thank you steven, for destroying that horrible weapon, and not using it on bismuth or anyone else. nobody deserves that.
he’s such a good kid. he doesn’t want to kill anyone, he knows people can change. he’s seen homeworld gems turn around again and again, and i’ll bet his mind flashed to them when bismuth demonstrated the breaking point.
nobody deserves that.
i’m so glad SU is turning out like this. many people were starting to think that because of characters like marty and kevin, who don’t seem sympathetic right now, su is gonna drive home a “some people are just the Worst” moral that, if applied to threatening gems, might have meant killing them.
for me, that might have ruined the show. it could still have been good… but it would have been what bismuth wanted. using murder to “improve the world”. the classic, overdone hero’s story, where killing the “bad people” on top just automatically fixes everything. nobody cares about killing the mooks and minions working for them either, who never had a choice.
i also liked that, while rose not telling anyone wasn’t ok, i can see why she bubbled her: bismuth is really good at motivating the other crystal gems. her true strength is her ability to pump people up and persuade them to her cause. amethyst was a skeptic, but we saw the effect she had on her.
if rose hadn’t bubbled bismuth, well… her plan might have worked. she pumps them up, tells them about her Glorious Shattering Plan, and many might have followed. there would certainly have been a split among the crystal gems, which could have destroyed them from within.
but steven did one thing rose didn’t. after coming to the same realization, that he can’t enable bismuth’s glorifying of death and violence, he also decides to tell the others. he’s refusing to keep rose’s secrets.
thank goodness for this kid. he’s got a world of pressure and responsibility on his shoulders, and he’s way out of rose’s shadow now.
he’s not as good a fighter, but he gives the gems something they need – communication. he refuses to keep big secrets from them, he believes in them and lets them handle the truth for themselves. he wants the crystal gems to be a true force of good and understanding, and i’m really proud of him for that.
