What I mean is more that she's strongly defined in contrast with Steven, but isn't as clearly defined outside of it? Her relationship with Steven takes up a lot of screentime, and when she's pushed to the brink (Full Disclosure, Steven's Birthday) the show tends to come back to the strength of their relationship. It…

Have you seen the early boards from Mindful Education with him? They're hilarious:

I think it's confusing and the show hasn't really given a firm answer: sure, Pearl said she could early on in the show, but I think they may have changed their mind about whether or not she was telling the truth after Peridot's inability to shapeshift got floated in the writer's room

Pearl doesn't seem to have the ability to shapeshift but she can still make clothes.

I was expecting this episode to be the one we finally got Peridot's new outfit. Guess not!

I have a feeling this won't be too popular of an opinion, but I liked the Lapis and Peridot stuff in this. I had a lot of reservations about the way they'd been characterized in "Beta" and "Gem Harvest": the sugary-sweet portrayal of the two of them contrasted too much with the larger-than-life dysfunction of "Barn…

The clothes are based on Final Fantasy X, right?

She's a child soldier for chrissakes.

I don't know, but IIRC it was an art blog? If the art is fake and sourced from somewhere else, that should be pretty easy to establish. I can't imagine someone drawing a bunch of art specifically in someone else's style just to stir up fandom drama. That's significantly more effort for a significantly more malicious…

Yeah, I have not investigated all this thoroughly because it bums me out hard. I just feel guilty when anyone on the show staff feels terrible! Even when it's internal squabbling! Hell, especially when it is.

There's some pretty strange and even kinda spoilery backstory surrounding this. Apparently scuttlebutt is that Lauren Zuke left the show a few months ago, partially because she had problems with the working environment but also because she wanted to make Lapidot canon but Rebecca wouldn't let her. As someone who would…

It's a little strange, because from a coverage perspective I think they'd get a lot more clicks if they covered Islands and then randomly dropped eight other episodes from the schedule.

Purple Lee Pace needs his energy circles!

I feel like SU, which has big commitments to redemption arcs / ideological conflict and emotional health / self-love, needs to have characters like Kevin and Marty to make it clear that sometimes your well-being is served by cutting people out of your life and not giving them attention or sympathy.

Well, that's the first time I've ever seen someone claim that AT is better-serialized than SU.

Best ep imo was "Eye of the Storm", which is really the combination of action and comedy that the entire show should aim for.

Yeah, there were a couple sources of humor that I thought they were going to get rid of after the first season (Hunk's vomiting, for example) that came back like a bad penny for this one.

I see it. She's got a nice body type. Shame about the personality, though.

Yeah. The reveal about Haggar at the end was also good, although she still doesn't have enough focus to make up for Zarkon's total lack of depth or charisma.

Like, it is such a relief to get back to watching DS9 so I can see a full-bodied villainous race of aliens in the Cardassians.