I'm working on my license right now, and my parents only own stickshifts. Stevonnie in this episode made me incredibly jealous.

No, no, two kids in a *beautiful* trenchcoat.

Eric mentioned doing it on his twitter a week or two before the premieres.

I think the Wu-Tangification of the Marvel Universe has already happened. Look at all the solo careers.

Shush.

It's been a year and a half and "Alone Together" is still blowing my mind. Getting away with a sexualized nonbinary human character by presenting it as the culmination of a straight romance is audacious to say the least. I've heard people joke about 'queering heterosexuality' but this is ridiculous.

Yes.

Tomorrow.

Steven's powers have been very apparent when he's been around Beach City the last few episodes. I wonder whether they'll be an episode where he gets called a 'freak' or worse, 'abomination' for it.

Here's how it's going to happen: first, someone in the media is going to write about it, then someone on the show staff will retweet it. That lets them confirm it with the right amount of plausible deniability.

Fun fact: while I'd wondered about Lars being trans, coming into this I expected Lars to be coming out and starting to transition. I was really dreading having to retrain my pronoun-sense.

Steven's powers are terrifying. I know he's a nice kid, but I really hope nothing bad happens after he learns how to control this power.

There was nudity in the fifth episode!

I think Greg would help temper Barb's obsessiveness about her daughter, at least.

Yeah, I made an edit to explain that I didn't feel that way about your comment specifically, but disqus doesn't function well with editing. I do think Sadie needs to broaden her horizons.

I really like the way Lars' gauges look in the show, which is weird because ear gauges disgust me IRL. They're one of the only things about a person's appearance that I can't tolerate.

Yeah, that was my response prior to this episode. I think what it comes down to in the end is that the issue, moreso than even the show's treatment of homosexuality, is a magnet for S&P. I'm not sure even CN would have let this episode out if they'd made it as apparent as possible.

My guess would be art, but maybe he'll surprise us.

I always feel kind of uncomfortable when people say Sadie should be a lesbian because it feels like they're saying that they know what she wants better than she does herself. I know you're not coming at it from that perspective, but still.

Man, this episode is the point at which Steven's possession powers have gone beyond "hey, that's a clever way to explore something we could have never seen in third-person limited perspective" to "okay, this is actually really weird"