I'd be surprised, especially given how much of a 20th-century politician Mayor Dewey looks like.

"You see, Greg, that's your problem. You want one big woman when you could have multiple smaller women."

I was thinking more Propeller-era, when GBV would reference the rockstar lifestyle in their songs a little more. But yeah.

I like to imagine there's an alternate universe where Greg is basically Bob Pollard.

It's kinda neat how in most respects the gems are the same here, befitting thousand-year-old aliens, but they have so much less context of human culture. So much of what we associate with the Gems comes from their scramble to accommodate the physical and cultural requirements of raising a human child.

I completely agree with his review. We don't get much about the gems we don't already know, and even Rose Quartz remains a complete cipher here, in her first in-person appearance. It's not a bad episode, and it's endearing in the way this show generally is, but I left the episode without much more conviction in Rose…

I've never heard a single proposed ending to this show that didn't sound terribly hack-y.

Roger's jealous that Ken is an actual published author.

My mind jumped to Don's blackout sex partner from "Waldorf Stories", but I think she was blonde.

I've honestly been hoping since the merger that we'd see Burt Peterson in the vice-president McCann-Erickson job we'd heard Duck talk about and have him go all Barry Dylan on Roger.

I love the way Amethyst was lazing on the porch and watching something ridiculous happen at the beginning of the episode. Very Jake of her.

She would've been interesting as Stephanie.

You know who I liked, but never really comes up in Mad Men discussion at all? Gene Hofstadt. His weird aloof relationship with Sally after he moves into the Drapers' house is really the turning point in Sally becoming her own person and a real important character on the show.

I know. I wouldn't really be annoyed if I hadn't felt that the show in general hadn't declined, which is what has me going "what was all it worth" in the first place.

I thought it landed well at the time, but in retrospect that was really the moment where I should have realized that the show didn't really have the sort of character-based consistency that everyone seemed to be praising it for.

It's complicated. I spent a lot of time defending MLP from fans who wanted the show to be more adventure-y, or dark, or to reference anime, etc. I was pretty convinced that the show was doing exactly what it needed to for its audience..

I agree. I have some theories about Rose's relationship with Garnet and Lapis, but I think I'll save them for next week where they'll actually be on-topic. I've already prattled enough about even less relevant stuff elsewhere.

Rose is really the big question mark of the show, almost by design. Why did she choose to give up her corporeal form and turn the Gems inside-out emotionally? It's a big question without immediately satisfying answers, but I trust the show to explain it well.

Good news, everyone! We just need to build an exact replica of the SU comments section right over there!

I dunno. This show has definitely surprised me before, but I don't expect this one to blindside us with something really sad.