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So, Steven develops a civilization of tiny aliens on him and meets maybe-a-spaceship-that-collided-with-god.

>>243818
Considering everything else she tanked without poofing I'm pretty confident Jasper would have withstood the pole to the chest if she hadn't been corrupted.

>>243818

Peridot is the best.

>>243826
Yep. Sorry Garnet, I love ya too but Peridot is just too godly.

>>243832
When the ED song plays just right.

>>243846

PEARL POINTS! :D (CN really should make those stickers a real thing.)

Congradulations on starting a new gem bubble collection out where it can get stolen by a curious raccoon at any moment Peri.

>>243851
Steven Universe version of Ai no Kusabi when?

Ah, so now Sardonyx already did have a late nght show, and one that's also a game show. And here I thought she'd have to set something up at the stage on the beach. Would probably be good to give her a live audience, though.

Also, wait, they just striaght-up have their own working spaceship now. One that can hold a bunch of people in it, even.

Sardonyx is so much friggin’ fun. Also, that fourth-wall-breaking bit about Sugilite was hilarious.

ALSO. http://spurkeht.tumblr.com/post/148852824705/i-had-to-pause-todays-episode-just-to-draw-this

>>243858
>Also, wait, they just striaght-up have their own working spaceship now. One that can hold a bunch of people in it, even.
I hope we get a followup to Space Race where Pearl takes Steven to where she wanted to go without it taking five decades.

So wait, what the fuck exactly happened with Lauren Zuke to drive her off Twitter? I'm hearing it had to do variously with people flipping out over people pairing Pearl with Greg or Peridot ship wars, and I don't trust Tumblr to tell me anything straight.

>>243870
She posted a piece of one ship. Those "Opposed" to that ship freaked the fuck out and acted as you'd think they would given Tumblr mentality to things that are different that they don't like "I don't like it therefore its wrong".

>>243870
>>243871

Fandoms would be great if not for all the people in them.

>>243871
>>243870

Hm, what I remember seeing right before Zuke deleted her twitter was her freaking out about how people were downloading the "leaked" episodes and watching/discussing/spoiling them early, not her reacting to shipping wars.

However I also saw /sug/ claim that it was all the fault of Jasper fans when it happened, too.

Zuke isn't commenting on why they deleted their twitter, but rumor sites have been claiming it was due to "fan harassment," but I don't know what evidence they're using to justify those claims.

>>243870
She posted a couple of cute pro-Lapidot sketches and jokes, both Amedot shippers (who are mad because they don't want Lapidot to happen) and rabid Lapidot shippers (who are mad it's not canon already) got mad and called her "queerbaiting" for daring to dangle ship teases in front of them like that. Because it's not like the show doesn't already have Pearl, Ruby, and Sapphire as examples of hardcore canon lesbians or anything.

>>243874
Jasper/Jaspis fans have no reason to get involved. They're already hated by the rest of fandom already for daring to like problematic things so them speaking up in any fashion no matter what they say would just paint an even bigger target on their backs.

>>243875

>called her "queerbaiting"

…isn’t she gay?

>>243876
Yes, she is also a very good sport, the insanity of the fanbase shocked even her.

>>243877
Its shipping. It always drives the crazies to the top.

>>243876
Exactly.

>>243893
They aren't dead.
It's a fate worse than death floating through space for all eternity...

I just realized, for all their advanced technology not having a gem tracking method seems ridiculous.

I'm kind of suprirsed we didn't see evidence of the CG having picked them up themselves . I's not like it'd be especially hard for them, Steven woulnd't want them trapped out there, and the other gems would probably feel better to avoid leaving tem an unkonw factor.

Also, that knife is the most adorable gem weapon, both for being a kife-in-the-eye joke and for being the most diminutive one we've seen yet. I'm not sure how it's particularly useful outside of getting the drop on soemone, but maybe that Ruby prefers sealth attacks to begin with.

>>243904
I actually found the ruby pulling out a shiv for their weapon rather disturbing, its not a battlefield weapon or a piece of armor but instead something used for ambushing and murdering someone.

>>243902
I wouldn't assume they don't--the same ship could search every planet in the solar system but Earth in a few months tops and find Steven. The Rubies, I guess, fell out of range.

>>243904
>>243905
It's a chisel with a dagger handle.

>>243905
The likelyhood of Ruby1F4 being a MGS inspired special operations soldier keeps going even further up.

