So, fairly mild, nitpicky complaint, but does the voice directing on the Rubies bother anyone else? I feel like in "Hit the Diamond", Kent Osborne or whoever's responsible for coaching the VAs did a great job out of getting five recognizable and distinct voices out of Charlyne Yi, but in "Back to the Moon" and this…

*sigh*

Quite a lot of the creative team has left? Huh? I honestly think the SU crew is weirdly insular! I think the only major people who have stopped working on the show are Ian Jones-Quartey and Lauren Zuke. Compare this to Adventure Time, which had pretty vast crew turnover even by this point in the show and had people…

What a turn of events!

I mean, Raven and Paul don't look that much alike either.

I mean, the wrestling act is something both Steven and Lars care about a lot, and Lars seems to be the only other person who Steven talks to about it. It's not about Lars being a sadsack. It's about Steven taking pride in what he does, and Lars being someone who can give him feedback.

I don't think we're actually going to see Steven's birth. Rebecca Sugar said something about the 90s flashback episodes proceeding in chronological order, which would rule out that time period. (This is one of the main reasons that I think next season will be the last one.)

I was thinking of the other beefy purple gem…

A bunch of AT alums (Wolfhard, Pendarvis, Sam Alden, and Polly Guo, IIRC, although it's really hard to find information on Google about this since it was announced like two months ago) are going to be working on the new Summer Camp Island series which recently got greenlit. Something to look forward to on the horizon…

As always, I came into this episode with silly expectations that it would be bigger and more dramatic than it really was. The fact that this episode title had been floating around for at least a year and a half made it even easier to sculpt the premise into something that checked off all the boxes on my show wishlist.…

I can see how it might improve upon a second viewing. I'm waiting to do a full rewatch of SU until I finish DS9, and I really hope a lot of the S4 stuff plays better in the context of the rest of the show. I haven't been in a good mood about the show for a little while, we'll see how it turns out.

I can see that take now that you mention it, but I feel like they could have pulled off a "Ronaldo is a bad ally" storyline without losing his characteristic bluster and turning him into Lars for half the episode.

Yeah, Ronaldo's supposed to be a loving parody. I can understand how their experiences might have soured them on him, but this felt different. I think I'll chalk it up to it being a different boarding team than usual (Hilary and Lauren rather than Raven and Paul).

I wonder how people feel about the change in Ronaldo's energy levels here. I know people react strongly to his character's broad, cringey delivery, but this episode's sullen, mean-spirited take on him didn't work. For all that people say that the show's overly cruel when it comes to him, the saving grace of most…

I loved the show shifting into a Vince Guaraldi-like jazz arrangement of the Rose's Room scene for a few seconds there.

Having thought this over, I'm willing to bet that was a working title for "Last One Out of Beach City".

If you want to!

I mean, it's clear Lapidot has at least some adherents among the show staff! Zuke's said she writes them romantically, and I can't deny that there's some appeal there. (I think if Amedot and Lapidot shippers can agree on any one thing, it's that Zuke is good at writing romance.) I mean, this less comfortable…

about Lapis and Peridot being a romance: I also don't really see it. Pretty much all the canon couples in the show (Ruby/Sapphire, Steven/Connie, Pearl/Rose and Greg/Rose) have very strongly defined complementary emotional roles, but I'm still at a loss for what Lapis gets from Peridot. The show tries to explain it by…

I feel like he's too clearly the Crewniverse writing themselves into the show for us to see him again.