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GC13 and David talk about  Bubbled , home of the Ruby Funny Face. It’s a more contained episode with some interesting interpretations of how outer space works, but it also has some gorgeous interpretations of how outer space looks so it gets a free pass from us. Steven adds to his list of mental traumas this episode, but he makes a serious attempt at healing Eyeball (even if nobody knows why...

GC13 and Isabelle join the Jasper fan club in  Back to the Moon . (Jasper is so funny and strong.) This was the first episode to say out loud what happened to Pink Diamond, and it seems like more than just Jasper is messed up about it (thankfully Amethyst didn’t go into full “Your Diamond! My Diamond!” mode). Of course knowing what we know now the story is even more interesting,...

GC13 and David discuss the exciting end of the Jasper Saga:  Earthlings ! So it finally happened: Jasper and Bismuth are locked up in the temple basement together. Amethyst can finally get over her (quite significant) physical inferiority to Jasper; as long as she has another Crystal Gem to hold hands with, nothing can stop her! Jasper had a line that did make us wonder before she was corrupted an...

GC13, David, and Hunter talk about  Beta (and the rest of the show too). Beta can be considered two episodes: one lighthearted morp show in the barn, and one tour of the beta kindergarten (even getting dark at the end). This makes  Beta the first episode where we’re cheated out of a big chunk of time hanging out with Peridot and Lapis. Was Jasper’s post-Malachite arc something you enjo...

GC13, Sophia, and David talk about  Bismuth (and a fair bit about Bismuth as well). Bismuth is a key episode for understanding the timeline, but it indicates that a lot of action was packed into the final three hundred years of the war: most crucially, Pink Diamond’s shattering and therefore the entire Cluster project. So we have Bismuth: a rebel among rebels. She was in it for the revolutio...

Oh boy, were we waiting for this. GC13, Sophia, Isabelle, and David deliver a lengthy discussion of the Wanted event, covering  Stuck Together ,  The Trial ,  Off Colors , and  Lars’ Head . From the surprise reveal of Topaz’s voice to Steven’s triumphant return to Earth, we obviously had plenty to talk about. Do you like your TV shows happy or sad? Was the death of Lars brutal en...

GC13, Isabelle, and David give us a bit of calm before Wanted airs, discussing the track list of the first volume of the soundtrack (and other soundtrack-related stuff). It has almost everything. The only big absences are the Little Butler theme and the donut training video song, which are at least partially made up for by the inclusion of Still Not Giving Up from the minisodes. So of course every...

GC13, Isabelle, and David have the podcast’s second discussion of the sixth Steven Bomb. How melodramatic did you think the bomb was? Even if you think it was, you can’t deny that Jamie can bring the real drama just as well as he can bring the melodrama. Characters (and giant fusions) not being animated, the Crystal Heart, and Aquamarine’s voice actress all come up. And why hasn&...

GC13 and Sophia get hyped for the Wanted event, coming up on Monday, May 29 (you won’t want to miss it). Since  Stuck Together is part of the Wanted event, and has been posted on the Cartoon Network app to build hype, there will be some spoilers for the episode here. So the Wanted promo has it all: Diamonds, Homeworld, new Gems, and what can only be described as the perfect demonstration of...

GC13 and Sophia have a big discussion about the episodes in Steven Bomb 6 (and try to avoid speculating until next week, hard as that can be). Oh boy, for those of you who have watched on the Cartoon Network app already, it was a big bomb, wasn’t it? Don’t worry, we’ll be covering it again next week, where we put on our speculation hats and wonder both about the future and about...

GC13 and Sophia are here to talk about  Steven vs Amethyst . Yes, the episode turned out to be far more innocuous than the title sounded back when we first learned about it, but Amethyst was still being hit with the feels. This episode is a top contender on some favorite lists, and with moments like the realization of Amethyst’s reformation or the first mention of the Pearl Prize Pouch (!) t...

GC13 and Sophia talk about  Crack the Whip (which, despite popular demand, was about Amethyst rather than being a crossover with Johnny Test ). Despite some initial microphone difficulties, it’s an episode worth listening to because  Crack the Whip is an episode worth watching. It has Stevonnie riding Lion into battle, for crying out loud. What more could you want? Perhaps the start of a cha...

