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Strontiumsun A Gamma Moth from Chicago Since: May, 2015
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#57351: Dec 23rd 2018 at 8:11:02 PM

Tomorrow we get a new new episode for real! I hope it'll be enjoyable!

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#57352: Dec 23rd 2018 at 8:32:30 PM

I hope being on Christmas Eve doesn't tank the ratings. I won't be able to watch until I get home from seeing family late that night (and maybe wait until the morning).

alanh Since: May, 2010
#57353: Dec 24th 2018 at 11:23:37 AM

I dunno, I think the ANSI Standard Broadcast TV Schedule is completely dead with the young demographics that CN is aiming at. "Familiar" is first available today, but you can watch it any time after on a DVR or streaming. I'm certainly way outside the demographic, but that's how I'll be watching it.

As long as you don't have to schedule a specific time to watch a show, the time it actually airs is irrelevant. I think that's why you're seeing release schedules that would have been nuts in the days where you had to watch a show when it was broadcast or miss it. (Even in the days of VCRs nobody watched everything time-shifted. It was a pain to set up recordings and you kept having to swap tapes.)

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#57354: Dec 24th 2018 at 4:43:27 PM

so the pebbles made Pink's costume for Steven,aww just like mice from Cinderella

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#57355: Dec 24th 2018 at 4:44:03 PM

And so that was the new episode.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Pink was to the other Diamonds, what Steven was the Crystal Gems at first. With her gone, their relationships deteriorated, at least somewhat.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#57356: Dec 24th 2018 at 7:28:00 PM

Hey, remember when Peridot was first captured and she called Steven a pebble?

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#57357: Dec 24th 2018 at 8:17:12 PM

okay, so that was cool! also cool: the more I think about the potential implications here, the more my brain becomes full of fuck

The notion that Yellow (and quite possibly Blue) have to use "extractors" for drain (and collect?) something from them was immediately weird and alarming. Then my fiance linked me this: https://twitter.com/mai_tresan/status/1077386121112440832

warning, lots of wild mass guessspeculative horseshit aheadwild mass guess

I hadn't considered what was actually in the injectors for so long that I'd assumed it was just like, a seed crystal or something by default. But if it's these... humours from the Diamonds, the gem RNA that the injectors insert into host material, then... That opens up a whole fucking host of questions. Like, for instance... It's very interesting that Yellow specifically notes that her extractor room is "new." And given that she's talking to "Pink," then perhaps the metric of time she's using is from the last time they were together on Homeworld?

If these fluids are necessary for the creation of new gems, then... Was the resource scarcity endemic to Era 2 not [just] the lack of physical minerals, of host material, but reduced availability of gRNA [and gRNA of "lesser quality"] to create new gems in the first place?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. were the injectors fueled by Diamond LCL?? Did White use to be ''Lilith?'' Are the Diamonds, actually, literally, everyone's moms?? Are Amethyst, Nephrite, and Jasper Steven's kids sort of???

Edited by RegisteredUser on Dec 24th 2018 at 8:18:05 AM

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#57358: Dec 24th 2018 at 8:20:34 PM

"Familiar" was a good song.

Also it's interesting that apparently White used to be more open to conversation until Pink "died", unless I'm reading too much into what Blue said.

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#57359: Dec 24th 2018 at 9:29:53 PM

[up][up] Oh. Oohh. That makes a lot of sense!

Would that mean Yellow, Blue, and White also have the ability to revive organic beings, or is it just a Pink thing?

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#57360: Dec 24th 2018 at 11:47:50 PM

Hey, remember when Peridot was first captured and she called Steven a pebble?
Squaridot in Save the Light also used "pebble" as an Catchphrase Insult. That suddenly got a lot more offensive.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#57361: Dec 24th 2018 at 11:53:15 PM

Diamonds having the power of Creating Life with their essence was foreshadowed all the way back in "Watermelon Steven". The Kindergartens are simply an industrialized version of the process.

Edited by M84 on Dec 25th 2018 at 3:55:27 AM

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#57362: Dec 25th 2018 at 6:22:08 AM

Is it me or do the pepples have different voices? I wonder if that's significant?

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#57363: Dec 25th 2018 at 6:24:51 AM

[up][up][up]Literal rock people...it shouldn't be that much more offensive than it already seemed.

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#57364: Dec 25th 2018 at 6:42:43 AM

> Is it me or do the pepples have different voices? I wonder if that's significant?

There's also a male pebble,who is I'm totally calling Gus

Also,if they're having a ball I expect Steven to lose a shoe

Edited by Ultimatum on Dec 25th 2018 at 6:42:53 AM

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#57365: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:28:31 AM

Pink Lasagna eh?

