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Caidin posted:Man, I straight up don't care about Homeworld, don't like the diamonds on a couple different levels and nothing in these episodes have changed that with no end in sight. This blows. I feel you, yeah. Than again like someone else pointed out this whole arc is supposed to be basically a visit to lovely family. This arc is really capturing that long tense feeling of being in a place you don't wanna be getting subjected to conversations you don't wanna have. Hopefully it ends with guillotines though.
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Jan 2, 2019 06:38
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Caidin posted:Man, I straight up don't care about Homeworld, don't like the diamonds on a couple different levels and nothing in these episodes have changed that with no end in sight. This blows. INT. CARTOON NETWORK OFFICE - DAY A CARTOON NETWORK EXEC closes his smartphone and turns back to the other waiting executives. EXEC "I don't know, they don't like the Diamonds. What the fans want is another Onion Gang. Perhaps even another Rocknaldo."
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Homeworld won't be liberated by a boss fight. The reason for this is because the personal combat abilities of the Diamonds aren't what upholds the system.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:INT. CARTOON NETWORK OFFICE - DAY Onion Gang was great because it turns out there was a guy in real life who actually had the nickname "Squash" and he got super excited because the character 'Squash' in that episode looked just like he did when he was a kid. Then he posted pictures of himself doing this:  I'm all for more episodes that inspire things this adorable. Squash is a cool dude. There is nothing good about Rocknaldo, though.
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LemonLimeTime posted:why is this bad again? Heck if I know, all these gals are great. 
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chitoryu12 posted:Maybe trust that the writers who have had this planned out for years are better at this than you? As others have noted it's just easier to rag on about this cause of how little has been released in recent times, the current season started back in 2017 after all Open Source Idiom posted:One day Aimee Man will come back. One day. I've said it in the past, but they really just need to recast her and Sugilite already, it's idiotic that what should be two of the most important fusions in the show have been mostly nonexistent since their respective debuts just because they can never get their VA's in the studio
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Just no pleasing some people, these episodes are great.
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If they wanted to use Opal and couldn't get Mann they'd recast it in a second, I'm sure. She only had three lines. It's more likely they just haven't wanted to use her.
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Yeah, I've thought the last few episodes were fantastic, and until Yellow Diamond whips out an AOE version of that beam I'm not sold that a worldwide uprising + Stevonnie couldn't handle her in a real fight. There'd be a lot of poofing, but she can only drop one gem at a time--it's not a fight the Crystal Gems can win alone, but they've already planted the seeds of a legit rebellion. That's if it even comes to a fight--the walls and furniture and appliances and poo poo all being gems themselves means there's other ways to undermine the Diamonds if talking them down is totally off the table.
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Jan 2, 2019 10:19
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Lunatic Sledge posted:the walls and furniture and appliances and poo poo all being gems themselves means there's other ways to undermine the Diamonds 
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Jan 2, 2019 10:20
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We can all agree that White didn't come because she can't, right? She's cracked herself in some way?
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VanSandman posted:We can all agree that White didn't come because she can't, right? She's cracked herself in some way?
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VanSandman posted:We can all agree that White didn't come because she can't, right? She's cracked herself in some way? I think it's actually because she can't move anymore because she's literally holding the broken planet together.
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Even if the diamonds are powerful enough to poof all of Homeworld, that's not exactly an automatic win button. Steven managed to plant the seed in both Pearls and some courtiers that were literal cogs. It's abundantly clear that they don't have the resources to sweep Steven and any subversives under the rug and just keep Homeworld chugging along, even if the diamonds' physical bodies are not under any threat.
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Caidin posted:Man, I straight up don't care about Homeworld, don't like the diamonds on a couple different levels and nothing in these episodes have changed that with no end in sight. This blows. I really can't understand what you'd be watching this for if you didn't care about homeworld/the gems. This is what the whole show has been leading up to! As someone said earlier these episodes absolutely feel like they should have been a bomb. It just doesn't quite work in 10 minute segments and they're just really suddenly coming to an end.
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It works for me, I love it and I missed the weekly releases. More time to think about/do fandom stuff with each individual episode, as opposed to the bomb format where they all come out at once and the less prominent stories in the middle get glossed over.
