Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25394244-20150110232943/@comment-5527544-20150111231540

Hey, new guy here. I've been reading this discussion and it is interesting. I have to agree with those that believe the Crystal Gems are the good guys.

The Gems have been on Earth for centuries, protecting mankind from the monsters/corrupted gems. In the Laps/water tower episode, Pearl herself explained that they capture the monsters in gem form to stop their rampages and in the hopes that they could one day be returned to normal as well as giving the gems some form of peace.

Also the Evil Scroll is not conclusive evidence to say the main characters are evil. As someone said, there really wasn't any who would know if they were corrupting people and no one but a gem can get into the temple's room with Steven having not mastered that power. It would seem more likely that Garnet found an evil she couldn't destroy and so took it somewhere she believed would have a better chance of destroying it.

And finally, being evil is so out of character with all of the characters, especially Rose Quartz. Garnet has said that it is not their way to harm humans, to use their powers on humans. That is not the code of ethics of villains.

In the series there are hints of a Gem civil war and while the cause is unknown it would appear that the Crystal Gems were on one side and they suspect that any surviving Gems would be on the other