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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58101: Feb 1st 2019 at 9:56:42 AM

Takafumi Hori’s animation for the show’s fifth anniversary and season five finale.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#58102: Feb 1st 2019 at 9:59:10 AM

Is Jasper wearing a her colored scarf?

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Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#58103: Feb 1st 2019 at 10:11:36 AM

[up] Mhm. I think it's based off this drawing Rebecca did.

Side note, I love how Lapis is going full ham while Peridot and Jasper are just like "yeah whatever".

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#58104: Feb 1st 2019 at 10:51:14 AM

I wonder how long it took for him to animate Lapis's skirt.

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#58105: Feb 1st 2019 at 7:22:11 PM

New theory; they gave Lapis pants because they're a lot easier to animate than her dress.

Anyway, some of Paul's boards from "Change Your Mind". "People trying not to cry for reasons of stoicism but unable to stop from crying because they care way more than they want to let on" is a very good aesthetic indeed.

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srebak Since: Feb, 2011
#58106: Feb 2nd 2019 at 2:24:14 AM

Let me just say that I saw the season finale “Change Your Mind” back on the day that it aired and, while I did like it, there were still just a few things, like a few other things about this show, that I’m not not entirely certain about how I feel about personally, despite somewhat understanding them to a certain degree.

For one thing, while I am glad that a few of the C Gs have some new outfits, that Lapis Lazuli is an official Crystal Gem now, that the C Gs have a lot of their old friends back and that the threat of the Great Diamond Authority has finally been dealt with, without Steven having to leave the other diamonds hanging after we saw just how much that they truly cared for Pink Diamond. I’m also pretty much okay with Lars and the Off-Colors finally being able to make it to Earth.

But, certain things about all of this do still leave me in a bit an uneasy state of mind, if that makes sense.

1. The new outfits are okay, but, after such a long time of seeing the old ones, they might take some getting used to

2. Does this truly mean that Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz is really gone?

3. Has everyone really come to stop seeing Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond as a good person by this point?

4. With the Corrupted Gems now healed and the Great Diamond Authority (and subsequently the rest of Homeworld) now without any real reason to want to attack the Earth, what’s really left for the Crystal Gems to protect the Earth from? People have already stated that bringing in a new threat at this point wouldn’t really work, so what can be done?

5. While I do like that Lapis Lazuli is a Crystal Gem now and that Bismuth is part of the Crew indefinitely, aside from that one battle in “Reunited” and the events of “Change your Mind”, the two of them both arrived to help just when the feud was just about over.

6. I can’t help but feel like that this means that, despite their deplorable actions from the past, the two rubies; Eyeball and Navy, as well as Aquamarine, all basically get off scot free for all of the things that they did to Steven, Connie and the C Gs back in seasons 3-5. Eyeball tried to stab Steven and then testified against him after snapping at him during the trial, Navy pretended to be friends with Steven, Lapis and Peridot and actually took pleasure in toying with their emotions and betraying them, and Aquamarine was just cruel, condescending and mean the whole entire time that she was on screen. And yet none of them get any sort of real comeuppance for all of that?

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#58107: Feb 2nd 2019 at 2:31:15 AM

  1. Yeah, but you'll get used to them with time.

  2. Has been for 14 years.

  3. Pink/Rose was a good person, she was just kind of an insensitive asshole about it.

  4. I dunno. Maybe no-one. Maybe next season is all fluff and politics with no fighting.

  5. Yeah, but we'll see more of them next season. Maybe they'll get screentime there. Maybe they'll even get an episode reconciling the fact that Bismuth poofed Lapis 5000 years ago, which led to her getting trapped in the mirror.

  6. Depends. If we don't see them, they really weren't that important. If we do see them, we'll probably get some kind of resolution.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Feb 2nd 2019 at 3:32:48 AM

RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#58108: Feb 2nd 2019 at 8:30:57 AM

Navy ready was no where near as bad as the other two. Eyeball stabbed the person who saved her on the back and Aquamarine was a kidnapper for no regards for human life.

All Navy did was steal back a spaceship that was rightfully hers in a dickish way. She could have easily left the Crystal Gems stranded in space for payback, but she left them over the ocean when the party included a Lapis Lazuli.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#58109: Feb 2nd 2019 at 7:34:47 PM

The way Topaz captured the Beach Citizens was way more disturbing to me than anything Aquamarine did.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58110: Feb 2nd 2019 at 8:09:07 PM

Not even Aquamarine threatening to kill them? Although Topaz's response gave us this shot.

