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#58726: Aug 24th 2019 at 2:38:32 PM

Holy crap, I looked. I mean, it is kind of hinted at by one scene in the trailer.

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#58727: Aug 24th 2019 at 2:47:05 PM

It might be because I've been wanting this for ages (and a channel I'm following has been really pushing for it recently) but it doesn't really get to me beyond the standard "I got spoiled by a leak" feeling. Still big, though.

[down] Sorry.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Aug 24th 2019 at 7:36:02 AM

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58728: Aug 24th 2019 at 2:48:20 PM

You're both pushing the limits of the non-spoiler thread.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58729: Aug 24th 2019 at 9:04:20 PM

New trailer that aired on Toonami, with quite a lot of new stuff:

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#58730: Aug 24th 2019 at 9:13:51 PM

So, that's a crazy diamond?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58731: Aug 24th 2019 at 10:18:15 PM

This trailer was a lot more expository than the first.

    Scene-by-scene 
  • That colored diamond-theme pattern may or may not be based on something in the actual movie.
  • They built an interplanetary warp that goes from Homeworld straight to Beach City. Steven's Empire-wide announcement in the other trailer was presumably done from Homeworld.
  • Steven's rebuilt house has an additional half-floor, extra trees and grass, the top of the Moon Base, and two flags. The bottom one is Rose's emblem in front of stripes of the four diamond colors, presumably the Crystal Gems' flag now that they're at peace with Homeworld. The one above that is a yellow hexagon on a blue background, which I suspect is just the state flag of Delmarva (it sort of looks like the real flag of Delaware).
  • Among the plants in the relocated moon base, some appear to be alien. There's also some Rose of Sharon (the flowers Pink Diamond made her fake shards out of).
  • Though still not as different-looking as Steven, this angle more clearly show how much older Connie looks.
  • Steven sounds even older than in the other trailer. I'm wondering if they pitched him just for that one to make him more recognizable, or the final version of the movie is pitched up while the Toonami trailer was made using earlier audio.
  • At least two of Centi/Nephrite's subordinates stayed on Earth. Also visible are Snowflake Obsidian, the gem that became the worm monster in "Bubble Buddies", and bunch of Jaspers.
  • A flower growing magically. Steven messing around, or doing something significant?
  • Pearl took up guitar. Greg is still wearing the black shirt.
  • Lars bakes his ube for the Crystal Gems and Off Colors. Judging by the outfit, he may have taken up baking as a profession.
  • She speaks!
  • Pearl knows her.
  • While Lapis, Bismuth, and Peridot talk in sequence, the first two sound clear while the last sounds like she's talking over a phone. Incomplete audio, perhaps?
  • Steven appears to be trying to reach the Homeworld warp on Lion. The building is intact, but the pink goo may be flooding in and damaging stuff.
  • A song with Lapis, Bismuth, and Peridot either takes place before the Injector landed, or before it starts turning the sky all evil.
  • Connie's outfit while riding Lion has a real space program look. She's got an American flag patch, plus a circular patch with yellow and white stripes and a white triangle on a blue background. I'm curious where Steven is in his scene, or if they're fudging POV.
  • "You can't just make everything better by singing some stupid song!" Characters continue to be aware of each other singing. It seems Hearty is not remotely silent.
  • Peedee's a bit taller and appears to be wearing a suit with his old crocks. Jenny's got a new outfit. Kofi, Jenny, and Mr. Fryman look the same.
  • Peridot has some new Robonoids, apparently made with modern Homeworld tech/materials. They also have her glasses.

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#58733: Aug 24th 2019 at 11:23:58 PM

Garnet is arguably too smart to smart Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud, but the delivery is good enough that it's still funny.

Something I’ve noticed rewatching the show is that while Garnet can mislead here and there when she needs to, she’s not great at lying and when she outright has to pretend or put on an act she tends to suck at it.

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#58734: Aug 25th 2019 at 12:16:13 AM

Steven Universe is officially an anime. Moving on...

