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By Odin's beard!

I think I'll summarize my thoughts on what this all means.

The "Great Diamond Authority" came to earth to create more gems. Rose and the others probably came along with them. The gems are like viruses, using other "living" things to reproduce, killing the host in the process. The gems have to do this in order to survive, so they would travel to different planets, reproduce until the planet was dead, and repeat. It was okay at first, as all the planets were unpopulated. But when Rose saw how earth was populated, she rebelled.

Kindergarden was the attempt to reproduce. The thing was, the gems that came from Kindergarden were normal at first, but something went wrong. The gems became corrupted, turning into horrible monsters. The Crystal gems saved one of the gems from Kindergarden. Amethyst. That's why the gems save the corrupted ones, keeping them in hope that they may be able to help them like they did Amethyst.

This also makes me think about Lapis and the mirror. We have seen that a cracked gem grows worse over time. Lapis had a cracked gem, and was trapped in the mirror for what seems to be a very long time. So why didn't she grow worse and possibly die?

Simple. The mirror saved her. Somehow by being trapped in the mirror, she was saved from dying. But if she was freed, she would begin dying once more. That could be why the gems knew she was there but never let her out!

AGH, so many theories! I cannot WAIT for the next episode!