Garnet was mostly losing the fight, they probably couldn't have kept fighting that long.
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garnet takes fusion very seriously. look how excited she gets when she meets stevonnie and smoky quartz. it's important to her for obvious reasons. malachite genuinely bothers her quite a bit.
e: spoiler, my bad
Edited by razorrozar7 on Aug 1st 2019 at 12:23:10 PM
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!On tangentially related issues, I'd known for years that Estelle's biggest hit was "American Boy", but not never got around to listening to it until until last night.
Rewatch, Day 14
- I always wonder how the writers decide which conflicts to include Connie on. In this case, I guess Jasper would have logically either ignored Connie or killed her on the spot, so she might as well be absent entirely.
- Sensing his plot relevance has concluded, Lion leaps out of the episode.
- Greg's kind of overreacting to a simple black eye.
- "Super beefy" remains one of my favorite of Steven's lines.
- I think they included that flashback assuming there'd be a decent amount of time between seasons airing. It wasn't until the fifth season that a finale was followed by any significant kind of break. Though it also save money.
- Curious that the Crystal Gems worry about humans accessing the gem technology scattered on the beach, but not the old gem tech all over Earth.
- Wannabe-edgelord Steven is always hilariously, adorably pathetic.
- "Did I do something wrong" is sort of a recurring sentiment that always gets some kind of reaction.
- Surprising that Connie so quickly noticed the black eye under all the snot and tears.
- They sure fixed the windows fast.
- I'm still disappointed Ronaldo hauling away a piece of the wreckage was never followed up on, even as a brief joke (like if Steven mentioned getting it away from him in "Joy Ride").
- Buck and Sour Cream seem to just ride along with Jenny for pizza deliveries.
- Why was the landing site glowing? I think the writers wrote it as making a crop circle, then realized it wouldn't be visible from the road.
- Imagine if Peridot was in there.
- Why did Peridot abandon the pod? It still worked and would get her around faster than walking (or however she got around).
- More Buck without glasses.
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- The pod had a store of repair gel. Presumably it didn't work on the pod, or Peridot would have used it, but then what was it for?
- Connie's phone has only one camera, opposite to the screen, yet she still tries to take a selfie.
- Jamie left and no one took up his route. Barb kind of sucks at her job.
- Jamie never saw Garnet before. Had he ever seen Pearl or Amethyst?
- By the show's ethos, Jamie should taken the more reasonable route and acted on his infatuation by deciding to learn more about Garnet instead of deciding he was in love immediately. Still would have been rejected, assuming he didn't lose interest for some reason.
- Steven already knew Garnet being a fusion based on romance means she wouldn't be romantically interested in anyone. That's not really a perfect assumption on his part—it didn't stop Fluorite.
- I have to wonder how Cordero's casting as Jamie worked. He's not normally even a voice actor and didn't do more than a few lines until nearly two years after his first recording.
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i think it's interesting that garnet is consistently portrayed as monogamous. there's no cultural reason for it the way there is on earth. all romantic relationships seem equally taboo to gems, so it's not like there's a special social stigma for polyamory.
it's good that monogamy and polyamory are treated as equally valid choices, though. positive portrayals of polyamory are all but nonexistent, especially in children's fiction.
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When Garnet saw Florite she was thrilled. So she doesn't judge Gems for being poly, she just isn't herself.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
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i really do hope we hear rhodonite's story at some point. there aren't many pearls and they're at the bottom of the caste system. how a pearl fell in love with a ruby must be a hell of a story.
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do we know fluorite's components? the show never listed them, did it?
also, obsidian is a five-gem fusion, albeit one containing a diamond. fluorite should be incredibly strong, shouldn't she?
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!Well, Fluorite might be rather powerful, but unless at least one of her components has any sort of fighting experience, she might just be Unskilled, but Strong. And even that is a relative term compared to an average gem. But given that we've never seen her in a situation that requires strength at all (although it's certainly pretty easy to imagine that some of the offscreen adventures the Off Colors had that led them to get the Sun Incinerator involved some such situations), it's kind of more of a point of conjecture regardless. It's reasonable to assume that Fluorite is strong, but who knows how much. Also, as things currently stand, it's kind of moot.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Rewatch, Day 16, Part 1
(I'm including days where I didn't watch any just because it's easier to keep count that way.)
- The Crying Breakfast Friends! quiz makes me recall a FiveThirtyEight article pointing out the biggest problems with these personality quizzes/categories is that they just tell you one group you best belong to without showing how close a match it was compared to others.
- "Is there any more engine oil?" "I think that's for cars..." Did Steven think she didn't know what she was eating?
- "There's a prize inside!
◊" Amethyst totally stole that guy's body, and probably from a battlefield.
- Garnet's hand stubs.
◊ I'm just realizing, wouldn't that mean Garnet turns her hands into the gauntlets instead of just putting them over? I don't recall her ever sliding them off.
- This episode always confused me in that it really seems Amethyst's gemstone can hear Steven at some points, even though there are other times where poofed gems clearly can't.
