Steven UnIVerse: 4shadowing

[Draconi Redfir]

So you know how everyone was saying it'd be cool to see connie peridot and lapis defend beach city together?

Looks like it's happening

[Manga Shoggoth]

So you know how everyone was saying it'd be cool to see connie peridot and lapis defend beach city together?

Looks like it's happening

Now, that's lookin' good. Almost makes me look forward to February.

[Morty]

This is all I've ever wanted and more.

[LaZodiac]

This is all I've ever wanted and more.

What if this is where Peridot and Lapis fuse.

[Rater202]

What if this is where Peridot and Lapis fuse.

Then I will forge the episode into a ring, strip down to a loin cloth, and go live in a cave with it because it will be my precious.

[endoperez]

Then I will forge the episode into a ring, strip down to a loin cloth, and go live in a cave with it because it will be my precious.

Congratulations! I am now imagining a shoujo manga prettyboy-Gollum squeeing over Steven Universe, surrounded by hearts, blooming flowers etcetera.

[Rater202]

Has Connie ever been properly introduced to Lapis or Peridot?

Because I've got this mental image of the fact that Lapis almost drowned Connie back in Ocean Gem to come up, and the Lapis asks what drowning means because she wasn't aware that humans needed air.

[Admiral Squish]

Has Connie ever been properly introduced to Lapis or Peridot?

Because I've got this mental image of the fact that Lapis almost drowned Connie back in Ocean Gem to come up, and the Lapis asks what drowning means because she wasn't aware that humans needed air.

She was at the barn for Steven's Birthday, so I assume they'd met, and are at least aware of one-another, even if they haven't like, spent serious time together.

[DigoDragon]

Looks like it's happening

This is all I've ever wanted and more.

*cries* It's so... beautiful...

Then I will forge the episode into a ring, strip down to a loin cloth, and go live in a cave with it because it will be my precious.

Err... okay, I didn't have enough coffee this morning for that mental image.

[LaZodiac]

Speaking of which, I forgot to note that that episode is the start of the show finally being back to weekly episodes. We don't know for how long but presumably for the entire rest of this season maybe.

[theNater]

What if this is where Peridot and Lapis fuse.

My money's on this episode featuring a fusion between Peridot and Connie. I know it's a long shot, but what's life without some risks?

She was at the barn for Steven's Birthday, so I assume they'd met, and are at least aware of one-another, even if they haven't like, spent serious time together.

I don't think Lapis was living at the barn at that time, so this still might be the first time she and Connie have been in the same place since the drowning attempt.

[Snowbluff]

Has Connie ever been properly introduced to Lapis or Peridot?

Because I've got this mental image of the fact that Lapis almost drowned Connie back in Ocean Gem to come up, and the Lapis asks what drowning means because she wasn't aware that humans needed air.

Yeah I don't think they've properly met.

Personally I don't want them to get along. This series is missing conflict and Lapis is short on things to do.

[LaZodiac]

My money's on this episode featuring a fusion between Peridot and Connie. I know it's a long shot, but what's life without some risks?


I don't think Lapis was living at the barn at that time, so this still might be the first time she and Connie have been in the same place since the drowning attempt.

Connie is not a gem. She can fuse with Steven because he is part human and that makes biology react weird. She cannot fuse with Peridot.

For what it's worth I totally see Peridot getting a romantic crush on her because Connie's the only human in the entire series that could probably match her intelligence.

[endoperez]

Yeah I don't think they've properly met.

I'm pretty sure even Peridot didn't appear in Steven's Birthday. Connie might not have met either of the two barn gems.

[ellindsey]

Connie can't directly fuse with Peridot, or any other gem, due to humans and gems not being able to directly fuse with each other. However, it might be possible for Steven to mediate a three-way fusion, fusing with Connie to make Stevonnie and then fusing that with one of the other gems. Don't know if they'll ever do this, but it should theoretically be possible.

[Flickerdart]

That makes me wonder - Stevonnie is basically a homogenous fusion, like the giant Ruby. But how does this kind of fusion work in a three-way? For example, if Garnet fused with a Ruby, or giant Ruby fused with Jasper. Is it a new gem? Just a regular fusion, with the other part of the personality emphasized?

[theNater]

Connie is not a gem. She can fuse with Steven because he is part human and that makes biology react weird. She cannot fuse with Peridot.

Connie can't directly fuse with Peridot, or any other gem, due to humans and gems not being able to directly fuse with each other.

So, what you're saying is that I need to be clearer about when I'm joking. I'll try; sorry about the confusion.

