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Braided Fluff
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That was a really nice set of episodes. Everything fit together well, we got a lot of lore and an exciting plot to go with it. I really like how they characterized the Diamonds. A lot of what we saw in the last StevenBomb was implied beforehand, but it really helped put everything into perspective.
I especially like what they did with Yellow Diamond. She's been an ominous, looming presence since the later parts of Season 1, and they managed to put an amazing amount of character development ino her one scene. It seems to me that she's not simply an evil overlord, but that she feels she's obligated to fulfill her role as much as any other Gem. In Homeworld society, the Diamonds are flawless, absolute rulers, and that is the image she has to live up to; she can't allow herself to be distracted or weakened by emotions when her people need her to lead them. With one of their leaders gone, another too caught up in her own grief to help, and whatever's going on with White, Yellow has to run a significant portion of Homeworld without the support she's used to having; with all the stress of her job, Yellow has no time to deal with the loss of Pink, so she just tries to power through it and do her duty while erasing anything that reminds her of her pain.
It seems that, while Yellow and Blue Diamond care deeply about one another, they don't actually understand each other's feelings very well. They're so focused on their own grief over losing Pink Diamond that neither one of them truly understands how the other was affected; Blue spends so much time dwelling on the past that she doesn't see how much stress Yellow is under or how much she needs her, and Yellow wants to help Blue move on because she can tell how badly she's been hurt, but is too out of touch with her own feelings to understand Blue's pain or know how to heal it. That might have started to change, though, if Yellow Diamond is planning to help Blue collect more from Earth before it's destroyed.
On that note, the human zoo could be giving us some insight into Pink Diamond's character. Garnet described it as some sort of horrible trophy of conquest, but it seems to be designed by someone who truly wanted to take care of the humans' well-being. It has a pleasant Earthlike environment, has systems to take care of all the humans' needs, even some approximation of fun and games. Whoever designed it seems to be a gentle sort of person who wanted to keep the humans happy and healty... but also thought they were simple and interchangeable. Perhaps Pink Diamond felt some affection for Earth in her own way, and wanted to preserve some of its native lifeforms so that they wouldn't go extinct after the Gem colonies rendered the planet uninhabitable.
I'm excited to see what happens next. With "next" being "tomorrow", of course.
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