Steven Universe
Together Alone
TV Flash files “Together Alone” as hour 152 of 154 in the TV Flash guide — Steven Universe (2013–2019) on Cartoon Network, season 5, episode 26, aired 2018-12-31, 15 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E26: listed hour 152 of 154 in the Steven Universe guide, hour 26 of 28 in season 5. It aired 2018-12-31 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Familiar” (S05E25). Next is “Escapism” (S05E27).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Steven throws a party to bring his family together.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Together Alone sit in the Steven Universe guide?
S05E26 is listed hour 152 of 154 — hour 26 of 28 in season 5, season 5 episode 26.
When did Steven Universe S05E26 air?
Together Alone aired 2018-12-31 and is listed at 15 minutes.
Kids' show or all-ages drama?
Children's animation with emotional literacy and landmark queer representation. Kindness as strategy, not a joke. Executives underestimated it; fandom did not.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Rebecca Sugar's half-gem boy and alien guardians treat empathy as a superpower: fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids' animation that executives underestimated. Musical lore denseness and emotional literacy — children's television that argued, week after week, that feeling things was the point.
So about the hiatus pain: Crewniverse fandom treated every delay like a spoiler (I said spoiler-free; continuity was the spoiler). Rebecca Sugar's Cartoon Network series (2013–2019) is a half-gem boy and alien guardians unpacking trauma, identity, and love while protecting Earth — Zach Callison's Steven, Estelle's Garnet, Michaela Dietz's Amethyst, Deedee Magno Hall's Pearl. Empathy as a superpower. Fusion, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Lana can keep the premiere gown; this timeline wanted the…
Filed against
- Zach Callison as Steven Universe
Zach Callison’s Steven Universe treated empathy as a superpower — Rebecca Sugar’s half-gem boy, alien guardians, fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation that executives…
- Estelle as Garnet
Estelle voiced Garnet on Steven Universe — fusion as love, trauma as lore, Rebecca Sugar's half-gem boy and alien guardians treating empathy as a superpower. Landmark queer-friendly kids' animation executives underestimated. TV Flash…
- Michaela Dietz as Amethyst
Michaela Dietz’s Amethyst gave Steven Universe a loud, messy guardian pulse — Rebecca Sugar’s 2010s half-gem boy, fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation executives…
- Deedee Magno Hall as Pearl
Deedee Magno Hall’s Pearl made Steven Universe a song with a spine — Rebecca Sugar’s half-gem boy, alien guardians, fusion, trauma, empathy as a superpower. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation executives underestimated. TV Flash files…
- Shelby Rabara as Peridot
Shelby Rabara voices Peridot on Steven Universe — Rebecca Sugar's green technician whose fury, fusion, and eventual softness let a kids' epic treat empathy as strategy instead of a lecture. Musical lore, alien guardians, a half-gem boy…