Stevenbomb 6 has been moved up to start on May 8, and will take the show to the end of Season 4. Here’s the promo.
Just as a reminder, Stevenbomb Six starts on Monday. However, the entire bomb has been leaked to the Cartoon Network App and to Cartoon Network On Demand this weekend, so the eps are probably all over the internet by now as well. I watched it straight through, but I won’t spoil it until broadcast.
Meanwhile, CN execs wonder why-oh-why the broadcast ratings for Steven Universe keep getting worse and worse…
TV Guide lists titles and airdates for four post-bomb episodes:
“Stuck Together” and “The Trial” on 5/31
“Off Color” and “Lars’ Head” on 6/1.
These eps are still part of Season 4.
They end the bomb like that and make us wait until 5/31?
Oh maaan.
Note - legally watched per “on demand”.
Lars will have a chance at redemption. He’s still on the ship I think.
You’re darn right he’s still in the ship. He went down the stairs away from the exit when he flaked out.
Well Stevenbomb Six started off with “Lion 4: Alternate Ending”, a one-off, unconnected episode where Steven hashes over stuff he already hashed over in “Storm in the Room”. Steven’s still convinced that Rose had some grand design for him, so when he pesters Lion enough, Lion produces a large pink key from his mane. First thought is that it opens the locked chest inside Lion’s mane, but that’s not it. Lion takes Steven to the desert, where it turns out Rose had a storage shed full of junk that the key unlocks. Rose and Greg really were made for each other! Steven is not happy about this, but he finds a videotape labeled “For Nora”. He freaks out about this, but then goes to Greg, who explained that Nora was the name he and Rose chose for a girl baby. The tape is mostly the same as is tape. Steven is reassured that the only purpose of his creation was for him to be Rose and Greg’s child.
-The spoky end credit music is starting to unnerve me. I swear I can almost see something moving towards Beach City down from the lighthouse in the shot.
What the heck? “Stuck Together” is already up legally On Demand?!?! And it’s on the CN website.
(That’s the Season 5 opener scheduled to lead off the next Stevenbomb on Memorial Day)
I guess live feed premiere ratings really are irrelevant now. Which sort of explains why the live feed has turned into the Teen Titans Go/Gumball rerun stream.
To me not so “one-off, unconnected”. It’s both a major part of Steven’s character development (stylized adolescent work) and exploring what has been a major question of plot for the whole series.
“Storm in the Room” helped Steven get past the idealizing Rose phase and he’s realized that she was not the perfect being. He’s moved past anger mourning the ideal parent and into acceptance.
But he was hanging onto wanting trying to fulfill the destiny that his mother had in mind for him (if only he could know what it was), to meeting the expectation, especially of his mother but to some degree of what he perceives as what the other Gems think. For him to grow to a point of further accepting that Rose had no grand plan for him, that his future and what he’s supposed to do is up to him, to lose that dependency on his mother (and the Gems) for directionality … a big deal in the emotional arc.
And of course that is a big question in the plot arc for many of us. Did Rose have some plan by giving up her form so that a Gem-human hybrid could exist?
Never mind. I see from the promos they’ve changed the next four episodes of the arc from the bomb format to a “one hour special event” broadcasting all episodes Memorial Day. And they’re advertising “the first 10 minutes” is available as a sneak peak. From a promotion standpoint, that makes a lot more sense.
I don’t think she did. She certainly had a legacy she wanted to leave behind for Steven, and placed it in way that would only be accessible to him when he was ready, but that’s the same as a plan. I think the only thing she wanted Steven to take care of as far as her unfinished business was freeing Bismuth.
I think that if Rose had in any way known about the Cluster or that Homeworld would return to Earth after 5,000 years, she never would have had Steven, as that would have left the Earth and her friends undefended. I think that she had had these notions of being “reborn” as human, and her relationship with Greg and being around other humans and babies strengthened them.
