Category: Lore Implications

What we learned from Joy Ride

We’re no strangers to squeezing lore out of character-centric episodes, so even though Joy Ride focused mostly on showing us some of Steven’s feelings and giving us a better look at the cool kids you shouldn’t be surprised that we were able to get some lore out of this. Come on, didn’t you see the [REDACTED]?

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Immediate reaction to Joy Ride

Well happy days! We may not have got everything we wanted out of Joy Ride, but we’re super-glad about at least one thing it set in motion. (Don’t get too excited though, eh?) It’s also great to have confirmation on Sour Cream’s relation to Onion: they’re step-brothers.

Nothing too lore-heavy in this episode, just a …

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What we learned from Open Book

Getting a second look at Rose’s room is a welcome opportunity to start talking about it (especially since we weren’t around back when its first appearance, in Rose’s Room appropriately enough). We know it has its limits, but how it functions can only be explained with the broad brush of “Gem magic”.

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Immediate reaction to Open Book

Yep, definitely a character episode. There’s not too much lore to be found in this one, though we enjoyed having a second look at Rose’s room. The twist was very interesting; of course we had no reason to fear another bog-standard plotline.

This was only the second episode without any of the other Crystal Gems …

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The end of the rebellion: as of the start of season two

Marble Madness gave us questions we couldn’t answer, but when The Return and Jailbreak aired we got… To put it lightly a LOT more material we could use. This includes some great hints about the Crystal Gem rebellion for Earth, and how it ended. Once the hints are lined up in the right order, the conclusion really …

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What we learned from #StevenBomb

Rather than take each episode individually, we’re going to take advantage of the packaging of six episodes together into one big #StevenBomb and do some posts on the lore implications of, and speculation from, what we’ve learned this week.

These posts will come out over the next couple of weeks, and will be linked to …

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Immediate reaction to Full Disclosure

And so #StevenBomb ends on a quiet note, more focused on the relationship between Steven and Connie than on any kind of lore (although Amethyst and Pearl do drop one amusing nugget of wisdom for us).

Also: we know your pain, Ronaldo. You can confide in us.

Immediate reaction to The Return and Jail Break

It was a long wait, but the season finale finally came.

The Return gave us a brief confirmation of a lot of what we had suspected about Gemkind: Steven basically figured out what we had figured out a long time ago about why the Gems came to Earth. We also learned that even if the …

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Immediate reaction to Political Power

It’s going down tomorrow, hard.

At least we’re not in Ocean Town.

There’s not a whole lot of traditional lore in this episode, just a big buildup of tension for The Return. It’s getting serious; coming after Rose’s Scabbard and The Message, that means a lot.

Immediate reaction to The Message

After we saw the preview for this one we were excited to get some news, and we weren’t disappointed. If this episode hadn’t been airing during #StevenBomb we would be dissecting the implications that the message has on what Gem society is like, but as it stands we’ll probably wait until the end of the …

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