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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#48701: Apr 21st 2017 at 5:04:39 PM

[up][up]Of the few listed, Adventure Time is next to all of 'em.

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Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#48702: Apr 21st 2017 at 5:15:56 PM

I think Adventure Time came at about the time a new era of Western Animation began. Although, again, I think all of those tropes existed before Adventure Time.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#48703: Apr 21st 2017 at 5:24:17 PM

Of course they did...

Adventure Time was the start of that "era"...after Flapjack.

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Victin Since: Dec, 2011
WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#48705: Apr 21st 2017 at 6:22:16 PM

Do we know how many episode we're getting? Or how many we have left until the season finale?

Chariot King of Anime Since: Jul, 2014
King of Anime
#48706: Apr 21st 2017 at 6:34:42 PM

Five. So the Steven Bomb that's coming up in a few weeks will go through the end of the season.

edited 21st Apr '17 6:34:52 PM by Chariot

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#48707: Apr 21st 2017 at 6:38:24 PM

I had thought we were getting a series of new episodes released once a week on Thursdays. I did not realize this was part of a bomb. Never even thought to look what day of the week the 8th was. Is the fifth episode of the Bomb going to wrap up the season then?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48708: Apr 21st 2017 at 7:40:42 PM

Seasons four and five were greenlit as one, and one of the 52 episodes is used for the shorts, so there's leeway how long each season is.

Given how much it's being hyped, it's most likely the season four finale. That would make 25 quarter-hours, 26 if you count the shorts.

edited 21st Apr '17 7:42:26 PM by thatother1dude

superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48709: Apr 21st 2017 at 10:18:21 PM

I wonder, how would the human military stand against Homeworld forces?

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#48710: Apr 21st 2017 at 10:20:50 PM

Crap. They can warp space-time, have bigger on the inside technology, and have spaceships that could probably shrug off whatever we could throw at them. Being shot at might be a problem for their ground forces, but keep in mind that Homeworld finds Rose's bubbling and shield unimpressive, so it's probably not too unique.

edited 21st Apr '17 10:21:04 PM by SilentColossus

Cross (Don’t ask)
#48711: Apr 21st 2017 at 10:21:45 PM

Basically it should be a cakewalk for Homeworld.

edited 21st Apr '17 10:22:42 PM by Cross

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48712: Apr 21st 2017 at 10:33:05 PM

But they're going to deliberately hide their presence anyway, because even though a human military response is not an existential threat to Homeworld, it would jeopardize their mission—armed or fleeing humans are harder to take alive than unaware civilians. With their technology, being stealthy should be almost as easy.

Homeworld finds Rose's bubbling and shield unimpressive
What? I don't know what you're talking about with bubbling, and Rose's shield very specifically is impressive—it blocked a modern warship's cannon and was the only thing that protected against the corruption attack.

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#48713: Apr 21st 2017 at 10:41:50 PM

I mean they don't find it interesting. Eyeball's reaction to it is "eh, who cares. The sword and the healing are more fascinating." Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if other gems can do similar things.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48714: Apr 21st 2017 at 11:36:49 PM

For the question of "which clip is from which episode", here are the scenarios I find most likely:

  1. The Steven and Connie scenes are from "Doug Out", Sadie walking away is from "The Good Lars", the scenes/audio about Onion or Sadie's disappearances are from "Are You My Dad?", and all the scenes with Garnet, Amethyst, or Pearl are from "I Am My Mom".
  2. The Steven and Connie scenes are from "Doug Out", Sadie walking away is from "The Good Lars", and everything else is from "Are You My Dad?"

So that leads to the million-dollar question: Steven willingly gets on a strange ship for some reason. Is that from the end of "Are You My Dad?", the middle of "I Am My Mom", or one of the last shots of the entire season?

I actually favor one of the latter options. It's not that I want a super-mysterious Cliffhanger that resolves nothing—in context, I hope we have a good idea of what he's getting himself into and some other significant events happen. But it seems absurd for a single episode to resolved this issue or even delay it (i.e. Steven and the Beach Citizens get back to Earth but have to worry about more abductions). Homeworld have taken off the kid gloves and put the kidnapping gloves on. And this looks like the perfect time for the status quo to take a pipe to the shins.

Now I'm not saying I want the whole next season to be super-serialized or humorless. I'd even be fine if everyone makes it back after a few more episodes. What I want is this whole "Homeworld abducting humans" ordeal to have a lasting emotional impact throughout the town—sort of a like a widespread version of how Steven felt in "Full Disclosure". You remember how several episodes were moved from season one to two, and it's not super obvious? I want that to be super impossible between seasons four and five.

RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#48715: Apr 22nd 2017 at 12:45:10 AM

I like the idea of Steven being taken to Homeworld with the Diamonds. But I think showing the last shot of the season in the bomb isn't likely from a marketing perspective.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#48716: Apr 22nd 2017 at 10:24:46 AM

Speaking of "bigger on the inside" tech, does that have a specific name in sci-fi? Like, if you manipulate time so that it passes slower in one place and faster in another it's called time dilation. However I've never heard a "proper" name for bigger on the inside tech.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#48718: Apr 22nd 2017 at 10:53:46 AM

There isn't really a proper name scientific name for Bigger on the Inside tech,but coming up with one sounds like a fun challenge

Interior dimensional enlargement sounds scientific at least

edited 22nd Apr '17 10:54:49 AM by Ultimatum

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#48719: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:01:08 AM

Oh, what do you know? On the Bigger on the Inside page it calls it dimensional transcendence. Never heard that term before.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#48720: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:02:20 AM

Nether have I

I really should read the trope page..

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#48721: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:03:10 AM

Nice to know I wasn't the only one getting Ribbon vibes from the wings.

Also, who the fuck was that at the end? Damn, speculation's going to be nuts.

I think it was a good call for me to lay low from the fandom for a bit, I needed time to get my excitement back without thinking about fan criticism too much.

Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#48722: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:04:33 AM

I assume it'd be spatial dilation. Space and time being the same continuum, dilation of any would directly result in dilation of the other, and since time dilation happens, so could spatial dilation happen.

*science glasses still not on*

@Ultimatum: That's not how naming things work! You must pick a name that is both totally unrelated to what the thing actually is, and if you're naming it after a person, that person must not be its original discoverer tongue

superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48723: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:30:39 AM

How would Steven Universe characters play off of a Complete Monster? Both good and bad?

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48724: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:40:18 AM

They wouldn't be prepared for it, because in their world that kind of character isn't allowed to exist.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#48725: Apr 22nd 2017 at 11:41:43 AM

A Complete Monster type character would clash with the 'love and forgiveness' that the show goes for,unless you count Yellow Diamond wanting to blow up the planet and hating organic life,and then you have Blue Diamond kidnapping humans for the zoo..maybe they are the exception somehow,I dunno the question is really broad

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