YMMV / Steven Universe S5E24 "Legs From Here to Homeworld"

• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Nephrite is confirmed to still be a Homeworld loyalist, yet still easily gave her friendship to Steven, raising hopes that it can be done with more Homeworld Gems, especially now that at least some of them know that he's Pink Diamond.
• I Knew It!:
  • Many fans have correctly guessed that Centipeetle is a Nephrite, and her commander being a Hessonite.
  • Because of Blue and Yellow's arm-shaped ships, fans had guessed that Pink's ship took the shape of a pair of legs, and White's a head and torso. The episode's title was guessed to allude to the existence of the leg ship, and both ships were unveiled in the episode.
  • Because of the SDCC teasing her eyes, many fans assumed that White Diamond would be mentioned in the show very, very soon. They were proven right, as she does make her full debut in this very episode.
  • Rumors had been going around for months that White Diamond would be voiced by Christine Ebersole thanks to a tease from her and Patti LuPone (Yellow Diamond's VA) nearly a year prior. Come this episode, they were proven correct (Ebersole also voices White Pearl).
  • An interview had Rebecca Sugar acknowledging this trope, commenting that she was quite surprised to see just how much the theorists in the fandom got right about White Diamond. That said, she refused to elaborate any further, for obvious reasons.
• Shocking Moments:
  • Everything about White Pearl's appearance and mannerisms shake up what we already know about Gems.
  • White Diamond in full person.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Diamonds are on Steven's side now, and without multiple episodes spent rehabilitating them or teaching them about Earth or... anything that Peridot went through. The Diamonds, trapped on Earth for a couple episodes to get them to acclimate to the idea of helping the Gems, could have been enough for a Stevenbomb on their own. Then again, we wouldn't have gotten the White Diamond reveal, and it's possible that such developments were being saved for future episodes.
• Unexpected Character: We get a brief mention of Hessonite, in the first time that any element of the video games is confirmed in the show itself (Nephrite's sketches to Steven did show a crayon-stick-figure version of her commander, which looked like a Hessionite. This confirmed it was one).

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