Well, It’s been an okay year for Steven Universe. I mean, that Uncle Grandpa crossover was awful, and I hated it, but other than that, pretty good. Which is important, because this is the last episode for the rest of the year.
The progress on their drill is sort of stifled. Peridot isn’t exactly a team player, after all. Steven gave her a voice recorder in lieu of her tech, and she promptly used it in her usual condescending way. Also, she’s unsettled by Garnet’s permafusion, and makes one hell of a miscalculation in telling her to defuse.
Peridot has a tendency towards the biological equivalent of technobabble, of sorts, which Amethyst and Steven find funny. They need a drill bit, though, and Peridot decides it would be best to take one from the injectors in the Kindergarten. Since no one wants to send Peridot on her own, Steven and Amethyst volunteer to go with her, mostly to laugh at her nerdiness.
And this is the point at which Peridot dips into insult comedy. Steven, as she points out, is so energy inefficient thanks to his human half that he has an entire room dedicated to shitting, and the fact that he’s a hybrid is bizarre to her. But her view of Amethyst is tied to last week.
The homeworld’s rigid class structure is pretty important to her. And that class structure would dictate that, even though she is clearly defective, Amethyst should be the clear leader of the group, as she is a quartz (much like Rose). Traditionally, they’re the soldiers; big, broad shouldered ass kickers with authority. That would place her above a fusion on the homeworld, and far above a Pearl. The talk about how she’s defective is a sore spot, however, considering how she feels about the circumstances of her birth.
When they get back with the drill, Amethyst is extra sulky. An accidental activation of the drill sets up a situation in which Peridot pulls a bodyguard dive to get Amethyst out of the path it was taking. This actually , in an odd way, prompts Peridot to apologize for what she said. In her own egotistical, roundabout way, of course.
Final Thoughts:
- Honestly makes sense that quartz would be their warrior class. Quartz gems are some of the most plentiful; and a militaristic, expansionist race would want as many of those as possible.
- I make heavy day to day use of my vision spheres and touch stumps.
- They’re going to drop a Giga Drill Breaker on that shit.
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