>>105925563She barely shows up except to be a one-scene comic relief character that shouts, which is exactly as gratifying to watch as it sounds. There are numerous intervals in the plot where it seems like she should be present or that her technical knowledge would of great assistance to the CG's, but she's not present for I'd say 70% of episodes. The most grating instance of that is when these two homeworld agents come to kidnap people from Beach City, going off of a list of names Peridot had recorded in her first interaction with Steven in S1. Even though she's the whole reason these pricks showed up, she's mentioned once and then the matter is dropped altogether.
Come to think of it, Homeworld has a very lax attitude towards dealing with the earth insurrection. The expedition they sent in the season 1 finale ended with two agents defecting and one of the most elite soldiers in the entire armed forces MIA and probably dead (obviously Jasper did not die, but the prolonged radio silence probably made the diamonds think she was a goner). That's a pretty catastrophic failure, plus the cluster doesn't go off like planned, so clearly there's a very dangerous remnant of the old rebel forces on earth who are carrying on with their subversive activities. I feel like that would be the time for the legions to mobilize and the diamonds to lead them into the milky way on a quest salt the earth for good this time. From season 3 onward, there's a really distracting lack of tension and conflict because it doesn't feel like homeworld is actually a threat. They take their sweet-ass time putting down the CG's while also taking lots half-measures. The Ruby squad that shows up comes across as lame and ineffectual, but also illogical because they're incompetent, dim-witted reservists who are even more ineffectual than the previous expedition and also end up MIA and presumed dead. It all feels like such an egregious waste of their time as well as ours.