>>243906
For gems, it's effectively the same concept. Just means it's also specifically for taking out gem targets.
And I think the real reason they didn't go looking for the rubies was that they were just so concerned with getting Steven homen quickly after he apparnelty almost froze in space.

>>243912
>Rose had a bunch of tame but mundane lions in the desert where Lion came from.
Maddeningly vague, but still an interesting clue.

>>243945

Keep getting some kinda vibe that she was some kinda fabrication specialist. Pocket Dimensions INSIDE living Constructions (Lion pretty much being a Tardis) Along with the Temple.

>>243948
Not surprising. They have teleporters all over the place. Wouldn't be surprised if there were more in the past.

That scene with blue diamond's palanquin though

>>243949
But humans can't use those unless they have a warp whistle, which he clearly didn't.

>>243948
Have two boats, have them raise up a rope high enough to not get sucked down in the gravity thing, have boats go to opposite sides of the waterfall pit, climb across rope.Then for some reason lower yourself down to the bottom along another rope since he approached it from the bottom instead of the top, unless that was just Steven imagining how he arrived there wrong.

>>244008
Didn't that show have Sugar and a pale Ian show up in the background?

>>244011
Makes him look like a young Cotton Hill.

Is Stevonnie a Yoshi?

>>244025
No Stevonnie vore plz.

>>244025
No that would be Roadrunner Peridot.

>>244025
>>244027

And now I want to see something like this done with Steven Universe sound clips: //youtube.com/watch?v=9gvswd1I8qo

>>244028
...2008 was a heckuva year, huh.

>Hey.

Yeah?

>You know all those things in Steven Universe everybody else likes waaaaay more than you do?

What about them?

>Guess which episode you'll be seeing in everyone else's top 10 lists from now on.

Sigh.

>>244031
>Guess which episode you'll be seeing in everyone else's top 10 lists from now on.
Who even cares about those? Besides general irrelevance, they're going to be dated pretty quickly in an ongoing show that's still any good.

>>244031
>>You know all those things in Steven Universe everybody else likes waaaaay more than you do?

Have you ever considered the possibility that this show isn't for you?

>>244033
He clearly likes other stuff enough to enjoy the show.

>>244031

…why do you care about the "top ten" lists of other people?

Not sure if the episode in question is the most recent one, but virtually everyone I've talked to really didn't like it.

>>244037

If you’re referring to “Mindful Education”, I enjoyed it.

>>244039
Most fans of the show seem to have.

>>244037
That's cool too. To each their own.

The Rubies seem like an odd choice for the last and biggest regret to show up given that they seem the least hurt of all of them, though I guess that just goes to show how feelings of guilt aren't always rational.

>>244042
For someone who hasn't watched much, Steven freaking out at a bunch of chatacters being upset at things that only get explained in other episodes could seem pretty odd out of context., not that there was time to do much else.

Also, Aivi & Surasshu uploaded the sad songs form Mr. Greg but not the waiter song or the burger jingle?

>>244045

It wasn’t regret about all the Rubies—just about the Ruby he pushed out into space (“Eyeball”, as seen in the OP pic) when he had no other choice. His feelings of guilt were centered around how he couldn't save Bismuth, Eyeball, and Jasper in much the same way that he saved Lapis and helped redeem Peridot. He doesn’t want to hurt others, even when they leave him no choice but to do so.

>>244047
And of course all three of these failures stemmed from their personal relationships with his mother. Up until recently he's had no reason to think of her as anything besides a completely benevolent figure, but all these revelations that she was far more ambiguous coming so close to each other have awakened a fear that maybe she...and by extension himself...wasn't the fundamentally good person he thought she was.

>>244045
>Aivi & Surasshu uploaded the sad songs form Mr. Greg but not the waiter song or the burger jingle?
They didn't upload "Mr. Greg" because they didn't write that, Ben Levin, Jeff Liu, and Joe Johnston did.

http://ben-levin.tumblr.com/post/147717650460/this-is-the-demo-for-the-song-mr-greg-from-the

I'm not sure if they wrote the jingle either, but that was just ten seconds of an old song with different lyrics.

>>244051

That ones gonna come up at some point and really shake him. Already had that point with Garnet fearing some of that shard stuff was connected to Rose.

We know she was some sorts Gem Scientist of some level really into experimentation.