- Steven is oddly unconcerned about Amethyst having hand feet. Though she is oddly nimble on them.
- The way a gem can end up with a completely dysfunctional body leaves the implication that gems sometimes have to poof themselves (or have someone else do it) just to change their default form.
- "Yo, I heard that!"
◊ This is one reason I always figured gems have ears, the show's art style just doesn't draw women's ears unless they're completely unobstructed. Now we see Rutiles, Pebbles, and arguably Topaz have no ears, but I still think most gems do.
- As Amethyst has her Pearl-based form, the music includes piano (Pearl's instrument).
- This is actually the only episode where a corrupted gem poofs an uncorrupted one. When the Slinker briefly gets Amethyst's gemstone, it just kind of gums on it.
- The biggest difference between the openings isn't what the characters are doing, it's color palette. The first had a huge focus and contrast of teal and fuchsia. The second has a more consistent dark blue tone.
- Connie takes that face plant
◊ like a champ. Odd that Greg, Sadie, and Lars never had that problem.
- Pearl learning of the specifically-human concept knighthood in the Sky Arena is a really bizarre detail. Did she hear of it from humans that were there for some reason, or just happen to be there when Garnet, Amethyst, or Rose told her about it?
- Frog Steven staring up
◊ may be my favorite reaction shot in the show.
- Connie steps into Steven's house already wearing her martial arts outfit. One has to wonder what she told her parents she was wearing it for.
- For that matter, how is Connie getting all this time to train when her mom already schedules so much stuff?
- Although it was only an
◊ Imagine Spot, we get the only "long distance" shot of Rose that I can think of. Kind of looks like Nancy Green.
- When a Holo-Pearl runs into someone they weren't told to fight, it attacks them anyway. That is a very poor design choice.
- Episode-exclusive power: Pearl is able to control the mist in the Sky Arena.
- This is where we first Steven summoning his shield at will in a less emergency.
- I can't recall Steven using his shield and bubble together after this point.
- Of course Pearl was confused by "jam buds". They said Steven was biscuit and Connie was the strawberry. They never said anyone was strawberry jam.
- It's kind of unsatisfying that Pearl disarm Steven and Connie between shots.
- Underwater dueling sounds somewhat possible, but midair dueling?
- That's an excellent punching sound they got for every individual word of the title.
- You can tell the editor/director really savored the opportunity to make a bunch of hilariously jarring cuts.
- Ronaldo's editing skills are a lot better when he wants to Roll 212 on his little brother.
- This episode actually had a lot of great lines: "Unbelievable—I MISSED IT!", "High-five of the third kind." "Even at the highest levels of local government" "Thaw out the cryogenically frozen pets of the one percent!?" (even if that last one is bordering on word salad)
- The Frymans could still see Beach City when the hand ship crashed? That had to have been at least an hour later. What were they driving at, thirty feet an hour?
- Episode-exclusive power: Amethyst uses her hair like an axe.
- Borderline episode-exclusive power: Pearl's spear shoots energy blasts elsewhere, but this is the only time it works like a machinegun instead of a cannon.
- I love imagining why the scene of Ronaldo tripping on the wet floor was filmed, much less added in to the documentary.
- That scene is also an excellent use of the technique where you cut away at the exact moment a pratfall should have killed someone.
- Pearl mentions that corrupted gems are drawn to them. Keeping the aforementioned scene with the Slinker and Amethyst's gem in mind, I'm now wondering what they actually want to do to the Crystal Gems.
- First time noticing Garnet touches her glasses before "agreeing" to leave town. It does make more sense that she'd plan it out; just flat-out lying to Ronaldo so he'd leave before coming back seems too short-sighted. (Is it technically "lying" if you promise someone you'll do something under the correct assumption they'll take back their request before you do it?)
- Speaking of which, it goes unremarked that Ronaldo does accept the Crystal Gems cause all this stuff in Beach City, but still consider them "weird" regardless.
- Between the line hinting at the Zoo and the townsfolk's nigh-suicidal apathy, I get the sense this was when the writers were getting the idea of Homeworld gems directly, intentionally accosting humans.
Strawberry Jam doesn't flow as well.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Rewatch, Day 16, Part 2
- Molisee is the one storyboard artist that usually shows both of Amethyst's eyes.
- Why did it take Peridot so long to get to the Kindergarten? She could have walked there from where her pod landed in a few days at most. And if she didn't have a map, how did she ever get there?
- Peridot's robot voice is totally gone, and shows the first signs of it getting higher when asking about the "other ones".
- Wow, Peridot's durability was shown off right there—that Injector falls on her and she doesn't even slow down. Those Limb Enhancers must also be pretty strong to get it off.
- Peridot was like ten second from revealing the fusion experiments in "Marble Madness" before Steven interrupted.
- Those freaky ass cluster noises made this an excellent episode to start listening with headhpone.
- Garnet poofs the hand cluster by just pulling it apart.
- You have to wonder what the individuals who conceived and personally performed the fusion experiments were like or did. Narratively, the show pretty much treats it as Yellow's thing top-to-bottom.
