That'd make sense but Lapis has control over all water. And as silly as the show was in the first few episodes it's gotten really good

Yeah I don't know what to say about the water thing. Each gem seems to have special side powers though. Garnet can take lavalike heat and Rose/Steven can heal. I don't think we've seen pearls yet unless it's the duplicate projection she makes (maybe shelll use them in combat). Amethyst seems very good with transformations though apparently every gem can do that

I do think the show has gotten great.

The water wings were confirmed to be Lapis' weapon, and Pearl can control sand apparently (iirc it was the episode where Opal first happened)

Hm! I forgot about the sand thing. I'll have to watch that again.

Wow. I never looked at it that way before.

i could see that.. after all.. Pearl refers to herself as "a pearl" multiple times.
And dispite Garnet having weapons.. ruby n saphire dont seem to have em.
though they do seem to have elements. I still wonder the nature of gems
with two names.. Yellow Diamond n Rose Quartz being the only examples
and total mystery.

Pearl does have the whole "royal guard" and teacher/trainer type attitude.

Ruby does have a gauntlet. We see it in Keystone Motel.

i totally missed that

Heh, I'm a wee bit obsessed with the show, and when that particular episode came on, I was even watching other people watch it on youtube. ^^;;

i love the show so im cool with it.

Ruby and sapphire each have one of the gloves that garnet weears. You can see Ruby manifest her glove by itself on the road trip episode.

Yeah that's interesting I don't know if its special to be a two name grm. Maybe they're a leader class of gems.

saw that episode.. i totally missed that. i honestly wonder if Garnet can use the elemental abilites of ruby and saphire

We've seen her manifest lightening/electricity, or at the very least, redirect it a few times. It's possible that she has her own element in that. We do know she can walk through lava, which is very likely thanks to Ruby.

yeah.. garnet is definatly fire resistant/immune

Notice the symbol on the training area in Sworn to the Sword? Count the diamonds and make note of their color. Now watch Stronger Than You (Jailbreak) and check out the floor. Note the similar color scheme, but one color is obviously missing? At this point, it's still fan speculation, but it's pretty solid in terms of likelihood.

Okay I'll have to look into that. I remember the design on the Sworn to the Sword episode (one of my favorites, I love Pearl as a character), but I didn't notice it popping up again.

Stronger than you is MY FAVORITE scene from the entire show though. Garnet is such a badass.

Did you notice the faceplate getting smashed out of order though? :( I'd like to see a version of the fight where it's reordered properly.

Heh, I can't imagine that sequence done in any other order, due to the fight choreography, so I think I'm hokay with the glitch. It goes by so fast, it's hard to even register it. That is, unless you watch it over, and over, and over (which, let's be honest, is definitely worth doing.)

Just keep an eye on the floor in Jailbreak, particularly when you hear Jasper's heavy stomps coming into the room, or when Garnet and Jasper are sizing one another up from across the way. There are a few good images of it, though I'm sure you could find stills online. For Sworn to the Sword, it's a bit harder to catch, because they go by it so fast. Just watch Steven and Connie when they get off the port-pad and run up the stairs. You'll see the emblem on the wall they pass. It basically lays it all out there, but it's awfully easy to miss.

That's one of the things I love about the show. Half of the lolrandom/Adventure Time-like episodes from earlier in the series have very specific reasons for existing, and what seemed random/wacky, suddenly takes on an awful lot of meaning.

There's a lot of speculation that Pearl is a an aberrant of some sort. Jasper calls her defective, the Sworn to the Sword song alludes to her not being built for fighting/combat, and Friendship has the "I'm just a Pearl" line. The theory goes that she's some sort of helper/servant class, perhaps assigned to Rose, who became something more thanks to her time on Earth/love of Rose.

That same theory holds that Peridot is a similar creation. She's designed for more intellectual work/service duties, and for interfacing with gem tech.

We know Pearl is the technician of the group, and she's also the one who interfaced with the ship from homeworld. Her primary secondary ability (holograms) also seems to be mostly a tool for strat/teaching, rather than actual battle, though she's obviously adapted for combat training as well. It's hard to say about the weapon, though we know she can retrieve various objects through her gem. It's possible she was taught how to do it afterward, or maybe it's meant to be more of an honor-guard sort of 'weapon for show,' that she turned into something more potent.

As far as Lapis is concerned, apparently the show's creators have weighed in that water IS her weapon and not just a secondary ability like future vision or the Sonic spin dash. I'm not 100% on that, or any of this really. It's all just theory until we know more, which is part of what makes this show so appealing.

Yeah.. Lapis doesnt need a physical weapon when she has an ocean.. And the ability to create water clones. I wonder if she counts as a two name gem like Rose. Lapis Lazuli seems limited more by her will then anything else. I wonder if she is/was a leader type.

Couple of things.

1. I thought that Jasper was calling her defective specifically because they defected from Homeworld. It's pretty clear that all the Gems are computers too, so I wouldn't be surprised if rising up against Homeworld means that you're generally defective.

2. I thought the Sworn to the Sword thing was more about Steven's girlfriend not being made for fighting (because she's a human). I know that they're both singing the song at the same time, so I'm a little torn over that interpretation. I like yours a lot :)

3. I was curious about the bandages that she produced from her gem. Has she made anything else in the show on screen? I can't remember anything besides her blade.

