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ScottPilgrim2013 Why aren't you laughing? from Arkham Asylum Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#30926: May 11th 2016 at 4:58:19 PM

[up]I think we should wait till both appear more before we call them truly evil.

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Collen the cutest lizard from it is a mystery Since: Dec, 2010
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#30927: May 11th 2016 at 5:08:30 PM

I'm not really sure what war tactics could possibly be described as "nice". Doesn't mean Rose was like eating babies or something.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#30928: May 11th 2016 at 5:10:33 PM

Rose was fighting a guerrilla war, you can't fight those without committing plenty of war crimes and doing some dirty things.

Like Greg said, there's no such thing as a good war.

Oh really when?
MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
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#30930: May 11th 2016 at 6:27:39 PM

I know that's a fan comic, but it really does feel as if Pearl went out of her way to not learn anything about the dominant species of the planet she spent thousands of years on.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#30931: May 11th 2016 at 6:30:11 PM

None of them did.

They kept themselves reclusive, remember?

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#30932: May 11th 2016 at 6:31:18 PM

Well, yeah. As far as Pearl's concerned, humans are a species of garbage creature primitives to look down her hawk-like nose upon and, were it not for Steven and the tangential connection to Rose Quartz humanity held, Pearl would probably sit on an island in the middle of nowhere and never interact with humanity for the rest of her days/build another rocket and get the fuck outta town.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#30933: May 11th 2016 at 6:54:59 PM

She's making progress. She went to a play with an audience that's just surrounded by humans and didn't have a nervous breakdown.

I love her Bird Mom moment when she's congratulating Steven onstage.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#30934: May 11th 2016 at 7:11:01 PM

Okay, that was adorable.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#30935: May 11th 2016 at 8:00:00 PM

I'm sure they care about humans. They wouldn't fight for something they don't care about. They just don't really care about solving their problems like power outages, and property damage and stuff. I think part of it was Early-Installment Weirdness, where they were trying to make them seem alien, by feeling indifferent, and I don't think it really worked that well.

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#30936: May 11th 2016 at 8:03:29 PM

The Crystal Gems historically viewed humanity as essentially being part of the local wildlife. Steven is responsible for their increasing connection to them. Even Rose never really took them seriously until Greg demanded that she took their relationship seriously.

Pearl cares about humanity and Earth for sure. Those views might come from Rose, but that doesn't mean Pearl doesn't believe them. She, however, doesn't view them as being equal to Gems.

edited 11th May '16 8:04:13 PM by SilentColossus

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#30937: May 11th 2016 at 8:13:42 PM

If you mean, in the sense that she feels superior because they aren't superpowered immortals, like her and the gems, then sure I'll agree with that much.

TBH I think in Pearl's case she acts that way because of an Inferiority Superiority Complex. She feigns an air of superiority because she's insecure. And humans are just kind of an easy target to compare herself to and feel superior.

edited 11th May '16 8:15:51 PM by xanderiskander

honeyishrunkmyself Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#30938: May 11th 2016 at 8:14:30 PM

No, they really don't like humans that much, at the very least, Amethyst is the only one who actually defends earth because she likes it there. Pearl is only doing it because Rose said so. Mostly same for Garnet, but its also kind of because its the only place she won't be killed for being an fusion of two gems that are from different castes. But otherwise, she only cares about steven.

That said, i'm sure that if Pearl went back to homeworld she would want to go back to earth in the blink of an eye.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#30939: May 11th 2016 at 8:20:37 PM

I don't think they dislike humans though. They're just indifferent. Kind of like how someone doesn't really care to get to know all their neighbors.

At least part of it is because of We Are as Mayflies. According to Pearl, humans live short boring, lives.

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#30940: May 11th 2016 at 8:31:03 PM

The Crystal Gems care about life, and were all disgusted with the completed Earth colony Peridot shows them. They don't care about humanity as individuals, no, or as a culture. But they would protect them even before Steven was born, from Homeworld, Gem monsters, or sharks.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#30941: May 11th 2016 at 9:09:32 PM

Yeah, to say that they don't care, or only pretend to because Rose did is being unfair. Amethyst likes humans quite a lot, Garnet while not overly fond still is nice to those she's interacted with, and Pearl is at least getting polite. Like they did a pretty good job being hosts when the Pizzas showed up.

They don't get why property would be important and just don't comprehend why they do what they do, but still they consider them sapient creatures that deserve to have their lives protected, even if they're boring ones to Pearl.

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#30942: May 11th 2016 at 9:14:44 PM

To be fair I wasn't saying all the Gems look down on humans. Just Pearl.

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#30944: May 11th 2016 at 9:41:18 PM

I loved seeing Rose get angry over her beloved Greg in that comic. First because I love seeing kind characters get into righteous anger and I love Grose. LOL. It the first and only time I've seen her angry. No other comic so far has depicted her this way.

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#30945: May 11th 2016 at 11:00:43 PM

They don't get why property would be important and just don't comprehend why they do what they do, but still they consider them sapient creatures that deserve to have their lives protected, even if they're boring ones to Pearl.

This, yes.

Imagine you rebelled against your government and fought a war for 10 years to protect these sentient gerbil-aliens, but then you realize in addition to being short-lived and weak they're actually somewhat annoying, doesn't justify wiping them all out but it kind of sucks that you're stuck on gerbil planet forever now and your love interest keeps flirting with them like what the f.

Except for Marty and possibly the Diamond Authority.

He wasn't wrong though, multiple smaller women can be a perfectly adequate alternative to one huge woman. Pretty dickish not to pay child support though.

Diamond Authority are y'know, one of those cases. They're basically deities, and as a result they are very vain and see everyone else as pawns or pests.

edited 11th May '16 11:11:54 PM by Ruise

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#30946: May 12th 2016 at 1:33:42 AM

You could said the actituded of the gem regarding humanity is the one of the steriotypical first world person toward a steriotypical third world one: it range from a general sense of help to just condesencing pity, they help humanity but have not desire to learn,understand or grow close to them, they just...exist.

the best I see gems is like a mix between The eldar, the sayains and the vulcan, all run into one

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#30947: May 12th 2016 at 3:03:56 AM

See, I don't get "pearl hates humans" from that comic.

I get "Pearl hates Greg".

Also: "If you could only know, what we really are, when we arrived on Earth, from out beyond your star, We were amazed to find, your beauty and your worth! And we will protect your kind, and we will protect your Earth."

edited 12th May '16 3:12:14 AM by unnoun

InAnOdderWay Since: Nov, 2013
#30948: May 12th 2016 at 5:13:36 AM

I don't that the Gems hate Earth, but I don't think they really fully understood what Rose saw in Earth until Steven, and I don't think that even Rose understood what she saw in Earth until she met Greg.

hcobb Since: Jan, 2001
#30949: May 12th 2016 at 6:03:18 AM

Earth must be destroyed because...

  • To end example of CG lesbian free love commune.
  • The CG pose some actual threat to the empire.
  • To avenge losses suffered during the rebellion.
  • To cover up acts that sparked the rebellion.
or
  • To cover up fact that gems have human form because they were designed by humans.

InAnOdderWay Since: Nov, 2013
#30950: May 12th 2016 at 6:11:00 AM

[up] ...no. First off, the idea that Humans Are Special inherently goes against the very themes of the show (our experiences are what make us unique and different), secondly it'd basically kill the idea of any gem backstory more complex than "some guys made us way back when".

If anything I'd say it's a combination of "covering up acts that started the rebellion", read: whatever actually happened to Pink Diamond, secondly it's to crush the ideals that sparked the rebellion.


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