#i am rather inexplicably fond of the gummy worm centipede alien friend

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

So after healing all corrupted gems, building accommodations for all off colours, recuperating all planets with organic life back to supporting that organic life, recovering all shattered gems which itself includes doing SOMETHING about the Cluster, what say we leave the Diamonds to live out the rest of their existences on a far off comet, never to have an opportunity to hurt another life form again?

Yeah. Okay. I’ll take that. I guess their goop is needed for how gem reproduction currently works, so that’s a snarl - but I’m sure a clever Kindergartener could devise a way around that and seize the means of gem production this could be an interesting future plot point to consider, tied into coexistence with organic life (paging @ajora). Alexa, play Want You Gone.

I’ve seen a lot of speculation about the future, about how this is only a tiny first step in fixing such an overwhelming amount of harm (and, really, how much is even fixable? Or a basic minimum of reversible? Planetary extinction sounds pretty final. What happened to the happy hugging rainbow gummy worm aliens from “the Kyanite colony”, huh? Huh, Blue?). And every tiny bit of nascent realisation on the diamonds’ part that we’ve been presented with is, yeah, baby steps, if anything.

Yeah, we’ve found a way to fix the worst of the corruption, but we have a massive intergalactic empire to consider. We still have the entirety of Homeworld society to deal with and a horrid system to dismantle, we need to get Peridot back on that whole sustainable coexistence of Gemkind and organic lifeforms project she had ideas about, the zoo, the rose quartzes, THE PEARLS, those bubbled forced fusion experiments that YD just happens to have hanging around (that was pretty easy to miss, but the implications are horrifying, and having the CGs be bubbled and awaiting punishment there was… nope). There’s still corrupted gems roaming out there, I’m sure, and the ones we have uncorrupted will doubtlessly need time and help to recover (I appreciate the traces of corruption “scars” left in their designs - things like that don’t just get erased). There is so, so much work to be done, by so many people.

I’m really interested in the future! I hope we get a lot of the aftermath and the actual meat of the Disney Musical Montage, I hope we get to see both Earth and Homeworld change and grow together in a truly new era. And there’s still so much we don’t know, and so much Pearl Content I, tumblr user oathkeeper-of-tarth, personally want to see, so clearly the show needs to get on that, stat.

(And once again, I am very, very, very tired of the diamonds. We can see all of this unfold without centering it on them and their drama. And I’m gonna stick it here, and then leave it at that because I’m tired of going on about it, too: Going all out with the “dysfunctional family” part over the past half-season or so and glossing over the “intergalactic tyrants behind a laundry list of unspeakable atrocities” part really doesn’t work for me, at all (no, Yellow! I don’t care that mom wasn’t looking when you committed your 500th perfect planetary genocide! holy shit!). Divorced from the context, I thought it was some damn powerful stuff even if WD’s concession there at the end is very hard for me to buy, but I get it, Sugar said as much, it’s an aggressively optimistic escapist fantasy where people do listen. Christine Ebersole really blew me away, the unapologetic identity-related stuff was lovely, and I can appreciate what it already means and could come to mean for people. But put together with how the diamonds got set up over the years, tonally and scale-wise and so on… it just doesn’t mesh at all, and I was and am immensely frustrated by this. There. Done.)