Reunited

“	This is our home! Our planet! Our friends and family! We are the Crystal Gems!	”
—Steven

Reunited
Season	5
Episode	23/24
Overall	151/152
Broadcast Information
Airdate	July 6, 2018
Production Code	TBA
Viewers	TBA
Credits
Written and Storyboarded by	Miki Brewster Jeff Liu Katie Mitroff Paul Villeco
Directed by	Joe Johnston
Episode Guide
Previous	"Made of Honor"
Next	TBA

"Reunited" is the 23^rd and 24^th episode of the fifth season of Steven Universe, the 151^st and 152^nd episode overall, and the final episode in the seventh StevenBomb. It is a 22-minute special episode, excluding advertisements.

Synopsis

Steven brings everyone together for a special reunion.

Plot

The episode starts off with Steven singing "Let's Only Think About Love". He goes around helping everyone get ready for the wedding. Ruby and Sapphire say their vows, with Sapphire explaining how Ruby saved her from her destiny and opened up new possibilities. They kiss and fuse back into Garnet.

Ruby and Sapphire kiss and fuse back into Garnet.

During the reception, Steven begins crying, at first believing it to be due to his emotions and later realizing it is the presence of Blue Diamond. The Diamonds come in their ships and attack the Cluster, aiming to open its bubble. Despite Steven's attempts, the Cluster is unbubbled and takes the form of a giant arm. However, it remains in control of itself and fights Yellow Diamond's ship. 

Meanwhile, Blue arrives and is unconvinced by Steven's attempts at talking to her. She attacks and subdues everyone but Connie and Lion with her grief. Connie attacks Blue Diamond but fails and Connie's sword is shattered, Garnet gets past the sadness and is able to distract Blue long enough for Lapis to launch the barn at Blue. The fight continues with the Crystal Gems momentarily victorious, and Lapis officially joins the Crystal Gems, as Yellow Diamond's ship is defeated and thrown onto Blue's, crushing Blue Diamond beneath it. Unfortunately, the Diamonds regroup: Yellow Diamond exits her ship and assists Blue out from the wreckage. Peridot taunts Yellow asking if the Diamond remembers her. Yellow scornfully denies it and poofs Peridot. As Steven tries to explain to the Diamonds, Yellow smashes him into the ground and is knocked unconscious.

The Diamonds surprised at Steven.

Steven awakens outside his body in an abstract psychic plane. He realizes that, disembodied, he can interact with people's thoughts and watches as Lapis is also poofed. After giving his friends encouragement, he attempts to contact the Diamonds, but they find and attack him. Steven resists, and is able to create Pink Diamond's aura, which convinces the Diamonds that she is still alive.

Steven reawakens with the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds standing over him with surprise, as Blue expresses in tears, "It's you. Pink."

Features

Characters

• Steven Universe
• Pearl
• Amethyst
• Garnet
• Ruby
• Sapphire
• Bismuth
• Peridot
• Connie Maheswaran
• Lapis Lazuli
• Greg Universe
• Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran (non-speaking)
• Doug Maheswaran (non-speaking)
• Onion (non-speaking)
• Sour Cream (non-speaking)
• Vidalia (non-speaking)
• Yellowtail (non-speaking)
• Nanefua Pizza
• Jenny Pizza (non-speaking)
• Kiki Pizza (non-speaking)
• Kofi Pizza (non-speaking)
• Ronaldo Fryman (non-speaking)
• Peedee Fryman (non-speaking)
• Mr. Fryman (non-speaking)
• Bill Dewey (non-speaking)
• Buck Dewey (non-speaking)
• Jamie (non-speaking)
• Andy DeMayo (non-speaking)
• Sadie Miller (non-speaking)
• Barbara Miller (non-speaking)
• Harold Smiley (non-speaking)
• Alexandrite (non-speaking)
• Yellow Diamond
• Blue Diamond
• Lion
• Pumpkin
• Cat Steven
• The Cluster
• Mayoral Guards (non-speaking)
• Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (mentioned)

