Azula reformed in the spinoff comics written by the showrunners. Sort of.

This is really playing into my theory that Jasper joins when she's the one who discovers Steven is Pink Diamond before anyone else.

I picture basically as being a really really solid organ. I think there's definitely some nerve endings in there or else how else would his emotions control his powers? Also, Steven isn't 100% flesh. A great deal of him has to be a hologram that controls his shapeshifting and aging powers just like any other Gem.

She's probably have an even worse response to Pearl if she was.

It actually is - they're basing their marketing on creating situations that "feel like binge-watching on Netflix". It's promoted SU to one of the highest rated shows on the network. People's perceptions of "burning" have totally changed since Nick did it to Korra to get rid of the death and implied lesbianism.

Yeah, the thing is I think Garnet and Pearl weren't in that scene not only so that Stephen could confront Bismuth solo but because knowing their pragmatic personalities - I think they totally would've said "Let's just save the Breaking Point for the diamonds as a last resort." (Which is probably the reason Rose didn't…

I think it depends on the Gem, too. Quartzes and Rubies can manifest weapons on their own because they're soldiers. But Pearl's might have been made by Bismuth and stored in her gem as a type of reproducible holographic "computer program" instead of being something inherent.

I think Homeworld lost and lost badly, and we're just not getting the full picture, because Rose had humans on her side. They might be totally frail compared to gems, but the one thing they have is an incredibly robust population that was most likely staggering to the gems even 5,000 years ago. They can talk about…

The writers have said Garnet only uses the room to relax in a lava bath, so take that as you will.

Yeah, but that overlaps with masculine coding, too. On a similar note, I'm not sure why people are claiming Jasper comes off as coded non-white/poc. Her voice actress is a POC, but her physical design is very much Teutonic viking princess warrior.

Yeah, expanded universe Megatron where he was a populist leader of a slave revolt.

I think it was a concern in the back of his head. If Jasper wasn't on-planet, I think he would've tried to talk things out more slowly. But with Jasper turning up every few days to pull a Team Rocket lately, he knows that there's no time to try to convince Bismuth the slow way and if Jasper gets shattered that's…

I think I've read that quartz is one of the most common stones on Earth, so a few people have come to the conclusion that the Earth was just a good choice for churning out quartz gems (but they probably made other types, too).

You can shatter a Gem after their poofed but it's a conscious choice. The breaking point shatters them while they're in their physical hologram forms. It's the difference between taking prisoners (and possibly executing them for warcrimes afterwards) and . . . not.

Steven doesn't forget about bubbled gems as we saw with centipeedle. If Homeworld is ever defeated, I'm pretty sure they'll try letting her out again and talking things out.

The gems are artificial beings made for specific purposes by homeworld and part of their character arcs are rejections of their programming. Thus the larger gems are more violent because Homeworld wants to control every aspect of their subject's existence.

Yeah, there's a ton of Invader Zim in Steven Universe's DNA. Sugar used to write Invader Zim fanfic and Peridot is basically a distaff counterpart to Zim.

The current theories on Lion are:

It could go either way at this point, still, but they would need some plot mojo to explain why experienced gems misidentified her gem type on sight. But I can still see them doing that, especially since Lion's existence is yet unexplained.

Eh, I doubt that her and Jasper are teaming up anytime soon. If anything, it feels like Steven stopped Bismuth to protect Jasper. Bismuth would've pulverized her gem into dust the next time she showed up if he let her stay free.