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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#59051: Sep 6th 2019 at 6:32:44 PM

I mean, it was certainly intended as a celebration, that's basically what Sugar said if not in so many words. Apparently it was inspired by her accidentally factory resetting her phone and losing a bunch of important stuff.

Honestly my only real question mark is not so much where Spinel got the injector (although that's certainly valid to ask), but how she did it so fast. It seems like everything happened in the same day so Spinel basically flipped her lid, got all this high-tech shit together and made it to Earth in only what, a few hours?

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#59052: Sep 6th 2019 at 6:37:36 PM

Do you think a lot of people who have never seen an episode of Steven Universe tuned in to catch the movie? And do you think those that did were at all confused by the massive plot summary?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59053: Sep 6th 2019 at 6:41:13 PM

[up][up][up]They literally did explain the Rejuvinator...

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SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#59054: Sep 6th 2019 at 6:48:56 PM

Spinel just went to the Injector warehouse, threw hands at everybody, and then stole what she needed.

DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
The Ultimate Lifeform
#59055: Sep 6th 2019 at 6:51:47 PM

[up][up] When? I must have missed it because I have no idea where she got the rejuvenator from...

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59056: Sep 6th 2019 at 7:06:37 PM

Just her having it?

No, they didn't explain that.

But, that's not really the important part.

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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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#59057: Sep 6th 2019 at 7:16:17 PM

The Oh Shit We’re Not An Empire Anymore Surplus Sale

She also picked up a giant foot, cheap

Edited by Bocaj on Sep 6th 2019 at 10:17:30 AM

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DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
The Ultimate Lifeform
#59058: Sep 6th 2019 at 7:25:39 PM

Haha, guess they had to get rid of their galaxy-conquering supplies somehow. [lol]

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#59059: Sep 6th 2019 at 7:32:23 PM

I hope they go further in depth exactly what "dismantling the Empire" actually entails. Like, I get that they probably stopped colonizing new worlds and may have mothballed a lot of their weaponry, but what about planets that have been Gem colonies for hundreds of years? I can see them not building new kindergartens and other installations, but don't I think they would just abandon the entire planet.

BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#59060: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:08:01 PM

I'm guessing that the injector was something Pink left lying around.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#59061: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:09:52 PM

It was pink

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#59062: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:18:18 PM

Honestly my only real question mark is not so much where Spinel got the injector (although that's certainly valid to ask), but how she did it so fast. It seems like everything happened in the same day
At first I thought there was a time jump during "Happily Ever After", but Steven said Sadie was playing "tonight". So yes, it was same day.

Bismuth didn't make the rejuvenator sound very rare, though the Injector is obviously something less likely to be lying around.

I'm guessing that the injector was something Pink left lying around.
My best guess is she had some supply caches (possibly ones kept secret from the other Diamonds) that Spinel overheard about.

As as side note, it's a bit odd the machine is still called an "Injector" when its basic function is essentially unrelated to the ones in the Kindergartens. What, are there even more kinds of Injectors out there?

I can see them not building new kindergartens and other installations, but I don't think they would just abandon the entire planet.
Steven in the broadcast said he was "saving all your planets" and clearly talking to gems. Clearly, they're allowed to keep living there—not like they're a ecological/resource burden after being created.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59063: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:23:40 PM

It is injecting poisonous fluids into the planet, what else would it be called?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#59064: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:30:32 PM

I'm honestly kinda impressed that, even though the movie was technically a retread of Pearl's, Garnet's and Amethyst's character development, it didn't feel repetitive to me?
That's because they spent most of the time as they were long before we met them—we'd only seen Pearl and Garnet briefly that way in flashback, and never saw Amethyst directly right after she formed. Amethyst's case was really quite revelatory (even if it seems somewhat obvious in hindsight, as all the other Amethysts clearly emerged knowing more than she did).

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The Ultimate Lifeform
#59065: Sep 6th 2019 at 8:39:59 PM

That's a good point. We really had only seen them in the states they were in in some flashbacks, so I guess that did help with keeping that retread fresh.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59066: Sep 6th 2019 at 9:01:59 PM

Excellent.

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#59067: Sep 6th 2019 at 11:44:18 PM

Pearl especially seemed very different to me, being way more callous and judgemental than we had ever seen her before.

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#59068: Sep 7th 2019 at 2:03:57 AM

I read an interesting wild mass guesstheorywild mass guess that the other Diamonds secretly gave Spinel the Rejuvenator to use on Pink Diamond if she ever stepped too far out of line — though if true, with how much Spinel loved Pink back then, I doubt she would have used it on her, even if she found out about her being Rose Quartz.

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VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#59069: Sep 7th 2019 at 4:51:32 AM

This person has thoughts.

The movie is fun spectacle, but also very retready and sloppy writing.

Isn't that fantastic?

Liked that this critic managed to be more respectful to the show and it's creators, while giving his criticism, than majority of general SU Critical peers, who are infamous for their toxicity (Lily Peet as an example).

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59070: Sep 7th 2019 at 4:57:10 AM

He's pretty cool.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#59071: Sep 7th 2019 at 7:32:08 PM

There's an encore tonight, so I'm watching again to make miscellaneous observations (though on Amazon Video).

