Yum Joins the Liveblog Party

@yumantimatter has finally gotten on the liveblog train! Currently watching The Good Place as it comes out. I currently have no ask screener, so please be extra careful about spoilers!

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And on this note, with Yellow crying but not realizing it’s of her own will, I’m gonna leave off. It’s very late for me here, and I have martial arts in the morning. See you soon for more!

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“My Dad says, if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs.”

A remarkably pertinent sentiment, and I love how Steven is drawing his strength and wisdom from Greg, even now, when he’s the furthest from the human side of his life that he’s ever been. It’s that cross-cultural experience, the ability to see from a truly outside perspective while still being part of the Gem world, that helps Steven succeed where no one else could.

But I have a feeling the actual idiom went right over Yellow’s head.

Yeah. Not sure how Blue understood it well enough to explain, but I’m glad she did!

Should I start keeping track of “Diamonds learning about food” faces? Will there be one for White? G-d I hope so

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Yellow is in anguish, but determined to do what she must...

And Steven comes in with the save! As well as some wise words to convince her with. Seems like we will be OK, after all (at least until White shows up to the party)

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Will Yellow actually admit to her deeply buried feelings? Or will she lash out like she always does?

Option two it is! Looks like I do get to see what happens when Yellow uses her powers!

(I’m guessing that Blue’s screams will snap Yellow out of it, considering how much she cares for her. Or if not, Steven will definitely step in - there’s no way we’re actually getting a poofed Diamond)

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Well, there goes any remaining chance of staying hidden from White!

Those Topaz guards must be so confused right now; in fact, if they’re fully in line with Gem propaganda they’re probably having existential crises! If the Diamonds are supposed to be perfect and infallible, what does it mean when two of them crash through a wall while attacking each other and screaming about their emotions? Who do you side with when your leaders have never before been on different sides?

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Or maybe we won’t be - escalating from arguments and shoving to a high-powered fight is NOT THE RIGHT MOVE, Blue! If Yellow actually gets mad enough to use her poofing abilities - well, it would be cool to see what would happen, but also really, really bad for the escape attempt!

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But hey, at least we found our friends! .....aaaand Yellow is here

And she looks mad! 

Not murderously so though, not like she looked when Steven claimed to be Pink for the first time. Just exasperated, and strict. I think we’re going to be OK

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Wait... the gems in those bubbles are strangely shaped...

[stunned silence]

.....

FUCK that’s a lot of fusion experiments. Do they repurpose every gem they shatter into one of these abominations? I want to throw up.

This further supports, though, the notion that Homeworld is running out of resources. Why else would they try to recombine even the fragments of failed Gems into something useful, and continue trying after so many failures?

(Is that a fucking Rose Quartz I see back there?)

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Oh hey! Topazes!

By the gem placement, they’re sadly not the ones we met before - I really hope we get to see those ones again!

So Blue plays mom to the bratty Diamond, while Yellow keeps track of the actual prisoners, huh?

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Are they really just planning to grab the CGs and leave? I suppose Steven hasn’t had much time to think yet.

I guarantee, if nothing goes wrong and they manage to escape, Steven will remember their original purpose and want to go back. (And that’s a pretty big “if”!)

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Food! Very important for not-dying purposes. (I’m guessing Steven’s the one who packed fresh fruit on a potentially long mission - good thing it’s only been a few days!)

“You willingly put that into your physical forms? Doesn’t it hurt?”

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And I’m back! I don’t have much time, but I wanted to make at least a little progress today! Now where were we...

Ah yes! Blue smuggling Steven and Connie out of jail - apparently, in her hair!

I do love how inhuman Yellow and Blue’s hairstyles are, once you take a close look at them

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Unfortunately, I have to stop here and go to sleep - I’ll be back later this week!

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So, Steven’s plan was to show Blue Diamond that she was a bad mom to Pink - and it worked! It seems a bit of an easy win to me, but I can buy it - we already knew how much Blue cared about Pink, what with the 6000 years of mourning, and between her and Yellow, she’s definitely the soft one. Steven also has the advantage that, to Blue, Pink has just come back from the dead, and in that emotionally compromised state, Blue will do a lot to keep Pink happy.

Ok, so this make sense with Blue’s personality, and is a really sweet moment. But aren’t we forgetting something important here? You know, like THE ENTIRE REASON STEVEN CAME HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE???

If the CGs just leave now, they still have now way of healing the corrupted gems. Plus, Blue is convinced, but that doesn’t just mean the other diamonds won’t want to take Pink back!

And on top of all that, Steven called for backup - Greg and the Gems left on Earth are going to head straight for Homeworld (I’m guessing in Lars’s ship, since we haven’t seen him in a little while)

Yeah, even if this episode wasn’t a 4-parter, it wouldn’t be hard to tell that we’re not done here yet.

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From a logical standpoint, Steven should really apologize; he doesn’t have to actually mean it, after all, he just needs to get out of prison.

That being said, I am BLOWN AWAY by how calm Steven is here. He’s not scared, or angry, or defiant, he’s just stating a fact - there’s nothing for him to apologize for. 

Was his brief visit to Earth really enough to give Steven this resolve? Or does he have a plan of his own?

And Connie, as always, is the practical one of the pair - it’s great that you’re fine emotionally, Steven, but that does nobody any good if you die of dehydration!

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“Whoa, Deja Blue!”

kfdadljfhdsjfh I with I had come up with that one!

And whoa, that size difference! It’s always a bit scary to be reminded of it - at least Blue’s not trying to kill Steven this time

(Not that the result will be any different if she keeps refusing to believe that humans need food to live)

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Well that whole sequence was fucking terrifying!

I notice that Steven snapped out of the dream once he realized he was in Pink’s body, unlike the Jungle Moon dream with Stevonnie, where they stayed in their own body the whole time and only saw Pink’s reflection in the mirror. So, is this progress or a step back?