Yeah, learning about Jasper's corruption (which happened a few months ago for me when the marathon titles leaked) was the moment at which I realized that there was no way Steven wouldn't fully heal the corrupted gems.

The Lapis and Peridot sequence was the most Lauren Zuke thing I have ever seen on this show. Super-deadpan humor and almost cloyingly weird preciousness at the same time, with a bunch of Lapidot teasing to boot. (I thought that bit about Lapis and Peridot playing house in the SU zine was funny but a little…

Shipping the two leads? I didn't know this was that kind of show.

For what it's worth, Tuesday's episode got a 1.9 in the ratings, which is incredibly good for the network at this point. (The show hasn't gotten anywhere close to that number in over a year, and cable ratings are always dropping.)

Yeah. Gems are in a weird state where combat, even outside the context of just sparring, doesn't have to be lethal. Breaking that norm is bad (even if as we've seen from human history it's kind of inevitable)

People are neglecting an obvious solution here. In "Gem Glow", we saw how Centipeetle was able to manifest independent constructs which didn't themselves have gems. Why can't Lion just be a more elaborate version of that for the Rose Quartz gem?

It looks heavy. I don't think a normal human could lift it.

It's very considerate of them to people who will be catching up on the series in the future. Doesn't spoil anything, you see?

"Do you… miss your home planet?"
"No, never."

We already have a tool that can be used to safely extract gems from their physical forms. Homeworld's gem destabilizers.

There's not going to be a new intro, at least unless there are more shorts. There's not really room in the episode orders for them.

Yep. That site triggers Chrome's automatic malware warning.

Three weeks of daily episodes and a three-day hiatus suddenly seems like a burden.

I was thinking mostly of the technology Peridot was given to help compensate for her disability.

Lapis was poofed from behind. That said, if the two of them knew each other, things would have gone south very fast.

Eh, whatever pool of female Asian-American voice/musical actor talent they're tapping into has done pretty well for them so far.

That said, I wondered whether "Crazy Lace" was itself a reference to "Crazy Eyes".

The problem is Cartoon Network's been cracking down very hard on dailymotion uploads recently. (I try to watch legally when the episodes are available, but there's a period between the original airing and when it goes up on CN's site.) I hope I can get through all of it before it gets taken down.

Never seen this before. I had to stop watching halfway through.

Cartoon Network has no idea what they're doing.