We’re not going to have a new episode this week, but fear not: a new episode will air next week. Another Lion episode is always welcome, and this episode could go just about anywhere, considering the very basic synopsis.
Lion 3: Straight to Video
Lion won’t stop laying on Steven’s face while he sleeps.
We know what the bramble means!
Steven gained a fantastic new power in Watermelon Steven, and set some chickens out into the world that we can only hope are going to come home to roost. So with all of the excitement over the new power to create plant guardians, this week’s song of the week is Overgrown Brambles from An Indirect Kiss (the first hint we got of this power, though Lars and the Cool Kids did show an affinity for plant life by Rose).
https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/steven-universe-overgrown-brambles
All times are EST.
Monday:
10:30 AM: Fusion Cuisine
10:45 AM: Keep Beach City Weird!
11:00 AM: Garnet’s Universe
11:15 AM: Secret Team
11:30 AM: Monster Buddies
11:45 AM: Island Adventure
6:45 PM: Coach Steven
Tuesday:
10:30 AM: Mirror Gem
10:45 AM: Ocean Gem
11:00 AM: House Guest
11:15 AM: Space Race
11:30 AM: Steven and the Stevens
11:45 AM: Watermelon Steven
6:45 PM: Joking Victim
Sunday:
6:45 PM: Monster Buddies
Watermelon Steven gave us some potential foreshadowing and sent some chickens out into the world who might one day come home to roost. We can’t be the only ones wondering where this will take us, can we?
It always feels good to sink our teeth into a juicy lore episode. Hands grasping the firm grounding of a mix of magic and mundanity, we revel in the delightful sweetness of new findings and the seeds of future episodes contained within.
It happened a little bit too late for Watermelon Steven, but Cartoon Network is back on Dish Network for at least the next few months. Here’s to hoping a long-term extension is negotiated before we lose Steven again.
For those of you looking to fill up your DVR with Steven you’ve missed, stay tuned for the weekly schedule. This week we’ll be getting Garnet’s Universe today and Watermelon Steven on Sunday. Next week it looks like we’ll get everything we missed pretty quickly, with Fusion Cusine, Keep Beach City Weird!, and Island Adventure all airing Monday morning.
A first reaction? It would be an over-statement to say “lore bomb”, but this one had a fair bit. We already saw in the preview a pretty blatant bit of exposition, but not only is it paid off in full later in the episode but they slip in a few more bits of lore without calling attention to them.
We’ll be happy to get right back to our regular schedule of breaking down the concrete things we learned about the world of Steven Universe on Saturday, then a bit of speculation about the possible meaning of what we saw on Sunday.
Steven growing an entire patch of watermelons that look like little people? Rose revealed to use sentient plants as guardians? Steven gets a bright idea not long after learning about this? What would possibly go wrong here?
So nobody gets any points for guessing that the watermelons are going to come to life. The big question is what kind of havoc this is going to cause in town. Will they go after Greg for stepping on one of them before they gained sentience? Or will Steven prove to be just as bad at giving orders as Peedee showed himself to be when he ordered Frybo to “make people eat fries”?
It should be interesting to see this power in action. Steven’s collecting quite a full set of abilities.
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