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Taear posted:I really can't understand what you'd be watching this for if you didn't care about homeworld/the gems. This is what the whole show has been leading up to. Well to get to the root of the issue I keep checking back in on SU in the hopes that Pearl has become the main character and the show is now about her kicking everyone's rear end all the time. I'm positive the creators will come to their senses and implement this shortly.
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I guess I've always assumed Yellow Diamond has more power/strength than just the beams. Like, even if she couldn't use that to take out a gem/fusion, she could just beat them with something else/normal combat.
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Caidin posted:Well to get to the root of the issue I keep checking back in on SU in the hopes that Pearl has become the main character and the show is now about her kicking everyone's rear end all the time. There are now MORE Pearls than ever, so your chances keep going up.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I guess I've always assumed Yellow Diamond has more power/strength than just the beams. Like, even if she couldn't use that to take out a gem/fusion, she could just beat them with something else/normal combat. She's also the size of a building and just as fast or faster than any Crystal Gem. I'm sure she could easily take on any individual Gem of less than Diamond strength in combat if she lost her ability to poof them with a wave for some reason.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I think it's actually because she can't move anymore because she's literally holding the broken planet together.
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I have to say, every time they used that shot of the leg ship in front of White Diamond was absolutely hilarious. It just looked so sassy.  If every ship assembled, could they do some Dance, Dance Revolution on that platform there? Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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I wonder if by the time they get back to Earth it'll turn out Lars and the Off-Colors already made it there. Also, I bet Peridot and Lapis are gonna have significant design changes by the time they reform.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder if by the time they get back to Earth it'll turn out Lars and the Off-Colors already made it there. Based on the credits promo Steven is going to contact Lars and him and the off colors are going to come back. I don't think they made it to earth yet edit: Though I'm not totally sure how since Lion isn't with them but I feel that's what he was implying
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"so connie, remember how you said you would die for me? don't worry bringing you back is part of the plan"
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I don’t care about anything else until I know the Jades are OK “I knew I couldn’t be the only one!” was funny but also it broke my heart 
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This arc will end with Homeworld blowing up and every gem there being stranded in Beach City.
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Rhonne posted:This arc will end with Homeworld blowing up and every gem there being stranded in Beach City. I'm waiting for Lars to show up and to begin the great offcolor gem exodus to earth through his head.
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I hope Peridot and Bismuth are working on a giant robot. I'm still sure a Peridot/Lapis fusion will be able to control earth.
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Funky Valentine posted:This better end in a beam struggle. Kamehameha or nothing.
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Rhonne posted:This arc will end with Homeworld blowing up and every gem there being stranded in Beach City.
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Satchel and Trunk posted:I'm waiting for Lars to show up and to begin the great offcolor gem exodus to earth through his head. Go FLCL and have the Cluster just explode out of his forehead ready to rock the Diamonds
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have to say, every time they used that shot of the leg ship in front of White Diamond was absolutely hilarious. Looking at that shot, I only just realized that Blue and Yellow also have platforms there, but they're empty because their ships were destroyed.
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TwoPair posted:Go FLCL and have the Cluster just explode out of his forehead ready to rock the Diamonds The ending of the show is so definitely going to be everyone on earth fusing and steven needing to have a philosophical debate inside the mental landscape of the third impact fusion
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The ending of the show is so definitely going to be everyone on earth fusing and steven needing to have a philosophical debate inside the mental landscape of the third impact fusion no thank you
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 now throw in the fact that Adventure Time made heavy use of "dreams as foreshadowing" in later seasons and Tom Herpich's involvement in these eps...
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:
I dunno, symbolism? Foreshadowing? That seems pretty far-fetched. I'm pretty sure what the writers are actually trying to tell the audience is this: Don't eat hair. Has anyone else in this thread ever eaten a big bowl of hair? It's a bad scene man. Non-joke response: This is really interesting, thanks for posting. I wonder if there's also some hidden significance to the bubbled items dream Steven was juggling? Let's see...Chaaps are Centipeetle's favorite food, MC Bear-bear is with Lars right now, and I guess the ukulele could represent Steven's life on earth? Maybe, Earth (the ukulele) is where Steven started, Centipeetle (chaaps) is why he went to Homeworld, and Lars (MC Bear-bear) is how he's going to get home?
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