However, it might be possible for Steven to mediate a three-way fusion, fusing with Connie to make Stevonnie and then fusing that with one of the other gems. Don't know if they'll ever do this, but it should theoretically be possible.

Thematically, it feels like they eventually almost have to(for reals). Steven is a bridge between humanity and gemkind, and a human-Steven-gem fusion is the obvious symbolism.

I'm pretty sure even Peridot didn't appear in Steven's Birthday. Connie might not have met either of the two barn gems.

She appears, but has no lines. Amethyst asks if she wants to participate; Peridot just walks away.

[Aquillion]

My money's on this episode featuring a fusion between Peridot and Connie. I know it's a long shot, but what's life without some risks?

I think we'll finally see the long awaited Peridot / iPad fusion.

[John Cribati]

Talk about your weird coincidences...

[Razade]

Talk about your weird coincidences...

Coincidences? Really? More like they know exactly what they were doing. Seriously.

[Draconi Redfir]

Talk about your weird coincidences...

Between the fusion expariments, the ships, the symbols, the humans, etc

i think Gems really, REALLY like their hand/arm iconography. It's like a fettish for them.

Maybe they all instincitvely wish they were on a Ring or something.

Also probably a way for the Crewniverse to squick out it's veiwers by making everything arms and fingers.

[Flickerdart]

Nothing so lame as a ring - gems are just really into punching and karate chops </jasper> </80s>

[Rater202]

Okay, for people whose computer won't load the linked page for some reason, could we get an explanation for what's going on?

[LaZodiac]

Okay, for people whose computer won't load the linked page for some reason, could we get an explanation for what's going on?

It's a picture of all the Zoo people grasping at the air ritually, in comparision to the hieroglyphs of the hands doing that to the Diamonds in the reverse pyramid.

[John Cribati]

The Cluster also did it while it/they were trying to form

[Snowbluff]

Between the fusion expariments, the ships, the symbols, the humans, etc

i think Gems really, REALLY like their hand/arm iconography. It's like a fettish for them.

Maybe they all instincitvely wish they were on a Ring or something.

Also probably a way for the Crewniverse to squick out it's veiwers by making everything arms and fingers.

They are instrument. A hand to a singular will.

[Tutorix]

My thoughts about this week's episodes:

Spoiler: Holly Blue

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We saw her weapon. Her hairdo looked like something from The Answer. I think Yellow's song mentioned what Agates were for. And we saw a few glimpses of her management techniques. I thought it was interesting that she denied that humans were capable of communication, although the Zoo had a system for communicating with humans. I think that was a psychological trick on her part: denying the captive Universidad his only tool, his voice, by pretending not to understand him.

Holly Blue's color supports the idea that the Diamonds color-code their subordinates to some extent.

Spoiler: The Diamonds

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We may be building up to White Diamond as the ultimate villain. The other two have each had their turn with the Earth, and failed. Blue came to Earth, presumably after Pink's death, to take over her Gems and fight the rest of the thousand year war; afterward, Yellow was responsible for the Cluster, and probably the Corruption as well. Yellow is more into superweapons than armies, it seems. So what approach would White take?

Spoiler: The Rose Quartzes

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These are going to come into play at some point. As much as the Crystal Gems would probably like a truce with Homeworld... the Diamonds are going to shatter all those Gems. That cannot happen.

It was also interesting that all Rose Quartzes were apparently created by Pink, who herself was created on Earth, or expressly for Earth. The Rose Quartzes were experimental, and that experiment certainly went awry.

Spoiler: And more...

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There were a lot of other things in these episodes too. Steven's intention to rescue the Rubies... Ga-reg's flirting with both male and female zoomans... the Carnelian... the difference between the roles played by Rubies and Quartzes... how the Diamonds let the Sapphires tell them what to do or what they want... Korea... Steven's psychic link with Blue Diamond... Amethyst's real name...

[LaZodiac]

Yeah, this week had some fantastic episodes that Cartoon Network dumbly released all at once like TWO MONTHS AGO on their special ap before taking away because that's just how that works. But let's focus on the good.

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Specifically, they note that Agate's are for terrifying. They're probably not intended for desk jobs like Holly Blue's got, and more for torture of all things. They will scare you, and hurt you. Also yeah White Diamond is clearly the biggest of the big bads, clearly.

[Lurkmoar]

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I was kind of hoping that the Crystal Gems would spring all the humans out... though the culture shock might be too much for them.

[Keltest]

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I was kind of hoping that the Crystal Gems would spring all the humans out... though the culture shock might be too much for them.

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Forget the culture shock, they have no skills at all to keep themselves alive. They wouldn't be able to get jobs, get food, the first time they got scraped they would freak out...