Thread:Iudexkoo/@comment-3560963-20150209015620/@comment-3560963-20150210212553

" Great job on not being shortsighted, great job! . . . . 

''Equality and fairness would like to see how the Homeworld Gems see the CGs. If the HGs turn out to be evil then they're evil but if they have an actual reason, then that's something else but that doesn't make it any less bad to humans. Yes, we can ASSUMEthat the HGs are evil but that doesn't make them actually it. I'm not talking about specifically the HGs here but often times those who are seen as evil by a callous race is often times just misunderstood and often times right on point."''

I'm not above the idea of them being misunderstood; I've said it before that I'm all for people thinking outside the box when it comes to the show's canon. But here's my problem with at this point calling them equal: If they won't give Earth a chance to survive without their interference and resource harvesting, then why should we? There's a difference between giving someone the benefit of the doubt and giving someone a second chance to do the same wrong thing AGAIN! Now I will give the misunderstood angle this much: if Lapis is of any indication, they are at the very least gratuitous.

''"How was showing a canyon with holes indicate that the HGs were okay?  There is always a reason for this things, they don't just do it without a rhyme nor a reason. You haven't read much comic books have you? Or any alien shows? Because there are actually some aliens that destroy planets to keep their own alive, granted this  may  not be the case for HG." ''

 Simple: By the looks of both the canyon and the fact that Gems seem to  pop out of the ground (albeit via clifface), we can easily assume that based on the probability of there being planets with a mass of solid ground of some variety, it's not that hard to imagine there being millions, if not billions of Gems roaming the galaxy!

''"If Lapis was a rebel, why'd she want to go home? Also, she said "Are you really a Crystal Gem? (to Steven)", "You three knew I was in there, and you didn't do anything. Did you even wonder who I used to be?!", "I'm Lapis Lazuli, and you can't keep me trapped here anymore!", "They're not going to let us leave."  the homeworld gems didn't really put her in there, the CGs did." ''

 *laughs* Bullcrap! The Crystal Gems FOUND the mirror and didn't even know she was IN there! Granted, they most likely knew that something was in there, but not that powerful. And as for Lapis's comments, she was no doubt disoriented from being released from the mirror. I mean, from the sound of it, she acts like she's been in there for centuries, if not millenia, so it's not hard to think that she may have had baggage with the Crystal Gems BEFORE being imprisoned.

 And as for her going home...have you stopped to consider that her home may not be the same as, say, the CG's old home or Peridot's? If what the show's given us is to be believed, then there are many colonies of Gems all across the galaxy, if not universe, so naturally there are numerous home possibilites for her.

 " So because they took a long time to repair a warp pad means that they are evil? I am so totally convinced right now. 

''The CGs had destroyed the Homeworld warp, so the robots had to take the LONG WAYto get to earth. And by long way I mean dart across space like Lapis did."''

Let me rephrase that, by evil I meant their already proven callous behavior. Think about it; by the sounds of it, the pad hasn't been reactivated in centuries, if not millenia. From what we've got so far as a narrative, we can assume that the Crystal Gems during their battle for Earth drove the other Gems away, and the Homeworld Gems turned the Warp Pad off themselves and forgot about Earth up until Steven came into the world.

And as for the supposed long way around...oh really? Is THAT why they seemed to be taking their own warp beams to what seemed like nowhere until one arrived in the main warp zone for Earth? Yeah, the Crystal Gems didn't destroy the warp pad until much later, when they realized more Gems were going to come back to Earth.

"Why would the writers put that in? To actually make her to break one. If she stomped on a perfectly good condition robot she would be seen as very evil. Destroying a broken one was more practical. Uhm . . . Hooray for you for going pro-robot? The compromise was Steven's sticker. Peridot had no idea what the sticker was and is, she took no chances. Even GAP have a hard time with earth related objects and they have been on earth for hundreds of years."

So she couldn't, oh I dunno, REPAIR IT? Just saying, there are other alternatives to just destroying your own robots! And I repeat, what kind of a compromise is that?! By that logic, fridges are compromised every time I get new magnets for one!

So they're a little rusty without someone like Rose Quartz or Steven to help them get in the swing of Earth culture. What's wrong with that?

"It gives them no right to destroy us but we also don't have a right to tell them what to do. It's all a matter of perspective. Morality comes into play here, but I'd rather not dabble in that."

Maybe so, but I'll repeat what I said: That's. No. EXCUSE! What they did was near-irredeemable! I say near, because there IS a chance for improvement if the season finale involves more Gems seeing to the CG's side of things.

<p style="line-height:22px;">So in conclusion, I'm not trying to deny ANYONE here the right to belive in anything. I'm merely conveying that the idea of the Gems not only holds next to no water, but also doesn't make a whole lot of sense in terms of the narrative that Rebecca Sugar has made for the show.

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