What could #StevenBomb mean?

  • March 15, 2015

#StevenBomb wrapped a lot of stuff up with some fairly lore-heavy episodes, but it still left us with some unanswered questions about more of the backstory. Even more interesting, however, are the questions about where the show will take us from here.

Since we have a couple big questions, we’ll get our thoughts out about these questions out over the next couple of weeks. These posts will be linked to in the master speculation post, here, while our thoughts about the backstory we feel more confident in will go in the master lore implications post.

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What we learned from #StevenBomb

  • March 14, 2015

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 in the master #StevenBomb lore implications post (this one) and the master #StevenBomb speculation post.

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Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 10: Full Disclosure

  • March 14, 2015

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PodcastTitleStevenBombKen and GC13 discuss the season two premier of Steven Universe and the last episode of the #StevenBomb, Full Disclosure.

A rare occurrence! Ken and GC13 agree on an episode for the first time (not counting the finale, which was too amazing for anyone to dislike)! Of course the discussion goes back to The Return and Jailbreak briefly, but we manage to stay on topic most of the time. 🙂

Now that #StevenBomb is over we’ll be going back to our weekly schedule, starting this very Monday with a review of the whole #StevenBomb event.

Preview for Open Book

  • March 13, 2015

Ah, we like having previews to post again. CoinOpTV brings us this preview for Open Book, one of the episodes moved from season one into season two.

 

Immediate reaction to Full Disclosure

  • March 13, 2015

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.

Ratings for The Return and Jailbreak

  • March 13, 2015

Well this was kind of a dismal day for premiers: 1,697,000 viewers for Steven Universe, and numbers down for all of Cartoon Network’s shows. Perhaps there are a lot of younger fans on vacation during Spring Break (as evidenced by how high Steven Universe placed in numbers for adults specifically).

Here’s how all of Cartoon Network’s premiers did:

  1. Teen Titans Go at 6:00 with 1,968,000
  2. Steven Universe at 5:00 with 1,697,000
  3. Regular Show at 7:30 with 1,660,000
  4. Uncle Grandpa at 5:30 with 1,547,000

Adventure Time and Amazing World of Gumball didn’t air any premiers this week, so this list is complete.

Jeff Liu posts: Stronger Than You demo (featuring Rebecca Sugar)

  • March 13, 2015

Jeff Liu has posted the demo for Stronger Than You with an explanation here. The demo (2:53) is sung by Ms. Sugar and helped them time out the fight sequence, and is essentially the prototype for one doozy of a song.

 

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 9: The Return and Jailbreak

  • March 13, 2015

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PodcastTitleStevenBombGC13, Dakota, Ken, and Hunter discuss the big season-one finale of Steven Universe: The Return and Jailbreak. It happened, and it was huge.

There’s so much to talk about in this episode that it’s hard to list. Jasper as a villain, the relative strength of Peridot’s ship compared to other homeworld ships, the Planet of the Pearls, the imprisonment of Malachite, how much everyone loves Stronger Than You, and so much more.

There’s also a fanart backlog building up: Viking Pearl, Batman Dewey, and now a version of Sapphire crossed over with Alice from Alice: Madness Returns.

Aivi and Surasshu post: Stronger Than You

  • March 12, 2015

We think we speak for a lot of people when we say we are so glad that this song got posted so quickly (thank you so much Aivi and Surasshu!). Estelle just killed it on her vocals, Surasshu nailed the instrumentation, and it was used to such wonderful effect in Jail Break. It’s a winner, for sure. Enjoy Stronger Than You (2:55) in high quality on a loop, like we are!

 

https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/steven-universe-stronger-than-you-feat-estelle

Immediate reaction to The Return and Jail Break

  • March 12, 2015

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 official records don’t show what happened to Earth, at least some Gems on the homeworld remember.

Jail Break also directly confirmed that some Gems are stronger than others, again something we were able to infer from looking at the implied strength of Rose Quartz. That jam was also worth every bit of anticipation.

So we have the season-two premier coming up tomorrow, then we’ll have to sit down and do the hard work of parsing all of this. We can already guess at least some of what’s going to happen in season two, though Full Disclosure should hopefully tell us a bit more. Implications… Awe-inspiring.