Given what we know about him and his grades, I'd be more surprised if he wasn't taking longer to finish high school. Which is perfectly fine, but probably doesn't do any favours for his self esteem.

Her character design (and by extension Topaz's) has gotten a lot of flack but I think it's excellent. The facial design if very pared down, but she's tiny so it makes sense she would be less detailed. You can't put too many features on a face that's mostly going to be seen as much smaller than everyone else's around…

Here it is! The big cliffhanger CN has been waiting to leave us with. The game changer. The arc starter. Steven's Teen Hero Angst Debut.

Apparently it was on the app first? There's what I heard. Now it's everywhere.

So, uh, fair warning, the episode after the current bomb just got released without much warning and is therefore everywhere. Stuck Together is out and spoilers are around.

That's together-together enough.

Actively assassinating an enemy leader could be construed as a war crime, depending on how you do it. Killing a prisoner extrajudicially definitely qualifies by human standards, as does willfully killing someone surrendering or refusing to give quarter. Then there's the issue of defining a civilian under these…

So Lars and Sadie are definitely together-together right? There's no other explanation for all those little hints. I wonder exactly what the progression of their relationship has looked like. It's developed on the edges of Steven's story, but there clearly is a trajectory.

Apparently young Zach Callison is in fact fluent in Italian, which makes Steven's weird fixation on impressions a little cuter.

He's method.

They definitely seem to be trying to fight their smothering instincts these days, Doug pulling back from criticizing Steven's health choices and turning it into a joke, for example. It's still a a little judge-y but leaps and bounds better than they were when we first met them. Even parents can improve, and they're…

True. Wonder what the cutoff is then. From a Doylist perspective, it's probably a matter of recognizability, but in-universe it probably still comes from the Goryeo period, I guess?

Connie and Steven aren't old enough to drive. They aren't old enough to drink. They probably still take kid aspirin, they're tiny. More than physical immaturity, they're still emotionally young as well. They like playing dress up and making up silly names. They go off on flights of fancy. They're excitable, and…

It also allows them to let their individual artists maintain a certain artistic "thumbprint" which is very interesting to look at from a watcher's perspective and probably nice for the storyboarders trying to build up their own unique style.

Much like the guillotine, it was incredibly well intentioned, but if you make something designed to kill people it's going to be used to kill a lot of people, and not necessarily the people you originally wanted killed.

The Beach City episodes have one big purpose, and that's to remind us that the citizens of Beach City exist. In between all the big alien dramas, the humans can fall by the wayside and it's important to Steven and Rose's story that they aren't forgotten. We need to know them and understand them and love them, so we…

Rose's unending optimism and tendencies towards mild suicidal ideation are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Our girl had some problems, her speeches about humanity suggest a very real lack of faith in her own reality and potential. She saw a chance to make something "better" than herself and become something…

This was some high level trolling, Rebecca. But it was a trolling of the characters as well as of us, so I'll let it slide. Steven needs to know that he's not his mother's pawn. He's a child, as complicated and simple a concept as that is. And he's human that means he can be anything he wants, good or bad.

Unfortunately many of the ones we still have belonged to foundlings who died before they reached majority, their trinkets ended up stored in the foundling hospital archives. Some babies were reclaimed, 150 or so in total over the history of the London foundling hospital, but only one of their trinkets survived. (The…

This one was hard to watch. I had to take it in little bits. Lucy's slow and steady disintegration is a awful thing to watch, and so are the manifold cruelties we see play out. Benjamin Lennox's raging racism or Mrs. Quigley's business practices or George Howard's unfolding pathetic power plays are terrible to watch,…