Greg” is that she needs to be there for Steven. Just about the only thing Pearl knows about herself after the events of “Mr. And it’s hard to blame her…it’s not an easy thing to create a new self-concept, and most attempts to do so are bound to be fraught with a trial-and-error period. It’s an effort to convince not only Steven Amethyst but also herself of her fresh start. We’ve heard her wax poetic about those days before, but here it seems like she’s just trying to prove a point. She’ll drink a juice (another nice one, Crewniverse) and pop her collar because that’s what she thinks the cool kids do, and Pearl hasn’t been cool since she was rebelling against Homeworld several millennia ago. Greg.” In an effort to redefine her life and purpose on her own terms, instead of in relation to Rose, she feels the need to leave behind the aspects of her personality that burdened her in the past. At the start of the episode, Pearl’s motivation to go to the show seems pretty straightforward: it’s part of the shift we saw at the end of “Mr. (Nice one, Crewniverse.)īut was this new Pearl with no plan really a complete departure from her character? I’d suggest not. She was, in Amethyst’s (unfinished) words, a total badass. What we saw last night seemed like pretty much the opposite of the Pearl we know.

But we already knew that side of Pearl existed, couched in the neurotic, control-freak behavior that covers the Rose-sized hole in her soul. Greg” is the best eleven minutes Steven Universe has ever aired.

It was really deep and really beautiful I still think “Mr. Last we saw, she was belting out “It’s Over, Isn’t It” to an unresponsive Empire City sky and overcoming both her unrequited love for Rose and her animosity toward Greg. Given the Summer of Steven’s broad narrative focus on Amethyst and Steven arcs, it’s been awhile since we’ve had a Pearl feature. Instead of a gut-wrenching disaster, we got the show’s most fun episode of 2016, maybe ever-even more fun than Lapis and her bat flips in “Hit the Diamond,” and seeing as that’s still my Twitter cover photo, that’s saying a lot. But as is often the case on Steven Universe, titles can be misleading. We’ve seen it before, and with the Diamond Authority good and pissed off at Earth, we’ll probably see it again. Before Cartoon Network released the synopsis for “Last One Out Of Beach City,” the episode seemed like a stone cold lock to feature some sort of evacuation crisis.

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