I liked the Lars and Sadie reunion, the off colors are clearly shipping them. Of the diamond Reformation I liked yellow's best, particularly the scene where she is crying of her own volition and not because blue made her.
see my completed Tangled (Varian) fanfic collection! https://archiveofourown.org/works/24467056/chapters/59049532Here's what she says specifically:
"Poor yellow. Her impurities absorb all the blue in her light. She's so strong, but so week when it comes to blue. Ah, and blue; her impurities soak up all of the warmth in her spectrum. She thinks she needs you pink. As for me, I'm certain I don't need you; after all I'm every color of the light. But you're a part of me, the part I always have to repress."
It's pretty close to being explicit there that Pink was literally a part of white at one point, and I'd be surprised if that isn't also true of the other Diamonds given the context.
Edited by CaptainCapsase on Jan 21st 2019 at 9:18:01 AM
New Pearl is the most Mom she has ever been, and I live for this design.
Also, Peridot's and Lapis' redesigns took me by surprise. Not so much Peridot's glasses. Really dig Lapis'.
As for the Diamond's redemptions, I actually felt they delivered both Blue and Yellow's really well. That moment where they speak before White decides to shut any conversation is REALLY well done.
White's is, I feel, understandable, if rushed. But I like seing her flustered, so I can't complain.
Blue is still best Diamond.
Edited by MrSeyker on Jan 21st 2019 at 6:38:36 AM
I meant in the sense that she took inspiration from it.
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Peridot's new glasses had me screaming. Same with Garnet's.
Also, how on Earth did they mix up the credits for this episode with "We Need to Talk", an episode from Season 2? Was it because Yellow said that?
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Jan 21st 2019 at 9:52:05 AM
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They tend to flow from one another; humans aren't actually all that intrinsically different from one another in terms of cognitive capabilities and to a greater extent physiology; except for people on the extreme margins of IQ, the overwhelming majority of people are capable of being training in pretty much any aptitude given sufficient time an resources. Consequently the decisive factor in life outcomes tends to be opportunities, which derives from positions in a hierarchy that's largely social construct.
Thus in principle it's easy to say "all men are created equal" without having to resort to HarrisonBergeron stuff when we're dealing with people, because it's close enough to biological reality. With gems that hierarchy is not only not socially constructed, but the gaps are absolutely cavernous even between say Peridots and Rubies. Even without a legally mandated caste system enforced under pain of death, Homeworld is likely to end up organized more or less exactly as it is now with a handful of exceptions from gems that are either too defective to serve their functions or have abnormal qualities.
Edited by CaptainCapsase on Jan 21st 2019 at 10:11:22 AM
And I guess the star Iris Out has been officially retired. Rip in peace.
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For the gems I mean. They're less likely to kill every other form of life for their own benefit, but, uh, Steven should really keep in touch.
("Steven takes a bubble bath."? Sneaky)

Then there's the issues of the Gem caste system. Whereas humans have remarkably little biodiversity between clades within our species, Gems vary immensely in terms of physiology and also seemingly in terms of mental capabilities. For example, our Ruby isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and seems to be in maybe the top decile for Rubies, and there's seemingly a number of gems which are incapable of independent movement.
The central premise of the enlightenment thought underpinning modernity, and of all the ideologies descended from it—Liberalism, Capitalism, Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Feminism to name a few—is that "all men* are created equal"; how can you possibly have an egalitarian society when the people in it are inherently unequal in many glaring ways, and are not born but manufactured?
* The great contribution of feminism being the expansion of this to include all classes of people rather than simply men.
Edited by CaptainCapsase on Jan 21st 2019 at 9:23:06 AM