Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26204104-20150314142954/@comment-27729149-20150403181742

Axelskox wrote: Gnx486 wrote: Peridot's not an idiot. She knows what the Kindergarten will do, and is determined to do it anyway. Jasper, at least, was less interested in planet-wide genocide than Peridot was, even if she was more cruel to our heroes. Never once was it stated that this was the case, either. But on the other hand, she has had no direct contact with humans (that we've seen), aside from Steven.

In addition, where exactly was it stated that she knows that it will make the planet completely inhospitable for the current dominant sentient species? Is it not possible that she's a younger gem, specifically trained for this job and generally uninformed about the destruction the job itself will cause?

Because, second time now, I doubt leaders really run the show by saying "you're blowing the living fuck out of living things because we said so". That's a pretty good way to incite a revolution, and clearly, it didn't work out for them before when Rose was there. Things seem to run much more smoothly now, so I'd imagine there's a lot less direct fieldwork. Hell, Peridot seemed aggravated enough that she had to directly come through the Homeworld Warp.

It's easy to say "nope, evil, and not just uninformed", but that's also hilariously inaccurate to the show if the Crewniverse are to be believed, and it's extremely doubtful, given the audience's interest in Peridot, that she'll remain even a transient enemy for very long. Exactly peridot may be trying to reactivate the kindergarten, but that doesn't make her a vile character, she is still redeemable, peridot may become an ally in the future, she's only following orders, she not trying to murder humanity, nor is she intending to, I don't think she knows what the effects of the kindergarten will do, also I get Jasper didn't want to reactivate the kindergarten, but as you saw she tried to blast steven and the gems with the beam and she tried to murder them at the end of the episode, she is not more innocent than peridot or lapis, in a way she is actually worse. What indicated with at she knows that deactivating the kindergarten will destroy humanity, there is no indication that peridot and lapis want to harm humanity. Lapis was just scared, she didn't have any intention of harming the humans either.