    Reactions and Observations 
  • Lion looks so good with shading.
  • Aww, Tom and Sara love Steven!
  • "Our Handshake" seems to be for that scene before the trailer proper with Steven and Amethyst doing that handshake-fistbump-hug thing.
  • Whatever Greg and Steven are doing in that guitar scene really does look like a Fusion Dance.
  • Far distance models return!
  • Snowflake looks way smaller than she did in "Change Your Mind".
  • None of the Off Colors regenerated, though Padparadscha is suspiciously absent from the ube scene.
  • I like how the first trailer includes Pearl's "agreed" before skipping to the injector drilling into the ground, while this one skips Pearl and goes to Garnet.
  • Knew it was gonna happen when I first saw the title, but "Who We Are" keeps making me think of that Imagine Dragons song with the same name.
  • I wonder if the footage was sped up or if that's actually how fast those cracks spread.
  • Connie has a new scabbard! Or at least they painted the old one gold.
  • Peedee is once again forcibly dragged from the fry shop. Is that where they live, or do they have an actual house somewhere?
  • Ah yes, a good old lampshade. Wonder if she's gonna keep that attitude by the end of the film.
  • Peridot in this trailer is a lot more anxious about the whole End of the World as We Know It thing than in the last one.
  • The Steven in the circle showing the date and time of the movie looks really weird.

Peridot has some new Robonoids, apparently made with modern Homeworld tech/materials. They also have her glasses.
That little bump in the middle makes them look more like Garnet's glasses, imo.

And one more thing I noticed that has me a little worried; there's a glass of pink lemonade in the scene with Pearl playing guitar. The last time pink lemonade was mentioned within the context of the show, it was during the podcast, where Rebecca talked about how an early draft of "An Indirect Kiss" had Steven selling pink lemonade to foreshadow Lars' death and revival later in the episode. It's probably just my inner conspiracy theorist, but I'm suddenly very worried for the humans now, Greg especially.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Aug 25th 2019 at 8:33:34 AM

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58735: Aug 25th 2019 at 7:47:47 AM

Looking again, it's possible Pearl has no idea who Hearty is, and her "It can't be." isn't a response to her personally.

None of the Off Colors regenerated, though Padparadscha is suspiciously absent from the ube scene.
All 5-12 of the Off Colors are there. Padparadscha's between Rutile and Rhodonite.

From the background, they're in Beach City. The street sign says "Thayer", which is the street in front of It's a Wash and which ends right behind Big Donut.

Peedee is once again forcibly dragged from the fry shop. Is that where they live, or do they have an actual house somewhere?
Ronaldo mentions their house having two floors, while the shop appears to be one story.

alanh Since: May, 2010
#58736: Aug 25th 2019 at 11:07:14 AM

Lots of callbacks and other details in the artwork

  • Steven's mailbox is still in the same spot.
  • The house has the old picture of Greg (hotdog in mouth) and Rose, a copy of his "Space Train to the Cosmos" album, and the painting Vidalia did of Garnet.
  • Peridot has a "Camp Pining Hearts" video on her monitor.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58737: Aug 25th 2019 at 12:42:58 PM

Rewatch, Day 38

    Back to the Kindergarten 
  • Steven gets up at 8:00. So does he go to sleep at midnight, or need more than eight hours?
  • "Of the three things I have to do in the sink now, this is the one I least mind you seeing." Implying Steven peed (or worse) in his kitchen sink is the grossest the show's gotten so far.
  • Does Peridot have a thing for country music, or was that just on shuffle?
  • Bathtub Peridot makes one of the few weird, overdetailed faces the show has done in recent memory. I miss when we had more of them.
  • Whereas Steven is being carried around like a football, Peridot is carried more like a wet sack.
  • Amethyst in profile/back looks worrying similar to some early Peter Griffin faces.
  • Even before finding the flower, the Kindergarten doesn't seem remotely as creepy as it's been.
  • "I'd have to run some tests to see if this is not an anomaly." Maybe you should have tried to find out what kind flower it was (not).
  • Nice for the soundtrack to provide a guncocking sound for the waterguns.
  • Amethyst put up a pink flamingo decoration, but it's not there when they return. What, can the Kindergarten disintegrate plastic? If it could, that'd be pretty useful.
  • They kept taking the scenic route by train, only using the warp pad to get supplies, even when Peridot was in a hurry to get to the Kindergarten or to her room.
  • This was the first corrupted gem we'd seen in a season. Oddly, Dietz did the monster voice instead of Baker (who hadn't voiced Lion since then either).
  • Even besides losing Lapis and the barn, Peridot had "a general sense of complete hopelessness".
  • "Why don't we try gardening in literally any other place?" Peridot took them up on it, but we never saw the result.

