you have... seasoned thoughts (that is to say, not too on the extremes) and if I may ask more questions...
what do you you think of the diamonds as an authority and as like... individuals? Lol I thought their sort of redemption in 'change your mind' was a done too and it was like only having a sip of a good, scalding soup and being told to move on with the menu
also it's okay if it gets a separate post but what do you think about pearl? as in our pearl
Honestly, I don't know enough about the Diamonds to have some well-baked thoughts. With that being said, let's have some half-baked ones, shall we?
If you think about it, really think about it, it comes out as obvious what I find the most intriguing about the Diamonds: Their faked perfection. (This is a connection I am making right now, the entire von Karma thoughts are staring at me like "glad to know you're catching up".)
Each Gem is supposed to embody an ideal or more of them. The Diamonds are not an exception to it, in fact they are a precursor to it if they created all the other Gems. In theory Diamonds should be able to perform everything any other Gem can do just as well. They have to be the shining examples. But... they aren't. By the Stars they do try, but they aren't.
And I agree with you that their redemption was done in Change Your Mind, for Blue and Yellow even before that.
All the Diamonds knew that they weren't perfect and they had spent aeons masking it by profiling and specializing themselves. Hell, White went so far as not to meet anyone in person unless it couldn't be avoided, and then she did not even let them speak.
Thing is that the Diamonds held themselves to an impossibly high standards, and to this standard they also held everyone else. So they redemption doesn't come when they realise that they aren't perfect, they already knew that, but when Steven & co. shows them that they can never be perfect... and that it is fine. That by trying to match themselves to perfection they are, in fact, harming themselves. And the Diamonds, moons bless them, are smart, and when they processed this thought, the reached the only logical conclusion: Holding anyone to the standard of perfection is harmful for them to the point of breaking.
Honestly, the Homeworld, in my opinion, was a few moments (like, from Gem point of view, from our short-spanned POV it was several millennia) away from an absolute collapse. Regular Gems having a breakdown could be reset and replaced, but it was increasingly hard to do so because the Homeworld was running out of resources even with all the colonies at their disposal. But sooner rather than later one of the remaining Diamonds would break on herself. Blue might have poofed and never emerged again in grief. White would have over-exerted herself in spreading her control, like that's the point the other Gems exist, because the Diamonds can't be everywhere at once, controlling more people and lager area had to be draining. Not sure what would happen with Yellow, actually I think she was the closest one to have an actual rebellion within her ranks.
So, uh... from the POV of a viewer, sure, the Diamonds' redemption looks rushed, but I think that from their POV we just see the scales tipping. They just needed to be told that they could change, that it was allowed, or rather that it was not forbidden, that it was in fact encouraged. It's not "got a taste of soup, told to move along with a menu". It's "got a taste of soup and realised 'holy shit, I could have been making soup all along!'" But we don't get to see that because it's not a story about them and most of this goes on inside of their heads. At least, that's the way I understood it. But I think that in SU:F where Steven visits them and sees them using their powers the other way around (making forms, making people happy, letting people be heard) confirms this thought.
Thoughts on Pearl later.
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I'm not sure if someone has asked this before but since you're sorta back into your SU phase...
When/what got you into Steven Universe?
Who is your favourite gem and/or fusion? Either CG/Homeworld.
Do you have a favourite episode/theme?
Do you have a gemsona by any chance?
honestly i don't think anyone has ever asked me much about SU
I got into SU from Tumblr. Jail Break just aired and suddenly everyone and their mum on my dash were about fusions, and I was like "huh, looks cool." I had little hopes of getting into the series, because at the time my attention span was beelow the floor lever, but since the episodes are just about 10 minutes and fast paced... I managed the entirety of SU and nearly all of the Future, except the last... two episodes or so. I even handled the movie.
I have a very soft spot for the homeworld Pearls in general, because they were the first ones that delivered to me the varying-yet-similar gem pattern. All Pearls are beak-nosed ballerinas, but they are much more. You know. That being said, I liked Peridot... before she got to have metal powers and be savvy with stuff. Peridot was relatable. So uh... Yeah. Pearls in general, but not any specific Gem that I'd love.
Anyway, here are some Pearls (very old, including my take on White Diamond gem-faking. Mind you, this was from before White Diamond was introduced. Probably before *any* Diamond was introduced.)
I like the Serious Steven episode the most. It's actually the first episode to highlight that hey, what's going on with Steven's life is kinda (a lot) fucked up... and that's the 8th episode! It's the episode that basically spells out for you what Steven Universe: Future is going to be about. Also the design of the pyramid temple slaps.
I had a gemsona, actually. I never got to use her and never even got to develop her. I know that she was a Jade, she was a "watcher" whatever that meant, and her weapon was a mace. I have precisely one (1) drawing of her, and it's not finished.
Never had I used the term "gemsona" for her, but it's obvious from the hairstyle and the eye-focus that this was supposed to be "Tolpen, but make her a Gem".
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