Objects

• Blue Diamond's Ship
• Yellow Diamond's Ship

• Rose's Sword

Music

Songs

• Let's Only Think About Love

Instrumental Songs

• Stronger Than You
• Connie
• Blue Diamond
• Yellow Diamond
• Alexandrite

Trivia

• This is the third half-hour episode to be made, the others being "Bismuth" and "Gem Harvest".
• This is the first time Ruby and Sapphire kiss on the lips on-screen.
  • This is also the first kiss with no indirection.
• This is both Lapis and Peridot's second on-screen poofing.
• This is the first time the Diamonds have fought formally on-screen.
• As of this episode, Yellow Diamond has poofed four Gems on-screen.
  • The Gems were the defense Zircon, the prosecuting Zircon, Peridot, and Lapis Lazuli.
  • This is also the second time Yellow Diamond has poofed Gems on-screen.
  • Additionally, this is also the second time that we hear the distinctive "oh heck" sound that's used when Yellow Diamond reacts in a violent manner to something that was said.
    • ​​The first time was when Peridot called Yellow Diamond a clod in "Message Received", and the second was when Steven tried telling Yellow Diamond that he was Pink Diamond before she stomped on him.
• Lapis is the only Gem aside from the Diamonds not dressed for the wedding.
• Lapis officially becomes one of the Crystal Gems by choice.
• The promo art for this episode features Kelsey and JP from Craig of the Creek, another Cartoon Network series that has had several references to Steven Universe (including a reference to Li'l Butler apparently existing within the former series).
• The wedding takes place 8 months after Steven's birthday, which means the wedding takes place in April.
• This is the only episode where a fusion involving Garnet unfuses due to a disruption of stability that does not show Ruby and Sapphire's silhouettes.

Cultural References

• While preparing for the wedding, Sapphire and Ruby cover their eyes around each other. This is a common superstition that bad luck will come if the bride is seen by her fiancé before their wedding.
• When Sapphire shatters the ice forming around her feet from anxiety, this is a reference to the common symptom of a bride-to-be known as "cold feet".
  • It may also bear some resemblance to the Breaking of the Glass tradition in Jewish weddings.
• The flower decorations shown throughout the wedding appear to be the same type as the Flower Monster in "Back to the Kindergarten", which appears to be based on the Silent Princess flower in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
• Ronaldo pulls out his katana and attempts to fight the Cluster's hand in a similar fashion to the characters in the anime Attack on Titan.

Continuity

• This episode immediately begins after "Made of Honor".
• This is the first physical appearance of Connie since "Lars of the Stars".
• Ruby and Sapphire are married. Ruby had proposed to Sapphire in "The Question".
• Blue Diamond recognizes Rose's Sword and shatters it.
• Steven's spiked bubble formed first in "Steven vs. Amethyst" return.
• When Steven is shaving, he uses the razor Garnet gave him in "Three Gems and a Baby".
  • The strand of facial hair he shaves off is the same one he started growing at the end of "Steven's Birthday".
• Blue and Yellow Diamond now know Rose Quartz and Pink Diamond were the same person.
• Blue Diamond does, in fact, remember Ruby and Sapphire from the events of "The Answer".
• Conversely, Yellow Diamond claims not to remember Peridot just before poofing her, which alludes to one of Yellow's lines in "Message Received": "Which Peridot?".
• In her thoughts, Pearl mentions to "do it for him/her'", referencing the song "Do It for Her".
  • When rousing her, Steven tells her to think of herself as well, as she previously used self-sacrifice in battle for Rose.
• The Cluster's appearance of many hands reaching towards the sky while forming was foreshadowed in "The Zoo", when the Zoomans reached to the sky after Greg rejected their choosing him.
• The enhancements given to the Crystal Gems' weapons in "Bismuth" return.
• The Together Breakfast makes an appearance as Garnet's wedding cake.
• At one point in the song "Let's Only Think About Love", Steven does a pose similar to his pose in the beginning of the first opening.
  • One of the first lines in the song describes Pink/Rose seeing "beauty and its worth", echoing one of Pearl's lines in the extended second opening.
  • The last time Steven sings "There's an awful lot of awful things we could be thinking of", he holds the note, referencing the end of "It's Over Isn't It".
• When the Gems were walking until Ruby ran to the wedding, Greg was playing "Stronger Than You" on his guitar.

Errors

• During the wedding ceremony, after Steven acknowledges the presence of everyone and begins his speech, Nanefua is not visible in the crowd. However, she had been seen before the song finished.
• While Ruby and Sapphire are fusing, their respective gemstones are shown on the opposite hands.
• After Ruby and Sapphire reunited, Garnet is seen wearing a wedding gown with puffed sleeves and a black bow tie with a pair of pants, but the next screenshot of Garnet in a distant, she is seen wearing a full wedding gown's bottom without pants to be seen.
• When Garnet takes form after Ruby and Sapphire fuse with each other, her neck is missing.
  • This may just be due to the angle, as it seems like her back might be slightly arched.
• When the Crystal Gems are squaring off against Blue Diamond just after Lapis drops the barn on her, Pearl's spear is summoned as a regular spear, then it suddenly turns into a trident in the next shot where we can see it, with no throwing having been done between the two shots.
• When Blue Diamond sends out her radiated Pathokinesis a second time Connie appears to be in tears despite being immune.
  • However it is possible that this was not a mistake and was done on purpose as the second wave seemed to be more powerful.
• Lion's head appears to be missing in the first shot of when the Crystal Gems were positioned in Lapis's water ball.
• When Yellow Diamond says "It must be a trick! Show yourself, foe!", you can not see Blue Diamond through Yellow Diamond's body and vice versa, even though both are translucent.

Transcript

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Videos

Steven Universe Reunited Cartoon Network

Steven Universe Let’s Only Think About Love (Song) Cartoon Network