Theory About Corrupted Gems

Me and @jynxcomplex were hypothesizing after today’s episode and so I’m going to put it here– feel free to add on your own thoughts!

So, the diamonds are behind the corruption of gems, it seems. That part appears to be safe to assume. Now, we also know that the diamonds called everyone to retreat.

We’re thinking that this is because the Homeworld gems were losing the war, hence the retreat. All Homeworld gems boarded their ships… except not all Homeworld gems actually evacuated in time. Centipeetle, her crew, and other gems did not board the ships in time, and were trapped on earth.

We don’t know what the white light was, except that it’s assumed to be what corrupted the gems, and was a weapon of the diamonds’ control. This presumably corrupted every gem left on Earth, making them into the monsters we’ve been seeing since episode one.

Now, one detail to cover is how the Crystal Gems managed to survive. We believe it’s because of Rose’s shield. We’re not sure exactly how strong her shield is, but it can be hypothesized that it would at least be strong enough to protect everyone within a certain radius.

We finished the episode five minute ago, so this is all thrown together hastily. Again, feel free to add onto this!

codys-got-a-tiny-sausage:

cameron is established to be very intelligent and observant and has actually studied mike’s condition and has helped him in the past HOW COME HE’S SO PAINFULLY OBLIVIOUS THIS SEASON I WONDER

That is astoundingly confusing and pretty out of character from how he was established in season 4. :/ 

The only theory I can propose to explain it is that although he’s incredibly intelligent, the thought of Mike being evil or going out of his way to harm people (be it as himself or through one of his alters) is too much for the bubble boy, and he put up a mental block in his subconscious. This is a phenomena in real life, do it’s not too outlandish to propose this. After all, Cameron had NO friends before he met Mike and Zoey. To think that Mike is evil or has an evil personality would be a truth Cameron would not want to accept. He was readily able to help Mike with his personalities in s4, but none of them had bad intentions (even Vito was just a butt, not so much evil or terribly mean).