Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20141030222418/@comment-24163511-20141102072519


 * Insert "Polymorphic Sentient Rock People" caption with Ronaldo shopped into "Aliens" guy meme*

I thought this was a pretty interesting look into Ronaldo's world,  I wasn't expecting it to be so...desperate? Yeah, there's something a lot more wrong with him than just paranoia. As Gnx stated above, Ronaldo's insistence that there be something "more" than what there seems to be indicates that he craves some higher purpose and that he needs there to be something greater out there to be discovered so that he can change his status as the next-in-line Fryman.

Because unlike PeeDee, Ronaldo very clearly doesn't want to be his dad, he views his job as tedious and insignificant, much like his life, so he invented things that gave evidence of higher purpose for him. And in a way, we all do that, in fact, simply getting into and enjoying fiction (much like this show *cough*), is a type of escapism that leads us to entertain thoughts of grand purpose and world changing power, everyone wants to be Luke Skywalker, fated to be something greater than the farm-hand. Where Ronaldo goes wrong is that he takes escapism to unhealthy, nigh insane levels of crazy. Escapism is nice, but reality is reality, and he NEEDS to understand that reality can be good too, ya know, before he snaps and kills himself/others for consistently failing to conform to his insane theories. Which is why I think Steven really shouldn't have tried to "fix" him, that depression he was feeling needed to be felt so he could get over it and ground himself.

Furthermore, I totally refute Pearl's assertions on humanity. It's true that our escapism indicates the need for greater purpose, but even if we had the powers of gems, we'd still dream of something more, something different than what we have, its the curse that comes with having imagination and free will. Pearl in fact, seemed a bit snobbish in this regard, vastly over simplifying Humanity as insignificant and foolish when she, herself, has proven to be not so perfect. This snobbish behavior is becoming more evident as the status quo of Gems, to think that Humanity is weak, primitive and insignificant. It seems that Rose Quartz was the only gem to truly believe in humanity and in fact, managed to love a human enough to give up her physical form to bear him a child. Hopefully Steven can make them see other humans as more than just potential collateral damage.