Regardless of her feelings, he ran away from the law for multiple years. That shouldn't be discounted. It's negligent to allow people to escape the law simply because they have the means to make it so difficult to punish them that no one wants to.

At the time of course the "common man" was the overcrowded city dwellers. The electoral college, combined with the 3/5 compromise, were set up to weight the votes of rural, rich plantation owners. Less populous states in the south had stronger votes than the more populous but less couth north. Now the class makeup of…

And unlike some people, she probably doesn't have the means to flee the country to avoid having to do so.

I think my parents were busy being born, just to one up you at the old "making AV Club writers feel like the senior citizens they are" game. My grandparents on the other hand were probably having a wild old time. At least one wild time per couple, judging by babies and the shotgun wedding.

It's very strange to see how very forward thinking and yet utterly backwards people in the past got it. We've been fighting for animal rights one way or another for a long time now, and we're still figuring out how to get it right, still kind of hoping to be people that twentieth century Swedish medical students would…

See, based on that temple I've got her pegged as a more of a reclusive priestess now. The First Mother of Homeworld, so to speak, high minded, harsh, but rarely seen, in true religious tradition. If we assume based on the number of planets they had in their murals that militaristic Yellow came next, then courtly but…

I'm getting serious undertones of sisters but also sometimes it turns pseudo-romantic which is interesting. It's definitely nice that their relationship is so alien and resists being put in boxes like that. They're not human and they don't want to be, they're giant immortal dictators with millenia of history who only…

Blue is weirdly sympathetic. She's awful, but if she hadn't been a Diamond you get the sense she might not have been bad? She loves her sisters(?), she wants the truth, she is determined to get it. Revenge is an afterthought.

In fairness, Yellow has a noted history of trying to murder people who question her. She's not a super non-murdering lady.

All lions can walk on water.

I definitely agree that one of them has to have done it, for their own reasons, but that doesn't preclude there being multiple factors at play. If, for example, Rose Quartz was given an anonymous tip that Pink Diamond would be unguarded at blank time and place, took that and made her choice, I think that would still…

It also explains why she wasn't worried about the baby on the ferris wheel. The little tyke was fine! She could bring him back to life and he'd be an exciting color!

Desperately trying to figure out the most likely but also still a Twist. Pearl seems so obvious, but it just doesn't click for me. So far all I've come up with is; White Diamond organized it because she was afraid Pink was at risk of getting compromised, Rose did it but had an inside man helping her, and Rose poofed…

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People keep saying "we'll live through this" but many of us aren't going to live through this.

Elle Fanning playing an ethereal alien, while incredibly charming, is not really much out of her comfort zone. Can we get her some waifish angel or dream-like ghost roles? Maybe a slightly distant, delicate princess or oddly down to earth yet fragile young woman to round things out?

Panic isn't always logical, especially if you've been helpless before.

The Diamonds have some pretty interesting stuff going on face wise. I saw a nice analysis that tied that into size again. The bigger you get, the more face you are allowed to have.

I just wish they'd give us some warning. It's strange to wake up dreading what Steven Universe has been released, knowing spoilers will make their way to you somehow unless you realize and watch fast enough. I mean, good on them for somehow managing to make television viewing a Survivor style challenge but they've…