About 25's pacing
! While it wasn't just outright "rushed" I feel like 2 or 3 chapters could have easilly been taken for these reveals and developments.
! Specially Steven's new resentful aunts/sisters.
About 25's pacing
! While it wasn't just outright "rushed" I feel like 2 or 3 chapters could have easilly been taken for these reveals and developments.
! Specially Steven's new resentful aunts/sisters.
! Maybe they're saving the adventures on Earth for Blue and Yellow Pearl.
! Edit: The fandom works fast.
! I figure there's no Blue/Yellow earth buddy episodes because that's probably not the role they're going to have. They still think of Steven as Pink, and they'll probably be forced to side with White once Steven antagonizes her (at least at first).
Let me post a theory that I posted o reddit today:
! I went to sleep a couple hours after watching the episode and could't get out of my head how creepy and mechanized White Diamond and her Pearl acted, how weird was the reception on homeworld and which part WD would have in healing corruption, then it hit me: White is the code.
! Let's start with the hypothesis, if we assume that White Diamond is the oldest and henceforth the progenitor of the gemkind she must have found a way to propagate the species. We know how gems are born, and Injector , that look eerily like and virus, injects a goo into the planets crust and it proceed to suck the planet of life in order to generate the gems. What is that gooey stuff? Gem Code, or let's call it Gem DNA. It contains all the programming a gem need to work and all the specifications to generate different kinds of gem fulfilling different roles. And where this Gem DNA you say could come from, well form White itself. This would explain why White Pearl acted more like an extension of WD than a proper Pearl, WD is part of every gems code and it's capable of altering it.
! That leads to part two:the reception, or even the fact that WD addressees Pink directly without questioning it's form, WD is basically omniscient, she exists as part of EVERY GEM, she knows ALL of EVERY GEM KNOWS, she is the pinnacle of gem existence. And as being an all powerful being that even the other Diamonds fear to approach, it brought her the usual package of said beings: complete indifference to the individual level. The first thing she does before sending Steven to Pink's room is to ask if she had fun on her little game, she never asks why Pink did what she did or how was the last 6000 years, she disregards it and says now that the farce is over let's go back to business of make gemkind great again. She only care about the whole, an complete 180° from Pink's pov may I add.
! And that brings us to the final part the healing of corruption, as we saw with Nephrite we need all the Diamonds to heal it. YD deals with the form of the gems, BD stabilizes the emotions of the gem, PD it's mind, but as soon as the contact was broken Nephrite regressed to being Centy. Why may you ask? Well it's simple, her code has been altered, she is no longer Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12, she is a monster, a cursed existence incapable of reverting to her true self while her code remais broken.
The code is White sheeeple, wake up.
Let me post a theory that I posted o reddit today:
! I went to sleep a couple hours after watching the episode and could't get out of my head how creepy and mechanized White Diamond and her Pearl acted, how weird was the reception on homeworld and which part WD would have in healing corruption, then it hit me: White is the code.
! Let's start with the hypothesis, if we assume that White Diamond is the oldest and henceforth the progenitor of the gemkind she must have found a way to propagate the species. We know how gems are born, and Injector , that look eerily like and virus, injects a goo into the planets crust and it proceed to suck the planet of life in order to generate the gems. What is that gooey stuff? Gem Code, or let's call it Gem DNA. It contains all the programming a gem need to work and all the specifications to generate different kinds of gem fulfilling different roles. And where this Gem DNA you say could come from, well form White itself. This would explain why White Pearl acted more like an extension of WD than a proper Pearl, WD is part of every gems code and it's capable of altering it.
! That leads to part two:the reception, or even the fact that WD addressees Pink directly without questioning it's form, WD is basically omniscient, she exists as part of EVERY GEM, she knows ALL of EVERY GEM KNOWS, she is the pinnacle of gem existence. And as being an all powerful being that even the other Diamonds fear to approach, it brought her the usual package of said beings: complete indifference to the individual level. The first thing she does before sending Steven to Pink's room is to ask if she had fun on her little game, she never asks why Pink did what she did or how was the last 6000 years, she disregards it and says now that the farce is over let's go back to business of make gemkind great again. She only care about the whole, an complete 180° from Pink's pov may I add.
! And that brings us to the final part the healing of corruption, as we saw with Nephrite we need all the Diamonds to heal it. YD deals with the form of the gems, BD stabilizes the emotions of the gem, PD it's mind, but as soon as the contact was broken Nephrite regressed to being Centy. Why may you ask? Well it's simple, her code has been altered, she is no longer Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12, she is a monster, a cursed existence incapable of reverting to her true self while her code remais broken.
The code is White sheeeple, wake up.
! I agree but I think Blue fixed the mind by restoring sentience and Pink fixed the emotions by having Centi quit repeating the same thing in a PTSD fashion
Random thought: I really like White's shoes. Nice heels.
I like her lips. Magestic and creepy.
