Consider the Following - “Friend Ship”

WARNING!

THIS IS A SPOILER FOR THE NEW STEVEN UNIVERSE EPISODE “FRIEND SHIP”!

Once again special thanks to a friend of mine, Kerriadango!

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SPOILERY SPOILERS! You were warned!

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So here we are, the end of Steven Bomb 3 and boy was it a wild ride.

Please take this time to consider the following.

As I’d said earlier in the week during ‘Keystone Motel’ Pearl had set her sites on Peridot, “like some goal to focus on in the hopes it would make what she’s done wrong, right again.” and continues to torment herself with her failings.

The first example of this, is Pearl’s unhealthy drive to catch Peridot, consuming her rational thought. We find heroes finally catching up with Peridot and fighting her on the warp hub.

And Pearl, throwing herself at Peridot in hopes that she can overpower her. She continuously slams herself blindly into the fray and puts herself and the others in harms way.

Pearl is no longer thinking clearly, being foolish an inattentive to her surroundings. So while the others are bringing their A+ game (including Steven, which was awesome to see)…



Pearl was constantly fumbling about like a… well, a clod…

And with Pearl over anxiously trying to catch Peridot, she keeps causing blunder after blunder. This suddenly turns this simple capture mission into something more akin to a Scooby-Doo chase scene.





“…Like some goal to focus on in the hopes it would make what she’s done wrong, right again.” Starting to ring in my ears at this point.

She’s to busy focusing on what will happen AFTER Peridot is caught, that she’s not thinking clearly about what she’s doing to GET there.

Here it is, all of Pearl’s fears and doubts rearing their ugly head. Whether the 'Pearl is a drone’ theory applies here or not, she defaces herself as an intelligent or even useful gem. She feels that all she still is… is a drone.

I spoke of this as well after ‘Crying for Help’, “Pearl, is using Garnet’s support in Sardonyx to create an escape from the torment of her own inadequacies.” Fusing with Garnet made things she loathed about herself melt away, as if they never mattered. She became addicted to that and did horrible things to make it continue.

But Garnet knows better, she knows she has flaws, that no matter how much she can boast in the face of danger she has times of weakness too.

Garnet drops a bombshell here. “Not ROSE…” Rose wasn’t your fault, Rose never chose what you should do and Rose wanted more for you than to keep acting like a drone.

You are unique Pearl, you take so little credit and yet look at ALL you’ve done? Rebelled and struggled, loved and lost, found and raised as your own, and believed in tomorrow. You’ve stopped monsters and saved MILLIONS of lives and done things so many people can only dream of.

Look at all that, look at those things and tell me you can only function by instruction and not by the same passion Rose Quartz saw in you! You are not mindless Pearl, you are MIGHTY and COURAGEOUS all on your own! YOU ARE YOUR OWN GEM!

And finally, she can see it and speaks those beautiful all encompassing words we NEEDED Pearl to so desperately say…

There it is… closure. The words outlining what she’s been missing for so long now. All those things she’d punished herself for beginning to wash away and in some time, finally heal. This was the first big plunge forward and at last she made it, thinking and feeling clear again, like a breath of fresh air.

And just like that inhale, there was an exhale of fear and doubt. They put the mistake away in the face of what was necessary and worked as a family. Pearl and Garnet even share a joke over their new found leg-up on the situation.



Yet an ominous threat remains.

This may be nothing, but more likely it is a slip from Peridot toward the plans for Earth. This warning could only mean one thing, Peridot knows Earth is on a countdown to doomsday… and Yellow Diamond is winding the clock.

But they are a family, they’ve gotten through everything before and they won’t just give up now. If this is any sort of sign, I hope it’s of things to come where others stand beside the gems in this our final hours.

We humans are a stubborn lot, and don’t stand idly by while you hurt our planet. The Gems have friends all over beach city…



People we all now know and have grown to love, who time and time again have proven they can tough out the worst. Friends who would be more than just a match for any invaders!

And as some great gems once said…



“It won’t be easy… but we wont have to do it alone.”