That's fair.

Didn't know that. That's neat, though I thought they had a finite end planned out that wasn't too far away from the current point?

I like it!

Most we've seen is in bits of flashbacks from Pearl's perspective/holographic projections, where it seems like on the battlefield, everything is chaos. You have nothing but the way you feel, your strategy, and a sword.

He has poofed a couple corrupted Gems, but I think this is the first fully sentient, humanoid Gem he's poofed.

It's like Gem equivalent of the Cold War, except in this case, the threats of violence would likely actually come to fruition in horrifying ways. Duck and cover, indeed.

She was full on somewhere between singsongy and "doting Jewish mother bragging about her kid" mode this episode, and it was delightful.

I feel like the most important part of the weapon was its name, and the metaphorical significance thereof (i.e. the breaking point for Rose—and Steven—was the idea of actually killing other Gems, and the breaking point for Bismuth was more Rose's refusal, in her eyes, to see reason and how she seemed to be holding…

All the bubbled poofed Gems seem to exist in a sort of stasis, so if nothing else, they don't at least seem to be totally aware of their fate. At least it's better than what happened to Lapis when she was poofed and damaged.
I imagine the bubbles are pretty durable from the inside at least.

- Sort of bad at reading Pearl's obvious affection for her. (I guess?)

You know, I'll be honest, I read the book he wrote under that title and loved it, but when I tried to watch the movie after coming across it on Netflix, I couldn't make it past the first 20 minutes. It was so unbearably dull, which is disappointing considering the source material.

Should've looked for Pearl's rocket.

Okay, that made this worth it hahaha

Much appreciated!

I can't wait for Wikipedia's "Lion (disambiguation)" article.

I just really liked how Steven described Bismuth's gem as "an innie."

I like this theory. English as we know it is a language that the Gems brought with them to Earth. Thus, the whole "aliens speaking English" thing is completely justified.

It definitely came off as a tad iffy to me, but I felt like they at least tried to strike up a good balance between that stereotype and giving good story reasons for why she was acting how she acted. Still, I can totally understand feeling put off by that coding paired with that character type. It was…well, it…

I remember like a year ago hearing a rumor that she was gonna guest voice a Gem, but it apparently was just that, a rumor.

Maybe she was made on Earth but mostly resided in the Gem colony until the war.