Somehow I didn't even know it aired until I all the vague screaming in this thread lol. I look forward to reading all the spoilers after I get a chance to watch it with my partner later. ...Good stuff?
Yes. Prepare to have some questions answered, but more brought up in its place. It's a hydra of questions: cut one off, two more appear in its place
Spoiler: wanted speculation I'm betting on: White Diamond shattered Pink Diamond via our Pearl, who was also her personal Pearl. The gem positions match up.
Spoiler honestly i think theres something fucky going on w/ white diamond but the fact that yellow was pushing SO heavily for them to get the trial over with + whats the use of feeling blue + reacting so SWIFTLY to the implication that one of them could have done it makes me think she definitely had something to do with it
Spoiler If it was a Pearl who did it, maybe she was projecting a hologram. Or, actually, more simply, it could have been pretty much any gem with a similar colour scheme shapeshifting. Now I come to think of it, eyewitnesses don't actually mean all that much in this universe.
Spoiler: lars head griping because the wank had to come eventually i..........do not like that the character who was set up to be stevens link to his humanity was turned into a Not Human
Spoiler i can sorta see it, but for me it's so strong that she feels like a red herring. blue and yellow exist as contrasts in their experience of grief. blue's all about her tears, the absence, the longing, the resentment, clinging to what she still has left. yellow's all about anger and erasure, about making unwanted things and situations cease to exist. she's rushing things because this is an absurd sham of a trial, with hardly any gathering of evidence or testimony, done for either some social norm of homeworld gems or to satisfy blue's curiosity. white, though, still exists, but hasn't actually appeared yet. we don't know what white's agenda or methods are like, no idea whether she grieves for pink. if i remember right, white's art featured the most planets, like she's the oldest and most in-charge of them. pink, though, just had 1 in that art. earth might have been her first or second planet. gems like the rose quartzes were hers, and so far there's been this trend where a lot of gems have temperaments sorta reflective of their diamonds'. so what's that say for what pink was all about? and does that have something to do with why steven/our rose has so many freaking powers?
Spoiler: Lars' Head ... Wait. They were trying to fix a ship? ("Dropship", IIRC) Is that Centipeetle's ship or...?
Spoiler: spoiler from the steven universe subreddit: "Don't worry guys, a bunch of new episodes are about to air!"
Spoiler: wanted i like the pink magic lars. mostly 'cause i am a shallow little thing that often goes for sci-fi/fantasy flash over earthy humanity. and 'cause i want him on homeworld with the off-colours to be a subplot. and i'm glad that steven is no longer the only boy magic person. and since he doesn't have a gem, i realized that he can be both magic and undetectable. and lars' fear is really #relatable. especially his anxieties around baking that he mentioned, since i have similar ones about art. i really liked zircon. and poly gramma caterpillar fusion! and wow... the reveals. the reveals and the questions.
Spoiler: The Trial Zircon! wait she's a defense lawyer? Homeworld has DEFENSE LAWYERS? I see Homeworld's standards for defense law are not that separate from Earth's.... ...all rise, they're ALREADY standing that sure is some posing Steven are you ever going to tell them god DAMN blue. oh my god Blue's the court portraitist and Yellow's the stenographer 'a that kind' pfff that's BARELY fury, come on. eyewitness pffff wait Rose is the only one who can heal? 'aww she's good' pfff poor poor zircon. she really must've annoyed someone steven you really should tell them your name. like. i don't think it could really HURT at this point. and they're gonna find out probably. oh my god oh my god BLUE PEARL'S DRAWING IT wait steven thinks she used the breaking point 'don't tumble my rocks' STRATAGEM That's a great pun GOOD POINT ZIRCON HER PEARL um oh boy ....DID PEARL KILL HER oh my god Zircon are you nuts uhhhhh HOMEWORLD? wow it... is that a diamond silhouetted in the sky Spoiler: Off Colors Well Steven CAN heal bones i hope we can meet a Pearl rebellion while we're here. oh Lars. it was sort of a good idea. A shard fusion! A stable one! ....so this world isn't set up like a Colony like Earth would be? Hollowed out? A kindergarten! Another fusion! A sapphire-cousin? wow that's a big fusion. pretty too. though uh. the twins said they caught Steven and Lars before they were scanned. except. they were scanned. Is the fusion part-Pearl? So Fluorite is like a giant poly pile? I wonder if they can even detect him? he's all made of meat. poor Perachdna, or however her name is spelled. Can she even tell what's happening at the moment, or is she essentially just 30 seconds behind everyone else? Steven you have healing powers. STEVEN YOU HAVE HEALING POWERS. I mean i realize dealing with death at 14 is an impossible situation but. ....I swear I saw this in Tangled wait is this how Lion turned pink YEP. OK THEN. Spoiler: Lars' Head Wait so Lars is gonna get superpowers? Like Lion? Yeah ok so he's like Lion. Wait that means that he can shout and make Portals. Steven could you even fit in there. ....though. Everyone ELSE could. Probably. And then escape through that. ....Huh. WAIT LION'S? COULD STEVEN THEN BRING EVERYONE BACK TO EARTH THAT WAY. THAT SURE WOULD HELP. YEAH OK STEVEN NOW HURRY BACK AND GET THE OTHERS RIGHT THIS SECOND. SERIOUSLY STEVEN FUCKING DO IT. YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO DO OR EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO THE GEM YOU ARE ON THE FUCKING CLOCK HERE. So does that mean Lars is going to get giant. .....buuuut Idk if you can get everyone through Lars' head. Well. In the meantime, just get all the other Gems through to lurk on the hill. Except Lars can shout portals now. it'll be exhausting but you CAN. are you seriously suggesting leaving Lars on a planet where he can't eat or drink or anything. what about his freaking family. awww hugs. and he has to kneel for it to be accessible, that's some symbolism. YEAH EXCEPT WHAT ABOUT LARS' FAMILY.
Spoiler i mean it makes sense with homeworlds 'every single gem has a VERY SPECIFIC UNIQUE JOB' motto
Also Spoiler: spoilers up to Lars' Head I do wonder if Steven's gonna end up with accidental army of pink humans. and other random animals.