I'm very curious what the giant monster in the background of the "antagonists shot" is. It could be a Corrupted Gem, but that would either require a kaiju-sized Corrupted Gem to have evaded capture all this time, or for another Corruption wave to happen, and the first Corruption wave wasn't even meant to Corrupt Gems, it was just meant to kill them. The Corruption part was presumably an accident, maybe caused by the wave being incomplete, maybe caused by the wave's energy being reflected by Rose's shield.
The fact that it's the only thing moving in the shot implies that it is the most dangerous/important of the villains present, and when one of them looks just like White Diamond, that is a very concerning implication. I don't know about it being part of the species that created Gems, as others have theorized, partially because I've never been onboard with the whole "Gems are artificially created" theory to begin with, I prefer the idea that this species of holographic rock-women just naturally evolved like this, just because that's so much weirder and more interesting, and partially because it doesn't really give off a vibe of extreme intelligence, though it's hard to really grasp what vibe I am getting off of it.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Oct 4th 2019 at 7:52:15 AM
It being an alien is more interesting story-wise, but I also kind of like the idea that it's a gem that isn't corrupted (anymore) who just decided she likes being a Tarrasque. Amethyst couldn't make herself permanently much bigger, but corrupted gems taking massively larger forms suggest it is possible.
Edited by thatother1dude on Oct 4th 2019 at 10:21:57 AM
That doesn't mean they're artificial. From what we've seen, the Diamond's bodily fluids are important, and the fanon conclusion is that they're the liquid in Injectors to create Gems in Kindergartens. Aside from the Injectors, which are just mechanically doing work that could have been done manually in the past, that sounds like a perfectly natural description of Gem reproduction and life cycle.
Based on what we can extrapolate, Gems seem to function like ants or other colony insects. The workers are all born from the main queen (or multiple queens, as is the case in some colony insect species), and they're born into a strict caste system with hard-set roles in society. The main difference is because Gems aren't organic, they grow from minerals in the ground and their roles in society are determined by what type of crystal they emerge as.
Also, they're sapient and shouldn't have to deal with a caste system, but that's already been addressed in-story.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Oct 4th 2019 at 8:27:03 AM
Edited by thatother1dude on Oct 4th 2019 at 11:59:28 AM
Than you and I have different definitions of "artificial". I don't think, say, a test-tube baby is an "artificial" person, just because there's a bit of genetic modification or machinery involved doesn't make them "artificial", same as why GMO fruit aren't "artificial". In my mind, an "artificial" person is like a robot made of metal and programmed with computer code. Or like a chimera made with a bunch of different species of animals. A whole new species of life created by another species of life.
From what we've seen of Gems, I don't think they were artificially created. I think Gems are a species of silicon-based life forms with Hard Light bodies that naturally evolved in some sort of bizarre alien fashion. At some point, they got really into eugenics (eugemics?) and decided to control their society by fashioning their "gemetic" code to create Gems designed from birth to do one job and fill one role in society. That solidified the caste system we know today, which may have existed in the past, but was much less controllable and predictable.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Oct 4th 2019 at 10:44:40 AM
I don't know if that example is really equivalent to gems, though. Humans (and all other life on Earth) have natural, in-born ways of reproducing that gems seem to lack. That they (either just White or the Diamonds as a whole) figured out a way to create a bunch more of them doesn't really change that fact, and it makes them pretty incomparable to "natural" life as I think it would be described.
Edited by LSBK on Oct 4th 2019 at 12:58:51 PM
Literally the whole reason I love the idea of Gems being naturally evolved life-forms is because they're not biological carbon-based life as we know it. The idea of a species of silicon-based Hard Light rock-people having naturally evolved in their own ecosystem before they became sapient expansionist tyrants is the coolest type of xenofiction to me. It would be so much more plain and boring if another carbon-based biological species turned out to have created the Gems all along.
There's still the fact they show some distinctly artificial traits, such as their ability to interface with technology and the circuit board pattern that appears on their bodies when destabilized, silicon or not I see no logical for that to evolve naturally. One aspect of xenofiction is that it makes sense on some level, which that doesn't. You could say that gems were originally an organic or silicon based race that augmented themselves to the point that they were a completely technological race and had forgotten their origins but that would still make them artificial.
Edited by Kaiseror on Oct 5th 2019 at 7:56:32 AM
Anyway, here's a fanart interpretation
of what that monster in the intro looks like.
@Snicka: That gems was actually visible back when the gems were uncorrupted
◊ (and was an extra in few places in the movie), though I never noticed she is probably a fusion before.
I noticed her too, but when "Change Your Mind" first aired I couldn't figure out if that was supposed to be a horn or a gem. Guess we know the answer now!
I'm just hoping they finally officially confirm which ones Biggs and Crazy Lace are.
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Oct 5th 2019 at 3:32:07 PM
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Either way, it's amusing that the son of the richest guy in town is driving a car (possibly over a decade) older than he is. And that him driving a car is given this much weight to it when he's had a rideable, teleporting Lion since he was 12.