Always nice to see the ratings improve,hopefully a Steven bomb will take them back up to a million
So about the gem battlefield where they have the strawberries,I have theory that Rose encouraged the strawberries to grow there to honer the gems that fell there,or there's bleaker theory I have that the shattered gems were reabsorbed into the soil making it fertile enough for the wild strawberries to grow
edited 18th Mar '17 5:36:30 PM by Ultimatum
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Strawberries grow best in sandy soil, I believe. So it's basically Flanders Field
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The only slightly plausible scenario is that Earth lifeforms have an ability to metabolize gemstones that's as of yet undiscovered (as the whole idea of metabolism seems foreign to gems).
Jeez, that's a thought: Homeworld breeding/genetically engineering plants and microbes that digest the shards of their dead, then putting those in extractors to make new gems. Though I guess that's basically what all heterotrophic life on Earth does already.
Speaking of gem's ignorance of Earth biology, I still like the "Rose worked as the Zoo" theory, but noticed it has one big flaw:
She had no idea how fragile human babies are. That doesn't seem like a mistake someone would make if they were essentially a human breeder.
I'm tempted to chalk it up something like "Rose spent thousands of years fighting Homeworld forces and leading her armies,in that time it's probable that she forgot about her time at the zoo,more specifically dealing with human infants. It's unclear how long she worked at the zoo,it may have been months or even years,either way she devoted a lot of her energies to liberating Earth so it's little forgivable that an inorganic lifeform like her would overlook something has basic as infant mortality because it's not something gems normally have to concern themselves with and probably takes a long time for them to get anyway.
Well it's either that or Rose was straight up lying to Greg and playing the role of 'Naive Alien' as she did say that she was glad he didn't anything about her,she did tell him some things like she fought in a war,but the zoo stuff she might have had a reason for not to mentioning
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverMaybe Rose Quartzes in general are human caretakers, and our Rose was a Super Prototype (her healing tears are unique, I believe) who was responsible for finding new specimens for the Zoo before the human race was wiped out.
Incidentally, has anyone read the Tripod series? It also has an alien race planning on terraforming Earth for their own needs, and gathering specimens for preservation. Except instead of a Zoo, it's more of a taxidermy exhibit.
I wouldn't suspect the Zoomans of having any child rearing ability
So either there was some automated process that took care of them or the zoo was so child proofed that Rose didn't understand how much danger a baby in the real world can get into
Or maybe she was never assigned to the zoo
Forever liveblogging the Avengersedited 19th Mar '17 2:26:17 PM by xanderiskander
maternal instincts can only take them so far,they have to have support from someone from who knows what they doing.
And now I have this horrible scene in my head of zoomen's having their children forcefully taken from them
edited 19th Mar '17 2:31:15 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverRose never said a timeframe either, so she could have found out before the Zoo was even built.
They don't need to take away the kids, they could just tell the Zoomans how to raise them through the earrings—like how they tell them to do everything else.
edited 19th Mar '17 2:32:07 PM by thatother1dude
But if Zoo humans don't know what hurt is then how can the women have given birth to anything...
Plus there were no children at the zoo...despite have a child sized version of the thing.
So it's like...what?
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Plus there were no children at the zoo...despite have a child sized version of the thing.
So it's like...what?
And what's also weird is that there are no old people there. Do they just get tossed out of the "human disposal chute" when they get too old?
edited 19th Mar '17 3:13:37 PM by xanderiskander
The demographics still don't really make much sense—a self-sustaining population wouldn't have the ages that concentrated during any point in a generational cycle. Even if they were killing the (even slightly) elderly Logan's Run-style, there should be more children.
It would have made more sense if we saw no children or elderly, because then we could just assume they're grouped (and eventually paired) by generation and there are other groups of humans we aren't seeing. (Greg would have been there, despite being older, because he's single. Steven... dunno, maybe the machine could tell he was 14? Though he still wasn't part of the Choosening, obviously.)
edited 19th Mar '17 4:52:09 PM by thatother1dude
Maybe the Zoo uses artificial wombs, kind of like their injectors and Kindergartens? The Zoomans don't seem surprised when a new human pops out of the lake.
Also, do the Quartz caretakers make regular visits? The Zoomans said the door never opens, but they didn't seem surprised when a bunch of Gems come running in.
Well, they all were busy dealing with a mental breakdown/friend zoning, so they didn't have time to be freaked out.
It all kinda gives me Brave New World vibes, and I'd not be surprised if that was the main inspiration. A group of emotionally-stunted, eternally shallowly happy humans who have a constant voice conditioning them what to say, think, and feel with no concept of pain or sorrow.
If it is like Brave New World, and this would follow with what Gems would think, they could be cloned and genetically spliced to raise them artificially by whoever/whatever's manning the limb-enhancer-looking machines and conditioned until they're of sufficiant age, then put into the Zoo.
I'll be honest, while I'd like the Zoomans to be given a resolution, I'd prefer if we didn't spend too much time with them - this sort of plot makes me rather ill for some reason.
Oh God! Natural light!I'm mostly fine with using a Hand Wave or two as to some of the particulars on zoomans - sufficiently advanced medicine such that they can block pain during childbirth is one obvious one (we are talking about gems being capable of FTL Travel - other scientific advancements aren't off the table). A Uterine Replicator is also possible, and in fact strikes me as most likely, since that would probably strike gems as the closest to mimicking their own reproductive cycle.
Though as pointed out, it's a side detail at best.
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