4. I am curious if the sonic spin dash counts as a secondary ability, or if it's just a maneuver. Both Amethyst and Jasper have done it. Usually in shows like this they don't repeat abilities until they've shown a bunch of them (it takes a long while before Heroes ever showed two mutants with the same ability).

5. That makes sense. She did make her wings out of water which would be my #1 reason for saying that it's her weapon (since she basically manifests the water from nothing). Maybe has that as her primary and secondary ability. I'm also curious who trapped her in the hand mirror. Some implications from the show that it was the crystal gems.

1) Jasper has a separate appraisal(HA!) of each gem. Amethyst is a "puny, over-cooked runt." This might mean she was destined for a more Jasper-esque stature. The images of a Jasper-like shadow-giant standing against Rose seems to imply that there IS some sort of warrior caste meant for smashing. Garnet is called a "shameless display." We're given a few hints that fusion is looked down upon on Homeworld (I have my own theory about that, and how it relates to Rose's rebellion) and Garnet lists this as the reason she fights in the new, extended intro. Earth is a place where she is free to be who she is. Pearl is called out directly as a "lost, defective pearl," not a "lost, defective gem," so it seems likely that she is somehow different from other pearls. More to the point, it gives the idea that she's not where she is supposed to be. This comes up again in Friendship when she says, "I'm just a pearl." Given the context, she seems to be suggesting that pearls aren't normally meant to be calling the shots/making their own choices.

2) Oh, I'm almost positive she's singing about herself as much as she is about Connie. Pearl's line is, "deep down, you know, you weren't 'built' for fighting," while Connie's line is "deep down, I know, that I'm just a human." Now that might have just been a slip of the tongue, thinking in gem terms, rather than human, but given how much of that song is essentially a flashback, I think the intent is pretty clear. And of course, you have the various slips of "do it for Her, that is to say, you do it for Him." It's really an amazing song, not only because of what it reveals about the characters, but how directly it parallels the arc of the episode.

3) She's also produced police tape in Lars and the Cool Kids, and Lapis' mirror.

4) It's hard to know, to be honest, but it seems to be a signature for both of them. Amethyst is also built a bit more like Jasper, which goes back to the idea of a warrior caste. I've wondered if there are technicians, elementals, and straight up warriors, but it's waaaaaay too early to say one way or the other on that. One thing is certain, I'd play the hell out of a tabletop Crystal Gems RPG.

5) They found it at the galaxy warp, so it's unlikely they put her there. Pearl is surprised/terrified to find out that it's sentient, or powerful enough to become so. There's a lot of speculation that some gem tech is (or was) also made up of gems. Peridot's, "you're going to HARVEST me?" might suggest so. There's definitely a bit of guilt there, but I think it's less, "we did this" and more, "we didn't even think to try and fix this." That's sort of an ongoing theme through-out the show, the idea that they're bubbling all this corrupted gems, likely as a mandate from Rose Quartz, but with little idea what to do with the gems/shared afterwards. Steven is likely the key there.

I interpreted it as referring to the fact she's a fusion. The homeworld gems have all had pretty negative or at the least very different views on fusions from what we see, between Jasper only seeing it as a battle tactic and the homeworld gems doing fusion experiments and stuff.

Also, I think there was a tweet that said Lapis' water stuff -was- her weapon, and Jasper's got her helmet. So Peridot's just the odd man out there at the moment.

Peridot is so cute without her limb enhancers

So grindable

Bad *bops* gems aren't meat or have legit gender so they can't work on the rack that's my job as a adorable princess

THAT'S TRUEeeee

Yep

That may be, but I doubt they'd be tolerated as powerful females.

(yes I know it's more complex than that, but if we were to discuss the nature of Gems fully we'd be here for weeks)

Yea gems are confusing

What bothers me is that Peridot seems entirely not-bothered with destroying an inhabited world and killing billions of people. Not to mention the other life forms. She seems to be getting a pass now for being small and frightened all the time, but I won't forget her callous attitude.

For a while I thought that perhaps her entire body was cybernetic, trapping her gem like Lapis' was in the mirror, or Desert Glass and her pillow, and that once she was released she'd 'revert' to a more friendly personality. Sadly no.

And perhaps a weapon is something you need to consciously develop, or even create.

Also: what good luck for Lapis to be stranded on Earth... and not Mars.

I think she's more suppose to be like, a technician fixing jets in the nazi army. Sure her commanders are terrible, but she's really just doing what she's told. More interested in fixing things then the problems all of this causes.

I thought she called her a war machine as the only purpose she can see for fusion is for fighting and not because some people love each other a lot.

It's like the show creators read this journal, and then decided to answer your questions directly o-o

Yeah lol the last episode with pearl had a lot of reveals. I'm curious now if they all look exactly the same or if they're only he same class if people.

There's also an Amethyst-focused episode from yesterday, which if you haven't seen, has some interesting reveals of its own.

And yeah, that is definitely something to consider. I think they probably look very similar, but just by their shifting nature, and ability to express themselves through their forms, our Pearl probably looks a bit different, while the average pearl has a more uniformed look. Peridot even mentions that our Pearl is a "fancy one" which implies she looks somewhat different, and possibly that there are different qualities of pearls.