Rewatching the last few minutes of "Message Received", it occurs to me that Peridot probably only realized that she wanted to stay on Earth once Yellow Diamond said she was going to send for a ship.
I just wonder what her original plan in contacting Yellow Diamond was, now.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
She probably figured "Oh, I'll talk YD into disabling the Cluster, then I'll return to Homeworld knowing Earth is OK and my life will go back to normal."
Then she realized it wasn't gonna happen that way.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Like Jane said, somehow I doubt she's ever interacted directly with Yellow Diamond before now. She's clearly much further down the chain of command.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As for today's episode: Peridot's little breakdown at the beginning was somehow far more relatable to me than it should have been
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See, it's funny, 'cause that's totally the kind of thing Mabel would actually write
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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It says a lot about what kind of person Garnet is that she was willing to reach out and befriend Peridot despite knowing she was involved in at least some capacity with the forced gem shard fusions
I can't wait for them to successfully fuse, although Peridot and Amethyst get on so well I wouldn't be surprised if they did it first. (Peridot wouldn't have to wear stilts, either!)
I'm also really looking forward to Steven teaching Peridot how to summon her weapon--I mean, it's not a sure thing but it would be so good if they brought it full circle that way. Or if someone else did. Or really anything that comes out of Peridot being a Crystal Gem, there is so much and I'm so -EXCIT-ED.
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Lapis better get to be one too though. Or at least not be trapped in hell forever.
I'm more excited about how the frenemy status between Pearl and Peridot will go over in the future, and what sort of techy fun both of them will get up to. Pearl's a total renegade and, at least to me, the one least open to approaching her. Garnet, well, is Garnet as Centie described. Amethyst is willing to make friends with a lot of folks, even if they're petulant jerks like Peridot. Pearl... disregards the system as much as Peridot idolized it. Hm.
Pearl is a fascinating character in many ways, and she's just gotten more and more likeable as the show has gone despite initially being this mix of heartbreaking and infuriating (à la Shaiapouf from Hunter x Hunter, who is basically Ant!Pearl but conversely gets *more* unhinged as his character develops).
But yeah, I knew from the moment that Peri took that transmitter that she was going to try to do the right thing, despite the fact that she was likely to fail miserably, because she so desperately wants to do the right thing as she sees it and wants to please people who impress her so badly that she couldn't resist trying to convince her idol to spare her friends. Which, again, makes for a fascinating character, if not quite as broken as Pearl is initially.
But, of course, Yellow Diamond did all this out of frustration with Rose Quartz's betrayal—why else would she want to annihilate a perfectly good planet? She's a colonial general, not a genocidal maniac. Sure, she considers organic life beneath her, but she's an incredibly powerful poly-dimensional prism being leading an entire civilisation of the same. Squishy lifeforms are probably next-level weird to her, and the idea that one of her own—clearly a very powerful and prestigious member of her society, if we go by how Jasper was talking—would violently rebel against the system that she is an integral part of to protect what she sees as basically pond scum and cockroaches is probably deeply offensive to her base principles. Thus, "Blow it up. It makes me mad to think about."
i don't feel the extent of her flaws was initially apparent, actually. She seems to me like someone who became much more complex over time, as we learned more about her.
So a short categorization of gem roles so far: -Pearls: Servants, given only to high ranking officials -Quartz: High ranking soldiers. Either special forces or generals sort of things. -Rubies: Foot soldiers. Usually used in multiples to allow for fusion. -Sapphires: Aristocrats. Used to aid in Diamond strategems. -Peridots: Builders and scientists. Used to progress military research. -Lapis Lazuli: Unknown. Possibly aristocratic like Sapphire. Maybe a historian, based on the use of our Lapis' mirror?
We know that subvarieties of specific gem categories exist, as evidenced by Jasper, Rose, and Amethyst. So perhaps aristocrat gems and researchers like peridot fall into a broader category?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
One thing I had to have pointed out to me:
Jasper called CG Pearl "a defective Pearl".
But "defective" can have two meanings: the more common meaning of "flawed"...or defective as in one who defects, which is exactly what Pearl did.
On the gem types, a bit of research shows that Rubies and Sapphires are both varieties of corundum, meaning that either A) Quartz is the only gem type ranked by category, B) Corundums performed a wide variety of functions on homeworld, or C) the writers aren't thinking about gem categorization like the fans are and didn't make an exhaustive guide to gem functions and categorizing them in consistent fashions
I'm thinking A or B. It seems highly unlikely that C is the case given what's been hinted at with the various Pearls and Peridots; there has to be some sort of hierarchy at work in the background, but they aren't going to up and tell us everything about it immediately.
The primary categories are probably based on specific gem types that have the widest range of varieties while remaining recognisably of the same subtype—i.e. quartz, diamonds, where corundum variants look less like the same thing and more like a whole bunch of different but similar things.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My interpretation was that a "geoweapon" was different from a corrupted gem/monster in that it was a manmade (gemmade?) being specifically engineered to destroy.
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I just wonder what her original plan in contacting Yellow Diamond was, now.
Also, great set of episodes. Very happy I waited.
Incidental note: I really liked Blue Diamond's character design and the look that they gave Young Feral Pearl.
But yeah, I knew from the moment that Peri took that transmitter that she was going to try to do the right thing, despite the fact that she was likely to fail miserably, because she so desperately wants to do the right thing as she sees it and wants to please people who impress her so badly that she couldn't resist trying to convince her idol to spare her friends. Which, again, makes for a fascinating character, if not quite as broken as Pearl is initially.
But, of course, Yellow Diamond did all this out of frustration with Rose Quartz's betrayal—why else would she want to annihilate a perfectly good planet? She's a colonial general, not a genocidal maniac. Sure, she considers organic life beneath her, but she's an incredibly powerful poly-dimensional prism being leading an entire civilisation of the same. Squishy lifeforms are probably next-level weird to her, and the idea that one of her own—clearly a very powerful and prestigious member of her society, if we go by how Jasper was talking—would violently rebel against the system that she is an integral part of to protect what she sees as basically pond scum and cockroaches is probably deeply offensive to her base principles. Thus, "Blow it up. It makes me mad to think about."
Yeah. I got thoughts.
i don't feel the extent of her flaws was initially apparent, actually. She seems to me like someone who became much more complex over time, as we learned more about her.
which is as it should be, really, but when you have a TV show with multiple writers that's not always the case
-Pearls: Servants, given only to high ranking officials
-Quartz: High ranking soldiers. Either special forces or generals sort of things.
-Rubies: Foot soldiers. Usually used in multiples to allow for fusion.
-Sapphires: Aristocrats. Used to aid in Diamond strategems.
-Peridots: Builders and scientists. Used to progress military research.
-Lapis Lazuli: Unknown. Possibly aristocratic like Sapphire. Maybe a historian, based on the use of our Lapis' mirror?
We know that subvarieties of specific gem categories exist, as evidenced by Jasper, Rose, and Amethyst. So perhaps aristocrat gems and researchers like peridot fall into a broader category?
On the gem types, a bit of research shows that Rubies and Sapphires are both varieties of corundum, meaning that either A) Quartz is the only gem type ranked by category, B) Corundums performed a wide variety of functions on homeworld, or C) the writers aren't thinking about gem categorization like the fans are and didn't make an exhaustive guide to gem functions and categorizing them in consistent fashions
Is the Centipeetle a cracked gem that took a bestial form, or a geoweapon?
And are all geoweapons made of shattered gems like the cluster?