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I wonder if this:
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explains this:
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White Diamond gives off serious Mommie Dearest vibes.
It won't be long before she goes off on an unhinged rant at Steven about wire hangers.
I dunno if "Mommie Dearest" is quite the vibe I get off her, but it's definitely that "pretending everything's fine" tone, isn't it?
I do love her voice. They made smart choices and gave all the Diamonds broadway actresses and/or singers as voices.
White Diamond's voice actress singing in a musical:
I'm outraged that the mural isn't T posing.
The mural was done thousands of years ago and doesn't capture the latest and greatest in gem trends. T-posing is in now
http://le-catty-cat.tumblr.com/post/176263179105/hm
She T-Posed for this.
I think this is a better and more ironic example of White Diamond's actress singing:
Ironic? Sure. Better? Well, different range, but Mario's post has higher audio quality which helps with gauging her tonal qualities ¯_(ツ)_/¯
True enough, true enough.
White Diamond and her Pearl gives me the vibe of a character that came directly out of Yoko Taro's mind.
Whoa, late to the party, missed the last episode with White Diamond. I'm a Garnet btw. (see Page 117).
So, Pink Diamond had the ship with the legs and the reproductive organs (it worked)? Yellow and Blue are the executive branch. WD is the head and the heart then.
New episodes of Steven Universe is starting December 17th.
Nice. Homeworld shenanigans awaits, but I also want to see the reject gems on Earth.
So I guess they're gonna do Season 6, but they just…never bothered to announce it?
OK if it wasnt clear I feel the crewniverse definitely planned to go past S5 or S3 according to the original structuring. We still havent git confirmation but I think there's a 95% chance of it.
I was ready for new episodes like a month ago, so bring it on!
So I guess they're gonna do Season 6, but they just…never bothered to announce it?
We're still on the last 3 season five episodes we already knew about in June,and they are pacing those out weekly instead of a bomb.
Then at the end of January is 4 episode movie, Battle of Heart and Mind.
Not sure if thats the same as"The movie" announced in July or not.
Nothing else is announced on the schedule yet.
New episode is out and about.
With boards by… Pen Ward?
Such nice decorations on those
! living walls and singing combs. No wonder you guys are running out of resources.
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! I love how much this ties into season 1 of steven universe by making the parallel with steven and pink diamond.
! Also how everyone wanted him to be rose quartz but now everyone wants him to be pink
! I feel like in a way the show is rewarding those who watched all of the first season when steven when really annoying.
That was a huge cliffhanger…
! White Diamond continues to be very cruel by no showing the ball.
! Oh hi Opal. Zapped. Bye Opal.
The random fusion will be the start of a new revolution. And I think this display of WP only furthers demonstrates that she is now merely a puppet of WD. What did this poor Pearl done to deserve such fate.
! Well, we got confirmation White Pearl was OG Pink Pearl. She looked so happy with PD. Guess WD drains emotions. She's so gonna try wiping Steven's emotions.
! Sometimes I forget the Diamond's are brutal dictators. Glad the show doesn't. My biggest takeaway are the Crystal Gems aren't an anomaly. Who knows how many homeworld gems want to be themselves but are too afraid to show it. I get the feeling Yellow and Blue could accept change eventually, but if White's not onboard it ain't happening.
! On one hand "why did they think that they had a chance against the diamods?" when they went into battle formation, but they held their own somewhat back in earth, they were managing Blue alone after Lapis showed up, and didn't inmediatelly die when Yellow crushed Steven into a coma. But then again, Lapis and an ocean, Bismut, Lion and portals, and lovable and distracting Peridot aren't here to at least provide distraction.
! Goddamnit Connie. Just God Damn.
! Am I the only one who thinks that WP is the real villain?
! Goddamnit Connie. Just God Damn.
! Am I the only one who thinks that WP is the real villain?
! Far more likely that White Pearl is just an extension of White Diamond herself, via White doing something like possessing her/using her as a puppet/controlling her/otherwise able to see through her eyes. Already seemed very likely by the fact that White Pearl is voiced by Christine Ebersole (WD's VA) rather than Deedee Magno-Hall (VA for every other Pearl in the series)–which stood out more than ever and felt creepier than ever, to me at least, when we had the three non-Crystal Gem Pearls announce their Diamonds in succession this ep, so you heard Yellow and Blue Pearl...and then heard White Pearl, sounding so different.
! This episode, though, confirmed that White Pearl used to be Pink Pearl (and even though you couldn't really tell in Steven's dream since the only sound we heard from her was laughter and no actual lines, the credits confirmed that Pink Pearl was voiced by Deedee as per usual); most likely White thought Pink and her Pearl were becoming too familiar, "Whited out" (as a friend put it) Pink Pearl to make her basically an empty shell that she could use for herself, and replaced her with "our" Pearl for Pink. (That actually makes a lot of sense, since our Pearl's color scheme never matched Pink Diamond anywhere near as well as the other three Pearls, and CG-Pearl said she was "given to" Pink rather than "made for" her.)
