Bismuth seemed a bit TOO eager to get back into action. She gave me the impression of a war vet who couldn't adjust to civilian life again after being overseas for so long.

Bismuth needs to workshop her jokes more. She'll never get her standup career off the ground this way. Even Steven got his own sitcom before her.

Do we count the pilot too, or is that just its own production removed from SU as a whole?

At this point, I feel like the huge hiatus firmly put this as a new season since "Super Watermelon Island". But, then again, if we took hiatuses as an indicator, Gravity Falls would've been classified as like 20 seasons.

All I ever want brought into my Steven Universe discussions is topical political discourse.

And Peedee would totally be his Gaz! Only less violent and snarky and more pitying.

I'm disappointed that, due to all the Gems being voiced by females (sans Steven), we can't get the two Diamonds we haven't seen yet voiced by Kevin McDonald and Wally Wingert. And a new Gem underneath them voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.

She understood that revolutions always tend to go awry when killing in the name of your cause begins.

Agreed. We've seen too much of Rose from the perspective of people who've idealized her.

Poofing seems like somewhere between suspended animation and a light coma, taking the evidence of all the regenerations we've seen. Might depend on the Gem and what they were doing when they were poofed (e.g. Peridot continued ranting and raving and regenerated instantly after being unbubbled by Steven, Amethyst…

Chances are, since she still never told Pearl, Garnet, and (later) Amethyst, she was in a really awkward, precarious situation which she just didn't know how to solve in an amicable way beyond just leaving Bismuth as she was. Not one of her best moments, but nobody's perfect.

It's incredible how good Steven and Greg's chemistry is, in that case. Usually you only tend to get chemistry that good when the actors record together.

You got a link to that interview? I'm curious to read it, as it sounds interesting.

That "How embarrassing!" line from Pearl was great but also reminded me a bit too much of a line from a weird short I saw on YouTube a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
the full video, if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Holy hell, I didn't even realize those were actual gem types that Bismuth was naming off. Thought those were just nicknames she had for them, like nicknames someone in the military might call their old war buddies.

Finally, Steven Universe is becoming the anime we always knew it could be.

I appreciate that this episode finally started poking more holes in the whole "Rose was a paragon of virtue and perfection whose only flaw was being awkward about humans" thing. I really hope we get more material that makes Rose more complex, because even in her spotlight episodes, she's seemed pretty idealized to me.

Looks like we gotta wait for "Lion 4: Digital Copy" to figure that out.

So we're going with the idea that Rose personally shattered Pink Diamond, but has grappled with guilt and regret over that action ever since (leading to her Batman-esque stance on murder)? I can buy that.

Well, he does have that sleepwalking problem.