People were talking about how the poison had no effect, but I want to address something else

People were talking about how the poison had no effect, but I want to address something else,
Lapis was able to take all of the ocean's water and make a tower out of it, and that was with her gem cracked, so surely, she should have been able to just pick up the injector, and, I dunno, place it upside down or something.
The whole "you don't think we've tried that?" line felt very hand-wavy.

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Lapis would have been strong enough but just touching it caused it to release the poison faster, so they would need to move it without touching it. Lapis would have to touch it with water, and Peridot's magnet powers were too weak to telekinetically lift it.

Show bad.

Your penis small.

It feels like they seriously reworked Lapis both in terms of power and background in general
>Garnet and Amethyst freaking out about Lapis while Pearl of all gems seemed totally oblivious to her gem still working
>STEVEN YOU CAN'T TRUST THEM
>Actually just got got punched in the back and didn't even see who did it
The fuck was that about

The poison presumably wasn't water, so elemental water powers wouldn't have been able to directly manipulate it. If it broke open, the poison would have gotten everywhere. Lapis could have probably wrapped the whole thing in ice and hurled it, contaminated water and all, into the sun, though.

I mean yeah, it would have made it release faster for like, five seconds, but if you just pick up an upside-down opened water bottle and quickly reverse it, there won't be much water spilled.
It certainly was a better option than waiting longer for the thing to be almost empty before they did something

Lapis's strength, like many things in the show, is an storytelling oversight that just doesn't add up in later seasons. They wanted the scene to feel cool, but in doing so put lapis on a pedestal that couldn't reasonably exist and keep the story believable. I mean honestly starter lapis could of soloed all the diamonds easily if she could control the entire fucking ocean cracked.

I was thinking more of a giant water hand picking it up and placing it on its "head", but yeah, could have worked too.

Yellow is an electric type and Lapis doesn't know earth power though

Has Lapis ever done ice?

Yeah, you'd think they'd have made the diamonds absurdly powerful to compensate, but no, the giant despotic space tyrants can't hold a candle to the gem introduced in season 1.

In her first appearance.

Yes, we already know Lapis peaked in her debut. Thanks for reminding us user

only Malachite

And Sugar says she planned everything.

White apparently tore Homeworld apart and held it that way against gravity. That's considerably more powerful than Lapis, though not by as many orders of magnitude as Lapis beats the next most powerful feat.

what powers would you give the diamonds?

That's never shown or even discussed in the show, therefore non-canonical.

Speaking of hands, they probably could asked the Cluster to just pick it up, and since its has so many little hands it probably could have clogged the drill while it picked it up and just chucked it into space. Or hey, if we need another giant hand, we've got the diamond ships.

Yeah this plot could have been resolved pretty much as soon as it started, but this show is bad and you should feel bad for thinking about it.

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God that episode was so kino, why did they have to ruin this show

Why are you thirsty maggots so ungrateful? Sit down and eat your food.

I think their current power are fine, it's more of an issue with scale, they seem kind of underpowered in my opinion, I'd have liked them to wield enough power to be taken seriously as leaders of an empire of beings that wield magical powers.
Something like yellow being able to summon thunderstorms powerful enough to wreck the surface of an entire planet, blue having absolute control over any sentient being's emotion, and white having absolute dominion over all gems.
Of course, those ideas wouldn't work in the current context of the show, but I'm just throwing ideas here.

Ocean gem was directed by Ian, who left, and storyboarded by Joe. Who took a backseat in later seasons and primarily supervised. I'm starting to find that the hands that kept Sugar's show on track weren't able to do so after season one.

What is even the point of Peridot even having metal powers if they're so utterly useless?

I guess it was part of her journey of self-discovery? Didn't amount to much afterwards though.

Ian still supervised some stuff into early season 3, and Joe became more hands off around the same time. Immediately after this is when the show started to get rougher and the reception became much more negative, with season 4 being the infamous low point after season 3's rough middle and ending. Joe and Ian seem to have been the lynch pins keeping stuff together early on

Peridot's character arc had finished by that point and Sugar doesn't know how to handle a character with a finished arc. As evidenced by how a lot of characters have self-esteem issues that can be rolled back at any time.

Yeah, I figured as much. I think Paul was also one of the better storytellers for the crew and could have salvaged it some. But Sugar would have never put up with Paul getting more say in what went on.

steven picks up perfectly capable gems and makes them useless, didnt ou hear jasper?

The ecological damage caused by this would be profound.