I certainly don't mind that they're taking their time introducing the Diamonds. Much better than introducing them all at once, then giving them nothing to do for seasons on end until its their turn to face the Crystal Gems. It just felt like this episode went out of its way to create a room with murals of all four…

That does kind of feel like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Creating shows with an 11 minute format and a 22 minute format require vastly different skill sets, and this isn't a problem that's rampant enough to justify changing the entire series' format. I would be perfectly happy with them just getting…

That's probably a function of there being a lot less exposition throughout Season 1. It was all insinuation and background details.

Homeworld needs its Thneeds.

It would be a necessity if Pink Diamond theory does pan out. If other Gems are as worshipful of the Diamonds as Sapphire was and Peridot still is, the knowledge that one of their numbers broke ranks with the others would shatter their "follow the higher castes unquestioningly" mindset.

I get their desire for the ad to give an overview of the entire week, but just advertising it as Steven's birthday week and having the next three days blindside the target audience seems like it would be just as effective. Part of the genius of the original Steven Bomb is that we were given no clues as to exactly…

I would actually rather see Peridot offered a way back to Homeworld and have her consciously reject it. If Yellow Diamond just betrays her and she returns to the Crystal Gems out of spite, then we're back to where we began. She's only teaming up with them because she has no other choice, not because Steven and the…

They would be even more helpless against a fused mass of Gems buried deep beneath the Earth that can apparently destroy the world just by waking up.

The commercials for this bomb have been really spoiler-heavy. CN's usual ads for individual episodes tend to be better about being purposefully vague, if not outright misleading just for laughs.

This episode, perhaps more than any other before (and I'm sure I've said that before), really felt like it was straining against the edges of its 11 minute time constraint. If SU has a consistent flaw, its the inability to make exposition episodes like this one feel like self-contained stories and not just an…

Get out of here, Peridot. No one likes your style.

If I ran into a race of superpowered aliens who regarded my species the same way a person regards a bug on a windshield, I wouldn't be itching to build a town at the base of their seat of power either.

I couldn't help but think that it looked like the "planets" from Mario Galaxy. Just a bunch of narrow walkways with a black hole in the center.

It looked like all of the alterations of the continents as we know them radiated from that one point, like it was the epicenter of a tectonic event so huge that it warped the Earth's crust relative to that point. And as mentioned above, there's a Gem base directly in the center of it.

We weren't a police state, we couldn't actually search customers' bags. So long as it wasn't sticking out in plain sight, we let it pass.

Why would you want one huge jerk when you could have multiple smaller jerks?

Buy them a ticket for the seat and sit in the back so their manes don't block other customers' view.

Like the dwarves of Moria, you dug too deep.

Pearl/Rose/Greg is a pretty classic love triangle, but it squeaks by because the conclusion is set in stone, not kicked down the line for seasons on end as a mine for cheap drama.

Can't forget Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure.