See, I figured there might be some sort of intentional genetic management, in addition to the matchmaking. Gene editing and cloning to maintain a diverse group without growing the population out of control.

Greg is so popular! When will his train of broken hearts end? Does he have to seduce everyone in space? Can't someone stop Greg's reign of terror?

GOOD. Child actors need to be respected and cranky fanboys need to get over the prequels already. Yeah, they weren't HBO masterpieces, that's not an excuse to be rude to literally everyone under the age of thirty who disagrees with you.

Yeah… as a fairly vocal fan of Amethyst and Peridot in the romantical sense, that argument is weird. You can make an argument about how teasing Amedot and then pushing Amethyst away for a more conventionally attractive girl is a bit shady, or even that Lapis and Peridot's domestic relationship doesn't necessarily need…

Yeah, but they weren't bad people. Just very, very damaged people who a teenager and his super traumatized war vet moms couldn't deal with.

She hates lesbians so much she keeps putting them in space. We see your evil plan, Rebecca.

I think on some level it's because you can reason with people who don't know what they're doing is wrong. Holly Blue, clearly doesn't know what she's doing is wrong. Jasper and Bismuth definitely didn't. They just haven't had a chance to be good people. Meanwhile Marty clearly knows what he's doing is wrong, and has…

It was good, but it was also Voltron. It's really fast-paced and weirdly cartoonish in a lot of ways that I think we've grown unaccustomed to- or that I never had a chance to get accustomed to- while also paying some lip service to deeper character development. It's like the writers are trying to balance a homage to…

Just dropping in to say, Holly Blue! She's like Miss Hannigan but somehow worse. These aren't orphans, they're grownup gems. She could at least be a little less condescending.

Like a house on fire. Or a giant space hand ship on fire. In defiance of the laws of outer space, it would happen.

In this case, I think it's out of respect for the crew who created the show. They clearly didn't want people watching the episodes in advance, and they're the reason CN took the episodes down after they were mistakenly posted. Sugar and co. have always been very vocal about wanting episodes to be available to everyone…

Hope he stayed hydrated through that. Half gem or not, the boy has to maintain some sort of homeostasis.

No spoilers, but they definitely read like especially matriarchal versions of the standard "mad royal family" as well. Dysfunctional, untouchable due to status but increasingly erratic, capable of only showing empathy for each other because they don't really see anyone else as people, prone to flights of fancy and…

Fourteen is a hard age, even when you're Space Rock Jesus. Especially when you're Space Rock Jesus. You've got people trying to kill you, your guardians' over protectiveness growing more and more cumbersome, the moral aftermath of murder and full scale revolution on your hands, psychic grief dreams from giant alien…

MY DIAMOND! BLUE DIAMOND!

This is the AV Club equivalent of a fluff piece about puppies learning to water ski, isn't it? Some news sites break out the cat videos when they need a lighthearted bit, some get videos of world famous authors reading proto-horror poetry.

I like Hamilton as much as the next sibling of a theater kid (reluctantly with a great deal of cringing and an automatic reflex to flee when the opening verses of the Schuyler Sisters come on) but some of its fans are a bit much. I saw a soccer mom on the genius annotations page for it the other day, nodding along and…

Okay, actual thoughts now.

Recently I've been forced to consider that maybe I might be getting more out of this show than anyone else. I mean, it's a kid's show and I'm practically still a kid. Not out of my teens, still slowly working my way up to actual grownup media. I keep trying to watch Westworld and it does nothing for me. Very pretty,…

Sin-eating has always fascinated me. Sin-eaters were human scapegoats, rejected by society, not even very well paid given that they were pawning their immortal souls, and yet there's evidence of the tradition persisting into the 1800s in some parts of England. It's an amazing example of superstition persisting in the…