    Sadie Killer 
  • Even at the latest we see Sadie go home (near sunset), she should have had enough time to sleep, but her eye( bag)s say otherwise. Stress can keep you from sleeping well even if you have the time.
  • "I'm a professional Donut Girl" Sadie, taking pride in the Big Donut's lack of nametags.
  • Jenny has her own credit card. Odd it has a real brand name (Visa) when the show usually uses made-up ones. (The show's still being ambiguous if "Pizza" is actually her family name.)
  • "Guess who's got a gig at Delmarva's number-two music and seafood festival this weekend?!" Buck has connections of some sort.
  • "What the heck, Sour Cream?!" "What? Can't let your audience get too comfortable." Sour Cream, DJ troll.
  • "Dang, Sadie! You've got so much space in here!" It was implied in "Future Boy Zoltron" that Jenny and Kiki were unhappy they still shared a room.
  • Priyanka and a gem mutant on a VHS cover is a great, subtly reality-breaking joke.
  • Interesting way they animated the instrument strings. You'd expect them to just leave them static, but instead of doing that or animating them individually when struck (which is very labor-intensive), every string has an exaggerated vibration visual.
  • Sadie's scar is the detail I can't stop looking for in every scene, and it's missing from almost every shot of "The Working Dead".
  • An excellent Freaky Fred impersonation from Sadie.
  • It's amazing how much Sadie can look like Lars in profile.
  • "I'm the only employee at the shop. I can't just leave." The show's really avoiding any implication that Sadie needs or especially wants the pay—she apparently agreed to the extra hours because she thinks it's important.
  • "This job is a drag, but at least I know it's a drag. It's normal. There's something nice about that, you know? Hanging out, singing and stuff, it feels so not normal. It's like — you ever feel so bad that you feel good? Like, when you get so cold that it burns." Hearing someone tell themself that is disturbing. Steven's reaction is so inappropriately minimal, but I guess he's not used to having a "job" in the same sense.
  • "Do I really sound like that?" "You sing it like it's a real problem for you." That almost comes off as Steven trolling her.
  • Behold, the physical half-moon.
  • "I can't believe your car can hold all these amps." Jenny's compact is pretty much a clown car, and not just in looks.

    Kevin Party 
  • "He's my only interdimensional gateway to space, and I love him." Steven's clearly getting worried that he told Lars he'd be back, but hasn't been able to for weeks. Lion was not really being very considerate of everyone when he left.
  • Kevin told both Steven and Connie the other was going. Was he deliberately lying or did he honestly assume they wouldn't turn him down?
  • "What's your number? I'll text you the address." "Oh. Yeah, uh, 301-555..." That is consistently the Beach City area code (it's for part of Maryland in real life, though a different part than where Beach City is).
  • "You roll the little ball to navigate." "The screen is so tiny." It is bizarre that Kevin's cellphone looks almost as old as he is (especially when Steven points out most smartphones have much larger screens). Is he some kind of cellphone hipster?
  • Odd how well Derrick's jacket fits the "seven-year-old".
  • Steven never bothers to correct Kevin when he calls Lion a dog.
  • "Your friend looks kind of mad, though." "He's not my friend" Kevin is basically just "the party host" to everyone else there.
  • Stomping a dude's head into the water is one of the more physically extreme things someone has done out of an actual fight.
  • "I rode Lion to your house, but there was a note that said, 'Gone vacationing'." I wonder if she noticed the broken window.
  • "Hey, everybody, are you having fun?" "Yeah!" "Liars! You're all so fake. You make me sick." I love that Kevin being a crazy jackass is apparently just an accepted cost of coming to his parties.
  • Mic drops are consistently portrayed as something that will sound stupid and awful.
  • It's great that no one but Derrick laughed at Kevin falling into the pool. Kevin is the only one at his own party who isn't actually cool.

I tried to use the previously shown map and screenshots to see if I could place Lars, Sadie, or Vidalia's houses. All I can tell is that Vidalia's house is far to the west (which is consistent with Save the Light, where it's the only residence besides Steven's) and faces west, while Sadie's is on the northern edge with the mailbox on the south side.

