>>102138218I think it depends. If they skipped past a lot of this stuff because they're building to something, ok, fair enough, but I'll need to see what that is before I'll be reassured that they didn't just fuck up with the most recent episode.
But they also don't really need to reveal any "diamond" specific information, it would have just been nice to get a better idea for how Blue/Yellow/Pink would relate to each other, especially with the Crystal Gems by Steven's side. Steven has a Pearl with him who is very clearly independent and back-talking, a permanently-fused-for-no-purpose Garnet, a malformed Amethyst, a human ... traitors, etc ... and despite all the build up about how fucking weird any single one of these should be, the Diamonds just don't seem to give a shit. In every vision we've seen of Pink/Yellow, Yellow acts totally dismissive and condescending to Pink ... but during their reunion, a bored Yellow allows Steven to just casually order her around. Yellow is consistently portrayed as this super stoic and self-important tyrant, but she's suddenly acting like a dead fish.
I just want to know where these characters all stand. It's weird to leave this all hanging in the air.
If this were during an earlier season, I feel like both Blue and Yellow would have had their own episodes bonding with Steven. The corruption/bubbles/Centipeedle would have had one of its own. And Diamond's reaction to Steven's friendship with the Crystal Gems would have been another. In a previous thread someone pointed out how weird it was that we had a several-episode bomb that was basically just ANOTHER "Garnet splits apart and then comes together again" arc, but all of the above gets smashed through (or ignored entirely) within the space of a single episode.
