for those of you who aren’t too sure on what i was saying when i said “this really puts a new perspective on things”: i mentioned this before but want to make it VERY CLEAR that the point of this post was not to bash jasper but was to acknowledge that these, to quote pearl, “monsters,” are really just gems that can’t communicate properly or form into their former selves. we often forget this with the crystal gems, but let us not forget the crystal gems reaction to half healed centipeedle, and the countless other gems. i believe this is why steven talked to connie so much about corruption in the first place, to remind us that these gems know what’s going on. let us not also forget that pearl, connie and steven came to poof those corrupted gems as well, and used their weapons (rather than sheer power) to fight them. the only difference is the perspective.