But that would mean that Richard Nixon was an Al Qaeda sleeper agent.

I like the idea that new diamonds only come around every 5,000 years or so, which means that when PD was shattered, Homeworld couldn't expand until another came along.

I look at the quartz's roles not so much as a military rank but as an approach to fighting. Amethysts are good-natured brawlers and scrappers. They like to fight, but they don't really like to hurt people, at least not seriously (remember for gems physical violence typically leads to poofing, which is more…

Gems left earth nearly five thousand years ago. Languages are not static. Even if humans were talking gem-talk during the rebellion, it would have changed during the intervening millennia and become something completely different.

If your theory is correct (and I like your theory), that would mean that,for whatever reason, Homeworld hasn't expanded since the rebellion.

I don't like it when people compare gems to "child soldiers", but if elite gem shock troops sleep in "cubbies", maybe there's something to it.

We've seen what gem writing looks like, and everything in Beach City is written in English.

It's about roles. My theory is that the RQ facet (assuming that is the term for 'species' when discussing gems) where created as a specific type of fighter. I have two theories, first is that they served as defenders/protectors, gems who kept other gems alive, or un-poofed during fights. My other, more romantic…

I was expecting Steven to try to grab one and for Greg to slap his hand.

All comedy is derived from fear. Just ask her.

Does Yellow Diamond know that Steven sort-of disarmed the cluster?

More like middle management than political enforcers, with their "management" style consisting of yelling at people until they do what you want.

It's called the Boba Fett effect. Cool visual design plus minimum personality always drives the fans nuts.

Technically, the Cluster's still there, and it still could be triggered. Steven "calming it down" isn't really a permanent solution.

He even showed off his fancy new watch!

"When I still served…Homeword"

Might have to save that for the spin-off

I'd rank the five episodes as: great, OK, great, kind of meh and finally mind-blowingly awesome, so that more or less averages out to "pretty great"

When I first saw the episode titles, my first thought was that we were in for some Men in Black/Area 51 shenanigans. But I don't know. I have a hard time seeing this show going in that direction.

Hell, other Gems have flat out tried to murder him, and he kind of blames himself.