Soundtrack vinyl set available for pre-order

  • July 22, 2017

It happened much sooner than we expected: the vinyl edition of the Steven Universe soundtrack has gone up for pre-order on iam8bit.com.

It will cost you $50 to buy, and will have all 37 tracks on four 10″ colored records (with their appearances themed on one each of Steven, Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet).

There is no specific shipping date: “Q4 2017” is all we have at the moment. Anyone who pre-orders before the end of July 25 Pacific time will be entered to win a ukulele signed by Ms. Sugar herself.

Steven Universe: Art and Origins

  • July 20, 2017

On July 11 the art book finally came out: 240 pages of concept art, storyboards, and discussions about the creation of the show, all bound inside a beautiful hard cover. It even includes images from Ms. Sugar’s early work, including many stills from her student film Singles.

Early concept sketches for the Gems? This book has those. Early sketches of the Beach City citizens? It has those too. Backgrounds from the show? Those are in, and they’re lovely.

If you’re still on the fence about this one, we can say reservation: get this book. It’s gorgeous, and it’s great to see so much from the show’s creation.

Soundtrack to see vinyl release

  • July 18, 2017

The pre-San Diego Comic Con article by Newsweek has a lot of interesting tidbits in it (Bismuth and Jasper forever!), but there’s one big takeaway: the soundtrack is coming to vinyl!

3,000 vinyl singles with Stronger Than You and Love Like You will be available to SDCC attenders and online, but the entire soundtrack will also be available on vinyl “later this year”.

Ms. Sugar says that the vinyl release is intended for older fans, for collectors.

In the article she also teases more big lyrical songs coming up in the series, as well as reiterating her dream to release the non-lyrical musical score of the show at some point as well.

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 148: Kindergarten Kid

  • July 17, 2017

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GC13, Sophia, and David discuss the Looney Tunes homage episode with a Yogi Bear reference in it: Kindergarten Kid.

Peridot comes up with several flawlessed Peri-Plans. Which one was your favorite? Surely all that is needed to succeed is a reduction in variables (or perhaps in increase in pupil sizes?).

It’s possible (probable even) that we’ll never learn much detail about how bubbles work, but it was quite remarkable for Peridot to learn to bubble (a less emotional version of when Steven learned to bubble back in Monster Buddies), but at least we know Peridot has started a bubble collection back at the barn.

Steven Universe air times for July 17-23, 2017

  • July 16, 2017

No re-runs are scheduled this week.

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 147: Bubbled

  • July 10, 2017

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GC13 and David talk about Bubbled, home of the Ruby Funny Face.

It’s a more contained episode with some interesting interpretations of how outer space works, but it also has some gorgeous interpretations of how outer space looks so it gets a free pass from us.

Steven adds to his list of mental traumas this episode, but he makes a serious attempt at healing Eyeball (even if nobody knows why he chose to lick her gem directly).

Thankfully for us and for Steven’s mental well-being we later find out that she was recovered safe and sound, but Mindful Education comes after this and before that, so Steven had an awful lot of time to ponder how things went.

Steven Universe air times for July 10-16, 2017

  • July 9, 2017

All times are EDT.

Saturday: In Too Deep
3:45 PM: Super Watermelon Island
4:00 PM: Gem Drill
4:15 PM: Same Old World
14:30 PM: Barn Mates
4:45 PM: Hit the Diamond

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 146: Back to the Moon

  • July 3, 2017

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GC13 and Isabelle join the Jasper fan club in Back to the Moon. (Jasper is so funny and strong.)

This was the first episode to say out loud what happened to Pink Diamond, and it seems like more than just Jasper is messed up about it (thankfully Amethyst didn’t go into full “Your Diamond! My Diamond!” mode). Of course knowing what we know now the story is even more interesting, but we won’t know the whole story until season five is over.

Poor Eyeball. We’ll get to see more of her next week when we talk about Bubbled, but right now the real tragedy is her seeing someone else sit in Jasper’s lap. Good thing that was just another trick.

Ruby jokes need to become a thing though.

Steven Universe air times for July 3-9, 2017

  • July 2, 2017

All times are EDT.

Sunday:
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: “Stevonnie Hour” block

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 145: Earthlings

  • June 26, 2017

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GC13 and David discuss the exciting end of the Jasper Saga: Earthlings!

So it finally happened: Jasper and Bismuth are locked up in the temple basement together. Amethyst can finally get over her (quite significant) physical inferiority to Jasper; as long as she has another Crystal Gem to hold hands with, nothing can stop her!

Jasper had a line that did make us wonder before she was corrupted and bubbled, however: how does a Gem’s height indicate her rarity and importance? From what we’ve seen, Gem heights are all over the place, and Gems of the exact same height can have radically different statuses.

Even if she makes us wonder though, Jasper still passes inspection.