GC13, Sophia, and Hunter discuss an episode that it can be kind of hard to know how to feel about sometimes:  Gem Hunt . It’s an episode where important stuff happens, especially some crucial character building. However for whatever reason it just feels… Strange. It’s hard to place. What’s easy to see, however, is how precious Pearl is in this episode. She is pearlfection i...

GC13 and Sophia are hungry for babies! It’s time to talk about  Greg the Babysitter! Greg starts his flashback with a marvelous song (which has Rose being about as adorable as is legally allowed on television), and while we don’t learn anything really weighty in the plot it’s great to see what Rose was like in her casual hours (when not waging war to defend the Earth). Sour Cream...

GC13 and Sophia discuss  Alone at Sea , the oh-so-heavy episode that starts out oh so light. So of course the podcast starts out very heavy, discussing the very real-world relationship troubles that Lapis has been going through, and that Jasper brings back. This all happened because the ship was named the  Misery —that has to be what did it. Of course there are lighter things to discuss. GC13 and...

GC13 is here with the intervention that Cartoon Network needs (when three shows can take up five sixths of the network’s week, something is terribly wrong). Cartoon Network, as fans we just want one thing: more Steven Universe in the schedule. Surely it would be good for you too, as ratings have dropped by half during these troubles times. Variety is the spice of life, and people turn the TV...

GC13 and Hunter talk about the episode that inched us that little bit closer to a cured Centipeetle. Maybe by season five we’ll learn for sure what her Gem name is! (Probably Nephrite, but probably not  that Nephrite.) While most of the episode is bright and happy, it goes to a dark place before taking us back to a pretty good ending for Steven and Centipeetle. If it hadn’t, then surel...

GC13 and Sophia discuss  Room for Ruby . Well gee, if you can’t trust the cute ones, then who can you trust? Maybe Army would have been an eager convert once she found out that there were a lot more Homeworld Gems to punch than there were Crystal Gems… There was some more Because Cartoon logic happening in this episode, but we still got to see a lot of Navy being cute and Lapis working...

GC13 and Sophia talk about the newest, mewest episode:  Tiger Philanthropist . If ever there was a time where Lars was all of us, this was it (though we are not an individual, we are complex!). As individuals we do appear to be a lot better at knowing what we want than Lars, but then we’re not stand-ins for a thousands-strong fandom. So even if the episode could have stood to have a bit more...

GC13 goes solo to discuss  Rocknaldo , why Ronaldo is not just a fantastic character but also a wonderful human being, and to beg for an episode with Ronaldo and Jamie hanging out. There are too many funny moments in this episode to name, but the one Avatar fans will probably love the most is Ronaldo’s “that’s rough buddy” at the end. You should put that in the Ronalphlet,...

GC13 and Sophia discuss the latest emotional hammer blow from Steven Universe:  Storm in the Room . Some things are just too heavy to deal with right after you’ve got back from the spa. Continuing pretty much right on from  The New Crystal Gems , we transition from light to heavy. Connie is really worried about her mother, but at least she has one—Steven’s situation is far more complic...

GC13 and Sophia discuss the first of this string of weekly episodes:  The New Crystal Gems . This one was a treat. Connie wearing Steven’s shirt? Yes. Peridot wearing sunglasses? Definitely. Lapis doing her best Garnet impression? All of our want (even if her Peridot impression is lousy). So no, there was no time skip from using the gravity engine on the roaming eye, but there was still enou...

GC13, Sophia, and Hunter come back to discuss #StevenBomb 5 (the Out of This World event) a second time, this time after its official air date! Fanart is always good, especially when it depicts trick-or-treating (sure they don’t have Halloween in Steven’s Earth, but they can start the tradition). That would be a good ending to the series, to be sure! Seeing how the Diamonds relate to o...

GC13 discusses Cartoon Network’s newfound predilection for spoiling aspects of the upcoming story arc in the advertisements for it. The earlier bombs may not have been spoiled much by their ads, but starting with Steven Bomb 4 we’ve been getting many more spoilers in purposeful advertisements. Of course not all advertising spoilers have been intentional, with Lapis’s reappearance...

GC13 and Sophia discuss the best episode of Steven Universe named after a Studio Ghibli film:  Kiki’s Pizza Delivery Service . How many pizzas can you carry with one arm? Can you beat Kiki’s displayed strength, all while running fast enough to deliver warm pizzas to the hungry citizens of Beach City? (If so, Mayor Dewey is probably hiring interns.) Jenny may have broken the delivery ca...