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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#40376: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:36:11 PM

Which is saying something, coming from Randomness.

My various fanfics.
RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#40377: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:38:04 PM

Randomness goes for silly spelling but thier posts are generally based in some sort of reality.

edited 15th Aug '16 2:38:34 PM by RhymeBeat

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#40378: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:41:57 PM

So I binged this show, and wow.

Well to start with, for the first time in a long while, my favorite character is not in fact the main character.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#40379: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:44:26 PM

lets not pick on people for their posts

that kinda mean

Also,this topic is now about best gem

which in my opinion is Lapis Lazuli

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#40380: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:45:24 PM

[up] Yeah, for me it's Peridot all the way.

On a random tangent, if she's so useless without her limb enhancers, why not build another giant robot to help the other Crystals out in a fight?

edited 15th Aug '16 2:45:51 PM by CaptainCapsase

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40381: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:45:53 PM

[up][up][up]I'd say thas usually the norm for me.

edited 15th Aug '16 2:46:15 PM by randomness4

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#40382: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:46:15 PM

I'll be boring and stick with Steven. Steven is best Gem, because he brings out the best in other Gems.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
InkyJay Since: Mar, 2015
#40383: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:46:56 PM

I think I have a few theories of my own regarding what happened to Pink Diamond. It's true that she was the reason the war started, but I think it was because she was the first among the top brass that showed interest in keeping the Earth alive.

If the murals in the Moon Base are any indication, Earth was supposed to be the first colony that Pink Diamond would have with the other diamonds holding higher status due to having more colonies (with White Diamond at the top since she has the most colonies). It was going to be business as usual, but something happened that made PD consider keeping the Earth alive, but the other Diamonds weren't having any of that.

Maybe it was how Rose who caused the change of heart, but the Diamonds didn't want her alive if she was going to get all soft for one planet, especially one so rich in gem-making materials. PD would be shattered and Rose would be framed while another Diamond took over colony construction, and that would be it, but PD had a means of transferring her power to other creatures, including other Gems. Before Pink Diamond bit the dust, she did something to give her power, her essence, over to Rose Quartz, who would carry on a rebellion to protect Earth in keeping with Pink Diamond's wishes. The ability to transfer power like that would also explain why a simple Quartz would have abilities such as healing tears and, as of Steven's appearance, dreamscape powers.

Cut over to present day, and we have Steven, who possesses his mom's Gem, and Lion, who can teleport across the planet with ease. Chances are, Rose was able to transfer some of Pink Diamond's power/essence over to Lion, who would eventually guide Steven and pick up where Rose left off, but this was only started after she got a glimpse of events to come via Garnet's future vision.

That's my theory, anyway.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#40384: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:50:03 PM

I don't really think there is a "best gem". But there are some I'm more interested in others, and I'm sort of Peridoted and Amethysted out.

PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40386: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:51:05 PM

[up][up]Also Lazuli...don't forget her.

Garnet needs a surplus of focus now.

edited 15th Aug '16 2:51:22 PM by randomness4

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#40387: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:52:58 PM

[up]I would say her but she hasn't really done anything in awhile, so while I find the drama tiresome, she's not entirely overexposed to me yet.

[down]Hahaha, no...

edited 15th Aug '16 2:54:58 PM by LSBK

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#40389: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:54:53 PM

Part of the saturation of Peridot and Amethyst I imagine has to do with the fact that they are respectively the Sixth Ranger and the main gem with the least focus in the early seasons.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#40390: Aug 15th 2016 at 2:57:28 PM

All of P-dot's focus was during her redemption arc, which just sorta happened all at once.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#40391: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:00:32 PM

I suppose, but she's still getting a fair amount of screentime compared to other recurring characters outside of the main 4.

edited 15th Aug '16 3:00:55 PM by CaptainCapsase

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#40392: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:03:44 PM

Honestly, I strongly dislike the idea that Rose did not actually kill Pink Diamond. They spent like three episodes building up that revelation and letting Steven deal with it. Revealing after the fact that, no, sorry, she's actually innocent, would be an absolute cop-out. What's even the point?

The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the fact that the show, despite its endless optimisn, has approached the tenet of Thou Shalt Not Kill with a tad more nuance than is common in the genre. Stories like Batman tend to take a stance nearing Black-and-White Insanity toward the issue where it's insuinuated that if, say, Batman kills the Joker, then he's inevitably going to go over the edge and murder every single criminal he ever comes across.

This show at least acknowledges that killing one person for the sake of many does not put Rose on equal footing with the people she fights, and that having killed a tyrant does not make Rose a hypocrite for not wanting to resort to Bismuth's suggestion of mass murder.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#40393: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:05:08 PM

> Best gem.◊

OH GOD WHY!

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#40394: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:05:37 PM

[up][up]The show paints it like that but a lot of people don't seem to get it.

edited 15th Aug '16 3:06:07 PM by LSBK

MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#40395: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:06:14 PM

Pearl and Lapis tie for my favorite.

Third favorite is whichever has my attention at a given moment.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#40396: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:08:58 PM

People likes what they likes

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#40397: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:10:02 PM

And what I like is big, orange, and beefy.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#40398: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:11:08 PM

[up]x6 I strongly agree with all of that.

There is no point to Rose not having actually shattered Pink Diamond and there is no benefit to copping out from that.

edited 15th Aug '16 3:11:26 PM by Draghinazzo

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#40399: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:11:14 PM

@Dousgh: I have to wonder though whether the circumstances under which Rose shattered Pink Diamond are as clear cut as we might assume; the fact that the others gave her Un-person status lead to many people wondering whether she'd actually been the Token Good Teammate of the diamond authority, and that theory about Pink becoming corrupted somehow and Rose being forced to shatter her doesn't really undermine anything.

In fact, I'd be dissapointed if Pink Diamond's story was just "lolevil, therefore killed dead and the others decided to cover up her existence because pride."

edited 15th Aug '16 3:13:10 PM by CaptainCapsase

diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#40400: Aug 15th 2016 at 3:11:18 PM

Peridot's probably my favorite with Steven at a close second, then Lapis. And I can never decide between the 3 main C Gs cuz I love them all.


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