Peridot is now a Crystal Gem because she just torched her escape route back home. It's win or die now.

Peridot crosses the Rubicon and burns the bridge behind her….and she knows it.

What is weird for me was the fact that this took place on the same day as a major Steven Universe episode that way more heady and dramatic. I often don't see AT as a "cool down" kind of exercise given its own penchant for drama and suspense, but this was a good light episode to enjoy after something as heavy as…

Would also like to add that the cluster is apparently under Area 51.

Its going to happen eventually, though I do wish they slow it down on that front. It's nearly at boiling point.

That, and also Peridot can command an entire episode on just one interaction. Best to have that be its own thing.

When we found out Steven was 14, I had the same reaction Connie did.

I thought this was a very sweet episode. Yea it doesn't fill in anything about Ruby and Sapphires background, but it does add a little more about Home World and the political culture there, which adds another level to the SU canon.

Yes that was hella graphic by Nickelodeon standards. I liked it though

Ever get the feeling that when you see him you're like "Oh yea, NEPTR lives here too"

Have to say this though, I disliked Finn in Stakes mostly due to the childish antics he perfomed (burping on Marceline, the shoulder-touching of PB and Marceline). Really felt that was an unecessary step back for a character that had such a great maturation story arc in the previous season.

I can see that in this season, though Varmints kind of got neutralized by the end of Stakes when PB retook the Candy Kingdom. I like how much political sense it made for her to sieze the throne at that moment and felt it was time to readjust things to the way they're supposed to be, but the maturation aspects of a…

Earth Queen or the chick with the lightning eye?

Football really took that to a freaky level. It was delightfully unclear as to whether that was real or imaginary.

They had Billy get killed by the Lich, flayed, and have his skin worn by a meat suit. This is peanuts by comparison.

“Does growing up just change your body, or also your soul?” BMO asks the air, which he views as an actual conversation partner because he has the active imagination of a small child."

I saw this two years ago at college because a roommate loved it. I thought it was on Cartoon Network, it was that good

You get a virtual high five for that

Not quite, AT will fuck with you for a whole episode on some philosophy you didn't know existed

I knew I parked it illegally