Still no episodes this week. 🙁
Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 167: Issues 1-4 of the comic series (“Warp Tour”)
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GC13 and David discuss the first four issues of the new comic series, which for some reason have been dubbed “Warp Tour” when compiled together.
It’s a great start to the comic series, with great humor, characters we don’t often get to see, and an art style far more faithful to the show. It’s also chock full with background goodies, like any good comic series.
If you’re not following the series we heartily recommend it, whether you read it in print or digitally. And apparently issues #5-8 not be called “Marble Madness” when collected together. Oh well.
Steven Universe air times for November 27 – December 3, 2017
Still no re-runs scheduled. 🙁
Season four to reach Hulu on December 11
According to Entertainment Weekly, season four of Steven Universe will reach Hulu on December 11.
This will bring the series up to I Am My Mom, meaning that anyone watching their Steven Universe re-runs on Hulu won’t be missing very many episodes.
Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 166: The season-one DVD announcement
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GC13 discusses the announcement of the season-one DVD set for the USA, due out on January 30, 2018.
At $25 and with the special features you’d expect (commentaries especially), it looks like it will be a great boxed set to buy. It’s even only a couple years late!
Still, one thing needs to be said: what is up with the episodes in the set? The first two episodes of season two, Full Disclosure and Joy Ride are included in this set while two season-one episodes, Shirt Club and Story for Steven are being left off. Why this is we just don’t know.
All in all though? It’s great to finally have a boxed set coming out.
Steven Universe air times for November 20-26, 2017
No episodes are set to air this week.
Season one DVD set to be released January 30, 2018
Overly Animated has come out with the good news: on January 30 season one of Steven Universe will see a DVD release in the United States with an MSRP of $25.
Oddly enough the episode order has been partially but not completely corrected; Open Book will be in with season one as originally intended, but Full Disclosure and Joy Ride have been moved to join season one while Shirt Club and Story for Steven will be in season two. Say Uncle is also being kept in season two.
The DVD release will also come with goodies: animatics and commentary tracks being especially welcome, but there’s more than just that.
Currently only a DVD release has been announced, but we can cross our fingers and hope for Blu-ray to eventually follow.
Answer: The damage from a kindergarten is permanent
This one was only ever kind of a mystery. With the airing of Log Date 7 15 2 we concluded that Gems had to consume some kind of life force from a world to create more of their own kind. Heck, right after we first saw the kindergarten in On the Run we figured as much.
Still, it was great to hear the show make it explicit, clearly solving the mystery: in Back to the Kindergarten Peridot explained how “formless, aimless energy” was used to create gems; when the resulting Gems leave the kindergarten, they take that energy (and all of the wonderful things it sustains) with them.
Later in the episode we see it demonstrated: it’s not that the soil in the kindergarten is bad, because the sunflowers die despite fresh soil being brought in. There’s an energy that life needs to exist, but the kindergarten doesn’t have any anymore—the Amethysts that were made in the kindergarten have it now.
It might be possible to nitpick and say that not enough sunlight would reach the sunflowers in the canyon for them to survive, but the intent of the episode is obvious: explaining to the viewer how the kindergarten works. Besides, two things should be kept in mind: Peridot knows a fair bit about plants, and the sunflowers likely shriveled up and died in a single day.
So that means we know for sure now: gems use some kind of life force as a power source. This is what allows a Gem to live for thousands of years without ever needing any sort of energy input (with many apologies to the laws of physics), and this is what keeps the kindergarten so devoid of life even thousands of years after the injectors were deactivated when the Earth has long since reclaimed other Gem construction sites.
Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 165: The November 10 episodes (Steven Torpedo 1?)
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GC13, Isabelle, Sophia, and David talk about the latest batch of episodes.
It’s a nice little story arc, if one that has plenty of sad moments in it. It even has valuable life lessons for kids, even if the lessons do come out to the fore of the episodes sometimes rather than running deeper.
Still, with so much changing in Beach City in just six episodes, it makes you wonder where the show will go from here.
Also, they’re six episodes at once, but they didn’t air on TV. Does that make this a Steven Torpedo?
Steven Universe air times for November 13-19, 2017
No episodes are scheduled for this week.
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