Not every episode is gonna be gems and lore heavy… This is the set-up episode for the finale. The calm before the shit storm. lol We’re all gonna’ DIE.
I’mma be real with y’all, Escapism seems to be majorly foreshadowing not just the next episode, the season finale, but a good chunk of next season as well.
Think about it!
We have two watermelon tribes, both of which pretty much worship Steven.
And two entirely different depictions of him:
Ones more pacifist, while the other is more aggressive.
Both of the groups seem to try and bring Steven to their side, and the pacifist melons even invade the aggressive melons village to make a melon barrier for Steven so he doesn’t get hurt by the more aggressive melons.
Steven Manages to escape and tries to build his raft with little success.
The melons then, once realizing that Steven is trying to make a raft to leave the island, decide to put aside whatever feud they had (for now at least) and help Steven, waving goodbye as he leaves.
Crewniverse could’ve easily just shown us Steven projecting to Lars instead, taking over his body and explaining his situation to the off colors so they could turn the ship around and set a course for homeworld, with them formulating a plan of escape on the way (although I strongly doubt this, seeing as we only know Steven can inhabit Lars while he’s sleeping, and I highly doubt pink zombies need to sleep).
We know that, in hindsight, a lot of “filler” episodes end up either:
A- setting up some sort of ability or aspect of Stevens already known abilities that comes into play in later episodes
Or
B- being MAJOR foreshadowing
Think about what major groups from this arc that these melons could represent.
Think about why crewniverse decided to show us the characters that have been in the back of everyone’s minds, if not completely forgotten about, in the middle of what is in my opinion the most climactic season of the show as a whole…
Something I noticed is that she’s the first to speak without orders. She welcomes Pearl back. Considering it was only revealed a few days ago that this certain Pearl was not an accomplice with murder, this seems like something that no one would do (although this could add to the “the pearls know things” theory). She wasn’t ordered by her diamond to speak, and as we’ve seen Pearls are incredibly obedient. Our own pearl took thousands of years to beat her feelings of belonging to someone, to speak on her own, and here’s Blue Pearl, welcoming a recently thought diamond shatterer of her accord. This may seem like a bit much, but Blue Pearl also speaks of herself as if she is herself, not an object. And this is during Yellow Pearls speech of how their feelings do not matter. Her own diamond knows of this too. She was either drawing freely without order to, or asked her diamond herself (which in it’s self is pretty free-thinking for someone who’s spent millennia being an object) if she could draw during court proceedings. Arguments could be made that Blue Diamond ordered her to draw and realised her Pearl loved it, but we’ve never seen Blue Diamond care about her underlings. But even if her Pearl is an exception, this means that Blue Pearl isn’t used to being treated like an object, and she’s had her emotions being sort if recognised. Either way, Blue Pearls characterization is phenomenal when it comes to really looking into hers and Blue Diamonds personality.
bismuth before escapism: every gem takes her time to reform. in fact, the longer it takes, the more satisfying the new form will be! i’m sure these two new crystal gems will be back in several weeks and i can have a quiet break alone :^)
bismuth now: WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU TWO WE’RE GOING TO HOMEWORLD
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