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#58111: Feb 2nd 2019 at 8:56:58 PM

Topaz was just following orders, and the way she captures people is what she's designed to do. Aquamarine was actively being sadistic and threatening their "zoo stock."

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#58112: Feb 2nd 2019 at 11:01:47 PM

[up][up]What's wrong with that shot?

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superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#58113: Feb 2nd 2019 at 11:05:11 PM

[up]It looks like she's going to crush Jamie's head.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#58114: Feb 2nd 2019 at 11:05:59 PM

Continuing: What's wrong with that?

That sounds epic.

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#58115: Feb 3rd 2019 at 12:16:45 AM

While I dont agree with the creepy glee, I do agree its great to see such intense moments on a kids show like Steven Universe.

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#58116: Feb 3rd 2019 at 5:36:18 AM

> Continuing: What's wrong with that?

Nothing wrong with it but it's really scary,like holy they could kill jamie

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#58117: Feb 3rd 2019 at 8:34:30 AM

Did they ever fix the Homeworld Warp?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58118: Feb 3rd 2019 at 8:47:26 AM

No, though it wouldn't be hard to grab more of that repair stuff.

HalfFaust Since: Jan, 2019
#58119: Feb 3rd 2019 at 8:47:38 AM

I don't think we got confirmation but that certainly could have happened off-screen.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#58120: Feb 3rd 2019 at 8:53:52 AM

Wont happen,even though they might be on friendly terms now they wouldn't risk it

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58121: Feb 3rd 2019 at 9:09:18 AM

If Homeworld as a whole turned on the Earth, keeping the Galaxy Warp broken won't accomplish anything.

That said, it could be a (minor) security threat if any Homeworld gems went rogue then came to Earth with nefarious intent.

Unlikelyauthor2 Just another weeb Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Just another weeb
#58122: Feb 3rd 2019 at 12:50:28 PM

Finally caught back up! Damn but you guys cover pages fast. Okay, my thoughts on the finale-

I will admit it would have been better for White Diamond to have more appearances before the final confrontation because, damn, White's VA was on point showing her as a villain. I mean it, as far as awesome villians go I'll rate her just a little bellow Crispin Freeman's portrayal of Albedo Piazollo in [1] and Billy Zane's Ansem in the original [[Kingdom Hearts]].

Loved the Gurren Lagann reference with Garnet's and Perridot's new glasses. The different fusions were awesome, especially Obsidian's sword.

Won't deny that it felt like White's... no, defeat isn't the right word, being proven wrong maybe? Getting back on point that felt a little rushed.

I won't lie when Lars showed back up I was half expecting Saddie to cut off the awkward talk by just dipping him down and smooching him. Either that, or Renoldo to ruin the moment by either asking a hundred different qustions about space or asking about where he got the awesome outfit.

As for next season there could be any number of possible plot lines they could explore. Especially with Jasper. Say for example her corruption and healing may have left her with flaws so she is no longer the "perfect" Quartz Warrior she always prided herself on. That could be an interesting arc about her coming to terms with herself. Heck, for all we know she may continue to be antagonistic. Say she eventually accepts that Pink faked her shattering and become Rose. Maybe she'll resent that her Diamond chose to destroy her own identity to create the wierd little abomination that is Steven.

Maybe we'll see some of the recovered loyalist gems, (and maybe even some of the old Crystal Gems) having trouble letting go of grudges from the war and try to continue it, just because that's all they know and they're afraid that's all they can do. Or, on a darker side, some of them prefer war to peace.

Hopefully we'll get a few stories of the Diamonds seaking advice from Steven and the other C Gs on how to go about making reforms.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58123: Feb 3rd 2019 at 1:51:17 PM

I won't lie when Lars showed back up I was half expecting Saddie to cut off the awkward talk by just dipping him down and smooching him.
Their departure left too much baggage for that. As is, it went about as well as you could reasonably expect.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#58124: Feb 3rd 2019 at 1:55:26 PM

I hate to admit, I have a problem with the Diamonds' redemption.

The gem shard fusions. Those horrible, screaming, shattered people begging for death, including THE CLUSTER ITSELF. The Diamonds did that.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#58125: Feb 3rd 2019 at 2:17:48 PM

There's also the whole "being as expansionist empire and likely as genocidal as The Imperium" thing.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Feb 3rd 2019 at 2:18:10 AM


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