Garnet
Amethyst
and Pearl
…
& Knuckles!
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Four of the remaining ten titles announced.
Together Forever would be the much-feared Connie episode. Finally we check in with Bismuth. Most of the trailer is likely from In Dreams.
But, Growing Pains. That sounds…
…
fun.
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If you’ve not, Callison’s album/EP is actually quite good, and kinda Mike Pattonish.
(Don’t remember if it’s come up, but there are lots of animatics out there for this…)
They were both very good episodes! but the only takeaway i really have is that Bispearl: it’s canon
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pearl truly out here forming a harem
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i never gave a fucking shit about shipping until this goddamn anime made me invested in its magic lesbian rock people and now i want all of them to kiss im so angry about it
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Most important thing
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Maya Petersen posted a semi-snitty message earlier today about how she was going to block on sight anyone who came to her about shipping, and I wondered how her digestion has been lately.
I of course get it now.
See, the episode is clearly a callback to “Last One Out of Beach City,” and the moment they arrive at the roller rink we get an obvious cue to recall Mystery Girl, with Pearl’s new (to us) gang of punks. So we’re primed to think, oh, is this when she finally reappears?
But no, that’s never gonna happen. She was only ever a catalyst to bring Pearl to this point. She’s already got another big girl right over her shoulder.
EDIT:
“So who do YOU belong to?”
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We have a new Mike Krol, I guess? (She also sings on the end credit theme, “Being Human.”)
((This is such perfect roller rink music.))
Genuinely, this is the most aspirational figure. I’m already basically that tall. Now if I could just have that going on, I’d be all set.
i found Steven uncomfortably relatable in both these recent two episodes. part of what he’s going through is Teenage Boy Emotional Problems + his very specific magic gem mom trauma, but there’s a very grownup story about dealing with burnout and feeling like a late bloomer/out of step with your peers in there
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I think that’s the part Callison felt was sort of autobiographical. He has talked about how being a child actor kind of took away his childhood and put him in this weird limbo where everyone else he knew went away to college, to start their own lives, and despite some effort he was stuck in this one situation, increasingly isolated, dependent on jobs just coming his way for any sense of purpose. After a point he stopped auditioning and sank into a hole. Now that SU is over, last I heard, he plans to retire from acting and focus on his music.
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I can see that, yeah.
Rebecca Sugar has also talked a little about wanting to express that like… it’s okay to feel like a work in progress. It’s okay to take a step back and just breathe and figure your shit out. I wonder what they’ll be up to after SUF ends. Running a show for almost a decade takes a major toll.
Probably significant that she and Ian JQ finally got married right around the time the show wrapped. (OK KO having already been canned some months earlier.) First chance in a while to just step back.
So the last four titles had been rumored for a few days, but they just got confirmed by Zap2It (the usual resource) about 15 minutes ago.
It sure does seem like that popular fan theory is happening, huh.
It’s hard to pick the most distressing title. “Everything’s Fine”? “The Future”?
(Also, guess we’ll have to wait until the 27th to see Spinel again.)
Also I self-imposed a Twitter moratorium hours before Maya Petersen set the aphobe world on fire by confirming the flamingly obvious, that Peridot is meant internally as the show’s aroace representation. Which… if the color scheme and writing didn’t make clear Rebecca Sugar sure did in that picture book a while back.
But, fandom. Shipping drama. Last time Peridot and shipping came up, people chased Jesse Zuke off the Internet.
Not that someone being aroace says anything about their ability to love, or anything else beyond what it says on the box. But, yeah.
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I find myself agreeing with Minda’s thoughts on Peridot and this tweet: because fusion is not strictly a metaphor for sex, framing Peridot as being fusion-averse because she’s aro/ace puts forth a really unfortunate implication that aro/ace folks simply don’t form meaningful or intense relationships, and I don’t think that’s the intent. I can see why they’d want to draw a bright line of this sort, but I think doing so undermines a lot of the other themes the show has explored.
Like, I still interpret Amethyst as ace at a minimum. Which isn’t itself the problem; the show should have as many ace characters as it wants. But Amethyst fuses, so saying that fusion-aversion is the gem equivalent to asexuality doesn’t really sit well with all of Amethyst’s arcs in which fusion plays an important role. You might argue that it’s more complicated than that–plenty of ace folks have had sex, in the same way that plenty of gay folks have had straight sex, people are complicated and messy, etc.,–but then accepting this justification isn’t really compatible with Peridot as an unambiguous symbol of acedom as put forth in the tweet. Fusion was already a complicated and layered metaphor, but now it’s also being used as a simple, clear metaphor in this one specific case which makes the situation as a whole less clear.
Separate thoughts:
I thought for a long time that Centipeetle was a symbol of just how much potential SU contained to expand, to incorporate new characters, to see characters bounce off one another and learn from one another the way that Peridot did from the Crystal Gems in her bathroom arc. SUF refutes that idea at every turn: the more Steven’s world expanded, the more closed-off our access to it became: a couple dozen tiny narrative bubbles, sometimes connected, sometimes overlapping, but otherwise separate and self-contained. It’s not bad, but it’s a negation of so many potential alternatives.
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