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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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#50951: Jun 24th 2017 at 9:30:41 PM

Lion got tired just warping to the Moon

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#50952: Jun 24th 2017 at 9:48:17 PM

Since they don't have a strict time limit like Steven and Lars had when they first got on Homeworld, there are plenty of ways for them to get off. Most of them involve hijacking a ship or reaching Homeworld's Galaxy Warp (which can't bring them right to Earth, but could bring them somewhere less closer or less dangerous).

Of course, Thinking Up Portals would be a tremendously useful tool for people trying to get around unnoticed, even if the range is "only" a couple hundred thousand miles.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#50953: Jun 25th 2017 at 5:43:50 AM

> Calling it now, Lars is going to learn to teleport like Lion and that's how he'll get back to earth

I feel like Lars will get captured but will use the portal so the off colours can escape to Earth,Rule of Drama and all that

or

Lars opens a portal and unwittingly leads their pursuers to Earth

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50954: Jun 25th 2017 at 7:22:53 AM

He...still wouldn't be able to do that.

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Austin Since: Jan, 2001
#50955: Jun 25th 2017 at 7:28:20 AM

You know what we need more of? Songs. When was the last time someone sang? We need another kick-ass song.

I'm sad that we've never gotten a worthy follow up to "Stronger than You".

Music's always better when someone's kicking ass to it.

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#50956: Jun 25th 2017 at 7:30:28 AM

Unless Lars is somehow billions of times more powerful than Lion, he's not going to be making a portal from Homeworld to Earth. I could see a scenerio where Steven and the Crystal Gems use Lars' portal power to get to a spaceship or a warp pad so that Lars and the Off-Colors can go to Earth.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50957: Jun 25th 2017 at 9:40:59 AM

I don't think the writers want Lars on Earth. His hair portal is too convenient of a method to get to homeworld for them right now. It's not something I expect to get resolved in the next few episodes at least.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#50958: Jun 25th 2017 at 10:33:57 AM

I'll agree with not wanting Lars back on Earth so soon,he'll be there awhile

OK,here's something I hadn't considered before but the shattering robonoids they sent after the Off Colours are automated drones but what they're seeing in the Homeworld kindergarten is possibly being relayed to a control room somewhere,although the first time I saw them I pictured Yellow controlling them from afar with a joystick evil grin

edited 25th Jun '17 11:41:16 AM by Ultimatum

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Sabertooth1000000000 Sabertooth from Land of the Livid Dead Since: Jul, 2010
Sabertooth
#50959: Jun 25th 2017 at 11:57:05 AM

How come Steven can breathe in space?

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#50960: Jun 25th 2017 at 11:58:47 AM

He can't,whence why he had to hold his breath while he was inside lion's mane

Other times he's been in space I'm not so certain.

edited 25th Jun '17 12:02:17 PM by Ultimatum

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Sabertooth1000000000 Sabertooth from Land of the Livid Dead Since: Jul, 2010
Sabertooth
#50961: Jun 25th 2017 at 12:10:32 PM

Sorry, by space I meant other planets like Homeworld and stuff. Maybe oxygen is necessary for the formation of certain rocks?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#50962: Jun 25th 2017 at 12:31:18 PM

Lars was fine on Homeworld too. And it's not just the air, but also the gravity, temperature, electromagnetic radiation, and I can't even count how many other things.

As I pointed out before, it's a pretty blatant example of All Planets Are Earth-Like—it was explicitly shown gems could live in nearly any environment (they only use atmosphere to talk, they don't need water or food, they are very durable, they automatically adjust for varying gravity), but by complete coincidence Homeworld happened to be humanly inhabitable anyway—at least in the short term.

Much like the show's use of Aliens Speaking English, it's absurd, but they choose to play it totally straight instead of wasting screentime (or drawing attention to the issue) with an Handwave. Honestly, I'm just glad they made the lack of food and water an issue.

edited 25th Jun '17 12:39:07 PM by thatother1dude

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#50963: Jun 25th 2017 at 12:39:34 PM

I figure Homeworld is just where the Gems evolved/were created/whatever. And for that reason, they need a planet with similar atmosphere to grow new Gems.

Hence, Earth. Hence also why humans can survive if taken to Homeworld.

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Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#50964: Jun 25th 2017 at 1:11:02 PM

Also, Humans probably speak English because the Gems taught them to.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50965: Jun 25th 2017 at 1:40:27 PM

They speak English because it's more convenient than making up an entirely new language just for the setting.

The next cartoon that has aliens should just make the aliens speak Pig Latin instead of a straight Common Tongue as a joke towards those people who ask why they speak English.

edited 25th Jun '17 1:59:23 PM by xanderiskander

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#50966: Jun 25th 2017 at 1:45:35 PM

I'd be fine with the English if they didn't make it a plot point (albeit a late one) for the an episode that gems have their own written language, at least. And the way they talked about it implies more than just that.

edited 25th Jun '17 1:59:01 PM by LSBK

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50967: Jun 25th 2017 at 1:57:10 PM

The characters still lead to speaking English...

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#50968: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:00:51 PM

> Also, Humans probably speak English because the Gems taught them to.

I don't think the occupying gems were nice enough to do that,then again you have Yellowtail speaking in an unknown language,and Onion spoke to Topaz in the same way,so maybe there's a link

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50969: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:06:17 PM

I'd be fine with the English if they didn't make it a plot point (albeit a late one) for the an episode that gems have their own written language, at least
I mean, I get that. But it's such a small thing, that it could easily just get retconned later, since the show seems to not think it's even the slightest bit important.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50970: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:09:35 PM

It doesn't have to be retconned...

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50971: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:14:25 PM

Just saying I could see them easily forgetting about it and just having english show up on some gem murals or whatever at some point. But yeah, it's more likely they just won't even bring it up again.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#50972: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:41:03 PM

Its just the TARDIS' psychic field, duh.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#50973: Jun 25th 2017 at 2:43:38 PM

Clearly his TARDIS is the temple,it does have organic insides and like millions of rooms

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#50974: Jun 25th 2017 at 3:37:51 PM

I figure Homeworld is just where the Gems evolved/were created/whatever. And for that reason, they need a planet with similar atmosphere to grow new Gems.
That makes more sense than anything I'd considered, but even if it was Earth-like to begin with, it logically shouldn't still be if Homeworld's been mined anywhere near as heavily as Earth was planned to be.
I'll say it before and I'll say it again: any attempts to explain why there are Aliens Speaking English would be a grade-A Voodoo Shark. None of the usual explanations (Translation Convention, Translator Microbes, Common Tongue) hold water. Even if they did, it would be

I'd be fine with the English if they didn't make it a plot point (albeit a late one) for the an episode that gems have their own written language, at least. And the way they talked about it implies more than just that.
I also question the wisdom of bringing even that much attention to the (lack of a) language barrier, even if I understand the narrative reasoning (written language isn't as important as speech for character expression) and it didn't come entirely out of nowhere (you could already see gem text in a bunch of places before and Peridot has bad handwriting in English).

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50975: Jun 25th 2017 at 3:45:22 PM

Well, besides all her "a"s looking like "r"s, it seems fine.

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