What I did notice is that Lars' house looks incredibly different between its first appearance in "Joking Victim" and every time after. It really shows how incredibly different-looking the backgrounds could be in the first (half?) season.

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#58738: Aug 25th 2019 at 1:13:05 PM

I always had this weird idea that the pink flamingos and flowers were disturbed by some unseen inhabitant of the Kindergarten rather then the corrupt Gem

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#58739: Aug 25th 2019 at 3:15:52 PM

[up][up]I actually think it's a plausible that Lars' house was remodeled in universe as long as you assume that the brick was painted over in Joking Victim because everything is in roughly the same place.

Edited by BigMadDraco on Aug 25th 2019 at 3:17:07 AM

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#58740: Aug 25th 2019 at 6:22:29 PM

I wonder why Baker stopped voicing Lion.

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#58741: Aug 25th 2019 at 7:00:32 PM

Too expensive lol.

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#58742: Aug 25th 2019 at 8:11:35 PM

The screening for the movie is indeed happening. Let's hope everything attending can keep their mouths shut.

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#58743: Aug 25th 2019 at 8:12:47 PM

Excitable people keeping their mouths shut...

That's damning.

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#58744: Aug 25th 2019 at 8:13:05 PM

[up]Well, that's obviously not going to happen.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58745: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:03:37 PM

Rewatch, Day 39

    Lars of the Stars 
  • MC Bear Bear was presumably with Lars up to them landing on Earth.
  • "Steven and Connie in space!" This is actually Steven's fifth trip to space (sixth if you count Lapis' space tower), but Connie's first, so she's reasonably excited.
  • It's weird how Lars' head was slouching even before someone came out of his hair. Makes it look like he was sleeping.
  • Emerald really falls into the true villainous blowhard's trap of acting increasingly outraged at different things when they'd be trying to kill whoever they're talking about for any one of them.
  • "It was an insult when you impersonated imperial officers during a cosmic jubilee." Either one of Fluorite's components is a quartz/garnet/etc. or someone is really good at shapeshifting and/or acting.
  • Lars stole the cape. Peridot laughed at the idea of clothes that aren't part of a gems' physical form, but Jasper also had a cape, so Homeworld uses material clothing sometimes. The other new clothes were more likely made for him; anyone's guess what from.
  • "Oh, finally! Clean jeans!" Lars didn't have much ability to bathe or wash his clothes, did he? Hopefully less aging means less stank.
  • "We are excited about your Beach City. I look forward to a planet of sand and water." I like to think the Rutile Twins kept thinking that until some time after landing.
  • Lars has some nice gloves that don't keep him from using a smart phone touch screen.
  • "Does she even know I died out here?!" always reminded me of 'I can't believe I died for this war.'
  • Six-eyes Rhodonite
  • I think this is the first time Connie has spoken to Lars since they met (unless you count when Stevonnie got free donuts). And she really wasn't even speaking to him then.
  • Lars didn't have to worry about Emerald scoring a direct hit, but it's not obvious what lowering the shield accomplished. My guess is the shields would have blocked near misses, and Emerald's plan was to disable the ship by exhausting them.
  • Lars is one of the less strange-looking characters from a front-facing angle.
  • POV Break: We hear others talking even after Stevonnie went down the chute to the Star Skipper.
  • The Star Skipper has quite a badass logo behind the wheel: a skull with a mark like Lars' scar behind a Crystal Gem star. Lars may be unaware of the star's significance, and just think of it as the thing on Steven's shirt.
  • "Steven?! Connie?!" Lars never did learn Stevonnie's name. Their distress signal next episode had them say "It's Stevonnie! Steven and Connie?"
  • This episode aired with the next as a half-hour special, and the way Amazon video handles it is odd: This episode has its own credits, but they fade out without a CN logo directly into the next episode's title card (no opening). Cartoon Network's VOD has regular credits and openings for both episodes.

