Not to mention, it's generally considered a terrible idea to dissect your species' best hope for the future.

> I also thought Frowney was The Doctor

Maybe Steven shapeshifted his skin to look like actual metal?

Onion may just be too much for any human to manage.

Exodus 5:1-6:

Sure, but we're talking about an event that left a massive amount of physical evidence on a geological scale. By comparison, the Chicxulub impact was 66 million years ago. That hasn't stopped NASA and the astronomical community from keeping a *very* close eye on nearby asteroids.

Well, they sure damn well *should* have been! I mean, how many humans must've died in the Gem War? It literally rewrote the map!

Frankly, there should have been MIBs looking into the Gems as soon as MIBs existed. I know it's a standard trope in the sentai/magic girl genres Steven Universe draws from, but I really dislike the whole "government/adults are useless" cliche. People shouldn't just ignore huge existential threats that're just hanging…

Also… wait. Seven lions?

So… humans have known about the gem sites for at least two hundred years. How much more do they know? Do they know — for example — that Homeworld tried to wipe humanity out?

Dude, ten to one there are all kinds of hints being dropped in this episode that are going to pay off in the long run. If nothing else, think about this — humans have known about the gem sites for at least two hundred years. You really think they've spent the whole time just ignoring them?

Then Centipeedle's crew. Then the big green-and-pink thing Jasper tried to fuse with. Then probably the Heaven and Earth Beetles from Season 1…

Not to mention, it seems that Bismuth didn't experience any time while she was bubbled. So I think we're pretty clearly talking about a harmless form of suspended animation here.

Or maybe some debris from the Gem War that's collected up around one of the Lagrange points? (I mean, they passed by a satellite, so they couldn't have gotten too far from Earth.)

If Jasper and Eyeball represent how Homeworld Gems normally think of and relate to each other, getting Peridot to even start to understand empathy as a concept is a major start. And I suspect that whole "Peridots are tougher than they look" thing is going to come up again…

All of this, and not a single mention of Star Trek: First Contact? Tsk tsk. (What? I was a nerdy kid.)

I don't know if you're telling the truth here or not — sorry, it's the Internet, who knows, right? — but if you are, I'm so sorry.

I think there's clearly more to the story than what Garnet and the rest have been letting on. Hopefully, it won't be too many episodes before Steven remembers to pull this particular thread.

Yeaahhhh, can't imagine that going well.

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