Cloudchaser. You said there’d be beer, and there was, but now there isn’t.

He’s also a whiny Trump-worshipping deplorable. Fuck him.

Finally, noted cocaine enthusiast turned whimpering snitch Tim Allen can return to our television screens!

Those writers have done made a monkey out of me.

I was so convinced the Rose = Pink thing was a red herring. It was earth all along!

so spot on about Rose!PinkDiamond. I wonder if her Rose Quartz persona started with Marie Antoinette-levels of playacting? Her version of “pretend milkmaid” was putting on a Quartz soldier costume and kicking it with her own gems? now that I think of it, this throws Garnet’s whole Rose backstory episode into a totally…

(Copy and pasting what I wrote at The Avocado. Uh, it’s a lot)

OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU.

Oh my god, I was wrong
It was Pink all along

I quite liked the Lapis episode. It was a good subversion of the show’s tropes, showing that sometimes you can’t fix everything with an emotional song. I like Lapis but she’s a deeply broken individual and I think her emotional journey is too difficult to resolve by just putting the barn on the beach.

Those were my exact words.  Followed by...”Son of a bitch.  They’ve been lying to us all along.”

How is that a surprise? Rebecca Sugar riffs on Sailor Moon and Utena CONSTANTLY. She’s three references away from officially owing Naoko Takeuchi a licencing fee.

My reaction to tonight’s big mindfuck reveal:

*SCREAMING*********

Uhhh hello.

I am impossibly annoyed that the one theory i thought was utterly absurd was the one that turned out was right.

Hilariously one of the musicians is wearing a shirt on Rebbeca Sugar’s instagram that is supposed to depict all the Crystal Gems’ gems.

Oh, and those silhouettes in “Can’t Go Back” were the most Utena silhouettes that ever silhouetted.

A whole damn lot to unpack, and I want to rewatch both episodes. But at this moment I want to point out that the episode did a nice, subtle job of explaining where Pearl’s habit of wide-eyed, hands-over-mouth panic response to dangerous questions originated.