I suspect it's not even slightly coincidental that Netflix sent out a notification about "Orange Is the New Black" at roughly the same time. I can't figure out any more effective response than canceling my Netflix subscription, no matter how much I enjoy the rest of their content.

With the exception of Yellow Diamond's behavior, "The Trial" reinforced my suspicion that Rose Quartz didn't murder Pink Diamond, she *is* Pink Diamond, or at least the fragment of Pink Diamond that remains. I need to re-watch the episode, but didn't Zircon specifically say that there were no Rose Quartzes in Pink…

I think it's less an Easter egg and more one of the show's core themes: interconnectedness. The sensates' connection makes it explicit, but the little details reinforce it: the show is telling us that these people were already connected in ways they didn't understand.

"Are You My Dad?" hit me as by far one of the creepiest episodes Steven Universe has ever done, and structurally, it feels like this episode was intended to be binged with the two before it. I didn't think much of the ominous shadows at the amusement park when they first appeared, and even at the end of "The New…

Allies; there's certainly a common theme among his powers. Here, I'm assuming that Melanie and the other mutants are currently flesh-and-blood people rather than splinters of David's head. It wouldn't surprise me, however, if one or more of them die and end up lodged in David's consciousness. I'm also intrigued by how…

Wow, you approached this notion from a completely different angle than I did. Mine was more superficial: I was looking at their powers as representative of different expressions of human psychology in general rather than the psychology of these people in specific. You're probably closer to the show's intent.

Here's something I've been chewing on: there's certainly a theme among the powers of David's mutant allies. Ptonomy is clearly memory. When I try to categorize Kerry/Cary and Syd, however, they both seem to fall under the umbrella of identity, although their abilities are distinct. I feel like there's something more…

I think those are his main selling points for the audience.

This is going in the bucket with Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy as a project that delighted me in spite of my assumption that it'd be awful. Until I started seeing reviews, I'd no idea.

Please forgive a self-congratulatory moment: I'm pretty sure I called the Big Twist pretty early on. However, I'm awed by how effectively the series led me to questioning that theory, and ultimately, my theories kept changing. I think I'd landed on "maybe the Good Place is just designed to make the imperfect people in…

Another problem is that the Gems haven't been oppressed by humans, and they largely can't *be* oppressed.

Oh, today has been a nightmare. Practically everyone I love is somewhere between anxious and terrified. I'd still say that the past five or ten years have been better for queer folks than at any other time in modern history, but I'm almost in the midst of a ton of people mourning over what happened yesterday.
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Night Nurse got something a revival in the past decade or so. I'm not sure whether it was kicked off by "Doctor Strange: The Oath" by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, or if it was something Brian Bendis was writing at the time. This Night Nurse was a single (white) woman running an underground clinic for treating…

I'm not sure she'll get there before her sister dies and is inevitably sent to the very same Good Place where Tahani is, so she can overshadow Tahani for eternity, because of course.

The suggestion that Chidi and Tahani are soulmates made me raise an eyebrow. If they are, the it means Michael's design was only flawed in failing to pair them. Further, given the limited number of Good Place residents we've met, the immediate implication is that Jason is Eleanor's soulmate. Funny as he is, he's too…

I tend to be hypersensitive to homophobia in media, and I didn't read any in that scene. (I love living in 2016 so much I could hug it.)

Claire's debut in this series struck me as something of a mission statement, and it had me giggling and cheering a bit. *This* show seems to have zero interest in Claire being a victim, and it just glorious to watch. Not only is she not going to be the victim, she's going to chase down the purse-snatcher, get her…

That they approximated Cage's Power Man costume even for a moment sent me into paroxysms of comics-fan glee.

I'm still enjoying speculation, here. There wasn't clear labeling on the list Tahani accessed, so my guess is that it's not a list of goodness rankings, but rather a list of suspects as to who's related to the disasters. I doubt Eleanor and Jianyu are toward the top of the list by accident.

I'm sure others will have hit all these points in the comments below, but I've been bubbling over with thoughts about the episode.