    Jungle Moon 
  • Steven's bubble has been consistently able to cushion those within from high speed impacts instead of just letting them get crushed by their own inertia.
  • Would Stevonnie still have stubble with a better razor, or will they only look clean shaven after recently fusing? Stevonnie in Connie's place in the picture still has stubble. If they let it grow before defusing, would that leave Steven with a proportionally smaller amount of facial hair?
  • For a second, Priyanka's face doesn't look like hers or Yellow Diamond's. Is it just the low angle?
  • "Mom, what are you talking about?" I may have forgotten this earlier, when I asked if Stevonnie would call any of their part's parents "mom/dad", but this is a dream—Stevonnie doesn't care that they're fused in front of Priyanka either.
  • It's hard to imagine Susan Egan saying any of Pink Diamond!Stevonnie's lines; even when Rose was being immature, she never acted that young or bratty.
  • Stevonnie's dream power was quite a misdirection—it seemed like a new power unique to Stevonnie, which we only saw once they fused long enough to sleep. It was actually a power Steven had but hadn't triggered yet—experiencing Past-Life Memories because of specific locations. I was slightly disappointed when I realized that, because the apparent, more general version of that power presented a lot of possibility.
  • Speaking of possibilities, Steven's dream merging with whoever he's fused with is a really cool idea I hope they revisit.
  • "Yikes." is kind of an overreaction just to Yellow Pearl taking a picture.
  • The bird blob had no credited voice actor. Did they just use stock clips?
  • Lars' "Yeha-aggh!" kind of reminds of the intro of "Lord Only Knows".

    Your Mother and Mine 
  • POV Break: We see the Off Colors a while before Steven comes in. Unlike "Friend Ship", it's even where the title card starts!
  • Because of the breaks between premiering, I've just noticed Lars had a main or supporting roll three episodes in a row.
  • "Another... Steven?" Even though the Off Colors found out that was actually Garnet, they may still think there are multiple Stevens.
  • Does Lars even recognize Garnet?
  • Steven told Garnet, at least, what the Off Colors are like.
  • This whole flashback is interesting because it's inaccurate to Rose's factual history, but very close to her emotional journey.
  • Details as specific as Rose being summoned to Pink Diamond makes me question how much of this Rose actually told Garnet.
  • This flashback showed Rose with a jumpsuit like Jasper's and her dress as something she put on as she started to rebel. In Rose's actual background, the jumpsuit was disguising herself as an Amethyst, and we still don't know how real Rose Quartzes usually dressed.
  • "Rose's message began to resonate, to Pink Diamond's dismay. Her colony was falling apart. So, like a coward, she called for her Diamond allies, Yellow and Blue, to help." Garnet's really being pretty myopic there—how is that cowardly?
  • "Your mom did all that? That's awesome!" Lars gains something to associate Rose with besides murderous (but pretty) plants.
  • "In a last-ditch attempt to wipe out the Rebellion, the Diamonds launched a direct attack against Earth, and in their fury, they used their powers to end the fighting once and for all." Garnet didn't actually specify what the Diamonds' attack did.
  • Lars can operate the Sun Incinerator console, not just the Star Skipper. So is that because of his reanimation, or is just old gem tech that's mostly impossible for humans to use?
  • It's odd how this episode implies Steven ended up exploring a Homeworld facility, even seeing and possibly fighting more Agates, completely offscreen.
  • Amazon video just cut the credits out of this episode entirely.

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#58746: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:46:11 PM

Lars from the front looks kinda anime.

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#58747: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:48:09 PM

One thing I always thought was weird in Jungle Moon was the implication that Stevonnie is the same height as Pink Diamond, especially since every time we actually see Pink Diamond afterward she's much taller than Rose; closer to Opal's height. Was Stevonnie actually remembering wrong, and Pink Diamond created that crack with a kick instead of a punch?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58748: Aug 26th 2019 at 8:16:08 PM

I'd just accept it as mistake—if not in how big Pink Diamond was, then the height they showed the crack in the window at.