Trying to bang these out and catch up before the 4-episode event on Memorial Day…
As for the rest of Stevenbomb 6, two episodes were loosely tied the the Bomb in that they were basically Beach City episodes with an ominous foreshadowing at the end. The final two episodes bring everything to a head, and then leave us with an actual season-ending cliffhanger.
“Doug Out” and “The Good Lars” actually work really well just as Beach City episodes, so I’ll start with them here . “Doug Out” is Mr. Maheshwaren’s first appearance in several seasons and his first ever appearance without the Doctor. Judging by how he acts in this episode, I’m guessing the Connie’s mom is the one responsible for the strict discipline.
I found his lines even funnier when he was trying to be serious (“Funland Incorporated is not responsible for the harm that may occur if you try to operate a deep fryer without a license!”) The Connie-and-her-dad stuff was cute.
“The Good Lars” shows the Lars has come a long way since “The New Lars”, at least as far as opening up to Steven and Sadie. He’s still so consumed by social anxiety and striving to fit in that he can’t see what’s in front of his face. Oddly, as much as he lacks confidence in his social standing, he is absolutely confident about his baking skills. For all the focus on Lars, Sadie is the character who develops in this episode.
-Where in the world is Veronica Cucamonga?
-Onion mimed out what happened to him pretty accurately. Too bad Steven can’t understand his language.
-So Doug let Onion off the hook. but left him alone in the middle of the night in an deserted amusement park?
-“Everyone’s gong to know I love baking, and everyone’s going to know I love…”
-This ep confirms Lars as at least part Filipino. The purple yam is used in SE Asia, but ube is the Tagalog term.
-If you want to try ube desserts for yourself, get thee to a Jollibee. The Filipino-American chain has an Ube Pearl Cooler and ube is part of the Halo Halo as well.
-Looks like Buck is still taking guitar lessons (and still wearing his Guitar Dad T-shirt).
-You can see the painting Vidalia made of scantily-clad Yellowtail back in “Onion Gang” on the wall behind the chair.
The upcoming episodes look to be a big shift in the status quo. We finally get to see Homeworld! My guess is that Steven’s presence will catalyze some changes in gem society- could a gem civil war be in the offing? Is there a gem resistance on homeworld? Will the revelation of the Diamonds corruption of the Gems on Earth cause dissension?
My hope it happens but probably won’t idea is that White Diamond orders Steven released- at the request of her ex-girlfriend, Pearl.
I can’t read this whole thread because I’m worried about spoilers, but my husband and I have fallen in love with this show. I like to call it sweet and heartwarming with an undercurrent of existential horror (Cat Fingers, anyone?) We just watched the first episode where Ruby and Sapphire are revealed and Garnet sings ‘‘Stronger Than You.’’
I just love it. It’s rare that a kid’s show with so much heart can successfully navigate such weighty issues as grief, loss, and responsibility for others, all while smashing gender stereotypes.
And now on to “Are You My Dad?” and “I Am My Mom”, which ends the Stevenbomb and ends Season 4 with a bonafide cliffhanger.
-Very effective callback whammy to Steven running his mouth at Peridot back in “Marble Madness”.
-Aquamarine pretty much shoots to the top of the “Will Never Be Steven’s Friend” list.
-Aquamarine very much comes across as the snooty, nasty Head Girl in an Enid Blyton-type British school story. I’m guessing the posh accent and the school outfit meant the crew was intentionally going with this trope.
-I was wondering how the characters trapped in Topaz could breathe, but I noticed that everyone was carefully depicted with their noses protruding.
-However, would Aquamarine and Topaz even know that humans need to breathe? “Look, Topaz! This silly organic has stopped thrashing about and turned almost as blue as me!”
-Jamie suddenly turned of the drama when Topaz was about to snap his neck.
-I’m not liking that Steven seems to have internalized that Rose did bad things and was a war criminal. Someone needs to take him aside and remind him that Earth is home to billions of people, none of whom would be alive without Rose Quartz.
