Ugh, Theo. This is our main villain for the season? F*** that guy. His entire plan is a full-blown Idiot Plot, which even for this show is saying something (there's also the fact that he stole it from OmniCorp). And if my suspicions are correct, he's the one who brings the Court of Owls into this series? F*** no.…

I actually thought it was a decent episode overall, but if it was just an entire episode devoted to Maggie's Amazing Animal Adventures, that would've moved it into grade-A territory. Shame the rest of the episode bogged it down a bit with some groaners (like SLH eating Homer's thought balloon, the type of humor this…

Well, I know where one of them went…

Estelle was most likely channeling her inner Will Smith there.

Hence a "small" possibility. Just covering all of the angle here in case they throw curveballs. =P

This makes me wonder even more what Garnet/Ruby & Sapphire's relationship to Rose is. Pearl was her servant, they found & took in Amethyst, but where did she/they come from…Hmmm. Or she could have been Ruby & Sapphire's servant? More than likely Roses, but just throwing it out as a small possibility…

Okay, maybe I should have said "creepier-ass fan art." Either that or my deviantART membership has desensitized me to the rest.

So Pearl was explicitly designed to look pretty & serve others? Yep, that definitely won't lead to any creepy-ass fan art or anything. Although now I owe the commenter two episodes ago who said they were designed to get tall objects off of shelves a Coke…

Okay, not gonna lie, I was genuinely surprised by Jerome's sudden death and those shots of him with the blood on his smiling corpse. That's deserving of at least a golf clap, I say.

I keep worrying that her gem power is going to be some sort of bomb that requires her to sacrifice herself just as she's redeemed…=(

I'm kind of hoping that both Peridot & Lapis choose to stay on Earth (assuming the latter ever gets free & Jasper gets dealt with), & the two basically become the Sixth Rangers to the Crystal Gems, not necessarily 100% on their side (due to the potential ambiguity of what the Gems did during the war & what they…

Gotta be honest, part of me was hoping for a Steven/Peridot fusion at the end when they were trapped, as like the culmination of Steven befriending her. Then again, it's probably way too early for that (& Connie would be totes jealous, probably).

Yeah, her original mission was just "Go to Earth, check on fusion experiments, come back." Then again, Earth was a hostile battlefield to them, and for all they know, it may still be a dangerous alien planet.

So last episode, Peridot knew what citrus was, but not rain? What the hell did Homeworld actually brief her on? What the heck kind of development did she have to raised to be entirely dependent on her devices? And the fact that she's weaker than Steven…Jesus, is Homeworld using an equivalent of child soldiers? Damn.…

Also also, I just realized that between this & the theories of Gem hierarchy being based on height, we have now connected this episode to two different Nickelodeon cartoons. Do we have any other theories that allow us to go for three?

Or again, maybe they're just taking a cue from the Irkens. =P

Also, I do love this show & this episode so much, but when I heard talk about an alien non-biological threat called the "Cluster" endangering Earth, was I the only one who was reminded of another cartoon…?

I just realized something…unlike the other Gems, Peridot didn't assume a different form after reconstructing herself (none I could see, anyway). Well, unless her hands & feet looked different before. Huh.

Maybe they're taking a cure from the Irkens.

Does anyone think that Peridemption is foreshadowed by the current lyrics the end credits focus on? "I always thought, I might be bad/Now I'm sure that it's true,/'cause I think you're so good/And I'm nothing like you…" I do love the fact that Steven's natural belief to see the best in everyone is what will probably…