- "At home, we only have classical music and movie soundtracks." I bet the soundtracks are Doug's.
- This is a unique transition, showing a video but going into a full flashback.
- Greg's quite a musician to keep singing and playing with all of that.
- Clearly not the first time Pearl gave Greg crap.
- "Rose may find you charming, but that's only because you're human. You're a novelty, at best." A novelty Rose has been habitually into for almost the entire time she's known you.
- I can't recall the specific phrase "fusion dance" being used in any other episode.
- In another of the few details we have of Greg's pre-Beach City life, he mentions previously being in love and possibly having a girlfriend.
- Those camera cuts while Greg and Rose are talking after the dance has what I can only describe as "intense sexual energy".
- POV Break: Steven knows what Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet said off in the corner, even though Greg shouldn't have been able to hear them.
- POV Break: Steven is underwater, but we clearly hear Amethyst and Pearl above the water.
- Gems learning to sleep seems like a much more abstract process than eating or breathing, but going by Lapis later on, they don't need to modify their bodies to do so.
- Amethyst skateboards off the corners of the "stage".
- Lapis came just in time to cut off dream Connie, keeping the voice cast down by one.
- I wonder if meowing Dogcopter was just meant as a non-sequitir, or if they had the followup
in Keep Beach City Weird already planned.
- This is the only time Pearl's hologram makes sounds that isn't Holo-Pearl. The audio quality is terrible, though it can definitely do more than Pearl's voice.
- There's not really a clear reason for the dreams to stop at that point.
I've actually noticed something very bizarre about the temple: The hand with the laundry machine is clearly shown with a Warp Pad in its hand in "Sworn to the Sword" and "Keeping It Together", which in Save the Light is fully functionally. However, no one ever uses it in the show (on account of it being absurdly redundant), all the title cards show it as a round gem, and the first shot of the movie trailer shows warp pads are much larger than what you see above ground—so much that one couldn't fit in that hand.
When Stephen sees Malachite?
What if he was just scared?
Like a wittle child.
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maybe the rest of the warp pad is in hammerspace? given the gems' spatial manipulation abilities it's not too far-fetched to think they could stick the rest of the warp pad somewhere else and still allow it to be functional.
e: i remember in Opal's debut episode Pearl makes a little hologram that references the classic DBZ fusion dance, followed by Amethyst saying she doesn't dance like that, but i dont remember whether the phrase "fusion dance" was actually used
e2:
im sleepy don't judge me
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Where Opal debuts.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.It actually wasn't a hologram, Pearl made moving sand miniatures
◊—which as I said a while ago, is possibly the most blatant time a character used a unique power exactly once. A hologram would have made more sense, but maybe "Giant Woman" was boarded before they decided Pearl had that power.
Rewatch, Day 17, Part 1
- Curious how Peridot's signal visibly shook the TV.
- Considering Peridot was overwriting the signal of every TV in the world, you have to wonder if anyone would recognize her, even if she's not famous.
- Only Steven hid in Lion's mane to save space while riding him, even though he was the only one who needed to breathe. (The out-of-universe reason being that Garnet or Pearl would notice Bismuth.)
- Lion tries to eat the light dragonflies Sardonyx's weapon turns into. Wonder if they taste like anything.
- Amethyst canonically has no depth perception.
- We are not shown what must have been a very awkward ride home.
- This is the first time we see Greg's black T-shirt in the present (it was first shown in the For Steven video), but it wouldn't become his default until season four.
- Going by the "Welcome to Keystone" sign, they must be near state lines.
- "You're choosing to take it personally." That's really raising the question of what "taking it personally" even means.
- Ruby has to be insanely hot if she's burning concrete.
- The first time we Sapphire's eye
◊, she's squinting from both corners of her forehead.
- Ruby straight-up necking Sapphire almost feels like S&P told the crew they could't kiss on the lips, but someone decided to compensate by making it even more suggestive.
- Steven offers the cream cheese container for Amethyst to eat, and I'm now wondering what exactly all that trash comes out as. Amethyst mentions later that she goes outside, so she might well be littering.
- I can't tell if Steven remembers Vidalia's name from Greg's flashback.
- Sure it's been said before, but it's still quite baffling that Amethyst and Vidalia lost contact for years when Amethyst could jump to her house from the temple.
- Amethysts knew Sour Cream as a kid, but that raises the question of if she recognized him in "Joy Ride". She half sounds like she knew Yellowtail, but calling him "Fishtail" might mean she was faking.
- From now on, when I see when the staff contrived a reason for there to be one fewer voice actors, I'll write "One fewer voice": Sour Cream grooving to music at the dining table.
- Vidalia and Amethyst trashed the mayor's boat at some point.
- I will give more credit now to the idea that part of the joke for "Happy Birthday Onion" was that it sounded like it was porn at first.
What kind of XXX tape sounds like it's starting from the middle?
It's an impossible question, but one to consider nonetheless.
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Rewatch: Day 13
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