Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150713205628/@comment-26170184-20150713233946

I absolutely loved the episode. I think this is the first steven universe episode which is NOT part of a two parter that did not have a happy ending. From what I gathered from it is that it shows that Pearl and Amethyst feel that they are weak. They look up to Garnet as the strongest Crystal Gem and its almost as if Pearl and Amethyst have a low opinion of themselves as Gems. They may feel that compared to other Gems, they are weak, and when they fuse with Garnet they feel strong. Amethyst sang about how she feels that she is not needed. And I understand Garnet being mad at Pearl for lying to her. Fusion is really important to Garnet and that fact that Pearl was lying just to fuse with her must have made Garnet absolutely disgusted. It is as Pearl said in we need to talk, fusion is the ultimate connection between Gems, and Pearl tricking Garnet to keep on fusing is like the ultimate betrayal. Almost like if you are in a relationship and you lie to your partner, and your partner ends up finding out about your lies, its a betrayal of trust.

In a way it made me respect Pearl more because while the fandom generally may not like how she is behaving, it shows her flaws, the crewniverse are making her more human in a way. She is a good person but she has insecurities and is not above doing some nasty things in order to get what she wants. Most Human beings are generally good people but sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes even horrible ones and sometimes we make these mistakes out of satisfying our own selfish needs. She even said when she fuses with Garnet it made her feel stronger. And at the end she was ashamed of what she did.

I get the promo now. Each episode is represented by an emotion. So this episode had a sad ending, so my guess is Keystone Hotel is probably going to be happy, The onion episode is probably going to be indifferent/weird. Historical Friction is probably going to be both happy and sad and Friend Ship is a mystery.