>>244052
Thanks for the link, I wasn't sure where to look up who actually was doing what songs.

So are Mr. Smiley and the weird British guy a couple or something?

>>244088
Seems unlikely just because SU isn't often that understated about such things. Or are only space rocks allowed to be open about thier relationships? Iif it was the case, the operative word would be "were" rather than "are", given that they only meet briefly after years of separation.

Unrelated: The more of Mr. Smiley's stuff gets broken, the more excited I am at the idea of Peridot using space technology to make games and rides only for them to end up way too intense when she doesn't understand human safety requirements.

And that ws a cute moment with Onion there. Now he knows to be more careful!

>>244089
I really loved the whole "I guess everything worked out in the end" "Steven, that cost thousands of dollars" bit. at the end. As important as representation is, I also love little things like that that let you know "yeah, helping people out with personal issues is good but won't negate damaged property." Don't break shit, kids.

Also, Smiley and Frowny seemed like really good friends who had a falling out rather than lovers. I didn't get any romantic tension from them. I could be wrong though.

>>244093
http://lilmizzkrazie.tumblr.com/post/149871407327/my-sister-katiedid92-and-i-got-to-spend-the-day

That's Molisee in the middle.

So Pearl was actually attracted to a human. That was... not expected, even if it was one that looked like Rose.

>>244125

I didn’t think Pearl could be gayer than the living embodiment of a gay relationship. And yet…

>>244127
I forget, wasn't it one of the staff that started that old "bad Pearl" meme?

>>244128
Lauren, yeah. Might as well have been started while they were boarding this ep.

What a great ep.

>>244129
>Might as well have been started while they were boarding this ep.
Alright, lets see.

http://laurenzuke.tumblr.com/post/95968753889/live-fast-die-young-bad-pearls-do-it-well-ps-i
>27 August 2014
Naw, that's too far back, even for an animated show. Zuke said "Log Date 7 15 2" was boarded back around January 2015, and that was over a season ago.

Did she work on this one? Could be a case of her just tossing it in as a nod due to good fan reception. Though god knows why she would consider the fanbase worth humoring anymore.

Pearl is wearing Mom jeans.

This was a much more enjoyable episode than the previous two.

>>244126
Does poirl even have a Varguba yet?

>>244150
Likely not but will if she goes on with the Mystery Poison.

>>244153
>No place to dick.

Still got a mouth.

>>244154
One that has a hard enough time just taking in apple juice.

>>244155

Also that nose. Ouch.

Poor Pearl keeps trying and just ends up pecking the ladies pecker.

So they just end up cuddling and getting an ice pack for ones tender bits.

What's the chance that other gems start doing what Rose Quartz did and Pearl decides to give up her life of immortality to have a kid with her new human buddy?

>>244157
I can imagine that thing being somewhat common in some future where there are more gems not perpetually toiling for Homeworld and in contact with humans. Live long enough and the idea of dying to create some new lifeform, instead of inevitably through murder, suicide, or accident, probably sounds pretty interesting.

Pearl, specifically, I doubt would do anything like that in the lifespan of any human currently living.

>>244158

Yea I think her thing with Mystery Woman will be more about moving on than actual serious relationship stuff.

>>244153
The whole "no sex parts" thing seems unlikely. We know they are capable of using the bathroom because Amethyst has made jokes about going in the ocean--and having a pussy but no vagina seems overcomplicated. And they're shapeshifters, regardless.

>>244160
Yeah, but in a small rebuttal, amethyst is an expert shifter. Pearl... Isn't.

>>244162
Apparently named Sheena after the Ramones song.

>>244162
Attractive people don't have to pay for coffee.

>>244167
Lucky not many of them in Beach City. Else they'd gone out of business a while ago.

>>244167
Stevonnie did point out that was a poor business model.

>>244177
If it's giant and pink then Greg will steal them from the burd,

>>244177
IT KEEPS HAPPENING

>>244219
Hiatus, probably about two months judging by the equivalent point of last year.

>>244157
>Pearl decides to give up her life of immortality to have a kid with her new human buddy?
if she's going to do it with the rose quartz look alike girl it shouldn't be possible

unless she grows a cock

>>244306
>Connie is a Strategy Nerd.

Yea makes sense.

For those who haven't been keeping their ear to the ground, the show comes back the 17th with a half-hour episode "Gem Harvest", then there's apparently going to be at least one more episode before Christmas break (judging by the German schedule).

