History Recap / StevenUniverseS2E18FriendShip

* {{Forgiveness}}: Garnet ''finally'' makes peace with Pearl over the events of "Cry for Help".

* NotSoAboveItAll: Peridot is a lot more expressive in this episode. She mimics Steven's EyelidPullTaunt and even devolves into {{Angrish}} at one point.

* SchizoTech: TheWallsAreClosingIn trap is a particularly odd example, given it's apparently operated by ''wireless'' clockwork. More generally, the advanced starship has lasers mixed with traps that one might expect in ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.

* FlyingSaucer: The ancient space ship featured in the episode greatly resembles one.

* {{Adorkable}}: Peridot pulls more faces and becomes increasingly irritated at not being able to stop the Crystal Gems.

* NoOSHACompliance: Even if it was some kind of defense system, it seems kind of odd for an active spaceship to have some of the stuff that Peridot attacks the Crystal Gems with, especially the TheWallsAreClosingIn room that Garnet and Pearl were trapped in.

* NoOSHACompliance: Even if it was some kind of defense system, it seems kind of odd to have some of the stuff that Peridot used on the Crystal Gems on an active spaceship, especially that TheWallsAreClosingIn room that Garnet and Pearl were trapped in.

'''Peridot:''' Hahahaha... this, this is only the beginning... [[CueCardPause of my escape]]!

'''Amethyst:''' Nope! We're gonna--\\

-->'''Q:''' Hey matt weren't there like tons of ways they could have stopped peridot from escaping? Like shapeshifting or using their spear?\\

* RealityEnsues: Even if a number of the space-ship's systems are functional enough to work as a trap for the Crystal Gems, a lot of them are still broken. For example, at one point, Steven has to brush the plants off a communication crystal so Peridot can hear him. Peridot also has trouble working the ship systems because she barely understands the relatively archaic technology, damage or no damage. When Peridot and the Gems are speaking over the communicator, there's actually a second of latency between when Steven talks and when Peridot responds. If you listen closely, you can hear Pearl and Steven's words repeat over on Peridot's end of the chat.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Peridot shows she can use a TractorBeam and has an ArmCannon. Sardonyx is also shown to turn her hammer into a drill. Peridot's briefly dumbfounded reaction after firing the ArmCannon implies that she's never used her arm-enhancements that way before and was a bit shocked at how powerful it was.

** Pearl calls herself "just ''a'' Pearl", just like Jasper did in "[[StevenUniverseS1E48TheReturn The Return]]". This lends additional weight to the theory that Pearl is just one of many similar Pearls.
** The four color diamond shown on ancient Gem sites, most recently in "[[StevenUniverseS2E9SwornToTheSword Sworn to the Sword"]], can be seen by the pit trap.

** Garnet uses the events of ''Keystone Motel'' as an example of how she's not completely made of stone.

* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: Steven does this to Peridot, telling her that they found a way to track her (though he doesn't explain how). It's {{Deconstructed}}, as Peridot uses this information to lead them into a trap.

The moment you've been waiting for- the finale of the Week of Sardonyx.

The gems find Peridot at the Galaxy Warp. They prepare to attack her, but the overeager and desperate for forgiveness Pearl ruins it, resulting in Peridot getting away. They are later able to track her to an old, abandoned gem ship. They assume Peridot is using it to get away, but she actually has something different in mind. She knew the gems were tracking her (because Steven told her), and lured them to the ship to make use of its old but still somewhat functional traps. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, Steven]].