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#58749: Aug 26th 2019 at 9:21:47 PM

Kicking things in anger is always a much more pathetic counterpart to punching things in anger.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#58750: Aug 27th 2019 at 5:31:29 PM

Rewatch, Day 40

    The Big Show 
  • Hilariously, I had an actual audio bug-out when watching, and was confused if this was some joke about Steven's tape I forgot.
  • Because it's filmed on a single camera in-series, and last long enough for scenes with multiple angles, there are blur transitions between them. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of bright, sparkling colors.
  • Greg briefly goes back to a white shirt, but still one with sleeves.
  • Sadie and Lars both love capes.
  • Combed down Sour Cream.
  • Being a manager could have cut into Greg's time running the car wash, but it wasn't exactly a busy venture.
  • It was really surprising when this episode first came out that Greg's music career went far enough to have contacts with people still in. We already knew about the sound and stage tech, though.
  • One has to wonder if people remembered Steven was filming (even Steven may have forgot he left it on) when Sadie was arguing with her mom then talking to Greg about it.
  • Sadie is not used to hugs. Unless it's Steven, I guess.
  • Sadie covered her whole face in white makeup, but it's hard to notice on-stage; she's just that pale.
  • Steven suggested Sunshine Justice was Barb before Sadie did.
  • The number and variety of camera angles at the venue is suspicious for a concert that size. Or was that part supposed to be just an audience's view?
  • Sadie really picked a fortuitous song to end up using for a "Screw you, (lady I've mistaken for my) mom!" vibe.
  • The rope lifting Sadie up was completely invisible until we saw behind her. That's what called a "cheat".
  • Buck's pulled his glasses up just so everyone could see he was sleeping.
  • "Hey, Mr. Universe, let's play our next show in Beach City." Which was presumably the concert in "Change Your Mind", and may or may not have been Beach-a-Palooza.

    Pool Hopping 
  • The Beach City evacuation route goes through route 1A (which was also shown in Steven Sugar's map), confirming in-series Beach City's almost exact location.
  • Lion's absence at the beginning of the season is ironic, as we see him much more in season five than season four.
  • Did Big Donut actually hire Garnet, or did she just get Barb's key to the building?
  • Beach City gulls continue to be utterly ravenous.
  • "Sorry, I — I must be thinking of a different timeline." That is a strange detail to drop that Garnet forgets which timeline she is in.
  • Garnet calls Vidalia "Mother Onion", presumably because Garnet doesn't know her enough to call her by her first name, but doesn't know her last name either.
  • There's a bizarrely long delay between Garnet bursting in and Vidalia yelling in reaction.
  • The way Vidalia makes her painting is semi-accurate, in that Garnet and Steven pose for the sketch instead of the actual painting. I still think a real painter would make a bunch of rough sketches instead one carefully made sketch.
  • Should and could Steven have healed Cat Steven's eye? I mean, it's implied Lars had a pretty bad eye wound it fixed, and he fixed Connie's eye, which weren't even injured.
  • I realized we'll probably see Cat Steven grown up in the movie. Have we ever seen a grown cat in-series that wasn't Amethyst?
  • "Why my future vision has been so off. I have to change the way I think about you." It's weird how that implies Garnet can foresee the actions of total strangers better than the people close to her.

    Letters to Lars 
  • POV Break: Same as "Your Mother & Mine".
  • Greg paid for the telescope, but Garnet didn't point out her Future Vision worked better as an early warning system.
  • Lars smiles only when hearing about Sadie's band and wrestling, because those are the only two he knows anything about.
  • Peridot, Amethyst, Barb, and Mr. Smiley is quite a combo.
  • Amethyst's horrible plunger mouth reminds me of the Bigheads from Rocko's Modern Life.
  • Jamie is right that shapeshifting sort of defeats the point of improv, but he's missing all the things they could do on stage with it—or how Amethyst could benefit from acting lessons.
  • Garnet tells Greg that "Being rich has made your weak.", but being able to play tennis at all is a big upgrade for Greg health-wise.
  • Amethyst still watches Beach City Wrestling even after retiring.
  • "Yeah, the new city board practically just gave [the Mayor Mobile] to me too. It's like they wanted nothing to do with it anymore." Ironic, as Nanefua was talking about a need for a vehicle to make announcements with.
  • Dewey from a back angle is bizarre, and kind of like an early Simpsons character design.
  • One fewer voice: Sour Cream, Mr. Smiley, Mrs. Barriga are silent (Mr. Barriga has Lars' voice actor). Despite that, I think this episode has the longest cast list all season (all four featured voices plus a dozen additional voices), at least for a regular-length episode.

Edited by thatother1dude on Aug 28th 2019 at 5:27:07 AM


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