For those wondering, she ripped it off the alien.

We don't actually know if Yellow Diamond was the military. It seems like she's taken on those capabilities, but that doesn't mean they were originally hers.

tbh, a redeemed Bismuth would probably just spend all her time in the Forge. I'm not sure if Jasper could vibe with her, but who knows!

It really isn't very clear at all. Mining seems to have worked out pretty well for humans. The finished Earth colony would have had 85 (?) Kindergartens, I think, and that's with destroying seemingly 99% of the Earth, so I don't think it's exactly a geological thing.

I think the reason they've avoided it so far is because it's a little bit the 'obvious' thing to do if you're going to mix two characters together. This show wants to emphasize the unity of fusion, even as they complicate the design with extra arms, eyes and faces.

Oh, right. I feel silly for forgetting about that.

Yeah, I thought about that myself after I said it.

Two-headed fusions sound great, and I'm sort of surprised we haven't seen one yet.

This isn't about anything in the show itself, but I figure I should say it as a sort of fandom confession: a lot of my love for Pearlrose is rooted in reading wayyyyy too much Twilestia fic during my brony days.

Ehh… I think it betrays that Peridot still has a very essentialist idea of Gems and Gem capabilities. Maybe "racist" isn't the right word, but it doesn't map precisely onto anything human and it's close enough.

As opposed to a decent-to-good cartoon on Discovery Family?

I haven't seen the show since S4 ended, but there've been a few really good CMC episodes. I think "Ponyville Confidential" is the gold standard for them.

Was anyone else kinda glad to see the return of casually racist Peridot in "Beta"? I feel like they've been making her character a little too precious now and again, so it's interesting to see that she still has that tendency to yammer on and on about the poor growing conditions of the gems from the wrong side of…

Well, SU is if anything more popular than AT at the moment. I imagine it depends on the precise details of the deals that CN has with Hulu.

On that front, it looks like S6 of Adventure Time is finally going to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in October, so maybe there's hope for Steven Universe after all.

Yeah, same for me for the most part. Trying to motivate myself to write long posts for this comment section reminds me of when I used to fail English courses back in high school because I couldn't focus my thoughts and get anything down.

Fair enough, I guess. It just feels like everyone on tumblr has already seen it and has all their reactions in order already, and it's kind of taking me out of the moment.

People are pretty slow to comment on this one. Has everyone else already seen it or something?

Oh, those weirdo expatriates, always at the vanguard of their art!

"C'mere, sis."