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It fits right in with her role as the most straightforward Diamond: Yellow alone makes no effort to even feign pleasantness, and is the worst at putting up a front to hide her inner pain, so what you see is what you get. Yellow’s domain is the physical form, which has until now has manifested in dismantling Gems’ forms with her lightning. Yellow and Blue’s differences are highlighted again as we confirm the scope of their powers. The progression of Steven’s empathy for this former foe has informed his level of maturity every time we check in, and now it pays off in a major way as he reaches a point where he’s willing to go to Homeworld and face his greatest challenge yet to heal her. This show has always been great at using exposition to characterize our leads, and thank goodness for that because now it’s time to exposit even more about corruption! It’s been just over sixty episodes since Monster Reunion, which itself was nearly sixty episodes after Monster Buddies, but the Centipeetle has been with us from the very first episode. Steven is used to enemies calling him Rose, so for now we’re at a microaggression stage of misnaming, but this soon solidifies itself as a foundation of Steven Universe’s final arc.Īs we go over the bullet points, Blue asks how Steven survived in their final attack thousands of years ago, leading us neatly to our first setting shift. This gets us through the first leg of exposition that refreshes us on the tidal wave of status quo changes in the past few episodes: Pink secretly became Rose who publicly became Steven’s mom, but the Diamonds have no concept of what any of that means so they keep ,misnaming him. Yellow is far more blunt, chastising Blue for spreading those tears and berating Steven with questions. Blue is overbearing with a tenderness that may seem sweet on the surface, but she forces everyone to cry when she cries and provides affection on her own specific terms. A generous reading might say that at least they aren’t quite the monsters we once saw them as, but as their little sister has shown, you don’t have to be a monster to commit monstrous acts.įrom the start, their dynamic around Steven is in line with how we’ve always seen them act. The episode’s success hinges on emphasizing a single consistent idea to anchor us in this lightning round of plot progression: the Diamonds may have reached a truce with the Crystal Gems, but they’re still the Diamonds. It shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does.
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This could’ve been an entire Steven Bomb, but the fifth season is already running long, so we set the table at a breakneck pace. We have to see how the Diamonds behave now that they’ve stopped to listen, then cover the series-long corruption plotline, then introduce the show’s final boss, then take a pit stop to the desert to look for a ship, then take off aboard that ship, then land at Homeworld, then meet that final boss. Legs From Here to Homeworld has a similar task on its plate, but only half the time, so it’s a minor miracle that it pulls it off at all, aplomb or no aplomb. Reunited had a ton of ground to cover in just twenty-two minutes, and pulls it off with aplomb.