//youtube.com/watch?v=l0Seh9WDG2M

Anyone know where I can watch old eps now that World of Steven Universe is dead?

Holy shit it's... Carl!

I was kind of hoping for something that advanced the plot a bit more, but finding out about Greg's family was nice. Maybe not surprising considering "Bismuth" was kind of separate from the show's storyline when it aired.

>>244609
It tends to come back eventually.

worldofsteven.com/posts/2090

Eh, they probably just wanna ease people back into the season before dropping heavy plot bombs. Is the show going to be weekly again?

>>244610
we can have him teaching Steven life lessons.

>>244611
>Is the show going to be weekly again?
It's off next week, but there's a new one the week after that. After that though, is probably a Christmas break--CN almost never premieres new episode in December past the first week unless they're holiday episodes.

>>244612
>Steven, ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.

>>244614
"Yo, Fryman. I got your spacerocks right here. He he he BAM!"

>>244882
Dead already, but that's OK.

Beware: they're are some spoiler-crazy thumbnails for these.
http://worldofsteven.com/posts/2692

Wow CN really fucked up if they were supposed to air a month from now.

>>244884
Cmon, CN had to be doing this on purpose, is anyone really THAT incompetent again and again?

>>244885

We are talking about Cartoon Network, which is owned by Warner Bros.

So yes.

>>244885
>is anyone really THAT incompetent again and again?
Much of this is happening because clips are spread between dozen of sources (VOD, advertising, a Youtube account and website for every regional CN, the CN app) that have separate staff and have to work with a schedule that's constantly changing (in fact, multiple because every region has different air dates). Almost none of these leaks (to use the term as loosely as people are) happened the same way, though they did happen with other shows sometimes:
#Making a commercial from a clip about five episodes in the future (that clip of Peridot trying to give Lapis a gift, another of Peridot playing with her alien doll).
#A foreign version of CN showing clips about one and four episodes ahead of the current broadcast (CN UK posting the climaxes of "Super Watermelon Island" and "Barn Mates" on Youtube last February).
#People datamining the website for clips that are uploaded but not meant to be visible for a few more days (the Yellow Diamond screenshot that came a few days before "Message Received").
#Foreign broadcast beating domestic because they decided to air them as soon as they got the rights without caring/paying attention to practices on a financially separate institution that may not speak the same language ("Coach Steven" in Canada, "Barn Mates" through "Steven Floats" in France; it's remarkable that it doesn't happen more).
#Someone uploading episodes that come out early because the release date is wrong, either because the final TV schedule was reworked, the initial date was a placeholder someone forgot to correct in time, or just a typo (this stuff).

>>244886
>Cartoon Network, which is owned by Warner Bros.
Same parent company (Time Warner), but different division (TBS).

>>244887
But this is whole strings of episodes, not clips

>>244889

So what?

>>244892
It's interesting how the moral high ground hasn't changed direction, but has gotten more even. It seemed like Rose thought of humans as people while Homeworld thought they were nothing. Turns out they both thought of humans as animals, Rose just thought a zoo wasn't a substitute for their natural environment.

Speaking of which, those quartz gems were definitely watching the humans sustain the population.

>>244898

I'd say in the end those Quartz and other associated Kinder gems have more in common with humans than Gem kind. Hence they are all out there either playing guard or bubbled.

>>244898
Well also that the Zoo was Pink Diamond's idea to preserve Earthlings after the planet was converted, while the other diamonds either continue or tolerate it respectively due to it being poor departed Pink's project.

It all makes me even more curious to find out the exact circumstances that led to her being shattered

http://www.polygon.com/tv/2017/1/5/14177940/steven-universe-leaks-2017

A CN rep said those episodes were released intentionally as part of the website/app's "See It First" promotion.

Even so, all of them being taken back down within twelve hours (and only one being put back up so far) suggests someone else at the network thought they shouldn't have been posted.

Also, while these new SU episodes were marked as "See It First", I will note there are other times where episodes go up there first without such a denotation and are taken down shortly thereafter--with Gumball alone it's happened with like five episodes already.

>>244903
Whatever is in earths makeup seemed to do something to the gems created there, all those bubbled Rose Quartz. Whatever Pink was working on earth altered something in the gems she created there

>>244908

So, to recap: The people in charge of Cartoon Network are idiots.