I fully expect Pewdiepie vs T-Series memes to pop up

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#57366: Dec 25th 2018 at 9:45:26 AM

I was not expecting the Diamond Authority to live in Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Is it me or do the pepples have different voices? I wonder if that's significant?
According to the credits, the Pebbles have a mix of Steven (Zach Callison) and Pink/Rose's voices (Susan Egan). It's mostly following the general rule shown with the Tiny Floating Whale and Steven's plant creatures, albeit also giving Steven's voice to some of Rose's creations (I don't think the one pebble Steven made talked). "Comby" has Blue Diamond's voice (Lisa Hannigan), which makes me think Comby isn't quite the same as the pebbles, and was probably made from her "extractions".
@Registered User: On rewatching, I noticed that wasn't a tear from Steven that brought the pebble to life, it was sweat from being in the extraction chamber. So yes, it's quite likely those extractions are used for gem creation—though that begs the question of why they didn't already have an extraction chamber in Era 1.

I think you're kind of overstating the importance of this, though.

Are Amethyst, Nephrite, and Jasper Steven's kids sort of???
Yellow and Steven's extractions were let to mix together, suggesting they're treated as interchangeable.
Even if a diamonds' followers are usually made specifically from their "gemetic material", this isn't that different from what we already known. Amethyst thinks of Jasper and the other Earth gems as her sisters, so people already thought of Pink Diamond as analogous to their mother (and thus Steven their brother). Hell, I remember one the crew describing Blue Diamond as like Lapis' mother, and people joked about Yellow Diamond being Peridot's "mom" since before we saw her.
Sidenote: "Legs From Here To Homeworld" was storyboarded by regulars Amber Cragg and Hilary Florido plus long-time Adventure Time storyboard artist Tom Herpich. This episode was by the same three plus Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward.

Edited by thatother1dude on Dec 25th 2018 at 11:47:04 AM

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#57367: Dec 25th 2018 at 1:39:17 PM

Man, it was so creepy seeing that even the walls and decorations on Homeworld are living Gems. Not that the walls and decorations themselves were creepy, far from it, they were adorable, and I wish them all the luck.

No, creepy that the Diamonds literally use gems as architecture. We've seen other Gem architecture that wasn't alive, that's not a universal thing, that's just the Diamonds being weird and horrible and making living beings just to literally use them as walls and statues.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Dec 25th 2018 at 2:39:44 AM

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#57368: Dec 25th 2018 at 5:27:00 PM

I have a feeling I know why Yellow wanted Steven in the chamber,she needed his essence for her Citrines,essentially Pink's essence gives Gems the additional abilities and Yellow desperate wants it for her newest batch of Gems,also the comment about how Pink is almost worth tolerating is huge red flag to me

Essentially,I think Yellow is going to reveal her newest line of Citrines and be like "..And it was all thanks you..Steven" followed by Steven being like nooooooo how could you do this I thought we were friends,and then Yellow is going to laugh in his face

Edited by Ultimatum on Dec 25th 2018 at 5:38:38 AM

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#57369: Dec 25th 2018 at 5:39:14 PM

Blue also requested him specifically, so I'm thinking it might be a joint thing. I could see that as being the big twist of this little mini-arc.

I read a comment on Tumblr that seems to predict the twist of next episode. So, Steven sets up a ball, and at balls there's dancing, and usually one would dance with their partner, so Steven is going to dance with Connie. Thing is, Steven and Connie fuse when they dance, so the theory goes that we (and Homeworld) will see Stevonnie next episode, and they probably won't take too kindly to that.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#57370: Dec 25th 2018 at 5:43:31 PM

I don't really know if that's big enough to count as a "twist".

But I could see them elaborating on the essence stuff with Pink leaving being the reason Era 2 gems aren't as decked out as Era 1 gems.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#57371: Dec 25th 2018 at 7:54:05 PM

Finally saw the episode.

This is going to end so badly...

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#57372: Dec 25th 2018 at 7:55:48 PM

It's more likely Yellow and Blue expect Steven to already know what the extraction chamber does.

[up][up][up]Next episode's title ("Together Alone") is also an inversion of Stevonnie's first appearance ("Alone Together").

[up]The episode after that is "Escapism", and the song of the same name has a certain tone to it. For one reason or another, Steven's party may as well be called "Operation Burning Failure".

Edited by thatother1dude on Dec 25th 2018 at 9:56:07 AM

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#57373: Dec 29th 2018 at 7:16:28 AM

Saw some interesting speculation that Homeworld's living architecture could mean the statues near Rose's fountain are alive too,or even the Temple's statue

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#57374: Dec 29th 2018 at 9:44:19 AM

Think we'll see Aquamarine and Topaz at the ball? Actually, are those Zircons from the trial okay?

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#57375: Dec 29th 2018 at 9:55:41 AM

Aquamarine sure,she's one of high class gems,we've seen other Topaz guards so we may see the Topaz that the came to Earth

Though I'm wondering about how Eyeball will react to Steven being Pink Diamond

Edited by Ultimatum on Dec 29th 2018 at 9:36:09 AM

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