>>99673565Becky and Ian explained how she works and why she now seems like such a "dork" (their words).
Essentially, she superficially seems super stoic and cool, but this deliberate and decisive appearance relies on future vision, so it shatters the second she cannot actually calculate the best outcome and must act in the moment.
In the beginning we hardly see that outside of the phone call with Priyanka where she panics hard and bullshits badly. This shows how useless future vision is for social interaction and how shite her intuition is in those situations.
In later seasons, knowing about her weaknesses and increasingly pressed to lie or give half-truths for various reasons, she often enough breaks down completely.
As such, the real change is our perception and the samples of interactions we have, not Garnet's nature.
S01 made her look cool because Steven found her very cool and she could do her thing unchallenged.
Later seasons had her in very uncomfortable situations that challenge her abilities and expose her weaknesses.
Also, as of Pool Hopping, she admitted that her predictions went all wrong lately because she miscalculated Steven, which was a source of mounting insecurity.
She says she adjusted for his growing up now.
The joke about the CG is that they are all complete social spazzes in different ways.
Pearl is putting up a cocky front and lectures to hide her insecurities, making her look like a stuck-up bitch.
Amethyst is an inconsiderate slob with self-destructive tendencies.
Garnet is a high-funtioning probability matrix with sunglasses who is entirely adrift with so much as explaining why she dislikes something and strikes out at random to make the problem go away.
Peridot has absolutely no idea how to fine-tune her interactions to look like a well-adjusted person and not an approximation of social behavior written by someone who read about people only in books.
Lapis is a mixed bag of depression, passive-aggressive snarling and trust issues.
