Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25559267-20150331163300/@comment-4161284-20150408201236

There's simply not enough evidance to support the idea that Pearl will get monster-fied or that one of the monsters inside the temple managed to escape on it's own (because it's impossible since the bubble is the kinda of stasis that keeps the gems frozen while in the gem state).

So the monster is more likely an outside source, which brings me to the point:

Looking back on Joy Ride episode, isn't anyone bothered by the fact that Peridot just left her escape pod where they found it? Sure it had a dent in it, but other than that it was still functional as Steven proved it. So why would she just abandon the only working piece of Gem homeworld technology behind while stranded on an alien world?

Not unless something horrible happend to her as result of crash, like breaking her gem. I mean you saw what happend to Amethyst and she only had 1 crack in it, which kept growing as time passed, causeing her physical form to go nuts.

This was in a matter of a few hours, now imagine what happens with a gem that wasn't repaired within several days, or longer than that even.

And she knows where the Crystal gem's home is.