Talk:Peridot/@comment-26013337-20150327042913

Man I hope we get a solo episode with just her roaming Earth and trying to understand it.

I gotta say, I really like this character and I sure hope they don't go the "truly evil" villain route, at best, I hope they go for a Jack Spicer vibe. I doubt they'll go "truly" evil because they've shown us that character in Jasper, but she's not at all like that. I can see where Peridot is coming from. I mean, she's likely a "new" (see: more advanced) gem that has never been to Earth, she doesn't know about "crystal" gems (well, they were probably a history lesson) who was simply tasked with a mission from superiors. She's not a fighter, she's just a technician and all she wants is to do her job and do it well. She's likely been to dozens of planets and done the same missions but likely never actually had to get her hands dirty by actually going there (by letting her robonoids do all her work).

Which is why I think it would be fun to see her react to a world with a vibrant culture and strange customs with no access to gem tech. Ultimately I'd like to see a redemption where, after living her whole life as just an unfeeling technician who is usually removed by thousands of miles from the planets she decimates, she finds something in common with and sympathizes with humans or even just the Earth in general (kinda like the town episode for Zuko from A:TLA). It likely won't happen, they kinda went that route with Lapis and even then, Steven had to sing a whole song just to get the viewer to see her as not a bad person. So unfortunately, I doubt we'll see her go that route but at the very least, I think they'll avoid the totally evil part and maybe give her a key role where she defies her superiors at a key moment (defecting like Jinx from Teen Titans in the finale).