Yeah… remember, in "The Answer," Garnet's Ruby told Sapphire how expendable the cannon-fodder Rubies are ("There are HUNDREDS of me!"), and so it stands to reason that none of the Gems (outside of maybe Garnet) will spare a thought to their welfare… which makes the fact that Steven and the audience bothered to get to…

I love love love that you brought up All Quiet on the Western Front, because Steven's ultimate solution to his conflict with Eyeball really resonates with Paul Baumer's self-defense against the French soldier who dropped into the crater with him. If SU approaches even a tiny bit of the introspection (and, importantly,…

Oh, certainly. Bismuth's ultimate solution to the Homeworld question only becomes more terrifying when you think of how betrayed she was by Rose Quartz (particularly in light of the PD shattering revelation) and by how she behaves when she's not planning the eradication of Homeworld society.

Eyeball remembered a "giant sword," IIRC. And wasn't there one hanging in Bismuth's forge? Maybe that was Rose's original sword.

I dunno what's going to happen to the Rubies, but the looks on their faces as they shot out into space in four different directions were heartbreaking.

Not sure it'd fit the timeline. By the time Garnet came into existence, Blue Diamond had taken over affairs on Earth, and Bismuth clearly knows Garnet as a fusion and has fought with her.

All masses produce gravity, even microscopic amounts. So Eyeball just adjusted to the bubble's microscopic gravity field. I thought it was very clever by the Crewniverse, personally.

The flaw in this theory is that, 29 seconds after being let out of Steven's bubble, Eyeball was rescued by the Heart of Gold.

Man, poor LibraryLass - this episode seemed to me like it was going directly after you with a couple of lines (particularly about Steven's gem color)… but it looks like the Crewniverse wanted it crystal (hah!) clear that Rose was not Pink Diamond but did, in fact, shatter her.

Yep, that was my first thought too. "The terrifying renegade Pearl." We already know that it was Rose Quartz who led the Rebellion, but it was Pearl who inspired the most fear among the Homeworld Gems. She's also lately been the most emotionally fragile of the remaining Crystal Gems too, and the one most willing to go…

To me, Pearl didn't look shocked. She looked traumatized, as if by memory. Garnet may have looked shocked - remember, she came later to the Crystal Gems - but to me it seemed clear that Pearl remembered what happened all too well.

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What if Pearl killed Pink Diamond?

If it was a proper reboot, they'd have started over at the beginning and come up with a new gritty set of titles to make it modern and edgy and integrated into the Narniaverse, to wit:

Also - I forgot to mention this earlier - did anyone else catch that Jasper called the Earth "ruined" twice? I guess you could argue that for Homeworld, the planet is "ruined" because it's no longer the colony it was going to be, but I caught a whiff of subtext about what may have happened to the Earth during the…

There are three Diamonds remaining - Yellow, Blue, and White. Pink Diamond is most likely bubbled in the Beach City Temple - we don't yet have the backstory on how or why yet.

RE: Pearl being Pink Diamond's "accessory" - I've suspected this for a long time. For a detailed and frankly worryingly fanboyish theory about what happened, please visit my theory post upthread.

The timeline established in "Earthlings" makes that possibility impossible, though.

I've been fascinated by the cognitive dissonance in these threads about keeping the "Rose Quartz = Pink Diamond" theory alive even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It reminds me - rather painfully - of my transition out of Mormonism.

I don't think it was said that Rose Quartz originated in the same Kindergarten as Amethyst, though.