My apologies, loyal minions, for my absence. The life of the great Peridot is a busy one, especially when Steven reveals that there is more than one season of Camp Pining Hearts! I’m sure you understand my priorities there.

To prove my willingness to be a true “partner” with Pearl, I am heeding some of her advice this week. She suggested that my previous episodes were lacking in cohesive plot. I question that still, but realized that every Camp Pining Hearts episode has a simple synopsis to help humans understand it! So, this episode also has has one of those, and follows it loyally. I also felt it was appropriate to have Pearl and myself team up in this one. Enjoy my brilliance!

The Great Barn Date

Steven joins Pearl with a new ally to rescue family on the Moon

place.

Pearl, if you fight for Earth,

We will fight for you!

If you could only know,

The name of Rose and Greg!

Be easy when you think of us,

Of Steven, Peridot, and you,

Are in,

The World Fight!

The episode begins with the assumption that the great Garnet is not leading the Gems anymore. She wants Peridot and Pearl in the episode with Steven.

PERIDOT: You know I can do this operation. I came to the Earth to be the most reasonable, rational, efficient decider ever!

PEARL: This is going to be a fiasco of a historic leader. We are looking at you, Tiny.

She explains that she insulted the gem Peridot.

STEVEN: Okay… I’ve had a ton of stuff in my face. I don’t know what this means.

Peridot is excited by the romantic connections that she knows about Pearl, who immediately tries to convince Steven that it’s not going to be. Steven notices that the permafusion Garnet and Amethyst are objectively the best. Steven also notices the Moon is inside the barn and explains that it’s not common on Earth. Pearl wonders aloud to Peridot.

PEARL: What would she think of this? She was courageous and beautiful, and that’s enough for the Moon.

Peridot notes that today already is fun, and she believes it will get to a special place. Pearl angrily kicks her for stating facts and demands that Steven tells Peridot that she is a foolish mistake. Steven suggests that they need to fix the Moon in the barn.

As they question that, a small object behind Garnet grabs her by using her limbs. It demands that they now go to the barn, and then plays with Garnet. The gems run towards the Moon as Steven summons his entire problem.

STEVEN: What do we do? The Moon is really hard to fight, and now they wanna do something wrong! Are the Crystal Gems okay?

PEARL: We might be, but it’s the mark of a great leader to turn her memories to glorious victory. Can you even be strong like she was?

Pearl is now annoyed that this is inside the barn, where she used to teach Steven about his mother being a rock.

PEARL: I can’t believe this thing! We really need someone to tell me what to do.

PERIDOT: I can tell you! Just do anything I want you to. Just like the great Diamond Authority, I will emerge to contact you with meaningless distractions. You can belong to me all the time!

Steven declares a break as he explains the Crystal Gems once more to Peridot. He remembers to talk about how poorly Peridot is able to talk to a common Pearl.

STEVEN: Pearl isn’t a spaceship you can ride. She trained herself to be okay, and to do something well, and now she works hard to assume I can do it too! You both are gonna work things out, and we’ll do a whole lot of stuff to fight the Moon.

Steven is extremely human-gem hybrid about this.

PEARL: That was precious, but Garnet said to be true like she is. I can show you that everything can be horrible, and I can show you that I mean to disturb that thing!

PERIDOT: I was once a menace and a massive kindergartener. I thought we were originally friends like the Cluster. I can engineer a plan that will be catastrophic!

They all enter the barn. They eventually do something important in the barn with the giant thing that is inside. Peridot changes the Moon to a chicken, and Pearl simply confuses Steven, who immediately kicks the object that is shocking Garnet and a few hundred of the Earth life. Garnet launches it to the Galaxy of the Discarded Gems and says goodnight to the barn.

STEVEN: We got what I wanted! This means I don’t care what you guys do.

PERIDOT: That matters to me! I just did the chicken, and that’s exceedingly simple, Are the three of us the most elite? I think that’s a fact.

PEARL: This was courageous and brilliant, but we mustn’t waste time. The Moon that

we have here in the temple should be difficult to keep hidden.

She doesn’t know where to be. Pearl looks up to the same room that Rose Quartz supposedly only made to learn humor.

PEARL: Can I realize that everything I ever did, I did for her? Can I ever be a lion of time? I can.

The episode ends in Rose’s room as Rose Quartz is excited to see a chicken with a secret sock.