Some people are just now figuring that out?

>>244912
Well that's slightly less of a Clusterfuck than Legend of Korra and its last two seasons. They reacted to a leak by in a spectacular method of failure. Course it may have been that blistering incompetence that they finally agreed "fine, have your lesbians."

But now Harvey Beaks has hit some of those same roadblocks.

I've seen utterly poor moves by all the major animation producers. And I don't know why they don't change.

The Zoomans are cute and I hope we see them again.

>>245113

Ditto the "hope we see them again" sentiment for the Famethyst.

>>245114
I loved the heck out of them.

>>245113
That was the intention, apparently.

http://troffie.tumblr.com/post/156782558363/here-are-some-drawings-from-the-zoo-ages-ago
>Ages ago, Rebecca pitched The Zoo to Lamar and I as this absolute utopian, hippie society full of beautiful and healthy people with no concept of pain or sadness. So we went to town drawing as many different kinds of hot people as possible! 70s sci-fi, hippie communes, The Time Machine (1960), The Footlight Parade (1933), and the Centaurette sequence from Fantasia were all influences for this episode

>>245117
Explains the oddly fanservicey outfits then.

>>245120
I'm honestly slightly surprised there hasn't been more erotic material made of them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrJtQM3Cgo
Looking forward to this episode.

Yeah looking forward to more Steven Universe episodes

Someone on /co/ Prime pointed out that the music in that ad sounds similar to Jasper’s theme.

Is it…Redemption Time? :O

>>245880
>the music in that ad sounds similar to Jasper’s theme.
The second half is is part of Jasper's theme, but without the ratcheting sound. The first half is the music that played on the car ride during the Beach City evacuation, also from "The Return".

https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/sets/steven-universe-the-return

>>245880
God I hope it is.

http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/clip-steven-universe-returns-for-5-night-event-on-may-8/?doing_wp_cron=1493445229.6927330493927001953125

All five will be on the website in just six more days.

What is the crew's obsession with Lars? He's terrible, he's just a terrible human being with no one to blame but himself.

This is coming from someone with social-anxiety and depression who failed scholastically and was bullied heavily, that doesn't justify you in being such a douchebag asshole. Common decency and manners don't cost nothin.

>>246039
He just tries so hard to be liked that he doesn't realize he is in fact being extremely unlikeable.

>>246039
>What is the crew's obsession with Lars?
He's still far less prominent now than he was in the first season.

And he really didn't do anything mean this time, though he was a huge coward (in several ways).

>>246041
And because of his disgusting cowardice he never got off the ship when he ran to hide, and is thus going to be absorbing more screentime in the following episodes?

>>246042
I'm okay with that because it finally feels like we're going somewhere with him, my problem with him in the previous episodes is that we never go anywhere besides "he sucks."

This is the big chance to redeem him, also I'm interested in how he relates to Steven here who is at a low point and is willing to sacrifice himself, but to save someone he'll fight....that said Lars is like, the one person who could fuck up Steven's desire to protect people with his selfish cowardice.

Only in Death can Absolution be found

So the TV airing had something unexpected: the exact second the episode ended, there was a trailer for the next four episodes, which are airing in a one-hour block called Steven Universe: Wanted. That's why "Stuck Together" went up this morning--as a preview.

Topaz is olev.

Is White Diamond Primus?

>>246268

Whose side are hue on?

Feeling like yellow isn't the mastermind, but blue was definitely kept in the dark.
Just can't get past the looming shadow of white diamond. Her absence speaks volumes.

>>246271

Okay but what actually happened to him? (I missed all but the last episode of the event and I am currently too lazy to go watch the others.)

>>246272
it's what happens if Steven tears you back to life from the dead. Confirms the theory that Lion was a regular lion.

>>246272
>>246273
And despite what Steven's say, I'm calling them both "pink zombies" from now on.

>>246273
>>246274
I wonder if the condition ends up being reversible via application of ordinary human medical science, applied as though Lars was simply in a period of extended stasis. Not that that's necessarily preferable to being magic and unaging, but whatever. I do look forward to seeing what Sadie thinks, maybe she'll even insist on Steven taking her to stay with him on Homeworld?

And that's not even getting into what any of the other Townies might try to get up to.
Connie: I've read Dune, Steven! You need to combine with the worm if we want to fix the galaxy!
Steven: What are you talking abou-
Connie: Spice must flow, Steven! Spice must flow!

