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beevean · 7 years

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Blind Reaction to Steven Universe ep. “Room for Ruby”

And after one month of doing nothing, Steven finally rescues the Rubies.

Let’s see how it goes.

- Raven and Lauren, now there’s a couple of boarders you don’t see together often. Weird choice, if you ask me - the two have wildly different artstyles.

- “Close your eyes” “...” “All of them~” say what you want about Zuke, but I love their jokes

- “What is yor wish for” no Steven you’ll ruin the wish D:

- “I wished for another shooting star so that you could make a wish” awwwwwww

- (I miss proper Garnet/Steven bonding episodes like Future Vision :( )

- oh hi navy nice of you to drop exactly on the footsteps of steven’s house, guess he didn’t need to remember after all

- also the way you fell from space without a scratch could make Sonic blush, way to go

- “all of the Rubies are mean to me” but... but the Rubies don’t have a mean bone in their body (no joke intended) D: especially Leggy D: I don’t even see Eyeball being that much mean to her...

- “Oh stop” garnet no you stop being so cute

- “There’s a star to wish on!” I mean... she’s not wrong...

- So the barn’s essentially become a shelter for semi-CGs. ... can you imagine cramming Jasper and Bismuth in there? (and Centipeetle, if she changes side after being uncorrupted?)

- oh my god LAPIS’ FACE I WANT THAT ON A POSTER

- “We’ve been awful to her, she must hate us!” Of course, the person who has a huge problem with grudges, both hers and against her, wouldn’t understand a carefree person like Steven and Navy.

- “Life on Earth is really confusing, it took me a long time to get used to it. I’m still getting used to it.” As much as I love hearing Lapis talking about her experience on Earth... honey, you’ve been spending your months watching a cheesy soap opera and making meep morps. I don’t think we have seen you doing that much else involving Earth. (and this is what happens when you develop offscreen)

- Although maybe the confusing part for her is the same thing that gave Peridot so much trouble in the beginning: there are no “rules” on Earth. We still don’t know where Lapis fits in the hierarchy of Gems (I do think she’s pretty high, given her pride and the implications she’s the one that creates Kindergartens), and her views on Pearls, defective Gems and perma-Fusions (or even cross-Fusions, as she was imprisoned roughly in the same period Garnet was born and nobody else was used to Fusions like her). She was kinda dismissive of Pearl in The New Crystal Gem, so I’m very interested. But, again, offscreen development.

- “This will be great, I just know it!” steven what’s with you and jinxing things

- I expected the “Canadian” flag on the blackboard, but the chicken is a nice callback.

- “It’s where... a bunch of bad stuff happened.” Now the question is, is the talking about the stuff that happened to her, or the Gem War in general?

- “What is rain?” oh yeah, they don’t have water on Homeworld

- I need more wet haired Peridot in my life

- ok but where did you get that beautiful alien umbrella Peridot

- “Yeah, no kidding” uh...? Is Lapis jealous of how fast Navy is accepting and loving Earth?

- You know, I’m halfway through the episode, and I just realized they still aren’t trying to save the Rubies. One of them just coincidentally fell down the sky, and now they’re busy trying to turn her into a CG ally, basically. Weird.

- Also I don’t like how Navy really fell two steps away from the guys who tricked her twice and blasted her off into space. Either she did it on purpose, or this is exceptionally contrived writing. (I like the idea of Navy being secretly a manipulative bitch. Must be a trait of Gems with their gemstones on the navel!)

- “It’s where I sleep. I don’t have to do it, but I like to do it” I was just saying “and the parallels between Lapis and Amethyst keep growing”, then I realized this might be a sign of depression, sleeping more than you need to. And now I’m sad.

- Lapis snorts and snores. My life is complete.

- “Looks like you’ve got it” yep, she’s jealous

- The way Peridot’s hair suddenly grew 300% in size while she herself shrunk to goblin size indicates that this part was made by Raven. See what I mean by “wildly different artstyles”?

- “But we were just enemies! Don’t you remember? Why aren’t you mad!” please give me some Lapis venting, please

- aaaaand she flies off. Yeah, I guess someone saying to her face “I just can’t get mad” would feel like a slap. Like “why can she do it and not me?”

- “No, something is seriously wrong with me” I expected a Ruby-rescuing episode, but a Lapis-centric episode is more than fine with me :D

- yep, she spelled it out. She’s jealous that Navy’s adapting so easily and with no grudges, while she’s still working to deal with her anger and depression. But I like what Peridot said: “There’s no rush.” Nobody’s pressuring her, she isn’t supposed to be fine in a set number of days, and she’s doing fine all things considered. But yeah, it’s an horrible feeling when you feel like you can’t change enough, or at all, especially compared to someone else.

- “Oooooh you guyyyyys!” please don’t ever make that face again

- “I MISS IT SO MUUUUUCH” ok now you’re clearly faking. Please tell me you’re actually a manipulative bitch

- welp. Can’t believe it took me so long to figure it out.

- oh my god, she actually wanted revenge this whole time! That’s even better than I thought!

- “I was right! No one can be that well adjusted!” Uh... that’s actually a somber moral. But glad you don’t feel alone anymore.

- And the CGs lost the ship. Hello, Status Quo is God. Now we just wait for all of the Ruby Squad to come back.

Conclusion: Honestly I liked the episode just for the unexpected focus on Lapis, who really really needs it. The ending was kinda... eh, aside for the twist. It felt like it cancelled out some development, from Lapis’ own feelings to the fact that the CGs just lost an important vehicle.

Also I loved how Navy, of all Rubies, turned out to be a liar and manipulator. Just like Rose and Steven! Gem placement really means something.

#steven universe #steven universe spoilers #blind reaction

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