-Lars is gonna Lars. That being said, I’m betting Steven will fuse with him while in space.
-I can’t see how the Crystal Gems can launch a rescue mission, but if they do, I bet they unbubble Bismuth for extra muscle and weapons.
-Poor Connie. That was a cry of pure anguish. I’m not sure I want to see Greg’s reaction either…
Talk about a deus ex machina.
The Crew is obviously saving White Diamond for something big, I really don’t think that she was Pearl’s original owner is going to be the big reveal. All the “Pearl Belonged to White Diamond!” theorizing is based on the premise that both Pearl and WD have their gems placed on their foreheads and by this point in the show, we’ve seen enough gems to realize that it’s not necessarily significant.
Rose Quartz was not Pearl’s original owner, but the question is how did she end up with Rose? I don’t see a line between White Diamond and Rose Quartz. Our Pearl was already in Pink Diamond’s court before coming to Earth. Her spacesuit in “Space Race” still has a Pink Diamond motif.
My own personal theory is based on the fact that Pearl is one of the very few gems (and only Pearl) to have a multi-color palette. Pearl was made for Pink Diamond by the other diamonds, who anticipated she would need a Pearl when she emerged. This would explain why Pearl’s color scheme includes white, yellow, and blue. At some point, PD decided she wanted to design her own custom Pearl (Pink Pearl?), which is how our Pearl got passed down to Rose Quartz, PD’s trusted subordinate.
And the Season 5 Opener 4-Episode special starts tonight at 7 EST!
Well that was pretty amazing.
I know it’s aired but I still don’t want to risk spoiling for anyone but really very very good.
Well, that was unexpected. Several big curveballs thrown here.
Well, I assume i can spoil the “Wanted” Special Event now! “Stuck Together” picks up right after “I Am My Mom” and the other three episodes (“The Trial”, “Off Colors”, and “Lars’ Head”) flow together pretty seamlessly. The crew has really come a long way from the show’s early single episode days.
Anyway, this is a series of game-changer episodes. We see Homeworld. Steven faces down Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond. Steven goes on trial. There’s something suspicious about the official accounts of Pink Dimaond’s death. We see Eyeball again. And a whole bunch of new gems (Blue Zircon! Yellow Zircon! The Rutile Twins! Rhodonite! Fluorite! Padparadscha!). Lars has his big breakthrough. Lion’s origin is revealed. And Steven makes it home.
-Steven, who usually can’t shut up, was awfully quiet when Aquamarine was talking down Topaz. IMHO, if he had chimed in that Earth is a place where Topaz could be together and not have to go on any more awful missions, he could have swayed her.
-Of course, he goes back to type during the trial. When your lawyer tells you to shut up, you STFU. I’m surprised Steven didn’t blurt out that he bubbled the Cluster.
-If you look at Blue Pearl’s vid-screen, she doodles Steven’s head, then draws a red X over it.
-Homeworld looks a lot like Coruscant, especially in the scene where the palanquin crashes through the wall and we see the view all the way down.
-Padparadscha is absolutely adorable. I love the way she is so chipper and cheerful when sharing her visions of something that has just happened.
-Theoretically, if Rhodonite (Ruby + Pearl) and Padapardscha (off-color Sapphire) fuse, they would make a completely different Sardonyx
-I guess the skull on Lars’ T-shirt was foreshadowing.
-Lion has eaten food other than gem lizards: In “Cooking With Lion”, he ate both the tuna fish and the snack sushi.
-Occam’s Razor still says Rose Quartz did it, but "The Trial"makes it seem like she was wittingly or unwittingly receiving help from a Homeworld higher-up.
-Where is White Diamond? Where is Pink Pearl?
-How do they get Lars and the Off-Colors off Homeworld?
She also draws a little outline of Steven jumping when he’s speculating about Rose performing some cool action moves.