>>246278
Steven becomes a giant omnipotent pink phallic worm that controls an army of fanatical warrior women
Sounds legit

>>246281
I've long wonder if her absence was because she's alive, but reached some state where she's functionally not even a person.

Bismuth explained that Rose's sword can't shatter gems, hence why she made the breaking point and why Steven thought she'd used it to kill Pink Diamond.

>>246282

Another theory: She is absent because she is the fusion of the other three Diamonds.

The first official soundtrack for the show drops tomorrow. For the full tracklist, we go to Aivi and Surasshu themselves:

//youtube.com/watch?v=Q7fsLOTtWcI

And for those of you who do not want to sit through the full video, here is the tracklist:

01. “We Are The Crystal Gems”
02. “Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart”
03. “Cookie Cat”
04. “Giant Woman”
05. “Strong In The Real Way”
06. “Steven And The Stevens”
07. “Big Fat Zucchini”
08. “Steven And The Crystal Gems”
09. “Dear Old Dad”
10. “Be Wherever You Are”
11. “On The Run”
12. “Comet”
13. “Destiny”
14. “Lapis Lazuli”
15. “Whaling Stone”
16. “Stronger Than You”
17. “Full Disclosure”
18. “We Are The Crystal Gems (Full Theme Song)”
19. “The Jam Song”
20. “Do It For Her”
21. “What Can I Do (For You)”
22. “Tower Of Mistakes”
23. “Haven’t You Noticed (I’m A Star)”
24. “Something Entirely New”
25. “Peace And Love On The Planet Earth”
26. “Don’t Cost Nothing”
27. “Empire City”
28. “Mr. Greg”
29. “It’s Over Isn’t It”
30. “Both Of You”
31. “Don’t Cost Nothing (Reprise)”
32. “I Think I Need A Little (Change)”
33. “Here Comes A Thought”
34. “Still Not Giving Up”
35. “I Could Never Be (Ready)”
36. “What’s The Use Of Feeling Blue”
37. “Love Like You (End Credits)”

>>246647
Oof, I'm so glad they changed the art style from this.

>>246670
I actually kind of like the old colors better. They're more lo-fi, for sure, but there's something charming about that.

>>246670
Urgh, they all look like they have elephantiasis or Flapjack closeup syndrome.

Keep watching this every time it pops up in my recommended.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vgckQGnFEAI

>>246707
I love Sangled's animatics. This is the one I watch every time it pops up in my recommendations:

//youtube.com/watch?v=3BX6v_Brbk0

But yeah, "38 weeks + 2 weeks....................PREGANINANT?" cracks me up every bloody time.

Clip and teaser from the new season

//youtube.com/watch?v=2LzrNNKswLs

//youtube.com/watch?v=RnmF_F_XCgg

>>246737
Another Captain Harlock reference? Nice.

>>246737
>>246738
Funny thing is, he kind of has to be the captain--humans are physically incapable of operating any of the controls.

//youtube.com/watch?v=IaR8KO4VFPM

I like SU, but damn, did it need a dismantling like this one.

>>247112
I expected a rant on the genuinely ridiculous hiatuses, but what it actually turned out to be is as good.

>>247113

The blame for hiatuses—and the lack of reruns—can and should fall upon the people in charge at Cartoon Network. SU would not be on hiatus for so long if CN stopped doing “bombs” and instead aired new episodes on a weekly basis.

>>247172
>SU would not be on hiatus for so long if CN stopped doing “bombs” and instead aired new episodes on a weekly basis.
They keep doing it because, apparently, the ratings have been better that way. Which makes sense, at least when it's practically a TV movie like Wanted--an hour of peak ratings counts as much as four quarter-hours that gets the same ratings, and they only have to promote one date.

Granted, there's more complicated things to consider (like premiers getting "spillover" to reruns directly before and after), and some of this is a bit more experimental than a sure thing, but the long-term rate episodes have come out at (~10 days/episode) hasn't really changed.

Another reason they've pushed for bombs is that they are peddling the steaming service really hard. Need your fix? It's online, like it or not.
It's hypothesized that's one of the reasons there are only about four shows shown daily, to flood the market with cheap shows and create a scarcity for novelty.

Lords only know why they'd play Teen Titans GO 90 times a week otherwise.