Austin Since: Jan, 2001
#46229: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:14:19 PM

This is the closest we've gotten to actually seeing Gem society in action. After years of wondering if we'd ever get to see Homeworld directly, it's almost surreal.

Nice to see that Greg has some company.

I'm starting to wonder if this would've worked better as a tv movie than a bomb. After that opening, the last two episodes have left me anxious for more.

edited 31st Jan '17 4:15:30 PM by Austin

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#46230: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:15:47 PM

.... let me guess. We're not getting another new ep today are we?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#46231: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:16:48 PM

OK, I'm actually kind of confused. Why were they trying to open that door?

Greg's getting all the ladies and not in danger at all
One of those characters was clearly a man.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#46232: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:20:35 PM

Not clearly, it's a little ambiguous...

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What you mean "why"? That's the door to the zoo...it's probably for the best they didn't open it. But still.

edited 31st Jan '17 4:23:00 PM by randomness4

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#46233: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:25:11 PM

That's the door to the zoo...
Nevermind, I misinterpreted that as being the "human disposal shoot" Holly Blue mentioned, but that thing wasn't on-screen. The door we saw she called a "service entrance".

edited 31st Jan '17 4:27:23 PM by thatother1dude

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#46234: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:29:34 PM

...Did anyone else think agate was pronounced a-gate instead ah-gat?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#46235: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:35:02 PM

I never heard the word even before this...free pass.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#46236: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:35:51 PM

I knew the right pronunciation already... though I don't remember how, as I think I'd only seen it written before.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#46237: Jan 31st 2017 at 4:58:11 PM

Just so I'm clear, tonight "Gem Heist" aired, but "The Zoo" hasn't yet aired. Right?

CountofBleck Starting to believe in himself from New Wirral (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#46238: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:03:11 PM

correct; there are 5 episodes in this bomb, unlike Adventure Time's 8. So while AT gets 2 new eps per night, SU started night one with 2 and will have 1 new one per night.

Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#46239: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:09:16 PM

Does anyone have an idea on what planet the Zoo is next to?

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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
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#46240: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:15:09 PM

I don't believe it's Saturn like some people were suggesting, if only because it would strike me as odd for Homeworld to have an outpost so close to the Earth.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#46241: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:16:32 PM

It would make it convenient for travelling purposes,the humans are right on their doorstep after all

edited 31st Jan '17 5:17:26 PM by Ultimatum

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#46242: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:32:19 PM

You are aware that all four gas giants have rings, right?

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#46243: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:35:36 PM

  • oh look it's Blue Rita Repulsa
  • Agate is basically Homeworld's classist society personified
  • these things cataloging Steven look like Tall!Peridot's fingers.
  • I think this is the longest string we've had of episodes leading directly into the next

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#46244: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:38:11 PM

Five episodes is a record, but the season finale we just had going from "Beta" to "Bubbled" was four.

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#46245: Jan 31st 2017 at 5:59:26 PM

So not actually a record yet, but it will be in a day or two. tongue

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#46246: Jan 31st 2017 at 6:13:50 PM

I think The Answer to Steven Floats takes place over one long weekend. Which isn't quite monument to moment like this Steven Bomb, but that is Eleven episodes in a really small time frame.

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#46247: Jan 31st 2017 at 6:17:30 PM

I don't think it was Saturn either, because while that ship wasn't going the speed of light, it was still moving quite fast. Now I doubt they put much thought into the actual speed, but even our stuff doesn't take seventy years to get that far.

RegisteredUser Body contains a Human Soul. from It's as cold as it looks. Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Desperate
Body contains a Human Soul.
#46248: Jan 31st 2017 at 6:38:01 PM

Man, it's nice to see other Amethysts finally.

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#46249: Jan 31st 2017 at 6:49:16 PM

Among other things, if the Zoo was near Saturn, I think someone on Earth would know about it via the various high-powered telescopes we have.

Though if people really want to science it out, at the speed of light, it would take approximately 71 to 88 minutes to go from Earth to Saturn (precise time dependent on where the two are in their respective orbits, 71 at syzygy and 88 minutes at apoapsis). Admittedly, Steven did get everyone there faster than that via that FTL drive, so not outside of the realm of possibility if you only consider that.

That said, let's look at this from the other direction - the 70 years that Pearl said that it would take to get to the Zoo if they kept at their then-current speed. Given that Saturn is around 746 million to one billion miles from Earth (again, depending on particular orbits), if they were traveling at a speed to get from Earth to Saturn in that time frame, they'd be traveling somewhere between 1216 mph and 1630 miles per hour.

Sound speedy? Well... problem there. See, the ship Steven and the others took apparently did not slow down at all, so at bare minimum, they should be going at escape velocity. Assuming that the barn is somewhere around sea level, escape velocity from the surface of Earth is a hair over 25,000 mph. Given the speed at which they did leave Earth, I think it's reasonable to assume that they're well over the minimum escape velocity. While I imagine that Steven would still object to the approximately 3-4 years that it would take to theoretically rescue his dad at Earth escape velocity if the Zoo was around Saturn, it seems that the Zoo is well beyond the boundaries of Saturn, if it would take about 70 years to get from Earth to the Zoo. Also, I think Steven wouldn't have freaked out so bad about an 8-year round trip compared to a 70-year one-way voyage.

So, unless Pearl misread the readout, the Zoo is not around Saturn. I have thought way too hard about this.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#46250: Jan 31st 2017 at 8:12:48 PM

Concept art for Blue Diamond and Holly Blue Agate.

The description of Holly Blue makes her sound like much less of an asshole than she is in the finished episode—she still holds the Amethysts in contempt for being from Earth, but is asking for them to be excused (for apparently real rudeness) instead of hitting them.


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