Consider the Following - The Answer

WARNING!

CONTAINS A SMALL AMOUNT OF PEANUT AND SPOILERS!

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SPOILERY SPOILY SPOIL THINGS! You were warned.

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I needed to watch this one a few times after missing a lot of things while freaking out. I’m even watching it in the background as I write this, but I’ve got a job to do. So sit back, grab some popcorn and take this time to…



Consider the following.



I was expecting tidbits in this episode, but wasn’t expecting SO MUCH information. They pile drove us all with background goodies to find.







So first off. LOOK ITS LAPIS IN ANCIENT EARTH THERE SHE IS OMG!



Ahem, now thats out of the way lets get into a quick rundown of the confirmed stuff.



Confirmation that same gems (rubies as this example) are super similar, except for gem placement.



…also, MEGA RUBY!

As an aside, this image in particular makes it easy to understand why only two rubies were beaten here. Our Roob-a-doob-doob’s gem is on her left hand

the other 2’s gems are on the right.

All it took was one blow straight up the outside of the right arm.



Now back onto the subject.



So fusion IS frowned upon by homeworld, but only between different gems, a super imposed class system showing its face again. Now piecing that with an earlier dialogue from Peridot, "She’s not even fighting! She’s just… you know…“

"YOU KNOW!”

Fusion is some sort of accepted yet not accepted action. The act of a lowly gem soldier, “A cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger.”







The “Pearls are servants” theory was confirmed long ago, but now they’ve been given a visual, a very somber and almost sad visual…

There is a lot of attention put in here on that one Pearl, she is the only character aside from Ruby, Sapphire, and Blue Diamond (from what little we see of her) that is fully drawn out.



Why is a Pearl animated so well while even Lapis is left hidden as a silhouette in the background? It was meant to draw our eye to it, meant for us to examine it as it stood out.

This is the first VISUAL of a servant Pearl we’ve ever seen. And seeing this image just gave me this awful feeling about this Pearl’s treatment.

She seemed well enough, but at the same time she seemed almost aside, as if all she was to do is keep still and silent. She really was nothing but a bauble to them…

And the bombshell here… BLUE FLABJABBIN DIAMOND RIGHT FLAKDRAKKIN THERE DEAR GEM JEEBUS!









Now on to a new question raised by this episode…

Why didn’t any of the gems summon their weapons?



The MEGA RUBY (yes this will always be in caps) didn’t glove up, Pearl was dual wielding swords.

We didn’t even see Rose’s shield!

Did gems not know how to summon their weapons yet? Is gem summoned weapons thing a later developed during the war?

Now remember, Rose has an entire armory filled with weapons…

Remember we’ve yet to see pearl have anything but swords in her flashbacks and if Rose could just summon her shield from the beginning, why would she need an armory? Food for thought.





But wait… there’s more

This is a big one for me too, because people have been on the fence whether Peri would either teeter for neutral and end up going back to homeworld, but I give you this evidence.





Garnet is at the moment she first truly doubts her and homeworlds actions as a single entity… This is the fundamental first step toward Garnet being a Crystal Gem.

In this moment of crisis where, Ruby and Sapphire both doubt everything they’ve ever known, Rose simply answers…

Now a few episodes ago in “Back to the Barn” Peridot fought Pearl. She overcomes Pearl’s robot, Pearl decks Peri, good times are had and Peridot at first feels she’s won. Pearl in the one congratulated and Peridot is confused.

Peridot states how she won, “What about the rules!?” she asks…



The rules…

These are what she’s lived and breathed by her entire life. She has it drilled in her head that class and rank is where you stay. You will only ever be what you were build for… nothing more.

But if that Pearl can be more… IS more than just what she was build for…



This is the core of what made her a homeworld gem, everything she knows hinges on the rules and their logic, the logical order as homeworld taught her to perceive it.

Wouldn’t that mean that said logical order could be… wrong?

This has become a moment of internal conflict where she can doubt everything she’s ever known.

and how does Garnet respond…?

IF THAT’S NOT A HINT I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS!

SAVEPERIDOT2K16 IS A GO!





Look at this beautiful sherbet cup!

And I have a great feeling that this week is going to be heavy in uncovering the past and shaping a certain possible CG’s future. Fingers crossed!