Also, Pearl using "gooder" as a word, undoubtedly to impress the kids with her reckless disregard for the rules of grammar.

Pearl has been around since the invention of the automobile, Greg literally lives in a car, and Steven plays lots of video games.

I don't know what you're talking about, Greg/Barb is clearly endgame. They cleverly hinted at it here. "Empty threats", huh Greg? You two seem awful close.

Inception! That's the movie!

Also, I love how we see what Pearl fought for, the right to be her neurotic, awkward self. The right to do puzzles, and fuss over her half human kid, and boss an Amethyst around.

“Okay, nobody’s gonna say it? She kinda looked like mom. You noticed. I noticed. We all noticed.”

I love Barb and Vidalia and Greg so much. Let them hang out and vent about having kids and play oldies music and drink wine coolers.

HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT I CANNOT BELIEVE REBECCA SUGAR PERSONALLY MATRIXED INTO MY DREAMS AND READ MY DEEPEST DARKEST DESIRES SO AS TO MAKE THEM INTO A SUPER GAY EPISODE OF HER ACCLAIMED TELEVISION SHOW. I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST WATCHED AN ALIEN RUN FROM THE LAW, TAKE OFF HER PANTS, AND HIT ON A GIRL WHO LOOKED LIKE HER…

I saw that as her remembering and reporting on what they had seen as Garnet.

When weird things happen all the time, everyone gets used them, I'm afraid. I'll never forget when one time I moved and suddenly remembered that being woken up by police raids on local mafia bosses wasn't normal for other people, or that for most of the world pre-Roman ruins were things that went in museums, not under…

It was "I just wanted you to take it seriously," "I just wanted you to have fun!" that pushed it over the edge for me. That was just a little too on the nose as far as metaphors for romantic breakups go. That's not to say we aren't reading into it, but when the Crew keeps delivering nuanced depictions of adult life…

Knowing Vidalia's past I'm not sure she disapproves. Kids have got to be kids, vandalism included.

Yep, Sapphire sees the future as a straight line, totally unchangeable and inevitable- and frankly pretty egocentric as well since she mostly seems to see her future. It's only with Ruby's spontaneity that she can conceive of different possibilities.

Human problems in Steven Universe are small.

Luckily most of them seem to ignore anything that isn't threatening/gem magiced/otherwise shiny and interesting, so getting out of the way would usually work on the off chance a gem monster stumbles into a general human residence. (Beach City, which deals with hundreds of gem monster attacks per season, is an outlier…

Hmm. Baldcaps are still the worst .

Now, real talk about the real emotional themes here. (I'll stop posting comments when I'm dead.) It was really brilliant? It made everything so visceral. Steven's trauma and Connie's doubts and Ruby's anger and Sapphire's inability to cope are all perfectly in character and all blend together into this amalgam of any…

Okay, I have more thoughts. Does this mean Garnet invented the meditation pose purely to have her gems facing up and together?

I actually liked it for it's kind of meditative quality, the nice steady hum.

Steven is finally starting to see his mother as more than the paragon he can't live up to, now she's dangerous. This is the woman who bubbled Bismuth and shattered Pink Diamond, Steven's worst fear and darkest thought is Rose as someone who got angry, and did terrible things not out of altruism but out of anger.