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Oh Steven. Life will crush you one day.

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Steven all determined and filled with purpose and bravery waving goodbye, and then- 

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Hahahaha at first I was like, c’mon, Greg, we’ve know this for ages, you guys have seriously gotta start coordinating your dramatic reveals so they pay off properly. And then I was like oh shit, they invaded Earth first. 

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The messy imperfection of Greg screaming that he needs Steven and that’s why he shouldn’t go back, goddd. Everyone just needs a blanket and a hug right now. There’s Steven, worried he’ll never be able to forgive himself if the Gems die and he could have saved them, and literally everyone else working so hard to try and make sure that’s exactly what happens because they’re all guilt-ridden messes.

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NO. TERRIBLE. You can’t just lecture us on the Gem’s tragic backstory and then immediately start dropping hints about your own, Greg. I’m going to sue this episode for emotional damages.

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Why is everything in this episode both hilariously and soul-shatteringly painful.

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Jasper headbutted this tiny child so hard she broke the end credits song, I can’t believe the depths of her depravity. 

Well. That certainly was an episode. We learned a lot, we loved a lot, we stopped paying attention to foreshadowing because it’s 2am and there were so many ladies on screen that we had to start prioritising what was truly important. 

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Those are some highly targeted insults you’re just throwing around there, lady. Jasper comes across as extremely performative - the dramatic sighs, the way she tears each Gem (even the ones on her side) a new one in a way calculated to describe exactly how they couldn’t ever measure up, the way her shoulders have more shoulders on top of them. Everyone around her is terrified of her, which is understandable since she’s so imposing and seems to take pleasure in being casually violent, but this has an element of theatre. She’s playing to her crowd. Which makes sense since she’s currently outnumbered by a lot of people with weapons who don’t like her very much. But even though she didn’t get the fight with Rose that she wanted, she’s clearly enjoying her control over this situation, maybe more than she would have actually enjoyed having to take on Rose. 

She clearly isn’t some old enemy of theirs since she’s never met Rose, but she has heard of Rose and her gal pals, and has specific gripes against every single one of them.

The way she describes Pearl seems to allude to her fragility? She’s lost, which could refer to Pearl's emotional disorientation, but that would imply Jasper has some greater knowledge of Pearl’s personal situation? The way she describes her as ‘some’ Pearl makes ‘Pearl’ seem like a title more than a name. And Pearl has been very clearly signposted to have some fancy mannerisms and high class interests. I think Pearl might have been pretty important back home before she got caught up in her whirlwind romance with Rose and made an impulsive decision to join a war.

Amethyst is Pearl’s total insult opposite - she’s a runt, which could just be an insult about her height, but I think is pretty likely related to the reason Amethyst was alone in the kindergarten, and why our gems treat her like the ‘bad’ one despite Amethyst not really doing anything to earn their disdain. The perjorative ‘runt’ also carries implications of a ‘defect’, of something to be discarded, which would definitely explain the origins of some of Amethyst’s anxieties around being worthless garbage, beyond Pearl picking on her manners all the time. 

And Garnet is a shameless display. Which, I don’t know about you guys, but that sounds very much like the kind of hate speech you’d throw at, say, a lesbian couple just trying to live their lives.