    Observations 
  • God, this is a beautiful movie. It's not way more fluid like a theatrical film, but all the posing, coloring, shading, and backgrounds are way more polished. I still think the show is one of the best-looking on TV, but you can take any random shot and it'll look great.
  • This is the first time Estelle is credited as "Estelle Swaray" as an actor. That might be because there are separate credits for the music where she's still just "Estelle".
  • Though not as obvious about it as Steven, Connie's new design is also good at showing that she's grown—yes, she's still unrealistically short for fifteen, but she was before anyway. Figure-wise you can clearly see her getting closer to her mother.
  • Steven now has a PS2 with Katamari Damacy and another cover I can't recognize. Still using a CRT with a built-in VCR.
  • That imaginary, stuck up Pink Diamond looks especially anime.
  • Cat Steven sort of looks like a kitten still, but is clearly older.
  • "You must be Amethyst. You must be Garnet." White Diamond must have explained more over the broadcast than the audience saw.
  • God, every one of Stiles' line reads in Spinel's first scene is hilarious.
  • Spinel has all kinds of little animation touches: suddenly detailed teeth, irises pulsing, eyes boggling around and even looking in opposite directions.
  • I think everyone getting sliced in half and starting to fall apart outdid Garnet disintegrating as the most violent way a gem's been poofed.
  • Reboot!Pearl's body language is a gift.
  • Spinel reforming kept Pearl from trying to figure what/who Steven was.
  • That's such a great twist that the villain is evil for five on-screen minutes, then comic relief for the next thirty.
  • There's a specific name for the dance Spinel does where she grabs her knees as she swings them, but I can't recall it.
  • "Now it's your turn!" If you watch the scene, you'll see the smear on Spinel's eye is suddenly contagious.
  • Lion, 400 pound roof ornament.
  • Pearl pulled out a trumpet to announced Um-Greg Universe's arrival. She was probably surprised by all that stuff already in her gem when she looked around.
  • Spinel's eyes changed when she got angry, and then changed back, both between blinks.
  • They really had to edit the trailer shots very carefully to leave out Spinel or any other gems when they're rebooted.
  • "My organic jacket!" is a very Milhouse line.
  • Nicole Rodriguez was a storyboard revisionist who started on the movie, and there's a lot of expressions recognizably similar to the art she's posted online, especially when characters are looking stressed.
  • This is a face I'm glad Steven makes now.
  • We finally see the abandoned Warehouse from a new angle, which shows it was original used by "Delmarvan Distribution Centers".
  • Jenny had a new outfit from the concert onward, but was wearing the same clothes from before the skip in an earlier scene.
  • Sadie singing with Amethyst was not something I expected.
  • When Sadie sings "For what?", they actually animated her spitting onto the mic.
  • "I haven't seen [Spinel] for 6000 years. Something must have happened to her since then." Are you sure it was something? Are you sure it wasn't... nothing?
  • "Go find Connie." And so Lion did in about fifteen minutes. Smart Lion.
  • The shot inside the warp uses nearly the same pattern, but instead of a flat background there's some really interesting angles.
  • "'Is this how it works?' 'Am I doing it right?'" is really the emotional nadir of the whole movie.
  • Presumably the poison needed the Injector to spread through the ground, and it's not nearly as damaging otherwise.
  • Some of the poison got in the water, though the montage at the end seems to show the tides somehow didn't spread it.
  • Connie cut a car in half and Onion approves the property damage.
  • Steven only looks star-eyed for one shot, after getting his powers back, and they're much smaller than before.
  • Steven can apparently do the same stuff Pink Steven did with his shield and more.
  • Spinel's tornado fists are accompanied by a Kenshiro-style "YIYIYIYI!"
  • The Injector exploding made waves a thousand feet away, yet the lighthouse was somehow completely undamaged.
  • Yellow Diamond sounds amazingly doping while saying "It's uuuus."
  • "One of Pink's lost treasures!" Apparently, Pink had a bunch of crap no one else recovered, presumably including the Injector and Rejuvenator.
  • Five favorite songs, in order: "Who We Are">"Other Friends">"Disobedient">"Drift Away">"Finale"

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#59072: Sep 7th 2019 at 7:44:00 PM

The dance Spinel does is called "The Charleston"...

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#59073: Sep 7th 2019 at 7:52:06 PM

"'Is this how it works?' 'Am I doing it right?'" is really the emotional nadir of the whole movie.

Personally, I prefer the line: "Isn't that lovely? Isn't that cool? And isn't that cruel, and aren't I a fool".

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#59074: Sep 7th 2019 at 8:03:27 PM

[up][up]The Charleston was my first guess, but I (wrongly) assumed that wasn’t part of it when the first results didn’t show that.

Pachylad (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#59075: Sep 7th 2019 at 8:24:22 PM

Am I the only person who likes Zach's performance in "True Kinda Love" more than Estelle's? Don't get me wrong, she's great obviously as usual, but when he just starts off cracking 'Will you show me...' something just tugs at my heartstrings.

Edited by Pachylad on Sep 7th 2019 at 11:25:34 PM


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