Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25317362-20140925205832/@comment-25464947-20140926034023

This episode raised a lot of questions about whether the Crystal Gems are as good as they seem. They protect humans and care a lot about Steven, but they're weirdly ambivalent about their fellow gems. The most disturbing thing is that they new that someone was trapped in the mirror, fully conscious yet only able to follow orders, yet they did not feel compelled to do anything about it. Yes, it turned out that Lapis was very dangerous, but they had no way of knowing who was trapped inside. It almost seems like trapping and controlling gems to "power" artifacts is a normal part of gem culture, which carries an eerie resemblence to slavery. For that matter, what does that say about the fragments from Frybo? Did the gems in the war find a way to shatter and weaponize their enemies' gems???