Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150108233407/@comment-25615658-20150109012512

The episode was incredible! I feel the episode may have raised more questions than it may have answered. It seems to me that the "evil" gems had a plan to conquer the earth like many of you have previously mentioned. Now I have no idea what those little drone things were but they were obviously sent to repair the warp pad. I'm thinking Peridot was some kind of a scout for the evil gems. She was sent to investigate the warp pad to make sure that it had been succesfully repaired and to make sure that the galaxy warp would make a good staging ground to launch an assault on the earth. GAP knows that what had happened was extremely dangerous. Fearing that they would return, Garnet smashed the main warp pad with her giant gauntlets. We know now that the gems had been in a war with each other. Since we haven't seen any gems that were defending the earth other than GAP Rose and Steven we can assume that crystal gems had been losing the war. In a desperate attempt to save the earth, the crystal gems smashed the warp pads in order to prevent another ambush. They weren't checking to see if the galaxy warp was active so they could use it. They were checking to make sure that no other gems could warp to Earth. As some of you have previously mentioned, the gems may be an empire fueled by conquest but many gems felt that conquering and either destroying or enslaving various species was wrong and so some gems may have rebelled. GAP and Steven are all we know is left of the rebellion and they are trying to prevent the other gems from returning. A possible explanation as to why GAP had not told Steven more about the war and the other gems is that they feared he was not ready to fight and that it was better to leave him ignorant and train him up at his own pace so he wouldn't feel pressured. If they had told him the truth, he may have just cracked under pressure. Because of the synopsis of the Test, we know that Steven's journey in the lunar sea spire was a test, I feel that the gems may haven know all along that the return of the evil gems was inevitable and they used the lunar sea spire to test Steven to see how he would react to various situations.

I also have a theory that Lapis may have been a gem that sided with the empire who was defeated in battle and trapped in the mirror so she would not be allowed to retreat to her gem and repair herself.