I feel like there's a distinction between pointing out problematic wording and trying to make someone out to be an "ableist shitrag".
Peridot did not need her limb-enhancers to perform her job or to function normally, nor did she actually need the the tablet. Call out Amethyst for trying to through it away, put to compare either, especially the tablet, to something as important as wheelchair strikes me as either overestimating how vital those things actually are for Peridot, or trivializing how important wheelchairs and the like are for real people.
Loading up the heavy questions, are ya? Well, to be honest I don't really know. I don't think Steven is capable of shattering them, but redeeming them would be way too much of a stretch, especially after all they've done. Perhaps bubble and exile?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I thought Peridot's arc was more recovering from a loss of control rather than a loss of ability. Control and ability are not always connected, at least not when it comes to allegory in fiction.
Her using the tablet was her trying to act like she had some of her power back when she had none. I think it was a bit rushed to have her dilemma be essentially introduced and resolved in the same episode, but I don't think it was going for that kind of metaphor.
EDIT: I always come into an argument right after someone shuts it down...
edited 13th May '17 5:14:45 PM by BlueBlaze64
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" CroshawI am curious if there's deeper meaning to Yellow's apparent disdain for organic life beyond general "Gems are just better than everything else" sentiment.
Also, it seems a fair number of people think White Diamond will be the "real" bad guy and Yellow and Blue will be redeemed or whatever. Mostly because of their song, it seems.
Because Earthlings are just lesser.
Those lesser things are apart of the reason the rebellion started.
Then a Diamond got broken because of it.
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edited 13th May '17 5:45:48 PM by Crossover-Enthusiast
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢I doubt Yellow Diamond's opinion of organic matter was ever high, but the rebellion probably made her think of it as a corrupting influence on her society. Hence she wants Earth not just materially exploited, but destroyed entirely.
Although, that might be overestimating her objectivity. If she told Peridot "Whatever resources we'd get from Earth aren't worth the risk of another rebellion.", Peridot might have given up her argument without resorting to insults. Or agreed with her.
I'm still hoping for Blue get some form of redemption since her court deals with diplomacy and Steven happens to like being diplomatic over fighting so you'd think he might talk her into not conquering Earth,of course right now she's convinced he's Rose so that might be off the table,we'll see.
Plus she took a liking to Greg,so she seems to have a soft spot for organics even if is out of pity more then anything else
Yellow was probably behind the cluster project and the corruption wave,,and probably the militarisation of the gem race as well,he'll probably have to take her down somehow..I don't see her going down easily either.
edited 13th May '17 5:49:26 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI wonder what made Earth so special. Was it literally the first planet they tried colonizing with life on it? Or was it the first one with intelligent life on it? If the Diamonds were used to planets that had nothing on them (or nothing but animals), I could see why they would take the same approach with Earth that they did so many times before.
Maybe Earth was the first resource-rich planet, so they made plans to turn it into a Hub World of sorts. And maybe that's why Pink Diamond has just the one planet in her part of the mural: She was going to be in charge of the most valuable planet in their empire, second only to Homeworld. That's the only logical reason I could see for why there was such a brutal rebellion over it; the rebellion saw the value in its life, while Homeworld simply saw the resources that were being squandered by just sitting there.
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" CroshawLayouts of Rose's junk pile
. Rose had the Paper Mario storybook, apparently.
edited 13th May '17 7:45:11 PM by Crossover-Enthusiast
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢My idea for how the plot with the Diamonds resolves itself revolves around a few plot points:
- Pink Diamond's/Rose Quartz's ship gets dug up from the desert and repaired
- The CGs find some kind of cure for corruption (at least partially), then they have their own small army.
- Splinter group of army (with Steven and at least one CG leading them) go to lesser colonized planets, spreading message of individuality.
- More Gems join new rebellion
- Steven convinces Blue Diamond to stand down, defeats Yellow Diamond, then goes to Homeworld to confront White Diamond
- Steven talks down White Diamond, Gem empire gets restructured to work with life-sustaining planets rather than take them over
- Blue Diamond in exile, Yellow Diamond in prison for eternity, White Diamond manager of colonies in new empire
- Steven as an adult moves back to Earth, happily ever after, etc.
- THE END
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That just looks like the book from the opening....of the game.
- Peridot's Conflicting Loyalty is not resolved at all: She ends the communication without objection, but doesn't reveal the Crystal Gems or anything else she was covering up. She's left completely despondent for the foreseeable future, not even willing to work on the drill anymore. I supposed the Crystal Gems could let Peridot take the transport back to Homeworld, and let her pretend nothing happening, but they really couldn't trust her that much in this situation. More likely, they'd keep Peridot hidden until Homeworld stops looking for her (which probably wouldn't be very long).
- Peridot turns back hard. She completely abandons stopping the Cluster, and tries to tell Yellow Diamond as much as possible (even the stuff Peridot would be executed for) until the Crystal Gems physically stop her. This one is particularly likely if if Yellow Diamond gave that specific reason. Peridot would see everything she learned as a mental illness developed from being on Earth and/or the Crystal Gems trying to brainwash her; she'd pretty much become a lost cause.
Point is, the ball was in Yellow Diamond's court, and she completely failed to convince Peridot or even appreciate how important she was in this situation.
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I confused it for the one in Paper Jam. Changed the wording.
edited 13th May '17 7:29:49 PM by Crossover-Enthusiast
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢Now that I think about it, I have exactly one hope for White Diamond: that she's as big a mystery to the general public of Homeworld as she is to the audience at this point. That way it doesn't matter that Steven never asked Garnet, Pearl, Lapis, or Peridot why she's so conspicuously absent from everything we've seen of Homeworld.
(And it's from the opening of The Thousand Year Door specifically.)
If Yellow hadn't revealed herself to be petty and illogical and had actually given some manner of cold but logical reasoning, I could've seen Peridot pulling a Zuko - snapping her allegiance back to the dark side for a while, before realizing she had made a terrible mistake.
edited 13th May '17 7:51:58 PM by KnownUnknown

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> I mean throwing the tablet, Peridot's treasured possession that she uses for comfort, is also pretty akin to kicking a kid out of a wheelchair and tell them to start walking. But, it's fine. Peridot has magic powers. She's not broken anymore.
I know you didn't mean to,but the comparison was the wrong one to use in the first place
edited 13th May '17 4:39:38 PM by Ultimatum
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