Still, Steven's been in the middle of that nasty fight between Amethyst and Greg, and been on the receiving end of a nasty insult or two himself. Even if he wasn't mature enough by this point, he still has a sense of perspective.

How Sapphic.

Fixed. I changed it from "defusing" and didn't think about it.

She has elemental power: she's summoned electricity multiple times in the show.

Well, half of that involved Ruby and Sapphire re-fusing, and I can't imagine the show screwing up a slam-dunk scene like that.

It might just have been that I caught the preceding TTG, but I got a strong Raven vibe from her.

Start posting them on What's On Tonight and maybe we'll read them. :P

Eh, I can understand people liking how Pearl is not a chaste and incorruptible lesbian character. It's just that the fandom jokes about it have always seemed a little lame.

I'm dreading the thirst/salt jokes on tumblr.

Yeah, it definitely does make sense to compare them that way, with one party being overly clingy about the relationship and conspiring new ways of prolonging it by trying to recreate past circumstances. Very much like the callbacks to "Too Young" in "Too Old".

I think the Aimee Mann and Nicki Minaj stunt-casts were important for the show at that particular part of its development, in order to gain much needed media and fandom attention, but I don't think the show would gain too much on the margins from casting Janelle Monae as Sardonyx. (She isn't a trained voice actor,…

This show has like, more frequent reviews than maybe any other show on this site. I'd love to see earlier episodes crop up in an Inventory (or a TV Club 10, if we're lucky), but asking for anything more would just be greedy.

Yeah, the lack of a compelling character flaw for Garnet is the main reason I like Pearl more.

It's not that it's too sad, but that the sadness feels out-of-place and unearned where it didn't before. (Well, I'd argue "Full Disclosure" was somewhat similar, but that was the aftershock of a much bigger conflict.)

Am I the only person who felt that this episode was just kind of a bummer? Like, I don't need big pathos in the show all the time, or the show to constantly be introducing new plot elements, but the stakes in this episode felt a little mundane for the sour note the episode ended on. (Was the climax really all that…

I love Gravity Falls, but I think it's begun to experience premise fatigue for me. Not the big arc-based stuff— that's fine, and a welcome change from the norm in Western animation. Just the need for every episode to have a new different dovetailing supernatural plot that says something about growing up and offers an…

Am I the only person who wasn't expecting AT to be renewed? The show's been moving in a direction that doesn't really fit with the rest of the network, the scheduling's been really erratic, and they've even stopped airing reruns.

The new Mountain Goats album. I was never involved in wrestling in any way, but the pop cultural focus gives him room to do more stuff than his usual disaffected youth writing, and goddamnit it sounds way more gorgeous than I'd ever expected a Mountain Goats album to sound.

If you don't pay your amusement tax, the fun police show up.

Yeah, part of the reason I'm disappointed at the lack of an inclusion is because the show got precipitously better right around the new year and has come out with a hell of a lot of content for an 11-minute animated series.