Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150122232405/@comment-26031064-20150125234256

Judgekoo wrote: Gnx486 wrote:

Aemeon K. wrote: True. But what if had made more mistakes, and they really expected him to know they rigged it? I mean, what if he messed up on Amethyst's or Pearl's challange the first time though, tripped while running from the giant boulder or accidently did the memory puzzle wrong, only to find it didn't matter? I mean, the whole situation could have been different, and they probably had prepared for it. They even looked happily surprised that he was so thrilled about the whole thing. I think they just didn't expect him to make any mistakes. The obstacles weren't any more difficult than anything Steven had already faced and overcome on actual missions. And they were mostly right, Steven slipped up at the very end, but up until that point he had done everything perfectly. Gnx is right, the Gems needed to find that right balance of obviously not too easy and impossibly hard for Steven, what resulted was the current one. If he had stumbled earlier on, I don't know what he'd do. The situation could have played out differently or the same, we may never know. They weren't prepared for Steven yelling at them for making a rigged dungeon, they made it so that it was impossible for him to fail at it but they forgot one thing, Steven's cocky side. In their head they assumed Steven will breeze through the dungeon as if it was a real mission, they didn't expect him to become cocky with each success he made, which ultimately lead him to being almost crushed by a spikey death trap. His cockyness eventually turned into disappointment upon learning the dungeon was rigged. The Gems looked happy when Steven feigned happiness and excitment but it wasn't because he had learned a valuable lesson aside from accomplishing the dungeon. They were happy that, for once, as his guardians they finally did something right and didn't just screw it up (which they did by rigging the whole thing). These are both valid and probably true points. I like they made the episode this way. However, I did notice Steven, during Pearl's puzzle, seemed just a bit worried about something. Probably just him recovering from being almost sliced by a huge axe, but he sounded so unsure of the situation he was in for that one moment.