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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#41652: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:09:09 PM

I like Jasper. I've always had a soft spot for muscular or monstrous female character designs. I used a female Machamp and a female Exploud in my main party for my Alpha Sapphire playthrough.

edited 27th Aug '16 8:13:51 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41653: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:12:25 PM

Hm. I hope the next character development episode we get is one for Lapis. We've gotten a lot for Peridot and Amethyst lately, but aside from Alone At Sea, Lapis hasn't gotten many chances to shine lately.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41654: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:12:39 PM

A blatant Pokémon-ism.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41655: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:18:13 PM

[up][up]That's actually part of the reason I kind hoped they'd just let Lapis go off on her own when the Malachite stuff was done.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#41656: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:18:35 PM

[up][up]What is that even supposed to mean?

edited 27th Aug '16 8:19:20 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41657: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:21:32 PM

[up][up]You want more of "Beta" and "Hit the Diamond" Lazuli?

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41658: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:21:43 PM

I like the idea of her and Peridot and maybe a few others getting a Titans West setup at the barn, but I just hope Steven hangs out with her a bit more soon. We've been getting a lot of shorty squad episodes, so it'd be neat to see how, say, Lapis and Pearl interact with each other.

We've seen how Peridot interacts with everyone, but not Lapis.

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
#41659: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:22:04 PM

i have an inordinate softness for jerkass woobies

moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblr
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41660: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:23:37 PM

[up][up][up]I was afraid they weren't going to do much with her besides additional drama and so far that's been correct.

I hold similar feelings about Jasper, even if they fix her and she comes around, where is she going to stay? The Temple? Doubtful. With Lapis and Peridot? Even more doubtful. I'd kind of like her to go walk about, just like I hoped for with Lapis.

edited 27th Aug '16 8:30:09 PM by LSBK

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41661: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:27:53 PM

A nomadic Gem, who's enriched with Earthy experience...

That's something cool, that Gem would learn more about Earth and Hyoo-mans than the CG did for the 5000+ years they spent there.

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41662: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:30:06 PM

I could see Jasper settling down at her kindergarten until she manages to get on somewhat decent terms with Peridot and Lapis. Not necessarily a point of liking each other, but where there won't be any huge breakdowns from Jasper or Lapis.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41663: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:31:47 PM

Speaking of not liking people, it still seems like Lapis genuinely doesn't like the CG. Like, she doesn't actively resent them anymore, but she also has no actual interest in getting to know them. Which makes sense, I guess.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41664: Aug 27th 2016 at 8:32:26 PM

[up][up]Would that be her home?

Nomads don't have homes.

It'd be a drag to constantly backtrack than to just keep moving forward.

edited 27th Aug '16 8:32:48 PM by randomness4

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BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#41665: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:25:34 PM

I have no doubt in my mind that Jasper's going to get uncorrupted and redeemed. However, that detail that she's just power-obsessed as a way of overcompensating for her perceived inadequacies for being made on Earth just doesn't...feel right. It feels like it's trying to justify it as opposed to point it out as a legitimate flaw.

It seemed off for me that she came across as almost desperate in "Alone At Sea", but then went back to being smug and overconfident by "Gem Hunt". I thought it would show her sense of pride deteriorating over time before getting captured. Maybe they'll do it once she gets uncorrupted.

Also, I know it's late to say, but what really convinced me of the show's quality was "Alone Together". Taking the concept of Sharing a Body and playing it neither for comedy or drama, but for emotional development for the characters involved, was what really made me think highly of the show.

edited 27th Aug '16 9:34:46 PM by BlueBlaze64

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41666: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:35:20 PM

Of course she was smug...Stephen, Connie, and Pearl can't defeat a Jaspee, she could've bomped one of em right on the noggin and none of them would've been able to do nothin' about it.

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41667: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:38:28 PM

A lot of people on tumblr are predicting that once she's uncorrupted she'll just kind of... Stop. Have a full breakdown and not even try to fight back anymore. She won't jump headfirst into a redemption, and she'd probably just try to let them shatter her, but Steven will keep trying to help her now that he's seen how much she hates herself.

I could see it playing out something like that.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41668: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:41:11 PM

Whatever happens, I'm hoping they give an actually get reason for them trying to corruption her before basically everyone else.

And, no, I don't consider "she hasn't been like that as long" a good reason. Steven maybe being able to stop it before it was complete is one thing, but that's not the case anymore.

edited 27th Aug '16 9:43:18 PM by LSBK

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#41669: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:42:12 PM

Speaking of not liking people, it still seems like Lapis genuinely doesn't like the CG. Like, she doesn't actively resent them anymore, but she also has no actual interest in getting to know them. Which makes sense, I guess.

It's vice-versa too, if Amethyst's "Yeah, 'cause when I think fun, I think 'Lapis'" is any indication. Which makes sense. Lapis is a Homeworld Gem, who stole the ocean and tried to drown Steven and Connie.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41670: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:43:59 PM

For something a little more comedic, her unstable mind should instantly re-corrupt her...twice.

That'd be funny, then she calms down after being beat up.

[up]Amethyst was like that towards Lazuli since "Political Power"...her comment in "Beta" was referring to how she's always just apathetic.

edited 27th Aug '16 9:46:44 PM by randomness4

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41671: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:46:59 PM

I could see the most recent episode being Steven's reasoning for helping Jasper first. He feels guilty about her, Bismuth, and Eyeball. Connie talked about dealing with the problem rather than obsessing over it or ignoring it, so I could see Steven trying to help Jasper to put his own mind at ease.

BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#41672: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:53:21 PM

That would be interesting to see. Those three examples that haunted him are examples of him not being able to save someone in the moment. I wonder what would happen when he has chance after chance to try to help someone, and it still won't work.

I would think the thought of someone being beyond his help, no matter how often and hard he tried, would just consume him.

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41673: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:56:09 PM

You mean the terminator Ruby...he can't help her.

Foolish empathy is foolishly empathetic.

edited 27th Aug '16 9:56:27 PM by randomness4

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41674: Aug 27th 2016 at 9:57:50 PM

It seems like the show is moving towards him accepting things like that. Like, understanding that Kevin and Marty are just horrible people, and that Rose shattered someone and it was apparently necessary.

I doubt the show will ever actually have him shatter someone, but I think "somethings are unavoidable" is being reasonably accepted.

edited 27th Aug '16 10:34:51 PM by LSBK

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#41675: Aug 27th 2016 at 10:27:21 PM

[up] Pretty much my thoughts on it. The show even points out through Connie that there's nothing he could have done.


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