Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150115232311/@comment-25471332-20150116070228

I have so many mixed feelings about this episode.

For one thing, for “beings” like Stefonnie (Wikipedia says Intersex is preferred over hermaphrodite for mixed sex people, but forgive me for not being an expert at this subject.) I’m using ‘their’ and ‘they’ as the pronouns. …As if the gender debate wasn’t tough enough on this wiki. Which btw, I hope that particular poll about it means something and brings results soon.

Stevonnie, “human/flesh fusion,” still disturbs me (Notice how they didn’t really show them fusing as if they were “censoring” it?) but the way the episode ended at the “MEET CREEP KEVIN!” part seemed like it was purposely designed to turn my attention from being disturbed at Stevonnie to being disturbed at how the whole world seemed to transform into Bizarro Wonderland (emotion-wise anyway.). Btw, great damage control, Sour Cream.

To give the episode credit, I think I did enjoy the fact that Steven sorta kept his word about his enthusiasm about, “But if it were me, I'd really wanna be, a giant woman.”

When Stevonnie was dancing like a hardcore rocker (get too close to me and you may get hurt) dancer type, resulting in possibly making Kevin want to leave them alone, I was totally thinking, Yep, that’s how to lose a creep in a minute.

Kevin was a pretty peculiar character himself, especially when he was talking about, “we’re angels walking among garbage people,” I was seriously thinking he was secretly a gem or something (Everyone wants to see a male-like gem, after all.). When Kevin meets Stevonnie for the first time, I find it really interesting he looks at their gem first. And even though it could be said Kevin got freaked out that the “teenage girl” he was talking to (and was interested in) was a fusion between a much younger boy and a girl (for obvious reasons), but (Fan theory time!) what if it’s because Kevin got freaked out because the “gem” he thought (as a fellow gem like himself) he was talking to was not even a “full gem?!” Being a human hater gem. Again, it's just my theory.

Another fan theory I’m having right now regarding- Ick! Human Fusions”:

 Considering what Garnet said, “Stevonnie, listen to me, you are not two people and you are not one person, you are inexperienced, make sure you have good experience. Now. Go. Have. Fun!”

I wonder if the “Alone Together” title is referencing how Connie and Steven haven’t mastered fusion to “form one mind” like a successful fusion and as separate people mentally in the same physical body, it brings them both a sense of loneliness? And when they got lonely and possibly were both thinking of separating that was also their way of getting out of the fusion state.

I think the “loneliness effect” for fusions that aren’t “stable” (By “unstable fusions” I mean by either  being  through a gem’s/gems’ discord or inexperience.) in Stevonnie's case, is like being close to someone (either as a really close friend or family member), but they’ve passed away and even though “they’re with you in spirit,” you can’t really sense them so you can’t help but feel empty inside. Though for fusions, you know that the other person is there because they momentarily take control to speak or make an action.

That’s my thought on the episode so far.