I suspect that we've got a hook for Season 9 in the opening comments about how long Archer's been in the coma. Once he admits to himself that he killed Woodhouse in both worlds and wakes up, it'll be years later.

He seems to have spent a lot of time trying to get out from under Urkel's shadow.

This reminds me a hell of a lot of the storyline in For Better Or For Worse that had Elly moan and wail because Lizzie went to a teacher with her problems instead of the loving judgmental lunatic idiot mother who'd panic and take everything her daughter said as an affront. This is because neither character has much in…

Suddenly, Samurai Quack doesn't seem as funny any longer. You could almost hear La Marr muttering Robot….robot….robot….robot like so much Duck Dodgers.

Crap like this tells us that when we follow Ezra, what we're probably dealing with is the life story of yet another blip on the radar. Just as Maul mattered far less than he thought, Ezra's absence from the narrative (as well as Chopper being the only character to make it to a film) tells us that we're dealing with a…

Mabel is a different sort of crazy person so of course, she'd have a slightly more manic tone to her voice than someone who's angry all the time because she fears turning into her mother.

The interesting thing is that Kirsten Schall's voice made it even easier than it should have been to highlight the fact that Louise can't believe in a moral victory. There's just something about that nasal, high-pitched voice that says "I'm a jerk. Deal with it."

Well, we have to set up the big collision at the end of Season Four somehow. Why not let Steven's trusting nature be what made it happen?

How about the old-timey diver's helmet Immunity Idol? They haven't had something like that for years!

Interesting that they made another little change: Tribal itself. Odd seeing them go with a shipwreck theme this time out.

Oh, great. Wells plus Kirkman equals "killing people with his bare damned hands this May."

Odd how such a low-stakes looking episode points us to the real endgame for this season. By focusing on the side characters, we can guess how they'll react to being abducted en masse by BD.

It's odd that the reviewer mentioned Lars. This is because most of what makes Ronaldo tick is that he too is not quite able to process what happened the first time the Lighthouse Gem attacked him. Laramie descended into jerkishness because he wanted to fit in. Ronaldo went nuts because he needs to know what happened…

He did sort of allude the the mess Homeworld is in now but, well, since he's the only Rose Quartz who knows what an Era 2 gem is, he only got half the answer he wanted. The room didn't let enough of her out of their gem to be really helpful.

It's odd watching a lower decks episode like this one. Without Steven front and centre, we finally get a clearer picture of who Connie is: someone who'd be perfectly comfortable writing friendship reports to her mentor Princess Celestia.

Well, a drunken mushhead would not come to much harm in the current regime…..

Well, at least we know what Lapis is for sure now: removing oceans from target planets.
Also, it's so classic Diamond Authority to bubble ALL the Rose Quartzes for what one of them did.

It sort of makes sense that the Amethysts would play grief counselor…..they're from Earth too so they feel the Zoo-man's pain.

I should think that seeing Homeworld Gems being themselves would finally make Steven understand what Garnet is talking about when she says that Pink Diamond had to go bye-bye.

The thing that I took away is that despite how far he's come, Steven still has trouble really understanding that the physical forms he interacts with are simply solid images. This seems to have finally taught him that.