I really don't see what their angle is. Is this just a test ground for them?

Are you playing a troping card game or something?

I have a theory that essentially, gems, when shattered, cleave among the parts that generate the individual body parts. If they could have found all the pieces, Rose could maybe have regenerated them with her healing tears. But they couldn't find them, and now Peridot's taken some of the remaining puzzle pieces and…

I'm amused at how Eric mentioned tropes and everyone managed to come up with a completely different trope to describe it.

All of us romantically-frustrated people can go and rally around Pearl, after all.

"I'm a civilified part-hooman, thank you very much! Clothing is a must."

Lapis seems to have a thing for imprisoning her self. She's the prisoner who gets out and then goes right back in because she can't find another place for herself.

Yeah. I was just saying that they never found the ones hidden down there.

I'd be interested in Jasper's reaction to this new project.

Anyone notice how we see what seems to be the Galaxy Warp in the new title sequence? What's going on there?

Hm. Nonconsensuality and icky body parts fitting where they shouldn't. Yeah, I guess it is a metaphor for that, as weird as it feels to have it in a kids' show.

The gem monsters reminded me a lot of the Goo monsters from AT, both in design and in the way they're treated by the show.

What I liked most about this episode was that it gave a more complicated and even ambivalent perspective of what it's like to be Garnet. It's easy to wring pathos from "she's made of love" ala Jail Break, but with the Frankenstein-fusions and her monologue at the end they managed to get something more interesting out…

Peridot is such a pathetic jerk. I love her.

You know, revisiting this episode, I have to say that it ended in just about the perfect way. Steven giving Ronaldo's video a like is a perfect example of how this show uses modern elements that most series would turn up their nose at or play for a gimmick and make them genuinely moving.

Hopefully nobody's victimizing show staff like they did with Helen Raynor on Doctor Who or Merriwether Williams on MLP.

I think he's less a parody of the fandom and more just a positive portrayal of the "neckbeard" type as a mostly harmless goof.

*That* is how you do a fourth-wall joke.

I'm just expecting Peridot on Wednesday. Then again, going into this week I was expecting to enjoy Rising Tides more than Sworn to the Sword, so I'm pretty sure you can safely disregard any expectations of mine.

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