A relative size chart of the Crystal Gems

  • March 8, 2015

Well this was fun to make. The characters don’t seem to be completely consistent in how they’re drawn, but they’re consistent enough to get a pretty good idea for their relative heights.

Trying to go from relative height to absolute height is more difficult: Steven seems to be about as tall as a doorknob is high, which would put him at three feet tall. This would all be well and good, except Pearl and Greg would have to be 5’1″ tall. We know Greg said he wasn’t that tall, but we don’t think he’s actually that short either. If we assumed Greg to be 5’8″, that would put Steven (and therefore a 10 on this chart) at 3’4″ tall (and mean doorknobs are placed pretty high in Beach City for some reason).

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What could Marble Madness mean?

  • March 8, 2015

We’ve gone over what questions Marble Madness answered for us, so now it’s time to see what new questions it’s left for us to ask.

Here’s to hoping that Full Disclosure lives up to its name: we’re so excited that we’re climbing the canyon walls!

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What we learned from Marble Madness

  • March 7, 2015

We learned so much from Marble Madness—that’s what this post is for. Of course as always when we get questions answered new ones rise to take their place—that’s what tomorrow will be for.

Marble Madness is just about as important as Warp Tour for our understanding of the backstory of Steven Universe: just as you’d expect when the episode is about the Crystal Gems encountering something else from space, we can’t help but learn a lot.

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Previews for #StevenBomb

  • March 7, 2015

stevenbombEpisode previews are back with a vengeance! CNPreview brings us a preview for each season-one episode that will be airing every day during #StevenBomb next week (at 5 PM EDT, not 6:30!).

Full Disclosure is still a mysterious mystery (of strange mystery). It’s a bit ironic, considering the name, but why worry about that when we have five preview videos to watch?

We still have all of the humor we’ve come to expect, but make no mistake: this stuff’s about to get heavy.

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Jail Break is going to be huge

  • March 6, 2015

That’s not a spoiler, right? It’s the season finale of Steven Universe: it has to be huge! But some information has been circling around which is incredibly spoilerific! We mean it: if you don’t want to be spoiled on the season finale, you shouldn’t read this post. The good stuff is hidden below, and you’re definitely not going to want to click to read more.

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Ratings for Marble Madness

  • March 6, 2015

Another week, another solid performance from Steven Universe: Marble Madness picked up 1,922,000 viewers on its premier (again proving that fan approval and ratings for individual episodes aren’t linked).

Here’s how the Cartoon Network premiers turned out this week:

  1. Teen Titans Go at 6:00 with 2,216,000
  2. Steven Universe at 6:30 with 1,922,000
  3. Amazing World of Gumball at 5:00 with 1,842,000
  4. Regular Show at 7:45 with 1,728,000
  5. Adventure Time at 7:30 with 1,675,000
  6. Uncle Grandpa at 5:30 1,626,000

Immediate reaction to Marble Madness

  • March 5, 2015

marblemadness_sidebarimageAlright, so we got a heavy, if brief, infodump in this episode. We finally have an approximate date for the Crystal Gem rebellion, which is fantastic. We also got a bit clued in to what happened to the Kindergarten, which itself has important implications for the backstory.

Also, the island from Island Adventure has a name now. Isn’t that cool for them to just toss that in?

Shadows by Wolfgrl13

  • March 5, 2015

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Inspired by the song “Shadows” by Lindsey Stirling, Wolfgrl13 (/u/ravegrl13 on Reddit) brings us this wonderful piece of fanart featuring Pearl and Holo-Pearl. You can check it out now via Reddit and on Instagram.

Three season one episodes shifted to season two

  • March 4, 2015

whatdoesitmeanOh, this is messy. So now we have two seasons, one of 49 episodes and one of 55. Except some episodes from that second season were actually produced with the first season, so we have to make the distinction between production seasons and airing seasons, and…

Yeah, its makes our heads hurt too, but Matt Burnett confirmed that Jail Break (the 49th episode to air) will be the finale for season one and that the remaining episodes can stand alone and have been placed into season two.

On the other hand, that means that Full Disclosure will be the start of season two! Hurrah! That will make the inevitable hiatus all the more bearable.

What to expect from Marble Madness

  • March 4, 2015

Well there’s nothing like a crazy schedule change to make us want to reconsider the hype, but even though the droid in Marble Madness is a giant flask robonoid rather than another Red Eye we’re still calling this as one that will be super-interesting for us lore nerds.

Seriously, it came from space. Space is where all the cool stuff is, except for the cool stuff that’s left on Earth. Cool stuff like the Kindergarten, which it appears will also feature in this episode.

So this episode will hopefully tell us a bit more about the backstory of the Kindergarten(s), and probably more about the plans of the homeworld. It’s very interesting that they’re just sending another repair bot rather than an attack force.