Talk:Space Race/@comment-25306382-20141009225955/@comment-24163511-20141010073926

Not in the least actually. Her passion for wanting to revisit space was just so great that she forgot about Steven's circumstances, mainly, that he's half-human. Which is out of character for her because she's usually the first to be sensitive towards the human conditions but that was the piont, her passion hi-jacked that sense of reasoning. She wasn't trying to manipulate Steven, she did all the work herself, she just badly wanted to show him what she remembered all those years ago, the wonders of the cosmos. She wanted to reveal to him that majesty of space, and what it was like for Gems way back when.

When Pearl brought him with her it was to show that, to get him as excited about those wonders as she was and to her, 50 years is like 5 days. It would be little more than a camping trip to show Steven HER great outdoors. She ignored what that really meant for half-human Steven and for all of his human contacts because at that moment, she was swelling with excitement, nostalgia and deeplly moving sense of passion. We should all be so lucky to experience something like that and want to pass on that experience to our children and future generations.