Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150122232405/@comment-26031064-20150125053707

Gnx486 wrote: I don't think they rigged the test because they thought he wasn't ready, but instead because they knew it wasn't necessary because he's long-since proven he was ready. Pearl said it herself, the reason for the Sea Spire test was to see if Steven was ready to go on missions. They were obviously satisfied with his performance there because in subsequent episodes he was going on missions with them. Plus, any mistake he made in this episode would have revealed the test was fake, which implies that the gems had enough confidence in him to assume he wouldn't make any mistakes. 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.