Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26967247-20160209215523/@comment-508329-20160223024630

Stateofdreaming wrote: I feel like this all makes sense now. They're waiting until they can consistently get the rest of Season 2 out without another large hiatus. It'll start with a bomb and then we'll get consistent episodes afterwards, there's no way they'd leave us hanging again, especially since he said he's very happy with the schedule. There's 26 episodes left in Season 2. If they do a StevenBomb in March, and then air regular weekly episodes until a season finale StevenBomb at the end, the season finale would be around July or August, which is plausible, since they were recording Episode 100 last fall, and episodes take about 9 to 12 months to make from start to finish.

StevenBomb 4 + Season 2B would bring the total number up to 31 new episodes this year. If this year has as many new episodes as last year, that would mean two months of Season 3 episodes in the fall.

A season finale in the middle of summer would be kind of weird, but the math works out. (Personally, I'm guessing that we're more likely to have regular episodes in spring & fall and StevenBombs in summer and winter, and for season finales and mid-season finales.)