What Everybody Gets Wrong about Future Vision
Basically, while this power can cause legitimate plot holes, there are also many people who get it wrong on such a fundamental level that I just had to make this to set the record straight.
So without further ado, let’s begin.
1. Garnet is not omniscient.
She cannot see everything and her possibility pool is not endless. Let’s start with something that basic. The show even outright says this:
Garnet: My future vision allows me to see down the rivers of possibility, granting me insight into the possible realities our actions lead us towards. But that doesn’t mean I can predict everything.
1. a. Garnet can’t actually see the future.
Once again, we’re starting with the fundamental blocks before we get on to the heavier stuff. This is outright stated once more in the first episode we really get a taste for Future Vision:
Steven: So, can Pearl and Amethyst see the future too?
Garnet: No one can see the future. I can see options and trajectories.
2. Garnet’s Future Vision is limited by personal bias and personal knowledge.
Let’s start with that first bit.
Garnet: I have the map and I steer the ship.
Garnet has to choose the direction she wants her Future Vision to go in. She is in control and she is not always neutral either. She has her own biases and opinions.
This is why she couldn’t see Pearl rebuilding the hub in her vision.
She was looking for Peridot. She fine-tuned her Future Vision for futures where they could catch Peridot. Pearl was never even a variable she considered.
This is why she had no idea Steven would be in Peridot’s escape pod in Joy Ride.
That literally makes no sense to her. The more probable outcome for her is again, Peridot landing somewhere where they can track her. And of course Peridot would be the one attacking the Cool Kids; why would it be the result of Steven accidentally setting the pod off?
Same for why she was completely blindsided by Homeworld’s return as well.
She didn’t know anything about their weapons, their technology, Era 2 gems, or anything like that. How could she, when she wasn’t around for that stuff?
Pool Hopping is even clearer with this personal filter. She admits that she’s been fine tuning her Future Vision wrong with Steven. She needs to stop seeing him as a helpless child; she has to see him as someone who’s grown up, who can make his own creative decisions, then she can see the possibilities more clearly.
Garnet: I think I get it. Why my future vision has been so off. I have to change the way I think about you.
I’ve been looking into probable futures where you act like a child. I keep expecting you to run from responsibility and to turn to me for help.
But you don’t do that anymore. Those futures aren’t probable at all.
There’s nothing wrong with this timeline or my Future Vision. I just have to factor in that you’ve grown up.
3. Garnet’s Future Vision is used in short bursts, not nonstop.
She literally can’t afford to do that, as she loses focus of all of her surroundings and priorities if she gets too caught up.
Arcade Mania has her turn into a literal zombie when playing Meat Beat Mania because she became locked in all the patterns of the dance game and lost all track of time or self.
Keystone Motel showed us what happens if Sapphire focuses entirely on a far off future while ignoring how her actions affect others in the present. She ended up hurting Steven and completely ignoring Ruby, which only made the situation worse.
I bring this up because people unrealistically expect her to account for absolutely everything at all times, like a 24 hour radar when guys, she has a LIFE to live and doing that is absolutely draining and not completely helpful.
4. Some things are so outside the realm of possibility that not even Garnet can predict them.
Which means that no, Garnet probably didn’t see Rose creating Steven as that’s absolutely bonkers, even to the audience at times!
We’re still scratching our heads as to how she did it so how was Garnet supposed to guess at it? Especially since Rose essentially performed an unprecedented act that had never been done before in gem history and in Garnet’s own words:
I even heard one person criticize Sapphire for not foreseeing Pink’s whole ruse as Rose Quartz. I’m sorry, but, are you kidding me?
Once again, the AUDIENCE is still wrapping their heads around such a convoluted scheme! You expect any plain old Sapphire to see something like that? She has to consider it a possibility first! There’s no WAY she would see that as even PROBABLE let alone a likely outcome!
This has happened multiple times throughout the series.
Blue Diamond: The rebels have fled. Sapphire, this is not the scenario you described!
Sapphire: This is- not what I saw! I don’t know what happened, I-!
Holly Blue: What! Is! The meaning of this?! Why are these two outside the containment area?!
Sapphire: Holly Blue, I can explain!
Holly Blue: No need, Your Clarity. Not even you could have foreseen how incompetent these Amethysts are.
Garnet: You’ve made so many decisions I didn’t expect.
Giving yourself up to Homeworld:
Coming back through Lion’s mane:
The future that you created was so improbable that I didn’t see it coming at all.
So yeah, that’s it. This was me defending an unfair criticism of Steven Universe. It’s the unfair part I want to highlight, because there are many real problems. We don’t wanna focus on misconceptions or misinterpretations do we? We wanna know what we’re talking about, so I hope that was educational guys!
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