Space Race was great fun, and in honor of Pearl’s intense concentration on making the Universe Mach 3, this week’s featured song is Drop the Strawberry. It’s the perfect tune to work by, whether you’re trying to get your breakfast or your spaceship just right.
All times are EST.
Monday:
8:45 AM: An Indirect Kiss
10:15 AM: Mirror Gem
11:00 AM: Ocean Gem
2:00 PM: House Guest
3:45 PM: Space Race
6:45 PM: Steven and the Stevens
Tuesday:
2:00 PM: Laser Light Cannon
2:15 PM: Lion 2: The Movie
2:30 PM: Onion Trade
2:45 PM: Steven and the Stevens
3:00 PM: Steven’s Lion
3:15 PM: Space Race
6:45 PM: House Guest
Wednesday:
6:45 PM: Joking Victim
Thursday:
6:45 PM: Secret Team
Friday:
6:45 PM: Steven and the Stevens
Sunday:
6:45 PM: Secret Team
Space Race told us a lot with very small signs, and when we went over the lore implications of the episode we did our best not to speculate too much—just the things that were almost assured. However, anyone who was paying attention could see that we were introduced to a very important concept that’s almost certain to come up again in the big season finale.
Today we’ll try to tease out what exactly this means not just for the finale, but for the lore of the show as well.
Space Race was a very handy episode. Not only did we get a Pearl episode, with a healthy dose of Greg, but we got to uncover a bit more of the series. Some of it was hinted at in previous episodes, but at least one fact is totally new. Plus, we may just have seen a bit of foreshadowing for later…
This post will only cover what we now know for certain. Tomorrow we’ll have our usual post speculating about what secrets might be in store for us later.
It was a long wait, but Aivi and Surasshu have finally delivered the goods! Six tracks from Ocean Gem for your listening pleasure. The tracks include:
https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/sets/steven-universe-ocean-gem
Oh yeah, we’re definitely feeling oracular after this one. Not to spoil things too much for those who haven’t seen it yet, but we feel like we got pretty close to the mark yesterday.
So what’s affected? Both Backstory and Locations will have more information, though maybe not as much as we’d have dreamed. Still, some big answers came out of Space Race, so it’s a win for everyone.
As is usual Saturday we’ll post the more detailed lore implications, and Sunday we’ll post our speculation about what the facts we’ve learned might mean and how they fit into the broader lore.
Tomorrow we get to see Space Race. In the episode preview, we can see Steven and Greg working on a “space ship” that looks suspiciously like a soapbox car with either a sparkler or a firework rocket in the back, presumably after Pearl lamented the loss of her days of traveling the stars.
It’s anyone’s guess where they go with it. We’re sure to have official confirmation that the Crystal Gems themselves are, like Lapis, from another world. Mr. Burnett has indicated that we might even get confirmation that they haven’t left Earth yet, though that might just be implied by Pearl’s lament.
However, like all of the preview clips we don’t have any idea where the meat of the episode is going to come from. Will we get to see the Galaxy Warp for ourselves? Will Pearl resolve to build a spaceship herself? Simply a flashback episode where Pearl explains what it was like?
All of these possibilities are exciting, which is what makes us anticipate this episode so much.
Next week Steven Universe will air another brand new episode at 6:45 PM EST: Secret Team.
Secret Team
Steven, Amethyst and Pearl accidentally pop a bubbled gem and form a Secret Team to secretly retrieve the missing shards.
Greg has been pretty active lately in Steven Universe; he tagged along for Ocean Gem, had a major part in House Guest, and according to the promo will feature prominently in Space Race as well. We say that’s a good thing! To celebrate Greg’s recent activity, Dad Museum is this week’s song of the week.
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