Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3965346-20150620162619/@comment-26472528-20150622035854

I seriously doubt that Sardonyx will be a male gem. The people who actually work on this show have outright said that gems are technically neither male nor female but that they ALL use feminine pronouns for convenience. And let's also consider that Jasper is traditionally masculine in attitude and personality... but still uses female pronouns. They could've easily made Jasper male if they really wanted to, but they didn't. So I highly doubt there will be a gem that is male in its default physical form.

And really... I'm perfectly okay with this. I've seen so much sexist sci-fi schlock where the majority of some alien race is female, or is ruled by females, to make us feel sorry for the poor good-looking straight white male protagonist being "oppressed" by women. Either that or some reverse, perverse version of "Mars Needs Women." It's a pretty ugly sci-fi trope I'm sick of seeing even the slightest hint of.

Not to mention that until now, almost every cartoon and general kids' show under the sun was made up of white guys with a few token characters, like maybe one girl, one black guy, and one Asian guy and everyone else was a white dude. Oh, and no homosexuals allowed. Yeah. Gets old after you've been watching cartoons (and in my case, sometimes helping make them) for a long time. It's nice to finally see something different - Something where the strong characters are mostly females of varying ethnicity and sexual orientation. We already HAVE plenty of strong male cartoon characters in every other show ever. It's time to give some spotlight to the strong female characters, to show that girls and women CAN be leaders and warriors and complex characters. I don't think this would happen in a show with an even division between male and female characters - I can almost guarantee the spotlight would still fall on the guys, because for some bizarre reason TV programming execs seem to think "boys like cartoons but girl like live-action" and would thus cater to the boys watching the show.

But anyhow... My heart desperately hopes Sardonyx is a completely new gem, but my head is thinking it might just be some reveal about Jasper, like a pseudonym or her "real" name or something, due to her color scheme being pretty much the same. It doubt it's a fusion of gems we've already seen - I can't imagine a week being devoted to that. I really want to see Centipeetle healed eventually, but I doubt Sardonyx is that either due to the colors chosen for the teaser lettering. Sardonyx could be a different corrupted gem, though. It might even be the forced-fusion gem, that would certainly be interesting, but for now everything is just speculation.