What to expect from Open Book

It’s an episode where two characters are in a room that will do anything they ask. Steven knows not to ask for too much, so we’re not going to see Rose’s room over-taxed again. What could possibly go wrong, then?

Well surely you’ve seen some variant of the killer VR plotline (the holodeck from Star Trek being a particularly dangerous example), so hopefully Open Book will steer clear of such a common cliché (them being trapped inside until they resolve the story won’t count as an avoidance). If that’s avoided, though, it’s hard to predict what twist they could introduce to the episode—there are just too many possibilities.

No big backstory information is expected in Open Book, so look forward to a great Steven and Connie episode. Unless, of course, the episode turns out to be mostly about telling a seemingly unrelated story, like Garnet’s Universe was, in which case we’ll have to go into overdrive playing Spot the Foreshadowing (really we should have seen Hopper and Hoppy as representing Ruby and Sapphire far earlier than we did).

The end of the rebellion: as of the start of season two

Marble Madness gave us questions we couldn’t answer, but when The Return and Jailbreak aired we got… To put it lightly a LOT more material we could use. This includes some great hints about the Crystal Gem rebellion for Earth, and how it ended. Once the hints are lined up in the right order, the conclusion really falls into place on its own.

This is the first of two articles about the more solid lore we got from #StevenBomb.

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New episode: Joy Ride will air on March 26, 2015

Well, as the first season two episode (in production order) to air on the regular schedule, Joy Ride has the honor of being the first episode we don’t have a synopsis on far in advance. Aren’t you all excited? The thrill of the unknown?

It looks like we’ll all just have to tune in on March 26 at 5 PM EDT to find out what happens in Joy Ride!

Ratings for Full Disclosure

The last of the #StevenBomb episodes, Full Disclosure did fairly well: it pulled in 1,519,000 viewers on a Friday and with children still off on Spring Break.

Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 11: #StevenBomb

PodcastTitleStevenBombWith #StevenBomb over, GC13 and Ken get their final thoughts in on the event.

While the event was intense for lore, with all of the “filler” (if there is such a thing in Steven Universe) cut out, we’re still left with plenty of questions.

Perhaps most importantly, there’s now plenty of hype for the show going into season two. There are so many chickens that haven’t come home to roost yet, and we just know that season two will send some more out into the world.

Now that we’re back on our weekly schedule, the next episode of the podcast will be at the regular time next week and will cover Open Book.

Song of the week: Stronger Than You

Okay everyone, I think we all know what’s going on here.

Did you expect anything else to be able to compete with Stronger Than You? No, it’s the song everyone’s talking about, and with good reason. It’s the song of the week, so jam on!

 

https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/steven-universe-stronger-than-you-feat-estelle

Steven Universe air times for March 16-22, 2015

All times are EDT.

Monday:
1:30 PM: Serious Steven
1:45 PM: Lars and the Cool Kids
5:00 PM: Secret Team
5:15 PM: Beach Party

Tuesday:
1:30 PM: Rose’s Scabbard
1:45 PM: Steven’s Lion
5:00 PM: Fusion Cuisine
5:15 PM: Steven and the Stevens

Wednesday:
1:30 PM: Lion 2: The Movie
1:45 PM: Mirror Gem
5:00 PM: Lion 3: Straight to Video
5:15 PM: Monster Buddies

Thursday:
1:30 PM: Monster Buddies
1:45 PM: Secret Team
5:00 PM: Open Book
5:15 PM: The Message

Friday:
1:30 PM: House Guest
1:45 PM: Watermelon Steven
5:00 PM: Island Adventure
5:15 PM: An Indirect Kiss

Saturday:
11:30 AM: Open Book
11:45 AM: House Guest
12:00 PM: Horror Club
12:15 PM: Secret Team

What could #StevenBomb mean?

#StevenBomb wrapped a lot of stuff up with some fairly lore-heavy episodes, but it still left us with some unanswered questions about more of the backstory. Even more interesting, however, are the questions about where the show will take us from here.

Since we have a couple big questions, we’ll get our thoughts out about these questions out over the next couple of weeks. These posts will be linked to in the master speculation post, here, while our thoughts about the backstory we feel more confident in will go in the master lore implications post.

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What we learned from #StevenBomb

Rather than take each episode individually, we’re going to take advantage of the packaging of six episodes together into one big #StevenBomb and do some posts on the lore implications of, and speculation from, what we’ve learned this week.

These posts will come out over the next couple of weeks, and will be linked to in the master #StevenBomb lore implications post (this one) and the master #StevenBomb speculation post.

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Lunar Sea Spire podcast episode 10: Full Disclosure

PodcastTitleStevenBombKen and GC13 discuss the season two premier of Steven Universe and the last episode of the #StevenBomb, Full Disclosure.

A rare occurrence! Ken and GC13 agree on an episode for the first time (not counting the finale, which was too amazing for anyone to dislike)! Of course the discussion goes back to The Return and Jailbreak briefly, but we manage to stay on topic most of the time. 🙂

Now that #StevenBomb is over we’ll be going back to our weekly schedule, starting this very Monday with a review of the whole #StevenBomb event.