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“Steven’s Dream” instant reaction

[Written on January 7. I was blind to the episode and the whole Bomb, with the exception of tiny leaks and Youtube screenshots.]

Well, at least the first episode of the new Steven Bomb is still sitting on Video On Demand on my system, so I'm gonna watch it. The more I watch, the less I can be annoyed by spoilers. What we've got is "Steven's Dream". Now, that's super vague (in contrast to a title like "Adventures in Light Distortion", which I fucking love as an episode title without even seeing the episode because I can tell there will be a double meaning, but I'll get into that whenever I watch THAT episode)... anyway, we've had a whole bunch of Steven dreaming, between Malachite, Lars, and Kiki. My guess is he's appreciating the fact that his dreams are mighty freaking lucid, and that will be the impetus for a lot of this bomb's action. So let's find out!

I’m watching straight through with no pauses or rewinds; the clock starts as close to “We!” as possible.

0:00 - LET'S DO THIS. 0:22 - Jeff and Colin. 0:30 - Those are like the flowers in the "time for answers" advert. 0:41 - Cows being abducted by UFOs. Given "The Zoo", i'm not a fan. 1:01 - Good to know he's still slowly spending his money. 1:15 - Little Steven is sad. 1:27 - Oh, boy. Getting into the deep stuff. 1:44 - Disco and war are basically equivalent on the scale of galactic crimes. 2:04 - Time for another dream. 2:18 - And there's the palanquin. And more tears. 2:25 - AND CONNIE. 2:36 - I am grateful that she has taught everyone (including me) the pronunciation. 2:46 - Amethyst with her hair up! 2:52 - And of course she knows nothing. 3:01 - Pearl about to start lying. 3:16 - Garnet... that's, uh... Garnet, you're a terrible liar. 3:35 - Oh boy, he's getting angry. 3:57 - Amethyst, where did you even get that from. 4:11 - You are super grounded. 4:37 - He's gonna want to go anyway. No matter what. 4:51 - Garnet is scared? That's a rarity. 5:22 - Was that Florida? Or Korea?! 5:42 - ANDY! And it was Korea. 5:57 - Greg is petrified. 6:19 - What the hell... 6:24 - OH MY GOD WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE THE STUDIO WHERE THEY ANIMATE SU. OH MY GOD. 6:47 - And he's tearing up. This is something deep. 7:04 - "This feels familiar." With Pearl's "Please" note. As in the past. 7:20 - That's BLUE's palanquin. 7:35 - And there's. OH SHIT. 7:50 - That's Blue Diamond. I do not recognize her voice. 8:04 - Blue Pearl speaks! 8:37 - This will only end EXTREMELY poorly. 9:01 - I can't hear what she's saying. I'll have to rewatch. 9:26 - DON'T SAY HER NAME, GREG. FOR THE LOVE OF THE DIAMONDS, DON'T SAY ROSE QUARTZ. 9:48 - Well, that's what you think. 10:01 - Pearl is terrified of looking at her. 10:11 - Oh good. And by good, I mean OH SHIT. 10:24 - Welp, that's someone for the zoo. 10:32 - Run, Steve-o! 10:50 - That's gonna hurt. Whew. 11:11 - "We're going to space. We're going to get him back." Oh shit.

INSTANT REACTION - Well that's one way to start an arc. Wait... maybe the VOD will have the credits...

CREDIT NOTES - It does! Lisa Hannigan, an Irish singer-songwriter best known, uh, I have never heard of any of these songs. I have heard of Damien Rice, who employed her in his backing band, but she does not appear to be well-known in the USA. Deedee voicing Blue Pearl as well as original recipe, of course. And some piano notes on the creepy credits music we've had this season. Another developing song.

INSTANT REACTION - OK. So. That was some mood whiplash between Steven actually fucking yelling at the gems to "Hey, let's have some fun in Korea!" to the appearance of Blue Diamond, and Greg being abducted. I had just enough time to think "If she knows about the Cluster, which really should have gone off by now, what the hell is she doing here?" and when she started saying it was a good thing Greg was there, I realized she would want a, uh, souvenir. I am glad that a number of the one-off episodes are being tied into the thread here. Of course, "Buddy's Book" and the palanquin were always going to come back, but I sure didn't think we would be seeing Carl Andy again so soon. (South) Korea appears to be significantly similar to its current existence, which I can partially attest to because I just visited there on a school trip this past fall. Notably the flag appeared to be the same. I won't speculate about the existence of a North Korea, though I will be watching on re-watch to see where on the peninsula the marking is. Poor Greg. He's so brave to be even considering this stuff, and walking the delicate balance between protecting his child and helping him live up to his destiny. He bit off a bit more than he could chew, and the thing is Greg is really one of the few things that can really be threatened. Nothing the gems have faced in the past has been an immediate existential threat, and I doubt Connie will ever be a damsel in distress (I'm still waiting for her to return the "Get your hands off my Steven!" favor), so Greg is the closest thing that can be taken from Steven and drive him to immediate and decisive action. And given that he was in no shape to enact his floaty powers, it really looked like Steven was gonna have a hard landing at the end of the episode.

Oh boy is this next episode gonna be fun.

SECOND WATCH THOUGHTS: Of *course*, Garnet's terrified of Blue Diamond. She fused in front of her, the distraction that allowed the Rebellion to continue. All the rebels have a death sentence, sure, but Garnet's got, what, a triple death sentence? The geography of eastern Asia doesn't match up perfectly with our own--the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay are much too large, proportionally, and Japan wouldn't be visible on the right side of the map--but the X is basically on what would be the border between North and South Korea. I mentioned it in the liveblog, but my goodness Greg looks absolutely terrified in the plane. One of the places I visited while in Korea was the temples seen during the montage, and one of the places we ate at was super similar to the one depicted (with the water bottle and the tissue boxes and the kimchi...). Effort was put into cultural accuracy here. I am still laughing so hard at them touring the animation studio. Kudos to whoever's idea that was, especially with the scenes from "Mr. Greg" on the side (Steven in top hat, Pearl in tux) Wait... Blue Diamond's ship was blue. Peridot's ship was... green. There isn't a Green Diamond no one's told us about yet, is there?

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