Even before Infinity Train gave us season three, focusing on Grace and the Apex, it had already showed us Grace hard at work trying to recruit a kid into the Apex. So of course Grace would try it again in her own season of Infinity Train, and this time her target was a kid named Hazel.

It goes so well for her at first, only to be utterly derailed by the end. Even before Infinity Train’s curve balls though, Grace was struggling to keep up the deception necessary to recruit Hazel. Compassion is a very difficult emotion for Grace, but it eventually turned her away from the Apex, and all the better for her.

Now August was a much more normal month—Cartoon Network only aired premiers for two series: Teen Titans Go and Victor and Valentino. Except this wasn’t an ordinary month at all, because Cartoon Network burned off the last twelve episodes of Victor and Valentino after its removal from HBO Max with a whole host of other cartoons.

Principal Bump had a great story arc through the first two seasons of The Owl House, but what was the single greatest moment on that arc? It had to be The First Day, when Luz convinced him to allow multi-track studies at Hexside—that would end up putting him quite clearly on the side of The Owl House’s good guys.

Of course Emperor Belos would quite rather nobody multi-track, because committing to a coven early means you have a lot of time to rationalize your decision to join a coven. The Owl House is sneaky like that. But thanks to Luz and The First Day, Principal Bump eventually decided to stop playing Belos’s game.

I don’t normally do news, but I couldn’t keep quiet about this. HBO Max has purged a lot of their animated shows, including fan favorites like Summer Camp Island, Infinity Train, Mao Mao, and OK KO. They’re gone now, apparently headed for a tax write off. Maybe they’ll stay available on Prime Video, maybe they won’t, but so much for HBO Max.

You’re all sad, and I’m sad too. Summer Camp Island’s sixth season will eventually air on Cartoon Network, this much we know, but what happens after that? And Infinity Train, Mao Mao, and OK KO have already been cut short by executives past; their time has already gone. All of these shows are gone from HBO Max, and are in the process of being scrubbed from company sites, but let’s hope they linger at least somewhere.

You can’t be blamed for watching Steven Universe and thinking that, just maybe, Pearl used to belong to White Diamond. A white-skinned Gem with her gem in her forehead? What does Steven Universe want you to think, anyway?

Well, White Diamond doesn’t need a Pearl to feel superior to; the only reason she ended up with one was to punish Pink, and to give her a more sensible one—that is to say, one that was just as rigid as she was. It’s a good thing for Steven Universe that White failed on that one too, because Pearl turned out to be more than she could have ever imagined.