Given the fact that we even know what some episode titles are, I don't expect it to be that long a wait. Something like the length of the AT hiatus that ended a few weeks ago.

I think I remember Rebecca Sugar responding in essence that there are definitely multiple types of each gem, and they aren't all clones of each other. She said she'd be a ruby.

He (?) reminded me of the Magypsies from Mother 3. S6 of AT in general has given me really strong Mother 3 vibes, especially Ocarina.

Crap, now I'm imagining a Babylon 5-like change in the opening.

Yeah, there was really no emotional subtext in this one at all. I was expecting BMO to be in love with a moody musical water nymph or something, but all we got was "Chiips!" and "Ice Cream!"

I think Gem corruption has something to do with fragmentation. If you just have cracks, the healing powers work, but if a gem is fragmented, then it fails to regenerate to a human form because it's fundamentally incomplete.

The Amethyst/Pearl dynamic is a really reliable source of humor and if you put all the Crystal Gems together it's going to wind up being dominant but I'm glad they focused on Amethyst/Garnet for this one. I think the last episode with a really memorable scene between them was "Coach Steven"?

I mean, solely based on the past four months it's already going to be the best animated show of the year.

Someone pointed out that Raven used to storyboard for MLP:FiM a few weeks ago, and I totally saw Amethyst regenerating with four legs as a nod to how weird it must be to board for a show where the main characters don't even have hands.

I am so okay with a hiatus right now. This show's aired over an episode a week for four whole months, even past the nominal end of the season. I'm perfectly fine transitioning into prestige TV mode for the next month or two.

I found the repeated regenerations pretty hilarious, and not just because of the wacky forms. I like knowing that Pearl took two weeks to regenerate and sent Steven through the stages of grief just because she's a super-control freak and mildly inconsiderate.

uh, what. can you cite any evidence of this?

Garnet was totally in the right for all of this episode, but this was the first time I realized "man, I would be terrified to hang out with her".

Jesse Moynihan actually specifically brings up Philly Boy Roy when discussing the episode on his blog:

I think the idea of "love at first sight" makes more sense in an older era, where marriages were generally arranged and you might not even meet your partner before the arrangements. If you can't help who you're with, immediately falling in love isn't the worst ideal to aspire to.

That's an overused trope, and not an especially fitting one for her. Plus, I think Steven already has enough of that meta-ness in him.

That dream sequence was really surreal and depressing. I saw it detached from the rest of this episode, and man it seemed to imply this episode would be really harrowing.

So does anyone else feel weird about Jake's immaturity in the face of his family being a major theme in this, "Ocarina", and "One Last Job"? I really like it as an adult, but does it send the wrong message to the kids who are part of the show's audience?

I agree that it was a bit blunt, but rejecting romantic advances or breaking up kinda require some level of bluntness, and it's one of the more natural situations for a lecture like this to show up in.

Lapis could use a rebound after Jasper.