This is why Stan should've come clean to Dipper and Mabel from the start! Though if Bill's really as big a threat as he seems, maybe it'd have been better to save it for a different reason…

It would be great if during next episode or some future episode, Wendy came to work all sleep-deprived because Soos wouldn't stop talking to her late at night.

Oh no whyyyy

Yeah, besides Garnet, Greg is the character who seems to be the most satisfied with his situation. Plus, he's lost his partner in what seems to have been a very healthy relationship, and he appears to have managed to move on from that, so it's likely that he understands loss and refocusing one's priorities better than…

Yeah, Sardonyx was great! Definitely see Pearl's meticulousness and Garnet's decisiveness, but also Pearl's dramatic tendencies and Garnet's playful side, especially when Sardonyx talks to Steven. It's great that both Sugilite and Sardonyx love to impress Steven with their strength and weapons.

As Amethyst indicated at the end of the episode, I think it feels a lot better for Amethyst and Pearl when they fuse with Garnet than when they fuse with each other, because Garnet is so much stronger than each of them individually.

Yeah, I agree that it seems like Lapis would be powerful enough to trap Jasper without having to fuse with her, so I'm also not sure why she decided to fuse. One possibility that I thought of was that she might have thought that she wasn't strong enough for whatever reason (maybe since she didn't personally see Jasper…

I think Ruby was when they were showing Garnet's right side (Garnet facing the right side of the screen) and Estelle was using a raspier voice, and Sapphire was the other side.

I'm not sure how relevant this is to the production team, but Amazon is labeling it as a new season every 26 episodes, so they're currently on Season 3 there.

I agree with most of what you said, but I don't think it's clear what Lapis' perspective on fusion would be in a normal situation, since it seemed she didn't feel like she had much of a choice when she fused with Jasper. I'd be interested to see what she thinks of fusion after Malachite splits up (which I assume will…

I agree - and of course prisoner or posthumous experimentation also comes with issues of consent.

I think the fusion experiments were started before the end of the war for Earth, since Garnet mentions that the gem shards used in the experiments were Crystal Gems that had "been here the whole time", and Peridot was seen pulling the cylinders out from the ceiling in Marble Madness before Steven interrupted her. It…

I think it was the Ruby side saying the fusion experiments were punishment for the rebellion. Given that Garnet mentioned that the Crystal Gems used for the experiments had "been here the whole time", and that Peridot was pulling those cylinders out in Marble Madness before being interrupted by Steven, I think the…

When Peridot showed up and was talking about the fusion experiments, I first thought she had started the experiments after getting stranded after Jailbreak, but Garnet's conversation with herself and the fact that those cylinders appeared briefly in Marble Madness suggest that the Homeworld Gems started these…

I recently rewatched Cat Fingers and realized I had forgotten just how disturbing the car wash scene at the end was. But yeah, this episode was way creepier.

I agree that Pearl and Rose probably argued about Pearl's self-sacrifices. If they did disagree but Pearl was still able to repeatedly sacrifice herself in spite of Rose's objections, it may be just because Rose was a commander with a lot of other soldiers to worry about during battle. Maybe she just couldn't afford…

I think if you watch the end of Jailbreak, when she tries to fly away from Jasper, she summons the water from her gem to make her wings, instead of pulling water from the ocean. We've only seen her make the wings with the water from her gem, but I'm speculating that she could potentially form it into other shapes for…

Yeah, she can definitely use other water sources as a weapon, but she can also generate water from her gem (see: right after Steven repaired her gem in Ocean Gem and when she tried to fly away in Jailbreak); it's the latter source I was talking about. That is, she still has a weapon even when she's not near any…

You're right, bad wording - I didn't mean to imply that the water from her gem isn't her weapon. I meant that she usually fashions it into something like the giant hand or water clones to actually fight.

Yeah, I'd like to see what the writers could do with a Peedee-focused episode. Peedee was an effective same-age regular-person friend for Steven to have early on, but then they brought Connie in and she sort of replaced Peedee in that role. I also wonder if the writers just don't see that much to explore in Peedee and…