! On one hand "why did they think that they had a chance against the diamods?" when they went into battle formation, but they held their own somewhat back in earth, they were managing Blue alone after Lapis showed up, and didn't inmediatelly die when Yellow crushed Steven into a coma. But then again, Lapis and an ocean, Bismut, Lion and portals, and lovable and distracting Peridot aren't here to at least provide distraction.
! Ballroom ethics determine that no shattering must be done in the premises of the ballroom.
! Also what kind of ripples of effect would it have in society for the courts seeing the Diamonds fighting each other. It’s as a safe bet to try to reach a stalemate.
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! Goddamnit Connie. Just God Damn.
! Am I the only one who thinks that WP is the real villain?
! Connie was just trying to cheer Steven, it’s his fault that he can’t keep fusing in his pants.
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Wasn't what I was saying, but good point.
Sweet mother of promos
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Diamond fighting Diamond, Blue attacking Pink, White being 「menacing」, Connie defending the gems. If homeworld society doesn’t starts to crack up after that i don’t know what would be needed.
! It will be hard to wait till 21st!
! Oooh, cool, thanks! I think we also saw a shot of Topaz in the scene where Yellow and Blue burst out from some rock.
! Yellow's eyes went full White. White can control other gems, just like she does with "her" Pearl. If White can infiltrate other gems minds, could she have know all about the rebellion and cocooned the corruption ray know it wouldn't affect Pink in other to stop what she saw as a Pink Typical Tantrum?
! Yellow's eyes went full White. White can control other gems, just like she does with "her" Pearl. If White can infiltrate other gems minds, could she have know all about the rebellion and cocooned the corruption ray know it wouldn't affect Pink in other to stop what she saw as a Pink Typical Tantrum?
! Neat detail, I missed that! However, I think that might be a different Topaz, not the one from previous episodes.
! I get pissed off at the reading of media of "Characters shouldn't make mistakes",like they really want to see the fun and interesting stories of characters who always do their best and never make mistakes and everything that is wrong in their lives is from outside forces seeking to do harm to them. Not my jam at all.
! Like I didn't remember that Stevnoie existed until they were actually dancing, before that moment I just was thinking "breach of protocole from a royal brat, whatevs, they forgave her for rebelion, loss of a colony, a super weapon and a large number of era 1 soldiers, they aren't going to go balistic from a dance" and then Stevonie.
! I get pissed off at the reading of media of "Characters shouldn't make mistakes",like they really want to see the fun and interesting stories of characters who always do their best and never make mistakes and everything that is wrong in their lives is from outside forces seeking to do harm to them. Not my jam at all.
! Like I didn't remember that Stevnoie existed until they were actually dancing, before that moment I just was thinking "breach of protocole from a royal brat, whatevs, they forgave her for rebelion, loss of a colony, a super weapon and a large number of era 1 soldiers, they aren't going to go balistic from a dance" and then Stevonie.
! Are they really bashing that hard on Connie? I known that /co/ has a hate bonner for her, or any non gem character, but is realistic to expect that a almost 13 yo human child that has no idea about how Homeworld society works, or in fact no knowledge on Gem culture at all besides the Crystal Gems to not try to cheer her best friend.
! The forgave Pink for worse things than breaking formal protocol, WProxy wasn’t bothered by they dancing, for her it was only another of Pink’s eccentricities. If you wanna blame somebody, blame the dictatorial society that allows no fun; or Steven for not keeping in his pants and fusing with Connie almost every time they enjoy themselves.
! For anything relevant in a story to happen characters must make bad decisions, if not to better themselves for the advancement of the conflict.
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! "If I see that fucking Diamond one more time!"
! Alright enough time has passed for me to gather my thoughts on it.I was initially disappointed that it was a watermelon episode when i first saw it but I thought the ending was done really well, while the "wah wah wah"'s can get tedious I think seeing steven's reactions by his body language and how he acts towards the other watermelons show how strained and tired he is. That can be a tough line to balance but I think they did it pretty well. The art was also fantastic throughout especially the colors. This wasnt my favorite episode or anything but its somewhere near the middle and certainly not the worst. I feel as time passes this episode will be less disliked.
I really wish to see /co/ thoughts on that for that laughs but also really don't for the toxicity it may have since places more mild than there are hate filled for this one.
In general, the /co/ response seems to be a mix of annoyed groans, apathy, open mockery,
and a handful that actually liked it.
So it's pretty much par for the course, I guess.
@MDL:
In general, the /co/ response seems to be a mix of annoyed groans, apathy, open mockery,
and a handful that actually liked it.So it's pretty much par for the course, I guess.
So only slightly more negative than reddit
Consensus seems to be
25% hate it
55% disappointment
15% it was alright
5% this was great