She missed her calling in life as a Monkey's Paw.

Young Justice and Green Lantern were a sad state of affairs, but one could be forgiven for being surprised they garnered a sizable female audience. Steven Universe seems like it's pitched towards a female audience more overtly, so unless someone is furious that their marketing campaign is working as planned, I don't…

That was an insane amount of callbacks and side details. I assume the plan was to distract GF fans from the expositiony nature of the series with a 30 minute game of spot-the-reference. Knowing the fanbase, this was a wise decision. This episode, and the show in general, is getting so expansive that it's starting…

And Wendy's dad building it. The Northwests still had the town's lumberjacks under their thumb.

He grew up with Charlie Brown, as I recall.

That's definitely the way they're going with it, though the evidence of these traits only started appearing in yesterday's episode, maybe as far back as "Keeping it Together" if you wanted to stretch it. Before that, the majority of her focus episodes have been on how awesome she is outside of just being an…

And we don't want to end up like Ocean City, do we?

This is everything I wanted from a Ruby/Sapphire focus episode. Much in the same way "We Need to Talk" addressed some of my concerns about "Love Letters", tonight's episode allayed a lot of my concerns about Garnet, both as a character and the embodiment of Ruby and Sapphire. Every other character's relationships…

Finn and Flame Princess still get my vote for hottest kiss on children's television. All I'm saying is that Sapphire didn't end up with second degree burns on her lips and face.

"Keep Beach City Weird" is the only episode I don't really like, but "Secret Team" and "Love Letters" come to mind for the "take it or leave it" category.

I got that feeling too, but given the subject matter, I'm more than willing to forgive taking the subtlety down a notch. Communication as a crucial part of a relationship is the driving theme of this story arc, and the Crewniverse probably wants to communicate that as directly as possible. I compare it to "Love…

I like the comparisons between Pearl fusing with Rose and her fusing with Garnet. Both times Pearl was doing so in order to fulfill a selfish desire. Rose didn't realize it (or chose to ignore the implications), but Garnet is unwilling to tolerate that kind of behavior. Rose's leadership style seemed to be about…

It'd be a good parallel to Garnet's second fight with Jasper, where she's laying the smackdown while singing about how awesome she is, never missing a note even while being decked in the face. Pure catharsis.

Insecurity over Mordecai's relationship with Margaret is CJ's biggest flaw. Mordecai is certainly not faultless in their relationship, but CJ was at least equally at fault. It's a very different setup than Mordecai's first breakup, which was mostly just bad timing. As for Eileen dumping Rigby temporarily, it did…

Grunkle Stan was going to shoot Soos out of a cannon into a pit full of guns and wolves for the Christmas special, but S&P nixed it because, as Stan wasn't wearing a seatbelt, they felt it was glamorizing an unsafe action.

She's clearly visiting Hopper and Hoppy.

Considering how aggressive Sugilite was towards everyone and everything, she was remarkably cool to Steven. She came off like an older sibling/parent showing off how strong they are to an enthralled younger child.

The cooling of Finn and PB's relationship is probably the closest analogue I have to Pearl and Garnet in terms of characters I like in conflict. If it makes a difference to you, Jesse Moynihan has acknowledged that they haven't been able to balance humor with drama as well over the past season, and are working on…

The midseason finale will feature Garnet accepting a Gem destabilizer from Yellow Diamond in order to beat Jasper.

I've been of the opinion that her future vision only shows her results if she's looking for them. Otherwise it would be a meaningless stream of millions of possible timelines all at once. Her specific search criteria was "Peridot fixing comm tower", which of course returned no results.